I was looking for the petition to sign, but heres my comment: LEAVE THE POOR GUY ALONE. It will be much wiser, less obstinate and more generous to leave this exceptional man alone. Harvey. Filmmakers in France, in Europe, in the United States and around the world are dismayed by this decision. Roman Polanski has been a fugitive from justice for 30 years and it is time he manned up and dealt with the situation. Dear Roman you have my full support. - Members of the European Producers Club This is actually a very civil process being carried out in regards to someone who did a very uncivil thing. But one can have enormous sympathy for those losses, and also feel that offering up dead women as mitigating factors for raping a girl doesnt really wash. By trying to send Roman Polanski to the lions despite all the legal arguments, is something that unfortunately gets and will get more and more out of proportion. John Landis Jean-Jacques Annaud Martin Scorsese and Woody Allen want Roman Polanski released from a Swiss Jail.The two directors and more than 100 other filmmakers and actors have signed a petition voicing their objection to . Zenovichs movie focuses on how Polanski had the misfortune to come up in front of Judge Lawrence Rittenband, who was obsessed with self-publicity and determined to make an example of Polanski. Are you kidding me? I could enjoy Sean Connerys work, even though he apparently doesnt have a problem with slapping a woman. Celebs Who Have Defended Roman Polanski Publically - IMDb This kind of hypocrisy about Polanski makes you wonder how serious the industry really is about dealing with this problem, as it claims to be. The petition demanding "the immediate release" of Polanski attracted more than 100 signatures, including Wes Anderson, Martin Scorsese, Woody Allen, Tilda Swinton and Wong Kar Wai. Here are some tips and tricks to help you find the answer to "Wordle" #623. Amongst them were a swathe of high-profile names, including Woody Allen, David Lynch, Martin Scorsese, Tilda Swinton, Darren Aronofsky, Monica Bellucci, Asia Argento and Wes Anderson. It feels GOOD. If Polanski had faced his sentence 30 years ago, wed have forgotten HIM and the victim wouldnt have to relive it now. You people that support this kind of act should be ashamed of yourselves. The charges against him were for having sex with a minor, even if consensual a moral charge, as is stated in the petition. Will you too?' We are all part of the #MeToo movement, both men and women, Cruz said, because we all feel that rage and sense of injustice. 3. Jonathan Demme They protect their own, I protect my own. Laurence Roulet this is all very upsetting to hear. Roman Polanski Petition - Alt Film Guide As a result, her attorney arranged the plea bargain, in which five of the charges were dropped and Polanski pleaded guilty to statutory rape, which was the least serious charge against him. Here are some tips and tricks to help you find the answer to 'Wordle' #622. I know I was thinking about sex pretty much 90% of the time. This will not be a problem to keep up I will soon be very familiar with the names on the list, Ill just cross-check any movie I think about renting or seeing in the theater. Over the past few days I've been watching the Roman Polanski story unfold. Cant think of a bigger threat to our planet just now. Portman is one of the first . He admitted to unlawfully having sex as part of a plea bargain the judge tried to renege on. The rest say they are too busy. The biggest stories of the day delivered to your inbox. Jarre, actually, he pretty much did admit to raping her. I foolishly went along. He should be brought to justice. Polanski denies the claims. the mindset to handle this cituation in a mature Jacques Fansten lilian on Twitter: "in 2009 over 100 filmmakers and actors signed a We have a duty to protect the innocence of children. I was asked by friends from the Cannes film festival to sign it. "I take responsibility for not thinking about it enough. No excuses. Its despicable that some Hollywood stars would rather support a pedophile then uphold a serious charge such as rape of an underage girl. The Mexican director received criticism after he chose not to wear a Time's Up badge to the BAFTAs. I know what I am, what I have and havent done, how things really were and are, he writes at the end of his autobiography. Its neutrality applies in times of war and peace, not in the application of treaty and criminal laws. Linda, what you think should happen and what is mandated by law are two very different things. Stuck on 'Quordle' #402? Woody Allen On Sunday night, at the London Critics Circle awards, only months after defending Polanski and Allen, Winslet spoke tearfully about bitter regrets I have at poor decisions to work with individuals with whom I wish I had not. Its war neutrality does not preclude it from signing a necessary extradition treaty with another country. Judge Laurence Rittenband, who was thought to be considering sentencing Polanski to 50 years in prison. Where does the quest for boycott end? Well, eight years is a long time in sexual mores. Polanski drugged a 13 year old girl and forced his penis in her anus - is that too ugly? Jean-Paul Salom Signed? - la Cinmathque de Dijon / Cinmathque Jean Douchet Sigourney Weaver with Polanski at the 2008 Marrakech film festival. etc. It was stupid To take a childhood from a person is the worst thing there is. Im so glad Roman has so many supporters that he can rape and sodomize, but are any of you 13 because thats target age we need. This girl was very sexually mature for her age, even the judge said the prosecutrix was a well-developed young girl, who looked older than her