Tag: The Pianist

  • WolfmanOz at the Movies #93

    Music was his passion. Survival was his masterpiece. The Pianist (2002) is an account of the true life experience of Polish pianist Wladyslaw Szpilman during WWII. This is a truly heart-wrenching story of one man whose family perishes in the Holocaust and about his survival over solitude, deprivation, starvation and terror whilst in hiding in…

  • WolfmanOz at the Movies #11

    Forget it Jake, it’s Chinatown . . . is the final line from Roman Polanski’s brilliant 1974 mystery thriller Chinatown. Polanski is obviously a polarising film-maker given that in 1977 he was arrested and charged with raping and drugging a 13-year-old girl. He pleaded guilty to a lesser offence of unlawful sex with a minor…