The Pianist

We should all periodically revisit the best books and films on the Holocaust, however unpleasant, to keep our own awareness, watchfulness, and revulsion very much alive. There is no shortage of worthy choices.

Roman Polanski emerged from the womb knowing cinema. Proof lies in his glorious first feature, Knife in the Water, a tense, complex, three-character study.

Roman Polanski is arguably the world's greatest living filmmaker. Who else, since Hitchcock, has managed to mine terror from the most seemingly innocuous sources?

It's hard to bring up Roman Polanski without acknowledging his recently aggravated legal problems, but he remains one of the world's best known direct...