Tag: Sarah Polley
TIFF 2022 Review: Women Talking (Sarah Polley)
“What follows is an act of female imagination” is the title card that precedes Sarah Polley’s Women Talking — a film derived from a novel…
TIFF ‘22 Review Dispatch #3: The Telluride Films – ‘Good Night Oppy’, ‘Empire of Light’, ‘Women Talking’
In our last set of reviews we looked at some of the most notable Venice premieres that also played TIFF, so today let’s do the…
Film Review: The Sweet Hereafter (1997)
Recalling, and unable to shake off, the tragic events in Alton, Texas in 1989, when 21 children died in a bus accident, Russell Banks wrote…
Rewind – 2007 in Film: Away From Her
The thing that comes back to me as I think about a film like Away from Her is the snow. Snow feels like it’s flooding…
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100 Not Nominated For Oscars – Part 15
Sometimes greatness in movies miss the boat with the Academy Awards. Or rather, those that vote. Be it a highly acclaimed documentary, an iconic Italian…
