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CNN Films announced today it is producing an “authorized yet unfiltered documentary” of comedian Chevy Chase named for one of his most famous “Saturday Night Live” catch phrases, “I’m Chevy Chase and You’re Not.”

Marina Zenovich, a two-time Emmy winner for “Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired” as well as films like “Lance” and “Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind,” is directing the biographical doc about Chase, and CNN plans to release the film in 2026. Specific details about the film’s release weren’t announced, but it’s expected the film will be available on CNN platforms and later on HBO Max.

“I understand CNN is going to release a documentary about me. I’m delighted and I hope I’m in it,” Chase said in a statement.

The film will look at Chase’s career beginning on “Saturday Night Live” through his roles as one of the bigger...

No one can say that Oscar-winning director Steven Soderbergh delivers the same movie time after time. In an eclectic three-decade career, he has directed crowd-pleasing all-star vehicles, action comedies, political dramas, micro-mini experimental works, true-life story ("Erin Brockovich") and even a film starring porn actress Sasha Grey ("The Girlfriend Experience").

In addition to his Oscar success, Soderbergh has also found success bringing his singular vision to the small screen, winning an Emmy for directing and editing the TV movie "Behind the Candelabra" (which isn't included on this list of big screen outings). He's also been nominated twice as a director on "The Knick," as a cinematographer on "Behind the Candelabra" and as a producer on "Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired," "His Way" and "Godless."

Take a tour of our photo gallery of Soderbergh's 11 greatest films, and see if your favorite topped the list.

Anthea Sylbert, an Oscar-nominated costume designer who worked on some of the signature films of the late 1960s and 1970s, including “Rosemary’s Baby,” “Carnal Knowledge,” “Chinatown,” “Shampoo,” “Julia” and “King Kong,” and a producer later in her career on a number of films starring Goldie Hawn, has died. She was 84.

Her death was confirmed by Robert Romanus, her stepson.

Sylbert, subject of a forthcoming documentary by Sakis Lalas titled “Anthea Sylbert: My Life in 3 Acts,” also served as an executive at United Artists and Warner Bros., at a time when there were few women in the C-suites of Hollywood. She also worked repeatedly with director Mike Nichols, both onscreen and onstage, and was Oscar-nominated for her costuming on period films “Chinatown” (1974) and “Julia” (1977).

Assessing Sylbert’s work on “Chinatown,” GlamAmor, a website dedicated to the history of fashion in film, said in 2012: “Sylbert crafted clothes for Faye Dunaway that...

With the success of long-format cult-exposé documentaries such as Hulu’s “Stolen Youth,” HBO’s “The Vow” and Netflix’s “Wild Wild Country,” it’s not surprising that both Amazon and Netflix greenlit competing docuseries about Twin Flames Universe – an alleged online love cult run by YouTube influencers Jeff and Shaleia Divine.

Amazon’s “Desperately Seeking Soulmate: Escaping Twin Flames Universe” is being released on Oct. 6, a month before Netflix’s “Escaping Twin Flames.”

“Desperately Seeking Soulmate” is based on journalist Alice Hines’ 2020 Vanity Fair article about the “always online, all-consuming world of Twin Flames Universe.” The article and subsequent docuseries, which Hines leads, takes a deep dive into the alleged online love cult, which is still active. Created by Jeff and Shaleia, Twin Flames Universe sells online classes that guarantee to match each member with their “soulmate.” The three-part Amazon docuseries examines how Jeff and Shaleia met and formed...

Amazon Prime Video has set an Oct. 6 premiere date for its upcoming three-episode docuseries “Desperately Seeking Soulmate: Escaping Twin Flames Universe,” which will spotlight the alleged online love cult run by YouTube influencers Jeff and Shaleia Divine.

Journalist Alice Hines leads the investigative docuseries, which is directed by Marina Zenovich, an Emmy-winner for her “Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired”

Jeff and Shaleia Divine are the founders the Twin Flames Universe, an online group that promises to match each member with their “soulmate” — going to extreme lengths to do so. “Desperately Seeking Soulmate” is based on Hines’ 2020 Vanity Fair article “Everywhere I Went, They Went With Me, Because They Were on My Phone”: Inside the Always Online, All-Consuming World of Twin Flames Universe, which took a deep dive into the alleged cult (which is still active) that Jeff and Shaleia created online.

The group is particularly controversial for urging members to change their gender identities.

