Scorsese, Allen, Aronofsky&others join "FREE POLANSKI" petition (1 Viewer)

[jonah]

I hope this isn't a duplicate post, but SERIOUSLY this has me so angry I needed to post as many obscene and vulgar swear words on the topic as possible and invite you lovely thumpeders to join me.

http://community.livejournal.com/ohnotheydidnt/39618660.html

This is the list of geebags that have signed thus far:

full list:


Fatih Akin, Stephane Allagnon, Woody Allen, Pedro Almodovar, Wes Anderson, Jean-Jacques Annaud, Alexandre Arcady, Fanny Ardant, Asia Argento, Darren Aronofsky, Olivier Assayas, Alexander Astruc, Gabriel Auer, Luc Barnier , Christophe Barratier, Xavier Beauvois , Liria Begeja , Gilles Behat, Jean-Jacques Beineix, Marco Bellochio, Monica Bellucci, Djamel Bennecib, Giuseppe Bertolucci , Patrick Bouchitey, Paul Boujenah, Jacques Bral, Patrick Braoudé, André Buytaers, Christian Carion, Henning Carlsen, Jean-michel Carre, Mathieu Celary, Patrice Chéreau, Elie Chouraqui, Souleymane Cissé, Alain Corneau, Jérôme Cornuau, Miguel Courtois, Dominique Crevecoeur, Alfonso Cuaron, Luc et Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Jonathan Demme, Alexandre Desplat, Rosalinde et Michel Deville, Georges Dybman, Jacques Fansten, Joël Farges, Gianluca Farinelli (Cinémathèque de de Bologne), Etienne Faure, Michel Ferry, Scott Foundas, Stephen Frears, Thierry Frémaux, Sam Gabarski, René Gainville, Tony Gatlif, Costa Gavras, Jean-Marc Ghanassia, Terry Gilliam, Christian Gion, Marc Guidoni, Buck Henry, David Heyman, Laurent Heynemann, Robert Hossein, Jean-Loup Hubert, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, Gilles Jacob, Just Jaeckin, Alain Jessua, Pierre Jolivet, Kent Jones (World Cinema Foundation), Roger Kahane, Nelly Kaplan, Wong Kar Waï, Ladislas Kijno, Harmony Korinne, Jan Kounen, Diane Kurys, Emir Kusturica, John Landis, Claude Lanzmann, André Larquié, Vinciane Lecocq, Patrice Leconte, Claude Lelouch, Gérard Lenne, David Lynch, Michael Mann, François Margolin, Jean-PierreMarois, Tonie Marshall, Mario Martone, Nicolas Mauvernay, Radu Mihaileanu, Claude Miller, Mario Monicelli, Jeanne Moreau, Sandra Nicolier, Michel Ocelot, Alexander Payne, Richard Pena (Directeur Festival de NY), Michele Placido, Philippe Radault, Jean-Paul Rappeneau, Raphael Rebibo, Yasmina Reza, Jacques Richard, Laurence Roulet, Walter Salles, Jean-Paul Salomé, Marc Sandberg, Jerry Schatzberg, Julian Schnabel, Barbet Schroeder, Ettore Scola, Martin Scorsese, Charlotte Silvera, Abderrahmane Sissako, Paolo Sorrentino, Guillaume Stirn, Tilda Swinton, Jean-Charles Tacchella, Radovan Tadic, Danis Tanovic, Bertrand Tavernier, Cécile Telerman, Alain Terzian, Pascal Thomas, Giuseppe Tornatore, Serge Toubiana, Nadine Trintignant, Tom Tykwer, Alexandre Tylski, Betrand Van Effenterre, Wim Wenders.

