For someone who has established such an illustrious and prolific career from crafting stories rife with nuanced themes of identity, gender, and complacency, Margaret Atwood has a fairly disenchanted view of narrators. Namely, she believes that none of them should be taken at face value.
“I don’t think anyone is a reliable narrator — in real life or anywhere else,” she told audiences Thursday night at the Tiff world premiere of “Alias Grace.” “Who tells the absolute truth all the time? There was a movie made where people were cursed with having to tell the absolute truth all the time and the result was… not pretty.”
The upcoming six-part miniseries from the Canadian Broadcast Corporation and Netflix is based on Atwood’s novel of the same name, and is a pet project from producer and actress Sarah Polley, who started trying to option the rights when she was just 17 years old.
“I don’t think anyone is a reliable narrator — in real life or anywhere else,” she told audiences Thursday night at the Tiff world premiere of “Alias Grace.” “Who tells the absolute truth all the time? There was a movie made where people were cursed with having to tell the absolute truth all the time and the result was… not pretty.”
The upcoming six-part miniseries from the Canadian Broadcast Corporation and Netflix is based on Atwood’s novel of the same name, and is a pet project from producer and actress Sarah Polley, who started trying to option the rights when she was just 17 years old.
- 9/15/2017
- by Amber Dowling
- Indiewire
Michael Goldbach begins his directorial career with an independent feature film on life in a small town. However, this film, Daydream Nation, "is not a documentary".
After Childstar (2005), which he co-wrote with Don McKellar, Goldbach wanted to direct a film. It took him 7 to 8 years to find the financial support. "It's very difficult to raise money for a first film," he mentioned. Although "Daydream Nation is not an auto-biography", it still contains a few references to what he has known in high school in Arva, a small town in Ontario near London.
During the first minutes of the interview, Goldbach speaks quickly and with enthusiasm. After all, Daydream Nation will be released tomorrow in select theatres in New York and Los Angeles.
As he was in the city of angels to promote his first feature film, Goldbach explained on the phone that he wanted to offer a different vision of...
After Childstar (2005), which he co-wrote with Don McKellar, Goldbach wanted to direct a film. It took him 7 to 8 years to find the financial support. "It's very difficult to raise money for a first film," he mentioned. Although "Daydream Nation is not an auto-biography", it still contains a few references to what he has known in high school in Arva, a small town in Ontario near London.
During the first minutes of the interview, Goldbach speaks quickly and with enthusiasm. After all, Daydream Nation will be released tomorrow in select theatres in New York and Los Angeles.
As he was in the city of angels to promote his first feature film, Goldbach explained on the phone that he wanted to offer a different vision of...
- 5/5/2011
- by anhkhoido@gmail.com (Anh Khoi Do)
- The Cultural Post
One of the biggest surprises at this year's Toronto International Film Festival was Jacob Tierney's Good Neighbours. Surprising not because Tierney doesn't already have a reputation as one of Canada's bright up and coming talents - last year's The Trotsky was very warmly received - but because the film is so radically different from anything Tierney has done before. A dark serial killer thriller this is a world away from the John Hughes inspired high school comedy of The Trotsky. We had the chance to ask Tierney a few questions about his latest film, which you'll find below.
For those unfamiliar with the way language issues really affect things here in Canada, can you talk a bit about the setting of Good Neighbours, the political background of the story, and what it was like to be an Anglophone living in Montreal at the time?
At the time the film is set,...
For those unfamiliar with the way language issues really affect things here in Canada, can you talk a bit about the setting of Good Neighbours, the political background of the story, and what it was like to be an Anglophone living in Montreal at the time?
At the time the film is set,...
- 9/27/2010
- Screen Anarchy
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