If you thought last month’s release of previously sealed testimony by former prosecutor Roger Gunson in the Roman Polanski sex case put an end to legal jousting over the secret sessions, you thought wrong.

By way of update, lawyers and others with an interest in the case are now in a tug-of-war over access to the video of Gunson’s deposition, which took place on three separate dates in 2010.

So far, only a written transcript of the testimony has been released. But lawyers for journalists Sam Wasson and William Rempel, who won the unsealing in a California Appeals Court decision, went back to that court July 22 with a request for existing video of the sessions. That request was supported by an affidavit from filmmaker Marina Zenovich, whose documentary Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired called attention to claimed misconduct by the Los Angeles legal system in handling Polanski’s case.

Back on June 26, a little-noticed court filing in Roman Polanski’s lawsuit over his expulsion from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences offered a rare glimpse at dealings within the Academy’s Board of Governors. The view is limited, and colored by the advocacy of Polanski’ lawyer, Harland W. Braun, who included it in an opening brief for a hearing that is currently set before Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Mary H. Strobel on Aug. 25.

But, given the veil of secrecy over board matters at the Academy, even a limited view can be fascinating for those who keep an eye on the organization.

Remember, Polanski, who had belonged to the Academy for almost 50 years, was expelled, alongside Bill Cosby, in early May of 2018. The expulsion was tied to new standards of conduct that had been sent to members on January 27 of that year. Already, Harvey Weinstein had been ejected the previous October,...

After months of anticipation, mobile-only streaming service Quibi will launch Monday with dozens of titles, all served up in “quick bites” of 10 minutes or less. Among them are eight documentaries, including one from Brent Hodge following small-town corruption allegations and another from producer Lena Waithe about sneaker culture.

Additionally, IndieWire has exclusively learned of new non-fiction efforts in development at Quibi from documentary luminaries Marina Zenovich (“Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired”), Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady (“Jesus Camp”), Morgan Neville (“Twenty Feet From Stardom”), Amy Berg (“Deliver Us From Evil”), and Chris Moukarbel (“Me at the Zoo”).

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Samantha Geimer contended with sexual assault in Hollywood long before the truth came out about Harvey Weinstein. In 1977, Geimer was 13 years old when Roman Polanski gave her alcohol and pills, then raped and sodomized her, in Jack Nicholson’s Hollywood home. In the midst of the ensuing media mayhem, he was accused of unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor and fled the country, never to return. Geimer reentered public life following the 2008 release of Marina Zenovich’s documentary “Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired,” and has testified that Polanski should be sentenced to time served rather than facing a new trial for the crime. In 2014, she wrote a memoir about her experiences, and has publicly forgiven him.

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Most recently, Geimer resurfaced in the media in a roundabout fashion, when 2003 comments made by Quentin Tarantino on Howard...

Marina Zenovich, the director of the 2008 documentary “Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired,” says the court of public opinion should not decide if the “Chinatown” director is expelled from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences over the sexual abuse case that led him to flee the United States 40 years ago. “I think that the Academy should decide; I don’t think that Twitter should decide,” Zenovich told TheWrap’s CEO and Editor-in-Chief Sharon Waxman at the Sundance Film Festival. Zenovich is at Sundance for the premiere of her latest documentary, “Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind,” a look at the...

In this week’s missile of a The New York Times story about the many alleged indiscretions of Harvey Weinstein, one of his past colleagues, former Miramax Los Angeles president Mark Gill, describes Weinstein’s professional climb from indie producer to Hollywood titan. “From the outside, it seemed golden — the Oscars, the success, the remarkable cultural impact.” Yet Gill said the persistent whispers that Weinstein was mistreating women were in fact “the biggest mess of all.”

While The Weinstein Co. co-founder publicly championed women’s rights, his accusers say that he was a hypocrite, secretly propositioning them for massages, kisses and more. One month after Weinstein distributed “The Hunting Ground,” a documentary about rapes on university campuses, he allegedly groped a college-aged woman in his office. Weinstein, 65, has a well-documented, on-the-record history of unflattering behavior, even against women (like in 2002, when he publicly berated director Julie Taymor at a screening of her film,...

Documentarian Marina Zenovich, whose most prominent films to date — Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired and Roman Polanski: Odd Man Out — have both revolved around the director of Chinatown, seemingly takes inspiration from Jake Gittes' noir investigation in this left-turn from celeb-oriented docs to enviro-political ones. In Water & Power: A California Heist, Zenovich tackles a subject of enormous importance, but fails to match that import with dramatic storytelling. The often dry film about water rights is appropriate for the National Geographic network, but is unlikely to connect with many viewers who don't already have some knowledge of the subject.

