Tag Archives: Sarah Polley

Gordon Pinsent on Away From Her

May 16, 2026 flawintheiris

Here's the most recent in a series of interviews I conducted in the past with prominent actors and filmmakers. I was fortunate enough to speak with Sarah Polley for her first feature film, Away From Her, in 2007. I'm sorry to say that chat has been lost in time, but some of the details we… Read More

Women Talking review — A potent, important conversation

January 20, 2023 flawintheiris

Directed by Sarah Polley | Written by Polley, adapting the Miriam Toews novel | 104 min | ▲▲▲▲△ | Amazon Prime A version of this review was posted on FITI during the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival. With the splash Women Talking made at TIFF and AIFF, and the high profile of Sarah Polley on… Read More

Triangle of Sadness, Women Talking reviews #TIFF22

September 9, 2022 flawintheiris

Spent a couple hours in line-ups on Thursday to collect tickets and waiting for access to press and industry screenings, but it was all worth it to see two interesting features and get my first taste of #TIFF22 from the inside. I'm sharing photos and videos on the flaw_in_the_iris Instagram account, so if you're interested… Read More

Welcome to the Summer of Sarah Polley

July 8, 2022 flawintheiris

I recently opined that David Cronenberg is the greatest filmmaker this country has ever produced. I'd suggest a corollary to that: Sarah Polley has got to be in the top five. To date she's only directed three feature films — a fourth is due soon, more on that below — but they're astonishingly good. Her… Read More

Still Alice review — Julianne Moore shines in Alzheimer’s drama

February 18, 2015 flawintheiris

Written and directed by Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland, from a novel by Lisa Genova Sometimes a movie is most effective just by being singular. Still Alice is such a case. It's a story that can be summed up like this: An academic gets early onset Alzheimer's and this is what happens to her. Julianne… Read More

Watching Robin Williams

August 17, 2014 flawintheiris

I figured I'd wait a few days before offering any kind of tribute to Robin Williams. Give the news a chance sink in. It seems to me a universal tragedy; someone so talented, so adored, would feel so despondent as to end his life. Depression doesn't discriminate. Of the more moving remembrances to the Oscar-winning actor… Read More

Top 10 Movies of 2012

January 13, 2013 flawintheiris

Welcome to a post collecting the names and details of films that wowed me through the 12 months of last year, typically arriving late as I caught up with everything I wanted to see. My criteria for inclusion are as follows: List-worthiness for me is a strange equation of cerebral and emotional, as much as… Read More

The Atlantic Film Festival 2012: Rust & Bone, the wrap-up

September 21, 2012 flawintheiris

A week flies by when you're at the movies every night. And though there were plenty of films I would have liked to have seen, I'm very happy with what I managed to take in this year. Highlights for me included Sarah Polley's startlingly intimate Stories We Tell, Michael Haneke's Love (Amour) and Thomas Vinterberg's… Read More

Atlantic Film Festival 2012: Here we go

September 13, 2012 flawintheiris

It's "Christmas for Carsten," as a friend of mine called it. I've been attending and/or writing about The Atlantic Film Festival since 2003. Invariably I see at least one film that blows me away, something I wouldn't have seen otherwise at the local multiplex monopoly.For those who don't know, the AFF is an annual event,… Read More

Top 20 Movies of 2000-2010

September 1, 2012 flawintheiris

This ends my trawl of the internets to find materials I wrote about movies before I started this blog two years ago, materials unseen by anyone but my friends. I hope it proves to be of some use to all y'all. The criteria for choosing the best films of a decade is different than the… Read More