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After one of France’s top actors, Adèle Haenel, announced she was quitting a French film industry that she denounced for “complacency toward sexual aggressors,” Cannes Film Festival chief Thierry Fremaux rejected her criticisms Monday

Author Claire Dederer started off writing a book about the film director Roman Polanski. Forty-five years ago, Polanski fled the United States after pleading guilty to unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor.

The most viewed Oscars moment award goes to Will Smith for his astonishing reaction to Chris Rock at the 2022 Oscars

LOS ANGELES — Twenty years ago, Rob Marshall’s “Chicago” won six Academy Awards, including best picture, beating out Martin Scorsese’s “Gangs of New York,” Stephen Daldry’s “The Hours,” Peter Jackson’s “The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers” and Roman Polanski’s “The Pianist.” The triumph of “Chicago” — one of…

LOS ANGELES — In 1969, 20-year-old Linda Kasabian came to California to find God. Instead, she found Charles Manson.

Gang’s getaway driver passed away in hospital in January and has since been cremated

From the WIPO Arbitration & Mediation Center Administrative Panel Decision in Polanski v. Uziel (Arbitrators Brian J. Winterfeldt, Warwick A. Rothnie & Marie-Emmanuelle Haas), decided two weeks ago but just posted on Westlaw: In 1977, the Complainant [film director] was arrested in the United States and charged with unlawful sex…

Important, controversial, and incredibly influential, this contentious classic remains as chilling as it was in the 1970s.

Actress Sharon Tate was eight and a half months pregnant when she was murdered by crazed members of Charles Manson's cult