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Filmmakers around the world harbor the same fantasy: I’m going to make a film so good that it will play the Sundance Film Festival, score rave reviews, sell in an overnight bidding war for a multi-million-dollar minimum guarantee to a major theatrical buyer, open in packed theaters around the country, and launch my career.

Right.

Truth is, this hardly ever happens. We checked in with a group of lauded Sundance filmmakers, all who are returning to the festival this year with new films, to glean what they learned the hard way from their Sundance experiences.

1. Manage expectations.

Alex Ross Perry (“Golden Exits”): My first time was with “Listen Up Philip” [2014], which was a huge step forward from my last movie, “The Color Wheel,” which I made for $25,000 with all my friends. This was a sizable, produced movie with a cast of well-known people [Jason Schwartzman, Elizabeth Moss, Jonathan Pryce]. The first days was all...

Filmmakers around the world harbor the same fantasy: I’m going to make a film so good that it will play the Sundance Film Festival, score rave reviews, sell in an overnight bidding war for a multi-million-dollar minimum guarantee to a major theatrical buyer, open in packed theaters around the country, and launch my career.

Right.

Truth is, this hardly ever happens. We checked in with a group of lauded Sundance filmmakers, all who are returning to the festival this year with new films, to glean what they learned the hard way from their Sundance experiences.

1. Manage expectations.

Alex Ross Perry (“Golden Exits”): My first time was with “Listen Up Philip” [2014], which was a huge step forward from my last movie, “The Color Wheel,” which I made for $25,000 with all my friends. This was a sizable, produced movie with a cast of well-known people [Jason Schwartzman, Elizabeth Moss, Jonathan Pryce]. The first days was all...

“Forget it, Jake. It’s Water & Power” is probably never said aloud in the Sundance-bound documentary “Water & Power: A California Heist,” but that doesn’t mean you should dismiss Marina Zenovich’s film outright. Zenovich, who previously directed “Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired,” tells the Hollywood Reporter that Polanski’s 1974 neo-noir is one of her favorite movies in part because she loves “that world of greed and the lengths people will go to get what they want.” Watch the trailer for “Water & Power” below.

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“The hunger for water is never-ending,” she tells THR of the research that went into her film. “There are too many people wanting a precious resource that people are trying to privatize. So this film is like a wake-up call for that. I didn’t know what I would find,...

The new documentary Water & Power: A California Heist, which will have its world premiere Jan. 23 at the Sundance Film Festival, inevitably will be described as a modern-day Chinatown, since it focuses on how private interests both control and benefit from California’s water supplies, which were in short supply even before the current four-year drought. So it’s only fitting that the doc is directed by Marina Zenovich, whose credits include 2008’s Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired, about the Chinatown director.

Zenovich readily admits that Chinatown is one of her favorite movies because “I love that world of greed and...

The Tribeca Film Festival announced its jurors for this year’s event, which runs from April 16-27. The list includes Toni Collette, Lake Bell, Whoopi Goldberg, Catherine Hardwicke, Heather Graham, Anton Yelchin, Paul Wesley and 26 other leaders of the filmmaking community.

In addition to the Festival’s main competition juries in seven categories, Tribeca named Delia Ephron, Natasha Lyonne, and Gary Ross to select the second annual Nora Ephron Prize, which awards $25,000 to a female writer or director.

Click below for the entire list of jurors, with biographical information courtesy of the Tribeca festival:

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Emails from judges in 2008 reveal allegations of misconduct by judge in original case, and could potentially pave way for Polanski's freedom

• Samantha Geimer on Roman Polanski: 'We email a little bit'

Emails disclosed to the New York Times have revealed allegations of misconduct by a judge in the 1977 trial of film director Roman Polanski, when he was accused of the statutory rape of 13-year-old Samantha Gailey.

Larry P Fidlar, currently a judge on the Los Angeles County Superior Court, said that if Polanski were to return to the States for a hearing, it could well be ruled in his favour thanks to the misconduct of Laurence A Rittenband, the judge in the original case. Rittenband is alleged to have discussed the case with journalists as it was ongoing, and told lawyers the angle he wanted them to take – this information was uncovered by Marina Zenovich's 2008 documentary Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired.