+Erika Abrams, Gianni Amelio, Roger Andrieux, Alexandre Babel, Jean-François Balmer, Véra Belmont, Alain Berliner, Pascal Berney, Lucien Blacher, Catherine Boissière, Thierry Boscheron, Freddy Bossy, Patrick Bouchitey, Cédric Bouchoucha, Katia Boutin (Membre de l'équipe du dernier film de Roman Polanski "The Ghost"), Guila Braoudé, Anne Burki, Lionel Cassan (Membre de l'équipe du dernier film de Roman Polanski "The Ghost"), Teco Celio, Christophe Champclaux, Brigitte Chesneau, Catherine Chouchan, Jean- Pierre Clech, Henri Codenie, Robert Cohen, Guy Courtecuisse (Membre de l'équipe du dernier film de Roman Polanski "The Ghost"), Morgan Crestel, Frédéric Damien, Sophie Danon, Hervé de Luze (Membre de l'équipe du dernier film de Roman Polanski "The Ghost"), Benoît Delmas, Dante Desarthe, Romain Desbiens, Thomas Desjonquères (Membre de l'équipe du dernier film de Roman Polanski "The Ghost"), Guillaume D'Ham (Membre de l'équipe du dernier film de Roman Polanski "The Ghost"), Christelle Didier (Membre de l'équipe du dernier film de Roman Polanski "The Ghost"), Kathrin DiPaola, Ariel Dorfman, Jean Teddy Filippe (Membre de l'équipe du dernier film de Roman Polanski "The Ghost"), Martine Fitoussi, Matteo Garone, Catherine Gaudin-Montalto, Stéphane Gizard, Christophe Goumand, Dimitri Haulet, Dominique Hollier, Isabelle Hontebeyrie, Frédéric Horiszny, Anne Jeandet, Arthur Joffé, Paola Jullian, Richard Klebinder, Jean Labadie, David Lanzmann, Françoise Lassale, Carole Laure, Christine Laurent-Blixen, Emilien Lazaron (Membre de l'équipe du dernier film de Roman Polanski "The Ghost"), Pierre et Renée Lhomme, Marceline Loridan-Ivens, Christine Mathis, Christopher, Spencer et Claire Mc Andrew, Allison Michel, Jean-Louis Milesi, Jean-Marc Modeste , Christian Mvogo Mbarga, Juliette Nicolas-Donnard, Eric Pape, Abner Pastoll, Olivier Père, Suzana Peric (Membre de l'équipe du dernier film de Roman Polanski "The Ghost"), Jacques Perrin, Thomas Pibarot, Anne Pigeon Bormans, Sabrina Poidevin, Agnès Catherine Poirier, Harry Prenger, Gilbert Primet, Tristan Rain, Jo Reymen, Laurence Reymond, Christiane Rhein, Avital Ronell, Marc Saffar, Gabriela Salazar Scherman, Jean-Frédéric Samie, Pierre Schumacher, Luis Gustavo Sconza Zaratin Soares, Frank Segier, Guy Seligmann, Julien Seri, Pierre Silvant, Roch Stephanik, Jean-Marc Surcin, André Techiné, Valentine Theret, Jaques Vallotton, Jean-Pierre Vergne, Sarah Vermande, Gilles Walusinski, Anaïse Wittmann, Arnaud Xainte, Christian Zeender.



EDIT: new names

Isabelle Adjani
Antoine Aronin
Paul Auster
Morgane Beauverger
Candice Belaisch-Goldchmit
Yamina Benguigui
Pascal Bruckner
Jessika Cohen
Philippe Corbé
Jean-Paul Dayan
Katarina De Meulder
Arielle Dombasle
Nathalie Faucheux
Corinne Figuet
Pierre Forciniti
Louis Garrel
Albert Gauvin
Johanna Gozlan
Davide Homitsu Riboli
Taylor Hackford
Isabelle Huppert
Neil Jordan
Thierry Kamami
Milan Kundera
Gaelle Lancien
Claude Lanzmann
Bernard-Henri Lévy
Sam Mendes
Camille Meyer
Patrick Mimouni
Yann Moix
Mike Nichols
Sandra Nicolier
Marie Nieves Perez Neël
Salman Rushdie
Carine Sarna
Ysabelle Saura Del Pan
William Shawcross
Olivier Soares Barbosa
Steven Soderbergh
Nil Symchowicz
Danièle Thompson
Eugenia Varela Navarro
Diane von Furstenberg
Margaret Walker
Elsa Zylberstein

And those organizations:
- l'Académie des César
- l’API (Association des producteurs Indépendants)
- l'ARP
- l’ARRF – Association des Réalisateurs et réalisatrices de Films - Belgique
- la Cinémathèque Française
- le Festival de Cannes
- le Fonds Culturel Franco Américain
- le Groupe 25 images
- la SACD
- le SPI
- l'Union des producteurs de films
- L’équipe du dernier film de Roman Polanski « Ghost »
- Pathé
- Scott Foundas (LA Weekly)

"Petition for Roman Polanski

We have learned the astonishing news of Roman Polanski's arrest by the Swiss police on September 26th, upon arrival in Zurich (Switzerland) while on his way to a film festival where he was due to receive an award for his career in filmmaking.

His arrest follows an American arrest warrant dating from 1978 against the filmmaker, in a case of morals.

Filmmakers in France, in Europe, in the United States and around the world are dismayed by this decision. It seems inadmissible to them that an international cultural event, paying homage to one of the greatest contemporary filmmakers, is used by the police to apprehend him.

