With Roman Polanski and his past making another unexpected appearance in headlines across the world I wanted to call (or remind) everyone’s attention to the masterful 2008 documentary about his case: “Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired” by Marina Zenovich The link is to a review in Newsweek. And here’s the entry at IMDB. I saw it because it had a run on HBO.
I think it struck a certain cord for me because I was an eight year old boy living in Southern California when these events occurred. So many of the local TV news clips, which make up a good bit of the movie, are ones I remember watching at the time. But putting that aside, I found it one of the more compelling and subtle documentaries I’d seen in some time.
As far as I know there’s no way to view it on the web. You can rent it online here. And it’s on sale in all the standard DVD places. Here’s the link at Amazon.
Late Update: TPM Reader EJ sends along a link to this extremely critical review Bill Wyman wrote of the documentary back in February.
Late Netflix Hounding Update: Numerous Netflixers inform me you can watch it right now online through Netflix.