Few conclusions are as foregone as Steven Soderbergh winning the Primetime Emmy for Best Movie/Miniseries Directing for HBO's "Behind the Candelabra," according to our predictors. The Academy Award winner has three Emmy nominations this year, as he also contends for editing and cinematography for "Behind the Candelabra"; he has two prior Emmy nominations in recent years for producing nonfiction specials ("Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired" in 2009, "His Way" in 2011), but he has yet to win. -Break- Soderbergh spent years shopping this Liberace biopic, headlined by fellow Oscar winners Michael Douglas and Matt Damon, to film studios, but only HBO would foot the bill, ultimately budgeting $23 million to shoot. The film, however, enjoyed theatrical distribution internationally and even competed for the prestigious Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival. Now, Soderbergh has announced an indefinite hiatus from films and will instea...

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Roman Polanski says he felt "more persecuted" following his 2009 arrest in Switzerland on three-decade-old rape charges than he had in 1977 when he was originally arrested.

In a rare interview with Vanity Fair, the Oscar-winning director of Rosemary's Baby, Chinatown and The Pianist said the arrest hit him harder than any incident since the murder of his wife Sharon Tate by the Manson family in 1969, as well as the subsequent media circus that followed. "I didn't have that at all [in 1977]", he told the magazine. "This was much more like the assassination of Sharon and what happened afterwards."

Polanski successfully fought extradition to the Us in 2009 in connection with outstanding charges against him after being arrested in Switzerland, where he had been invited to attend the Zurich film festival.

Strange that this debuts tomorrow on Showtime, but there doesn't seem to be a lot of press leading up to it. Unless I've just missed all of it. What has been dubbed a definitive documentary on the man's life, the new Richard Pryor feature documentary, directed by Marina Zenovich (known mostly for directing the multiple award-winning 2008 documentary Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired), will premier on the network tomorrow, Friday, May 31st at 9pm Et/Pt. In Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic, George Lopez, Bob Newhart, Mike Epps, Richard Pryor Jr. and several others recount the culture-defining influence of one of America's most brilliant, iconic...

When Marina Zenovich made her 2008 doc "Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired," she had an angle on her subject that gave the film a sense of urgency even though it was centered around events that took place 30 years before. It wasn't a simple profile of Polanski, it was a look at his sexual abuse scandal, at the squirmy intersection of fame and the American legal system, at how the director's reputation, work and foreignness affected how he was perceived and treated by the press and by those involved in the case. (The fact that Polanski was still on the lam after fleeing before sentencing didn't hurt, and Zenovich would have an even more personal hook to her 2012 sequel "Roman Polanski: Odd Man Out," which documented how the first film led to renewed interest in the case and Polanski's arrest at the 2009 Zurich Film Festival.) Zenovich's new film, "Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic,...

Showtime will be airing "Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic" on Friday, May 31 as part of the cable channel's documentary series, Sho Focus, TheWrap confirms. Directed by Marina Zenovich ("Roman Polanski: Wanted And Desired"), the 90-minute documentary is being touted as the most extensive exploration of the groundbreaking comedian's life. According to the official synopsis for the doc, "Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic" follows Pryor's life from his upbringing in Peoria, Ill. through achieving mainstream success starting in the 70s. It also features rarely seen footage of the comedian and actor. It will...

What has been dubbed a definitive documentary on the man's life, the upcoming Richard Pryor feature documentary, directed by Marina Zenovich (known mostly for directing the multiple award-winning 2008 documentary Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired), will make its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival this month - on Tuesday, April 23rd. And soon after that, it'll head to the Showtime network, making its broadcast TV debut. Per press release from Showtime... in Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic, George Lopez, Bob Newhart, Mike Epps, Richard Pryor Jr. and others recount the culture-defining influence of one of America's most brilliant, iconic comic minds. The new...

Exclusive: Richard Pryor: Omit The Logic premieres at the Tribeca Film Festival on April 23 and Showtime has now set Friday, May 31 as the debut air date. The documentary, directed by Roman Polanski: Wanted And Desired helmer Marina Zenovich, and written by P.G. Morgan, chronicles Pryor’s life from his troubled youth in Peoria, Illinois, to his meteoric rise as one of the most respected comic actors of the 20th century. Jennifer Pryor exec produced. The film is the second in Showtime’s new docu series, Sho Focus, which kicked off with R.J. Cutler’s The World According To Dick Cheney in March. Richard Pryor: Omit The Logic features interviews with Whoopi Goldberg, Robin Williams, Mel Brooks, Quincy Jones, Lily Tomlin and Jesse Jackson. Check out some exclusive footage below: Click here to view the embedded video.