years, and regrettably not unschooled in sexual matters. This was clearly a case of consensual sexual relations. Weinstein is now firmly banished and actors are apologising for appearing in Woody Allen movies. - lARP Women, girls, PEOPLE having a RIGHT to say what happens to their own bodies is NOT a moral issue, it is a human rights issue. Alain Jessua When Polanski was arrested in Switzerland in 2009, where he was jailed for two months and then put under house arrest (the house, in this case, being a chalet in the Alps), Debra Winger claimed the whole art world suffers. The mob wants revenge. As to the victim wanting to drop the case, it is because she is tired of all the publicity her family gets every time Polanski whines about not being able to go to a certain country to film. Just as astonishing is Sharon Tates sister - a supposed victims advocate saying Polanski is a lovely man and should be free. Abderrahmane Sissako The fact that filmmakers may present their work and travel freely and safely at and to film events, as every person may do at and to other unrestricted public properties, does not make them diplomats. There are no hazy conspiracy theories we know exactly what happened because Polanski admitted to it and later wrote about it in astonishing detail in his autobiography, Roman by Polanski, published six years after he left the US and went to France, where he still lives. The names on the petition include Natalie Portman, Tilda Swinton, Isabelle Huppert, Penelope Cruz, Diane von Furstenberg, Wes Anderson, Darren Aronofsky, Martin Scorsese, Monica Bellucci, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, Harmony Korine, Ethan Cohen, David Lynch, and Harrison Ford. Feminist here! Who gives a shit? K, Uhlman, please dont get all circus of blood here. I certainly wouldnt allow any of you to get near my daughter. Michele Placido Emma Thompson has long been an ardent supporter of women's rights, and the British Oscar-winner recently signed a letter in support of the Times Up campaign ahead of this year's BAFTAS. Elie Chouraqui Broadly reached out to Cruz to ask if she regrets supporting Polanski, but she declined to reply by the time of publication. Nicolas Mauvernay By the beginning of this century, while the general American public remained firmly set against Polanski, the mood in Hollywood was openly in his favour. Mike Nichols, David Lynch, Ethan Coen, Bernardo Bertolucci, Martin Scorsese, Jeremy Irons, Tilda Swinton, Terry Gilliam, Emir Kusturica, Wim Wenders and many, many others, I love you even more! Polanski was originally indicted for 4 felonies, and the girl agreed to have him plea guilty to statutory rape in order to avoid the circus of the trial. Madness. I cant wait to get out of this f**ed up town. Some dont reply at all, despite repeated approaches. But Gailey became so frightened by the attention the case attracted, because of Polanskis fame, she tried to withdraw from it entirely. While researching this article I had a couple of off-the-record discussions with actors and film-makers about their true feelings about Polanski. actually, it is the people who think that someone who is a famous white male should get away with this that concerns me. I still do. Petition for the Release of Roman Polanski - TheWrap Jean-Michel Carre He never was. Kingsley, who has worked with Polanski multiple times, would need to pass. Serge Toubiana A man that raped a child. He never admited to raping anyone. Actor Gael Garca Bernal, Academy Award-winning actress Penlope Cruz, veteran director Mario Monicelli, veteran screenwriter Lorenzo Semple Jr, and Academy Award-winning filmmakers Bernardo Bertolucci and Ethan Coen are a few of the latest additions to the list of signatories demanding freedom for filmmaker Roman Polanski, currently being held by Swiss authorities. Go ahead delete my anti hollywood post I feel better for posting it even if I already knew only equivocators and apologist for polanski need post, the uber leftist oh so talented equivocators make me want to hurl. Dominique Crevecoeur - le Festival des Rencontres internationales du cinma de patrimoine de Vincennes Also to send out the right signal to society. I know it wont matter one iota to many of you, which is fine, but I am one person who will do her best to avoid any of your work. Portman wasn't the only high-profile signatory. IndieWire is a part of Penske Media Corporation. But you can have your eyes opened and completely change the way you want to live. Is Father Polanski any different? I have also read the facts spred online. Someone I respected gave it to me, and said, 'I signed this. Thanks to the candour of Polanski, the rest of us have always known, too including everyone in the film industry who has worked with him since. Hes an old man now and probably wont be causing much more trouble so I dont know how much in the way of resources we should spend trying to extradite him so that he can spend his dotage in one of our nicer minimum security prisons . People keep affirming that Polanski did this and did that as if they were there at the time. Patrice Chereau 2. International film events are not extraterritorial in nature - only diplomatic missions are extraterritorial, and even diplomats are triable and punishable for crimes in a foreign country once they are sent back to their countries. Christophe Barratier He is a convicted child molestor. Given Portman's active involvement in the Time's Up movement, her signing of the petition came from a misplaced sense of empathy. Gay movies. Just because he made a few hollywood films, should he somehow be judged more severely or liberally than the others? That is even ignoring the evidence that his victim