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29 August 2008 4:03 PM, PDT | From Cinematical.com | See recent Cinematical news

Filed under: Columns, 400 Screens, 400 Blows

Isabel Coixet's Elegy (92 screens) is a "disease-of-the-week" movie. I hate "disease-of-the-week" movies, but I really liked Elegy. I also liked Coixet's previous film, My Life Without Me, which was also a "disease-of-the-week" movie. Sarah Polley's beautiful Away from Her from last year was another excellent example. This begs three questions: What is a "disease-of-the-week" movie? Why do I hate them? And what makes Elegy so good? The phrase "disease-of-the-week" was coined to describe a certain type of TV movie some decades ago, which had addicted housewives sniveling and crumbling up tissues at their TV tubes for two hours every seven days. But filmmakers quickly snatched upon the formula as a quick and easy way to weasel their way into film critics' hearts, and probably win an Oscar or two.

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Jeffrey M. Anderson

22 April 2008 9:05 PM, PDT | From avclub.com | See recent The AV Club news

Sarah Polley has said that making 1988's Adventures Of Baron Munchausen was "traumatic." After watching The Madness And Misadventures Of Munchausen—a riveting, brutally candid making-of documentary included on Sony's new double-disc DVD set—that seems like an understatement. For a cast and crew saddled with a spiraling budget, endless bad luck, and a sinister German producer who comes off like a cross between Otto Preminger and Uwe Boll, making Munchausen was an experience to be survived rather than savored. All the madness, drama, and waste did pay off creatively, though not financially: Munchausen cost and lost a fortune. But in the hackneyed parlance of show-biz, every dollar is up on the screen in an exquisite cavalcade of wildly imaginative setpieces dreamed up by Gilliam and production designer Dante Ferretti, who picked up the first of eight Oscar nominations for the film. A massive flop turned cult favorite, Munchausen casts British.

Nathan Rabin

4 March 2008 10:31 AM, PST | From Studio Briefing | See recent Studio Briefing news

First-time Canadian film director Sarah Polley was showered with awards and praise Monday night as her film Away From Her captured seven awards, including best actor (Gordon Pinsent), best actress (Julie Christie), and best director, at Canada's version of the Oscars, the Genie Awards. The awards presentations also turned out to be an effective platform for opponents of proposed Canadian legislation that would deny tax credits to any film regarded as offensive. Host Sandra Oh remarked that the bill would result in a comeback for censorship, adding: "I don't know about you, but that doesn't sound very Canadian to me."

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21 February 2008 4:41 PM, PST | From bloody-disgusting.com | See recent Bloody-Disgusting.com news

B-d reader 'Guruu' just sent us the first ever still from Vincenzo Natali's (Cube) Splice, which features Adrien Brody and Sarah Polley in action. Read on for a look. The film is about Elsa and Clive, two young rebellious scientists, defy legal and ethical boundaries and forge ahead with a dangerous experiment: splicing together human and animal Dna to create a new organism. Named Dren, the creature rapidly develops from a deformed female infant into a beautiful but dangerous winged human-chimera, who forges a bond with both of her creators - only to have that bond turn deadly.

4 articles from 2008