Word: filming
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...entered the directing program at the renowned Lodz Film School in Poland. As a student, Polanski wrote and directed several short films; Two Men and a Wardrobe (1958) won five international film awards...
...made his first English-language film, Repulsion, featuring Catherine Deneuve as a psychotic young woman who fantasizes about rape. It won the Critics Prize at the Venice Film Festival...
...After moving to Hollywood, he made his first U.S. feature, Rosemary's Baby (1968), a now classic horror film adapted from Ira Levin's best-selling novel about a woman who discovers she has had a demonic child...
...made his feature-film debut with Knife in the Water, a psychological thriller about a couple who invite a hitchhiker aboard their yacht. It won the Venice Film Festival International Critics Award of 1962 and was nominated for a 1964 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film...
...Polanski made the Holocaust drama The Pianist, starring Adrien Brody. The first film he had shot in Poland since Knife in the Water, it won the Cannes Film Festival's top honor, the Palme d'Or, in 2002, and the Academy Award for directing in 2003. Polanski did not attend the Academy Awards ceremony because he faced arrest upon setting foot...