At the same time, though, the media and entertainment industries were rapidly evolving, and the modern celebrity was born.

He's one of the world's most famous directors, who boasts a plethora of Academy Awards, BAFTAs and Golden Globes. Yet despite being highly respected for his filmmaking, Quentin Tarantino's personal ...

Content warning: This article contains discussions of sexual assault. Roman Polanski is an Academy Award-winning director who drugged and raped a thirteen-year-old girl named Samantha Geimer in 1977.

UPDATE with statement from Film Forum Management: Workers at Film Forum in New York City are calling out the theater’s programmers for the limited theatrical run of “An Officer and a Spy,” Roman ...

The prime parallel between the movie “An Officer and a Spy” and the life of its director, Roman Polanski, is obvious but inexact. The film, whose original French title is “J’Accuse,” tells the story ...

President Trump has pardoned and actively worked to rehabilitate the image of several convicted criminals, and John Oliver wouldn’t be surprised if convicted sex offender Roman Polanski is next. Well, ...

Roman Polanski’s “An Officer and a Spy” proves timely even though it has just made it to these shores six years after its European release. Mr. Polanski and his co-screenwriter, the novelist Robert ...

Sharon Tate was murdered by followers of Charles Manson on Aug. 9, 1969 Jessica Sager is a contributing writer at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2023. Her work has previously appeared in ...

What Happened to Roman Polanski After Sharon Tate's Death, 56 Years Later originally appeared on Parade. On the night of August 9, 1969, Sharon Tate, who was eight months pregnant and on the brink of ...

In the opening scene of Roman Polanski’s An Officer and a Spy, a retelling of the infamous Dreyfus Affair — in which Alfred Dreyfus, a French Jewish officer, was falsely accused of treason at the turn ...

Jean Dujardin and Louis Garrel in Roman Polanski's "An Officer and a Spy." Photo courtesy of Film Forum. The Dreyfus case has been filmed before, a partial list includes William Dieterle’s “The Life ...