Roman Polanski, or pardon me but your poll is in my neck.

What do you mean against? They're in favour of anal child rapists not being prosecuted, as long as they're talented

Polanski beating Scorsese was a high point of the decade in Oscar terms.

i think my fav. thing abt this thread is how many ppl like to gratuitously post some combination of "anal" "rape" "child" and "13 year old"

Not exactly gratuitous, to be fair.

i think my fav. thing abt this thread is how many ppl like to gratuitously post some combination of "anal" "rape" "child" and "13 year old"

A lot of us listen to the blues and Nick Cave.

naw man it's cool if we can't type "anal child rapist" now (TO REMIND EVERYONE WHAT HE DID) when can we

And your point is?

The Guardian actually has a disclaimer noting that it wasn't rape.

my point is basically that this thread sucks i guess

I can't argue with that

really? that's weird because it was, but oh yeah, polanski sued vanity fair in london for saying so the other year and for some reason he was allowed to testify via skype.

xpost

this is what happens when Inglourious Basterds fans weigh in

• Some commenters have simply used the term "rape" in relation to Roman Polanski's 1977 conviction. The offence he pleaded guilty to is often described as "statutory rape" but more precisely as "unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor".

is there any such thing as legal consensual sex with a 13 year old?

this is what happens when an inglorious bastard gets arrested.

is there any such thing as legal consensual sex with a 13 year old?

Sure. Everyone in France does it.

as a defence, that's gonna need some brushing up before the trial

He sued for libel? The story has to be injurious to one's reputation - not a distinction I'd fancy trying to make.

Polanski beating Scorsese was a high point of the decade in Oscar terms.

― boring movies are the most boring (Eric H.), Tuesday, September 29, 2009 3:54 PM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

this is a pretty random comment, but anyway, marty has shown no hard feelings and has signed the 'free roman' petish.

stabbing three people with the pen on his way out

He sued for libel? The story has to be injurious to one's reputation - not a distinction I'd fancy trying to make.

Injurious Basterds

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/23/movies/MoviesFeatures/23pola.html

^^ roman polanski v. vanity fair

Polanski should site Foucault as a precedent.

http://www.movieactors.com/freeze-frames/GIGI/GIGI2006-11-14%2019-45-44-18.jpg

lol that disclaimer comes at the end of an article slamming whoopi goldberg for saying it wasn't rape-rape. classy.

they all mention how he thought she was older than 13 but that doesn't actually matter lol

"lemme tell you about 20-year-olds. half of them are 16."

that petition in full, which also includes woody allen lol. wonder if larry clark will get on board.

http://www.sacd.fr/Le-cinema-soutient-Roman-Polanski-Petition-for-Roman-Polanski.1340.0.html

also includes new times stalwart scott foundas. what is up with that?

also kent jones?!

this is a pretty random comment

It wasn't before my thread was hijacked, is my point.

Woody Allen as a character witness will not help the situation, I think.

i really cannot believe so many people are going to bat for the guy. way to behave like some malkinist fantasy of liberal euro-hollywood.

People are all going on about how bad it is for the victim to have to relive this, but it's the guys whose threads about Polanksi are getting hijacked that are the real victims in all this

Poor Eric H - who we will call H from now on, to protect his anonymity

Eric H better start a list.

I've suggest banned everyone on this thread.

I mean, how dare we discuss director's personal lives and how it affects their work. What are we, auteurists?

Let's return to the matter at hand:

My journal, La Règle du jeu, is working in support of Roman Polanski and mobilizing writers and artists through the following petition:
Apprehended like a common terrorist Saturday evening, September 26, as he came to receive a prize for his entire body of work, Roman Polanski now sleeps in prison.

He risks extradition to the United States for an episode that happened years ago and whose principal plaintiff repeatedly and emphatically declares she has put it behind her and abandoned any wish for legal proceedings.

Seventy-six years old, a survivor of Nazism and of Stalinist persecutions in Poland, Roman Polanski risks spending the rest of his life in jail for deeds which would be beyond the statute-of-limitations in Europe.
We ask the Swiss courts to free him immediately and not to turn this ingenious filmmaker into a martyr of a politico-legal imbroglio that is unworthy of two democracies like Switzerland and the United States. Good sense, as well as honor, require it.

-- Bernard Henry-Levy

jesus christ what a load of shit

The Guardian actually has a disclaimer noting that it wasn't rape.

Oh really now.

blimey @ BHL. im fairly gratified that not too many brits have joined our fellow old-worlders in the free-the-paedo stampede.

Like a common terrorist.

the free-the-paedo stampede

I don't think he's a pedophile. I think he's a rapist. As Whoopi would say, let's be careful to define our terms here.

He might be a rapist but he's not a rapist-rapist. LOL French intellectuals, again.

That guy's not too smart. Far from being beyond any statute-of-limitations, here at least (which is in Europe) the courts are full of historic child sex abuse cases from decades ago. They don't make the papers because they're not big stories, but they are being prosecuted - and not because the accused are big-shot celebrities either.

That guy's not too smart.

LOL French intellectuals

it's shaping up to be the dreyfus affair of the 21st century.

If he had been smart he wouldn't have run. He would have realized that if he stayed in America, he could have bought the verdict he wanted. Guess he felt guilty or something.

has Jack Nicholson made a statement?

You'd think it's a mere technicality, but he did plead guilty.

xp He's always stayed as far away from this as he was from his house at the time.