By their extraterritorial nature, film festivals the world over have always permitted works to be shown and for filmmakers to present them freely and safely, even when certain States opposed this.

The arrest of Roman Polanski in a neutral country, where he assumed he could travel without hindrance, undermines this tradition: it opens the way for actions of which no-one can know the effects.

Roman Polanski is a French citizen, a renown and international artist now facing extradition. This extradition, if it takes place, will be heavy in consequences and will take away his freedom.

Filmmakers, actors, producers and technicians - everyone involved in international filmmaking - want him to know that he has their support and friendship.

On September 16th, 2009, Mr. Charles Rivkin, the US Ambassador to France, received French artists and intellectuals at the embassy. He presented to them the new Minister Counselor for Public Affairs at the embassy, Ms Judith Baroody. In perfect French she lauded the Franco-American friendship and recommended the development of cultural relations between our two countries.

If only in the name of this friendship between our two countries, we demand the immediate release of Roman Polanski.
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"

SO SO MUCH RAGE. Personally its Milan Kundera and Wim Wenders names that sting like a HOLY POISONED ARROW OF PAIN.

Lastly, on the subject :

"Very few, if any, of the people who have publicly defended Polanski, or who have worked with him, make it their business to champion or associate themselves with admitted child rapists. They make an exception for Polanski for the same reason exceptions have been for other famous, artistic men – directors, writers, actors, comedians, singers, musicians, dancers, choreographers, painters, sculptors, photographers – who have been known to sexually assault women and/or children: Because geniuses get special dispensation.

Because there's only one Roman Polanski.

So goes the breathless defense of the artiste, while the flipside of that particular coin, because thirteen-year-old girls are a dime a dozen, goes unspoken."


Melissa McEwan in the guardian:
source
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentis...sep/28/roman-polanski-rape-arrest-switzerland

 

[Cormcolash]

FREE BARRABAS

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

Woody Allen. Haha.

There's a marker for which side of the girl-fucking debate to be on.

 

[Moods For Mallards]

Yeah, it's pretty obscene. Horrible backslapping, insular, amoral, hypocritcal fuckbags. And plenty of women on there too, who one might, perhaps naively, expect to be a little harder to defend a child rapist than famous, egotistical and connected men.
Any incidences of movie folks speakin out against this stuff?

 

[Space]

Given the views of the victim I'm not sure I have a problem with anybody signing the petition.

Judge the Movie, Not the Man
By Samantha Geimer|February 23, 2003

I met Roman Polanski in 1977, when I was 13 years old. I was in ninth grade that year, when he told my mother that he wanted to shoot pictures of me for a French magazine. That's what he said, but instead, after shooting pictures of me at Jack Nicholson's house on Mulholland Drive, he did something quite different. He gave me champagne and a piece of a Quaalude. And then he took advantage of me.

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It was not consensual sex by any means. I said no, repeatedly, but he wouldn't take no for an answer. I was alone and I didn't know what to do. It was scary and, looking back, very creepy. Those may sound like kindergarten words, but that's the way it feels to me. It was a very long time ago, and it is hard to remember exactly the way everything happened. But I've had to repeat the story so many times, I know it by heart.

We pressed charges, and he pleaded guilty. A plea bargain was agreed to by his lawyer, my lawyer and the district attorney, and it was approved by the judge. But to our amazement, at the last minute the judge went back on his word and refused to honor the deal.

Worried that he was going to have to spend 50 years in prison -- rather than just time already served -- Mr. Polanski fled the country. He's never been back, and I haven't seen him or spoken to him since.

Looking back, there can be no question that he did something awful. It was a terrible thing to do to a young girl. But it was also 25 years ago -- 26 years next month. And, honestly, the publicity surrounding it was so traumatic that what he did to me seemed to pale in comparison.

Now that he's been nominated for an Academy Award, it's all being reopened. I'm being asked: Should he be given the award? Should he be rewarded for his behavior? Should he be allowed back into the United States after fleeing 25 years ago?

Here's the way I feel about it: I don't really have any hard feelings toward him, or any sympathy, either. He is a stranger to me.

But I believe that Mr. Polanski and his film should be honored according to the quality of the work. What he does for a living and how good he is at it have nothing to do with me or what he did to me. I don't think it would be fair to take past events into consideration. I think that the academy members should vote for the movies they feel deserve it. Not for people they feel are popular.

