Monthly Archives: December 2008

Variety On Roman Polanski’s Motion To Dismiss

Polanski files for sex-case dismissal
By Dianne Garrett for Variety
On Tuesday, attorneys for the director filed a complaint with the Los Angeles Superior Court seeking to have 31-year-old sexual misconduct charges dismissed. Fittingly enough, a docu about the filmmaker’s travails paved the way for latest attempt to clear Polanski’s name.
Polanski’s attorneys cite “extraordinary new evidence” that [...]

NY Times: Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired Cited In Request To Dismiss Case

Roman Polanski’s lawyers have made a motion to dismiss the case.
See the article in the NY Times:

Film Cited in Request to Dismiss Polanski Case.
By Michael Cieply
Lawyers for the film director Roman Polanski, who fled the United States before his sentencing for statutory rape 30 years ago, asked a judge here to dismiss the case against [...]

Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired - One of Top Five Documentaries of 2008 by the National Board of Review

“Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired” is one of the
Top Five Documentaries of 2008 by the National Board of Review.