Brilliant filmmaker, Holocaust survivor, narrowly escaped a massacre – and sex offender: On Roman Polanski’s 90th birthday.
Director Steven Soderbergh once said he doesn’t know anyone who wouldn’t admit that “Chinatown” is a masterpiece. The economy of this multi-layered narrative, the carefully nested screenplay; that Roman Polanski is the master of motivated camera movement: Soderbergh found that to convince everyone. It’s been a few years since he said that in a bonus track on a special edition of Chinatown. Polanski directed Chinatown in 1974, and this beautifully reimagined detective story, set in booming 1930s Los Angeles, is one of his most successful films.