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4 days ago · Roman Polanski’s film follows the true story of Władysław Szpilman (Adrien Brody), a Jewish pianist who survived the Warsaw Ghetto during World War II. It’s a harrowing tale of resilience and survival amidst unimaginable horrors, with some particularly graphic scenes of violence. A tough watch.
1 day ago · Director: Francis Ford Coppola. Image via Paramount Pictures. Lawrence of Arabia isn’t the only acclaimed and award-winning epic movie Roger Corman picked for his personal top 10, because the ...
5 days ago · The Pianist (Roman Polanski, 2002) tells the story of life in the Warsaw Ghetto. Sarah’s Key (Gilles Paquet-Brenner, 2010) is an entirely fictional film about the roundup of French Jews. A host of other movies of this period includes The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (Mark Herman, 2008), Son of Saul (László Nemes, 2015), and The Secrets We ...
4 days ago · The movie makes its terminal blunder somewhere in its first half hour, when it actually puts a clip of the Roman Polanski film on screen. From there, it’s hard to spend any of the next 100 ...
4 days ago · Roman Polanski: Jeremy Leven (from the Fyodor Dostoevsky novel of the same name) Lili Fini Zanuck, Todd Black: John Travolta, Isabelle Adjani, John Goodman, Jean Reno: Travolta reportedly stormed out of rehearsals thereby shutting down pre-production. Shooting to have begun in May 1996.
3 days ago · Here are seven ideas for using films and books to teach teens about the Holocaust. 1. Watch “Schindler’s List” and read “Schindler’s Ark”: Steven Spielberg’s Oscar-winning film “Schindler’s List” (1993), based on Thomas Keneally’s historical fiction novel “Schindler’s Ark,” tells the story of Oskar Schindler, a ...
3 days ago · The simmering tension exploded one day when an annoyed Polanski, without warning, pulled an errant hair out of her head. “Roman dropped the hair he had jerked out, his mouth curled into a smirk ...