Following the success of the documentary "Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired," director Marina Zenovich planned to make a short film about how that film reopened the case. She was scheduled to interview Polanski in November of 2009 after he completed "The Ghost Writer" -- but the Oscar-winner was arrested unexpectedly in September of 2009 at the Swiss border. Her follow-up film, "Roman Polanski: Odd Man Out," explores the motivations behind his surprising arrest and his 10 month house arrest in Switzerland. The film is available nationwide on-demand on Tuesday, March 26. Below, Zenovich shares a scene from her documentary. I love this scene. It starts with footage that we shot for "Wanted and Desired" but we didn't use. The District Attorney's office in Los Angeles has made a book about all the famous cases in Los Angeles through the years. They have the pages of those books on the walls of the lobbies of each of their floors.

Roman Polanski can make 1,000 more films as good as Chinatown and Rosemary’s Baby, but for many Americans, he remains the flamboyant Hollywood director who drugged and had sex with a 13-year-old girl and then fled the country before justice could be served. The facts, of course, are much more complicated than that, and director Marina Zenovich picked at the scabs of the decades-old scandal for her Emmy-winning 2008 documentary, Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired.

But though Zenovich had investigated why Polanski felt compelled to leave the country in 1978 before he could be shackled with a potentially harsh jail sentence, her...

Here’s the trailer for Marina Zenovich‘s upcoming Roman Polanski: Odd Man Out which premiered at the 2012 Toronto Film Festival. In case you’re not so familiar with this project, let us first inform you that we’re talking about a follow-up to Zenovich’s 2008 documentary Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired that will focus on Polanski and his battle to avoid extradition into the U.S. in 2010. Find the video and read more details about the whole thing in the rest of this report… So, what happens when an award-winning documentary intended to highlight a legal injustice comes back to haunt its maker? We’ll soon have a... Related posts: Roman Polanski to Direct Venus In Fur Roman Polanski to Direct D First Official Photo From Roman Polanski’s Carnage First Roman Polanski’s Carnage Trailer Roman Polanski’s “The Ghost” Teaser Trailer...

The first trailer and poster for director Marina Zenovich's documentary Roman Polanski: Odd Man Out gives us another look at the controversy surrounding director Roman Polanski. The film is a follow-up to 2008's Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired, which follows the aftermath of Roman Polanski's surprise 2009 arrest at the Zurich Film Festival, and his 10-month imprisonment that followed. Take a look at the first footage from this documentary, which will be available on iTunes (clickHere to pre-order the documentary) and VOD formats March 26.

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In 2009, celebrated director Roman Polanski was arrested at the Zurich Film Festival. His weekend jaunt turned into a 10 month imprisonment. A follow up to the Emmy award winning Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired -- which some say was one of the reasons for his arrest ---- explores the bizarre clash of politics, celebrity justice and the media.

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Following the success of Roman Polanski: Wanted And Desired, director Marina Zenovich planned to make a short film about how that film reopened the case. She was scheduled to interview Polanski in November of 2009 after he completed The Ghostwriter. Polanski was arrested unexpectedly in September of 2009. Roman Polanski: Odd Man Out explores the motivations behind Polanski’s 2009 arrest and his 10 month house arrest in Switzerland. In 2009, celebrated director Roman Polanski was arrested at the Zurich Film Festival. His weekend jaunt turned into a 10 month imprisonment. A follow up to the Emmy award winning “Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired” — which some say was one of the reasons for his arrest —- explores the bizarre clash of politics, celebrity justice and the media. Follow Hollywood News on Twitter for up-to-date news information. Hollywood News, Hollywood Awards, Awards, Movies, News, Award News, Breaking News, Entertainment News, Movie News, Music News...

In 2008, director Marina Zenovich turned the lens on director Roman Polanski and the 1977 statutory rape case that is brought up whenever the filmmaker is discussed. Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired showed some of the unsavory details of the case that may have treated Polanski unfairly in his legal struggles, but it is believed that the film made him more of a target. Now Roman Polanski: Odd Man Out tries to determine why Switzerland's government decided to arrest Polanski and threaten extradition to the Us after leaving him alone for so long. The film sounds provoking, but the discussion just seems tired. Here's the trailer for Marina Zenovich's Roman Polanski: Odd Man Out originally from Yahoo: Emmy winning director Marina Zenovich, who also serves as narrator, explores the bizarre clash of politics, celebrity justice and the media as she sheds new light on the infamous saga of director Roman Polanski...

