It seems obvious that, to him, there was no better match of artist and repertoire. Roman Polanski is a man whose childhood was shattered by European antisemitism, and his adult years, he’d claim, saw ...

Six years after its French release, the movie is screening in New York. It’s the first Roman Polanski movie to open in the U.S. since 2014. By Manohla Dargis When you purchase a ticket for an ...

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 ...

Alfred Dreyfus, an artillery captain in the French army accused of anonymously sending secret documents to the German embassy in Paris, is tried for treason before a court-martial at Rennes. Alfred ...