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Director Sarah Polley mines her family story for a gem of a film

Source: Miami Herald

Everywhere in the culture, there's another monologuist or filmmaker placing herself at the center of a question, or a series of questions: What's up with my family? How did I get here? How can one charismatic family member hold so many secret ...
Full article at: Miami Herald  More like this  May 17 2013, 2:54am CDT

A director’s discoveries about her parents in ‘Stories We Tell’

Source: Boston.com

Who owns a family’s stories? Do we shape our lore — the anecdotes of how our parents met, the tales of sibling betrayals and truces — as a clan, or do we agree on the outlines while parting ways on the particulars? ...
Full article at: Boston.com  More like this  May 16 2013, 6:11pm CDT

Greta Gerwig, 'Frances Ha' Star, Isn't Interested in 'Being a Great Actor in a Sh-- Movie'

Source: Cinematical

When you hear the plot for "Frances Ha" -- about an awkward 27-year-old aspiring dancer in Brooklyn who's trying to get her life together -- your first inclination might be to compare it to another Brooklyn-based project with a twen ...
Full article at: Cinematical  More like this  May 16 2013, 9:34am CDT

Review: Clever 'Stories We Tell' explores memory

Source: Washington Examiner

"Stories We Tell" is a documentary about Sarah Polley's family: her father and mother, sister and brother and the sister and brother she has from her mother's first marriage. It's about moments they've shared that are seeming ...
Full article at: Washington Examiner  More like this  May 15 2013, 9:15pm CDT

Eagerly Anticipated Films For 2013 SIFF

Source: KUOW

The Seattle International Film Festival starts Thursday and will run through June 9 featuring over 400 films from more than 80 countries. Seattle film critic David Chen can’t wait. Chen is the editor-at-large of Slash Film and co-hos ...
Full article at: KUOW  More like this  May 15 2013, 12:17pm CDT

Sarah Polley digs deeply into her uprooted family tree for 'Stories We Tell'

Source: KansasCity.com

As she grew up in Toronto under the care of her father, Michael, Polley's conception of her mother was fuzzily constructed from memories, photos and family stories. Nevertheless, she followed her mother's footsteps into acting, taking to the ...
Full article at: KansasCity.com  More like this  May 15 2013, 9:49am CDT

Sarah Polley, Playing Sensitive Interrogator And Making A Masterpiece With Stories We Tell

Source: Cinema Blend

Sarah Polley had a secret. She had kept it for years, at one point calling a Canadian journalist and begging them, through tears, not to run a story about it. But even years later, when she directed a documentar ...
Full article at: Cinema Blend  More like this  May 15 2013, 8:50am CDT

Away From Her: Sarah Polley And “Stories We Tell”

Source: Newcity: Street Smart Chicago

Sarah Polley’s third feature, the nonfiction “Stories We Tell,” is a tricky thing, one that does not stop reflecting and refracting until its very final frames. It’s exceptionally fine, smudging the boundaries of what many consider to be documentary prac ...
Full article at: Newcity: Street Smart Chicago  More like this  May 15 2013, 6:30am CDT

Sarah Polley talks about the artistic freedom that led to her brilliant new 'Stories We Tell'

Source: HitFix

These days, a number of my interviews are done by phone because I am juggling some complicated scheduling around the lives of my kids. It's just a fact of parenthood… you make space for all of their stuff because you have to. You do it no ...
Full article at: HitFix  More like this  May 14 2013, 3:36am CDT

Family Opens Its Diary, With Mother as Subject

Source: The New York Times

By Mekado Murphy Sarah Polley on 'Stories We Tell': Sarah Polley, the director of "Stories We Tell," discusses her film. For many of us, I suspect, our first sense of the past begins with the simple childhood request for a story about our fa ...
Full article at: The New York Times  More like this  May 9 2013, 4:37pm CDT


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