Almost no subject is as polarizing as Roman Polanski’s sex abuse scandal, and that fact makes us cautious with editorializing. But if you need another reminder, check out this vintage interview with the director and Diane Sawyer from 1994 and you get a good sense of how provocative the case is. Anywho, the trailer has dropped for “Roman Polanski: Odd Man Out,” the documentary follow-up by director Marina Zenovich to her 2008 film “Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired,” and it’s no secret whose side she is on. The new film details Polanski’s arrest at the 2009 Zurich Film Festival and ensuing 10-month imprisonment following a re-opening of his case after 'Want and Desired' aroused public attention. The true intrigue lies in the fact that Zenovich’s original project may have seriously added to the momentum leading up to the re-arrest -- a fact that the filmmaker acknowledges in “Odd Man Out...

"I don't understand, why should I be punished for that penchant that I had for young women?" Roman Polanski asks Diane Sawyer in this rare 1994 TV interview. It's still a very provocative question, and this unearthed conversation with Sawyer from 1994 -- his first TV interview in a decade at the time -- follows the civil suit filed by Samantha Geimer in 1993 which he settled, and comes on the eve of the release of "Bitter Moon." It's a pretty fascinating time capsule of the perception of Polanski at the time. While the subsequent years have thoroughly hashed out his story thanks to documentaries like "Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired," "Roman Polanski: Odd Man Out" and "Roman Polanski: A Film Memoir" (our review) this is an interesting look at a filmmaker, who delves into his painful family history and remains candid about what happened in that house in 1977 and more. It's pretty fascinating stuff,...

What has been dubbed a definitive documentary on the man's life, the upcoming Richard Pryor feature documentary, directed by Marina Zenovich (known mostly for directing the multiple award-winning 2008 documentary Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired), will make its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival next month. Richard Pryor's widow, Jennifer Lee Pryor, is a producer of the film, and she's the one who calls it a definitive documentary: "It's a definitive documentary... It's authorized by the estate. I've never cooperated with any of the others." It's been reported that director Marina Zenovich was given access to estate photos and other materials, and many of...

An excerpt from a day-old article I came across on Peoria, Il's PJStar news website, on the upcoming Richard Pryor feature documentary, that I'm only just now learning, thanks to the article, is being directed by Marina Zenovich (known mostly for directing the multiple award-winning 2008 documentary Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired). Apparently, part of the film is currently being shot in Peoria, and the reporter who penned the piece got to speak to the producer of the film, who also happens to be Richard Pryor's widow, Jennifer Lee Pryor, and via that conversation, learned a few things about the upcoming documentary feature. "It's a definitive...

Marina Zenovich's follow-up to her acclaimed, Emmy-winning documentary "Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired" will get its broadcast premiere on Showtime. The premium cable network has picked up "Roman Polanski: Odd Man Out," which recently made its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival in September, for a 2013 airing. The documentary, which is narrated by Zenovich, follows Roman Polanski's efforts to avoid extradition to the U.S. following his 2009 arrest at the Zurich Film Festival (which some say was sparked by "Wanted and Desired") and subsequent 10-month imprisonment. Read More: An Exclusive Clip From Upcoming Tiff Documentary 'Roman Polanski: Odd Man Out' (Video) The acquisition marks a switch of networks for Zenovich -- "Wanted and Desired" premiered on HBO, but Zenovich is currently directed an original doc for Showtime about comedian Richard Pryor called...

Showtime has acquired the rights to the U.S. television premiere of the documentary "Roman Polanski: Odd Man Out," the cable network said Thursday. Marina Zenovich, who also directed the documentary "Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired," also directed "Odd Man Out." The new film follows up on "Wanted and Desired," will recount the controversial director's 2009 arrest at the Zurich Film Festival, exploring "the bizarre clash of politics, celebrity justice and the media as [Zenovich] sheds new light on the infamous saga of Polanski's sexual...

Girls on Film is a weekly column that tackles anything and everything pertaining to women and cinema. It can be found here every Thursday night, and be sure to follow the Girls on Film Twitter Feed for additional femme-con. Thanks to his 2009 arrest and the documentary Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired, Roman Polanski’s 35-year-old crime remains a hot-button topic. Sides are not only divided on his actions – those who want him convicted battling those who think it’s not “rape rape” – but on his art, too. Time has yet to dull the memory of his actions, leading many to question whether his crime should keep us from patronizing his films. It’s a fair question, naturally, but one that is also at odds with an exploration of the blur...

