What a proud day for all of us long-time fans (and the new ones). As
you may all recall, I was the one who predicted that Our Sarah would
become a first-rate film director

Quote:

"One must understand Polley's career progression in light of her
attendance at the Canadian Film Centre's directors program and her
production of short films, including Don't Think Twice (1999) and
the highly praised I Shout Love (2001). Polley is a cinema artist.
This woman wants to make, and will make films. Thus, we can
understand her career choices as a desire to work with and
understand the technique of some of the best directors in film,
including David Cronenberg, Michael Winterbottom, and Hal Hartley.

"Polley is as renowned for her intelligence as for her remarkable
talent. The problem of the intelligent person in the acting field is
that the actor, as artist, in not ultimately in control of their
medium, and it is artistic control that is the hallmark of the great
artist. The controlling intelligence on a movie set is the director,
and her attendance at the Canadian Film Centre has given her a new
perspective on acting. The actor, she says, should not try to give a
complete performance for the camera (that is, control the
representation on film) but must remember that the function of the
actor is to give the director as much coverage as possible as a
film, as well as a performance, is made in the editing room.
According to Polley, this realization, that the film actor exists to
serve the director, has given her new enthusiasm for acting. Thus,
her career, and her career choices, can be seen as a quest for
knowledge about the art of cinema, a journey whose fruition we will
see in her future feature work as both actor and director."

Sarah Polley IMDB biography by yours truly, Jon C. Hopwood

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001631/bio

IT'S COME TO FRUITION!!! OUR GIRL GOT FOUR STARS (****) FROM THE
TORONTO STAR FOR HER FIRST FEATURE FILM!!!

I'M SO F#@%IN' PROUD!!!

Now, off to rewrite that bio!