News for
The Tragedy of Macbeth (1971) More at IMDbPro »

1 article from 2009

2 February 2009 | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »

Roman Polanski has directed at least four out and out masterpieces: Rosemary’s Baby, Knife in the Water, Chinatown and The Pianist. To say nothing of Bitter Moon, Cul-de-sac, Repulsion, MacBeth, and The Tenant. Or even the solid but unspectacular films like Death and the Madien or Frantic. But as the old joke goes, you sodomize one drugged up thirteen-year-old, and that how people think of you. That may sound flippant, but in the court of public opinion that is all Polanski is. A dirty European who fled from justice and has lived abroad in sin ever since. There is no defending what Polanski did, but if you watch the engrossing documentary Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired, you will hear some sideways defenses. One person suggest that as Roman is from a European culture, and that sleeping with an underage girl is not all that unusual ... »

1 article from 2009