{"id":700,"date":"2013-05-17T09:25:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-17T16:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2013\/05\/sarah-polley-director.html"},"modified":"2013-05-17T09:25:00","modified_gmt":"2013-05-17T16:25:00","slug":"sarah-polley-director","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2013\/05\/sarah-polley-director.html","title":{"rendered":"Sarah Polley, Director"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SARAH Polley, the actress and director, has a new, very well reviewed film out. A few years ago, when her directorial debut, Away From Her, was released, I had lunch with her at the ArcLight. That film was based on an understated short story by the master Alice Munro, who I also spoke to.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/articles.latimes.com\/2007\/may\/04\/entertainment\/et-munro4\">HERE<\/a> is that piece, which I wrote for the LA Times.<\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-WsEI21wGfyA\/UZZoFELOFEI\/AAAAAAAACQ0\/VSwRtl0DAUg\/s1600\/polley-video-image-articleLarge.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"179\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-WsEI21wGfyA\/UZZoFELOFEI\/AAAAAAAACQ0\/VSwRtl0DAUg\/s320\/polley-video-image-articleLarge.jpg\" width=\"320\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>My main memory of that encounter was saying, somewhat clumsily, &#8220;Oh, you&#8217;re Canadian, do you know the music of Ron Sexsmith? He&#8217;s Canadian too.&#8221; Instead of pouring her ice tea on my head, Ms. Polley &#8212; who I found smart and engaging throughout &#8212; beamed and raved about how much she loved Sexsmith&#8217;s music.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m very eager to see her new <a href=\"http:\/\/movies.nytimes.com\/2013\/05\/10\/movies\/stories-we-tell-written-and-directed-by-sarah-polley.html\">Stories We Tell<\/a>, a documentary about family secrets.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of new docs, I&#8217;m also curious to see the film <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rickyjaymovie.com\/\">Deceptive Practices<\/a>, about the magician and storyteller Ricky Jay, who I absolutely adore. (That link takes you to the website, and the trailer, of the film.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SARAH Polley, the actress and director, has a new, very well reviewed film out. A few years ago, when her directorial debut, Away From Her, was released, I had lunch with her at the ArcLight. That film was based on an understated short story by the master Alice Munro, who I also spoke to. HERE [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[76,40,34,85],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-700","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-film","7":"category-indie","8":"category-literary","9":"category-magic","10":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}