Sometimes you look at a movie adaptation of a classic book and it’s as if you’re reading it with the filmmaker, turning the pages together. Roman Polanski’s “Oliver Twist” takes the useless question ...

After the devastating emotional rawness of Roman Polanski’s Holocaust drama “The Pianist,” the director’s take on Charles Dickens’ “Oliver Twist” is an oddly distant and disappointing affair. Other ...

Sir Ben Kingsley never appeared as himself on the set of Roman Polanski’s upcoming film version of Charles Dickens’ classic novel “Oliver Twist.” Even when the cameras weren’t rolling, the ...

Paris — NO matter where he looks, Roman Polanski cannot find the study about the nutritional nightmare of children’s cereals. For more than three hours, over tea in one brasserie, lunch in another, ...

Without his name on the credits, it would be difficult to identify the latest version of “Oliver Twist” as the work of Roman Polanski. Conventional, straightforward and very much within what used to ...

Without his name on the credits, it would be difficult to identify the latest version of “Oliver Twist” as the work of Roman Polanski. Conventional, straightforward and very much within what used to ...

It has been nearly a century since the first film based on Charles Dickens’ Oliver Twist, and the Internet Movie Database indicates there have been over two dozen adaptations since then. But once we ...

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There have been no shortage of takes on Charles Dickens' classic tale of the orphan Oliver Twist. A quick search of IMDb lists 25 different works, ranging from shorts to television adaptations.

One day [Roman] telephoned me and said, ‘ Oliver Twist.”’ That was November of 2003. By Christmas, Harwood had finished the adaptation, and by June 2004, Polanski was in Prague filming the reported ...