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Trailer Watch: Stories We Tell - Directed by Sarah Polley

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Actress and now very talented director, Sarah Polley has a new documentary that premiered last fall in Toronto. Stories We Tell received a good deal of critical praise as it made its way around the festival circuit last playing in Sundance. Here are our thoughts on the film out of Toronto.

By Melissa Silverstein and Kerensa Cadenas
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March 12, 2013 10:00 AM
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Sarah Polley, Deepa Mehta, Nisha Pahuja Named to the Top 10 Films of Canada

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Canada’s 12th Annual Top 10 Film list was announced this week. Films by Sarah Polley, Deepa Mehta and Nisha Pahuja were included on the list.

By Kerensa Cadenas
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December 6, 2012 10:32 AM
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TIFF Review: The Stories We Tell - Sarah Polley's Effective New Documentary

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Toronto loves Sarah Polley. The display of that love was evident last week at the premiere of her first documentary Stories We Tell which held its Canadian premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival. I was able to see the film with an audience rather than at a press screening, and the love they feel for her is palpable. It was really amazing to see. She is an incredibly talented filmmaker who takes a bold step by putting the lens on herself, her family and its secrets. It's not a conventional documentary by any means. She has reenactments of past events. She has written a whole narration which her father reads throughout the movie. As the two of them sit there him reading, her directing you see them reflecting on their whole lives and how they are both so affected by all that the film reveals. She sets the whole thing up as if she is willing the way the answers will turn out. Not to give too much away because it is just so good, the film is about secrets and family and the search for truth and how many version of the truth exist.

By Melissa Silverstein
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September 17, 2012 12:30 PM
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Roadside Attractions Picks up Stories We Tell and Imogene

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Roadside Attractions has been on a buying binge here in Toronto and has picked up two women directed and written films from TIFF.

By Kerensa Cadenas
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September 12, 2012 4:23 PM
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The Toronto Experience - Part One

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Greetings from the Toronto Film Festival. I touched down on Thursday afternoon and since that moment this has been a serious whirlwind. Since it is my second year I understand is the key is pace and endurance. You have to sprint through the first weekend when everyone in the industry is in town for the big premieres and there are many parties and events to attend. I have gone non-stop for over three days and haven't had a moment to write anything.

By Melissa Silverstein
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September 10, 2012 9:14 AM
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Cross Post: La Femme Telluride

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William Blake once wrote that exuberance is beauty. Despite the success of Ben Affleck’s Argo here, this fest seems to be driven by women filmmakers. This is most surprising, since we just came out of such a bad year for women. But three of them were the major forces behind their projects that told important stories, sometimes personal, sometimes not. I came here feeling the pressure of time and age – and frankly feeling some despair about the state of things for women. I never expected I would leave here feeling hopeful not just for women this year but for the doors they creaked open this year, how they managed to do it, how well they did it, and how successful they’ve become doing it.

By Sasha Stone
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September 5, 2012 11:00 AM
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TIFF Trailer Watch: The Stories We Tell Written and Directed by Sarah Polley

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This first documentary by the incredibly talented Sarah Polley is getting great reviews out of Venice and Telluride.

By Melissa Silverstein
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September 4, 2012 10:00 AM
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Trailer Watch: Sarah Polley Directs a Documentary - Stories We Tell

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This is a busy year for Sarah Polley. Her film Take This Waltz is now in release in the US and now she has a documentary premiering at Venice and Toronto.

By Melissa Silverstein
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August 14, 2012 9:27 AM
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Weekly Roundup

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Here's a round-up of some of the stories we didn't get a chance to cover last week but wanted you to know about.

By Melissa Silverstein and Kerensa Cadenas
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July 30, 2012 9:58 AM
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Guest Post: Take This Waltz and Female-Centric Love Triangles

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On the heels of Lynn Shelton's Your Sister's Sister comes another indie dramedy about a love triangle, writer-director Sarah Polley's Take This Waltz. Waltz is Polley's follow-up to her universally acclaimed debut, Away With Her, and stars Michelle Williams as Margot, a married twentysomething copywriter who meets and falls for a man (Luke Kirby) while on vacation... who turns out to be her neighbor. Comedic actors Seth Rogen and Sarah Silverman add familiar faces and levity to the cast by playing Margot's cookbook-writing husband, Lou, and Geraldine, Margot's sister-in-law.

By Inkoo Kang
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July 11, 2012 11:26 AM
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