Articles tagged "sarah polley"

DVD TV Review

John Adams (HBO Miniseries)

by Chris Barsanti

[23.Jun.08] :. Avoiding the powdered-wig iconography of the founding fathers, this film broadens the view of these revolutionary leaders and their tumultuous times.

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Film Feature

A Tough Road for Hollywood’s Female Film Directors

by Mary F. Pols [Contra Costa Times (MCT)]

[30.Aug.07] :. 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."

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Film Review

Away from Her (2006)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[9.May.07] :. Both careful and contrived, Away from Her paints marriage as a series of losses, fulfillments, and compromises, infinitely rewarding and painful.

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DVD Film Review

The I Inside (2003)

by Nikki Tranter

[10.May.05] :. You know something's wrong with your film when the most interesting thing in it is a 20-second scene featuring Robert Sean Leonard.

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Film Review

Dawn of the Dead (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[18.Mar.04] :. Don't call it a remake.

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DVD Film Review

My Life Without Me (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[23.Feb.04] :. Her capacity for intense focus, as Polley observes, makes Ann seem unusual, 'incredibly efficient and practical'.

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My Life Without Me (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[20.Nov.03] :. Ann's decision not to tell seems simultaneously selfless and selfish.

 

No Such Thing (2002)

by Elbert Ventura

[4.Apr.02] :. Arid and hermetic, it's the first misstep in Hartley's intriguing and varied career.

 

The Claim (2000)

by Cynthia Fuchs

Here the primary players are caught between forging their futures (individual and communal) and regretting their pasts, conjuring up a civilization in an unforgivably brutal environment.

 
 
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