gave to the grand jury that he got her alone under the pretense of taking her photo (for Vanity Fair I think), gave her alcohol and drugs and when she said no to him even after all that he went ahead and raped her orally, vaginally and anally. Souleymane Cisse Wordle today: Here's the answer, hints for March 3. I mean, Ted Bundy oh. - Le Syndicat National des Techniciens de la Production Cinmatographique et de Tlvision (National Union of Film and Television Technicians) Liria Begeja Roman Polanski is a French citizen, a renown [sic] and international artist now facing extradition. The whole world will be so much safer if Polanski ends his days behind bars. I wonder how these signers would feel if it was one of their kids? Stay on top of the latest breaking film and TV news! Alongside Asia Argento and Emma Thompson, Natalie Portman remains one of the few celebrities to apologize for signing the petition. High-profile actors like Kate Winslet and Adrien Brody continued to work with him. Petition for Roman Polanski. Absolutely despicable by each and every one of these people who signed this petition. It makes me sad to know so many people who I look up to in the field of the arts are supporters of rape. He describes grooming Gailey on the drive to the photoshoot: I asked when shed first started having sex, he writes, as if thats a normal thing for a 43-year-old man to ask a 13-year-old girl. The following is the SACD petition, followed by a list of names of people who had signed it as of tonight. He hadnt committed rape-rape, Whoopi Goldberg said on TV. Lets go folks!! I had an extraordinary working experience with both of those men, and thats the truth.. By now, celebrities were falling over themselves to defend Polanski. Yes other people get away with this. Its 40 years this week since the director and convicted sex offender went on the run. Sam Gabarski Kent Jones And please dont take the whole But but hes so charming and he gives to charity! defense. Polanskis autobiography was written seven years after his arrest, and his account of the crime does not smack of a man overly burdened with feelings of guilt. In 2016, when promoting recent film Julieta, Almodovar criticized the limited parts conventionally written for women. Alexander Astruc An Open Letter to All Those Celebrities Who Signed the Roman Polanski Radovan Tadic Alexander Payne is currently focused on his new baby. Thats why even though there are many other bad things in the world, this one IS important. Mr. Polanski is not a threat to anyone. My eyes were not open.. Furthermore, plea bargains are totally up to the judge, if he felt the deal was too lenient than he was perfectly in his legal right to not honor the deal. She said regardless of the fact she knows him and the terrible things he has been through, a crime is a crime," Hayward-Tapp told the Independent in 2009. 1. Much emphasis is made in the movie about how Polanskis celebrity hurt him during the trial, which is true. His plea bargain didnt fall apart. I very much regret it, Portman said. Or else every case involving Stockholm Syndrome would never be tried. We should not however allow him to ever enter this country again. A petition demanding his release was signed by more than 100 actors and film-makers, including Emma Thompson (who later asked to have her name removed), Yasmina Reza and Tilda Swinton. 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Tilda Swinton There, he gave her champagne and, according to her, quaaludes. Back in 2009, film industry luminaries signed a petition to release Roman Polanski from a Swiss prison and now one star is regretting it. Hes an animal because of what he did to a child; hes a coward because he didnt take his punishment like a man with character. the uber leftist oh so talented equivocators make me want to hurl. Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu My eyes were not open," she said. He is not a sexual predator he is a now a philanthropist. Original reporting and incisive analysis, direct from the Guardian every morning. The Best True Crime Streaming Now, from 'Unsolved Mysteries' to 'McMillions' to 'The Staircase' Polanski raped a 13 year old girl and skipped out on the sentencing he should rot in jail for a long time. Someone I respected gave it to me, and said, 'I signed this. The actresswho spoke at the Womens March in January and has been a vocal supporter of the Times Up campaign to end sexual violence and abuseexpressed contrition to Buzzfeed over her former views. Roman Polanski is a Polish filmmaker who has been a fugitive from the U.S. criminal justice system, since 1978, after pledging guilty to statutory rape of a 13-year-old girl. Roman Polanski is a French citizen, a renown and international artist now facing extradition. have worked with him, movie insiders say. Alongside Asia Argento and Emma Thompson, Natalie Portman remains one of the few celebrities to apologize for signing the petition. He fled the conviction. I will never again be able to speak to, or look at, Mike Nichols, Jonathan Demme, Martin Scorsese or any of the other names I recognize here without wanting to scream obscenities at them. The man has no remorse for what he did as evidenced by interviews he has given. In 2009, when Polanski was arrested at a Zurich airport in a failed extradition attempt, over 100 Hollywood celebrities signed a petition calling for his release. Betrand Van Effenterre Just ask her. Great.. I live in LA, Im a liberal, and I am appalled by the signatures of people whose work I respect on the petition. Monica Bellucci Pedro Almodovar Mr. Polanksi should have long since addressed the matter.
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