And should he come back? I have to imagine he would rather not be a fugitive and be able to travel freely. Personally, I would like to see that happen. He never should have been put in the position that led him to flee. He should have received a sentence of time served 25 years ago, just as we all agreed. At that time, my lawyer, Lawrence Silver, wrote to the judge that the plea agreement should be accepted and that that guilty plea would be sufficient contrition to satisfy us. I have not changed my mind.

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I know there is a price to pay for running. But who wouldn't think about running when facing a 50-year sentence from a judge who was clearly more interested in his own reputation than a fair judgment or even the well-being of the victim?

If he could resolve his problems, I'd be happy. I hope that would mean I'd never have to talk about this again. Sometimes I feel like we both got a life sentence.

My attitude surprises many people. That's because they didn't go through it all; they don't know everything that I know. People don't understand that the judge went back on his word. They don't know how unfairly we were all treated by the press. Talk about feeling violated! The media made that year a living hell, and I've been trying to put it behind me ever since.

Today, I am very happy with my life. I have three sons and a husband. I live in a beautiful place and I enjoy my work. What more could I ask for? No one needs to worry about me.

The one thing that bothers me is that what happened to me in 1977 continues to happen to girls every day, yet people are interested in me because Mr. Polanski is a celebrity. That just never seems right to me. It makes me feel guilty that this attention is directed at me, when there are certainly others out there who could really use it.

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Editor's note: The Times' usual practice is not to name victims of sexual crimes. Samantha Geimer's name is used here with her consent.

http://articles.latimes.com/2003/feb/23/opinion/oe-geimer23?pg=2

 

[Moods For Mallards]

So he's lucky to have a victim who feels a certain way about matters and that's that. Right?

 

[Space]

So he's lucky to have a victim who feels a certain way about matters and that's that. Right?

I don't know to be honest. Going from her description of the case they were happy with the plea bargain at the time; admission of guilt and time served. But the victims feelings on the matter should be ignored. Right?

 

[Ferox13]

I expected Fatty Arbuckle to sign too..

 

[CinnamonBoy]

I'm an awful ignoramus on such matters but wouldn't it set a dangerous legal precedent or something if they let him go?

 

[Unicron]

Regardless of whether or not it was right or wrong of the judge to renage on the plea bargain and for Polanski to subsequntly skip out it amazes me that there are people who feel sorry for him now that he's been busted.

 

[Space]

Regardless of whether or not it was right or wrong of the judge to renage on the plea bargain and for Polanski to subsequntly skip out it amazes me that there are people who feel sorry for him now that he's been busted.

Just for the record; I don't in anyway feel sorry for him in the slightest.

 

[jonah]

I fully agree with Moods and Unicron.

I also have to say I find it bizarre that this so called petition focuses so singularly on the holy sanctity of film festivals and their position in society as free, unbiased and impenetrable domains and the detrimental effect this will have on that, and isolates itself competely from commenting on the actual allegations made against Polanski.

Hey guys, I know he rape-raped (thanks Whoppi) an unconscious 13 year old but we have the TRADITION of a film festival to uphold! Just sayin!

 

[ann post]

has phil spector signed this yet, or have we all quietly discarded his recording career.

 

[Moods For Mallards]

Nobody's dismissing or discarding Polanski's film career. It just shouldn't in any way give him special dispensation to rape 13 year olds.
In fact, the only people tieing his career to his crime are his supporters.

I have a Phil Spector badge and listen to his records a lot. And he's rightly in jail.

 

[ann post]

i like throwing shit up for conversation, I'm wondering how much the murder of his wife and child in his new found country contributed to him committing a crime.

 

[Unicron]

Just for the record; I don't in anyway feel sorry for him in the slightest.

Oh no, I wasn't saying that you were, I meant the folks who signed the petition or Whoppi "it wasn't rape rape" Goldberg.

 

[Gambra]

I expected Fatty Arbuckle to sign too..

That whole thing with him "violating" that woman with the champagne bottle was a lie though wasn't it? He got a full apology from the jury in the trial but his career was destroyed by that stage.

 

[Kid Lovebeach]

That whole thing with him "violating" that woman with the champagne bottle was a lie though wasn't it? He got a full apology from the jury in the trial but his career was destroyed by that stage.

coke bottle no?

the people of Luton seem to have forgiven him, i was in a restaurant there named after him when i was 12/13.

 

[Gambra]

It was some sort of bottle. It was made up by the newspapers anyway.

 

[Ferox13]

Regardless of whether or not it was right or wrong of the judge to renage on the plea bargain and for Polanski to subsequntly skip out it amazes me that there are people who feel sorry for him now that he's been busted.

This pretty much sums out how i feel.