Thursday, September 15 2011
Toronto International Film Festival 2011: ‘Take This Waltz’
Take This Waltz is set in Polley's native Toronto and it makes wide use of that city's funky west end for its locations and local musicians for its score (a real treat for this Torontonian).
Monday, March 23 2009
Part 1: The Thin Red Line to Star Wars Episode I (January - May 1999)
The first part of PopMatters' look back at the films of 1999 is bookended by the long awaited return of two cinematic auteurs of wildly different styles, Terrence Malick and George Lucas.
Monday, June 23 2008
John Adams (HBO Miniseries)
Avoiding the powdered-wig iconography of the founding fathers, this film broadens the view of these revolutionary leaders and their tumultuous times.
Thursday, August 30 2007
A Tough Road for Hollywood’s Female Film Directors
Like most big-time movie directors, Kasi Lemmons had a studio driver to take her to and from the set of her new film, Talk to Me. "He said he'd driven 130 directors," Lemmons recalled. "And I was the first woman director he'd driven."
Wednesday, May 9 2007
Away from Her (2006)
Both careful and contrived, Away from Her paints marriage as a series of losses, fulfillments, and compromises, infinitely rewarding and painful.
Monday, August 7 2006
Dont Come Knocking (2006)
A vivid, genuine exploration of a hell-raiser entering his twilight years apologetically and with an open heart.
Friday, April 14 2006
Dont Come Knocking (2006)
The reunion of Wim Wenders and Sam Shepard, coming some 20 years after Paris, Texas, demonstrates both the change and sameness in their art.
Tuesday, May 10 2005
The I Inside (2003)
You know something's wrong with your film when the most interesting thing in it is a 20-second scene featuring Robert Sean Leonard.