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In 2008, director Marina Zenovich re-opened old wounds with the release of her film Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired, a documentary about the titular filmmaker's infamous 1977 rape trial. It shined a light on a number of alleged inappropriate and illegal actions taken by the judge at the time, which ultimately led to Polanski's decision to flee the country. These were details the average person calling for the director's blood was ignorant of, and they made for a fascinating film. But maybe it did Polanski more harm than good. Some of the wounds Zenovich scratched belonged to sleeping dogs, and their re-opening roused the ornery beasts from their slumber. In 2009 Polanski was invited to the Zurich Film Festival in Switzerland to accept a lifetime...

In “Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired,” filmmaker Marina Zenovich attempted to shine a light on the darker corners of the Polanski rape case that forced him to flee the country. Its affect was considerable in the public perception of his case, to the point where it was soon reopened by investigators. Unfortunately, that led to a legal reconsideration as well, bringing heat to a longstanding desire from law enforcement officials to bring Polanski to justice. There’s no room for compassionate reconsideration in the world of law enforcement, but Zenovich’s follow-up, “Roman Polanski: Odd Man Out,” suggests that there’s possibly room for deception and corruption. Zenovich’s documentary creates a narrative that almost feels like a thriller, turning 'Wanted and Desired' into something of a plot point, a pivot mark for the film’s story to germinate. With the case re-opened, additional scrutiny was placed on French citizen.

Roman Polanski: Odd Man Out

Directed by Marina Zenovich

USA, 2012

It is probably necessary that Roman Polanski: Odd Man Out exists. Once director Marina Zenovich established herself as the definitive documentarian of the famed director’s sexual assault case with 2008′s fine film Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired, an account of Polanski’s arrest in Switzerland in 2009 and subsequent court battle was inevitable. In fact, as Zenovich points out in Odd Man Out‘s narration, the popularity of Wanted and Desired made her responsible in some degree for the arrest, so this was a film which she had to make. However, it’s more difficult to make this chapter of the story compelling.

The major problem is that there is no counterweight to the issue that in 1977, the 43-year-old Polanski drugged and sexually assaulted a 13-year-old girl, and subsequently admitted as much in court. Wanted and Desired created that counterweight by providing exhaustive proof that,...

Few could have predicted the after effects of Marina Zenovich’s “Roman Polanski: Wanted And Desired.” Analyzing the circuitous legal route of Roman Polanski’s trial and subsequent departure from the United States, the picture actually featured evidence allowing lawyers to re-open the case. Giving momentum to the legal proceedings, the case’s reawakening began a chain of events that led to Swiss authorities nabbing the filmmaker as he touched down for the Zurich Film Festival, beginning a new battle in the courts. This led to Zenovich making a followup with “Roman Polanski: Odd Man Out,” which probed the dominoes that fell from the release of 'Wanted And Desired' to Polanski being placed behind bars. Even with the film recently screening for press in advance of the New York Film Festival, she clearly has her reservations about her role in the saga. When lawyers told her in December of 2008 that...

Toronto — A necessary follow up to her 2008 Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired that could hardly be expected to pack the punch of that doc, Marina Zenovich's Roman Polanski: Odd Man Out offers a summation of the auteur's recent legal travails but not a great deal more. Those with a strong interest in the controversy or the director will want to see it, but it contains nothing provocative enough to attract casual observers. Zenovich provides her own narration, since one of the picture's themes is the role her earlier work played in the 2009 arrest of Polanski in Switzerland.

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Director Marina Zenovich's award-winning 2008 documentary "Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired" shed new light on the infamous saga of Polanski's sexual abuse case and his escape from Swiss house arrest. Now, Zenovich revisits the case with a follow-up film, "Roman Polanski: Odd Man Out," premiering at the Toronto International Film Festival, which launches tomorrow. The new installment documents Polanski's successful legal battle to gain his freedom after 30 years, and examines how his and Samantha Geimer's lives have been irrevocably altered. Indiewire has an exclusive clip from the highly-anticipated film. The clip foregrounds the controversy faced by the Los Angeles D.A. Office as this fascinating case ensued across three continents, in light of the heat caused by Zenovich's 2008 film. "Roman Polanski: Odd Man Out" will premiere in Toronto on Friday, September 7. Watch the exclusive clip below:...

You could count me as enthusiastic for this year’s initial New York Film Festival lineup — no, I won’t even bother listing all the auteurs — so hats off to Lincoln Center for making it all the better. In unveiling their Masterworks, Cinema Reflected, On the Arts, and Special Events selection, it’s become evident that 2012 will bring forth a glut of outside-the-lines works.

The most notable of these would be an 8k Lawrence of Arabia restoration; a documentary “preview” from Oliver Stone; Odd Man Out, the follow-up to 2008′s excellent Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired; the acclaimed Kubrick documentary, Room 237; something about Ingmar Bergman & Liv Ullmann; and even The Princess Bride. Talk about something for everybody.

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Masterworks

Lawrence of Arabia (David Lean, 1962, UK/USA)

The screen’s greatest epic returns in a magnificent 8K restoration. A Sony Pictures Repertory release.

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (David Hand,...

Last week, the Toronto International Film Festival announced the movies playing in its Special Presentations and Galas programs. Today, they've provided the line-up for their other programs, and they've got some strong flicks in the Documentary category. This year's line-up includes new movies from Ken Burns' The Central Park Five (co-directed by David McMahon and Sarah Burns), Alex Gibney's Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God, Joshua Oppenheimer’s The Act of Killing, and Marina Zenovich’s Roman Polanski: Odd Man Out (the follow-up to her great 2008 documentary, Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired). Hit the jump for the full documentary line-up and synopses. The 2012 Toronto International Film Festival runs from September 6 – 16th. Click here for the Midnight Madness line-up. 9.79* Daniel Gordon, United Kingdom World Premiere Daniel Gordon’s 9.79* looks at the legacy of the 100-metre men’s final at the 1988 Seoul Olympics, when gold medalist Ben Johnson...

The Cannes Film Festival has long been a friendly home to Roman Polanski. It’s a place where he still occasionally shows up, assured that he won’t be bombarded by the kind of hanging-judge hostility that will inevitably be expressed in the comments at the end of this post. I’m tempted — oh, how I’m tempted! — to leave the He’s a great artist!/He’s a child rapist! debates to all of you, but the interesting and troublesome new documentary Roman Polanski: A Film Memoir inevitably calls up all the old tidbits and scandals and moral questions once again.

Online film investment hub Slated, which launched at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival, has fostered its first two projects: a modern version of Anton Chekov’s “The Seagull” and Marina Zenovich’s documentary follow-up to “Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired.” Co-founded by Duncan Cork, Stephan Paternot, William Mapother and Gavan Gravesen, Slated is designed to link up filmmakers, producers and investors in a secure and self-vetted digital environment devoted to creating high-quality indie films. Still in beta, Slated has accrued a pool of accredited investors with more than $100 million in capital for film investment. Directed by actor Christian Camargo (“The Hurt Locker”), “Seagull” stars Allison Janney, William Hurt and Katie Holmes and is scheduled to begin filming in upstate New York this summer with funds raised partially through Slated. Russell Means, Jean Reno, Mark Rylance and Juliet Rylance are also...

Director Roman Polanski's latest film, "Carnage," premiered at the New York Film Festival last Friday, but he was attending a different sort of movie premiere on the other side of the ocean. "Roman Polanski: A Film Memoir" purportedly sheds light on the director's life and, more importantly, his flight from the United States in 1978 just before he was to be sentenced for the sexual assault of a thirteen-year-old girl.

Polanski appeared in person at the Zurich Film Festival for the premiere, as well as to receive a lifetime achievement award from the fest. Ironically, it was on his trip to Zurich in 2009 that landed him under house arrest as the United States attempted to extradite him for prosecution.

In an interview with the TV station Tsr Suisse, Polanski finally directly addresses his assault of Samantha Geimer in 1977. "I have regretted it for 33 years, of course I regret it," he said.

Adding another layer of intrigue to the saga of Oscar-winning director Roman Polanski and his notorious 1977 criminal case, previously documented in 2008's Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired, is a new documentary featuring testimonial from Polanski himself. Roman Polanski: A Film Memoir was helmed by showbiz documentarian Laurent Bouzereau and was revealed to be the secret screening set to follow the director's lifetime achievement award ceremony Tuesday at the Zurich Film Festival. Two years ago, Polanski was arrested while en route to the fest. Expect he'll make it through unscathed this time around? [THR]...