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fuckyeahwomenfilmdirectors:

Sarah Polley b. January 8, 1979

Polley was born in Toronto, the youngest of 5 children. Her parents were jobbing actors who met during a play and quickly introduced Polley to acting when she was a child. Polley became a child star in Canada while starring on the successful TV show Road to Avonlea. Nevertheless she was openly indifferent to acting, turning down opportunities to work on major projects in the U.S. Most notably she dropped out of the role of Penny Lane in Almost Famous to attend film school at the Canadian Film Centre for directing. Though she continued to act into adulthood, she eventually gave up acting professionally in part to focus on her writing and directing projects and in part due to the sexism and harassment she had experienced as an actress. Her last acting role was a small cameo role in the 2010 film Trigger.   

Polley made her directorial feature film debut in 2006 with Away From Her, an adaptation of an Alice Munro short story. She was nominated for an Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for her screenplay. 

Since then she has directed two other films: Take This Waltz, a semi-autobiographical movie starring Michelle Williams and the 2012 documentary Stories We Tell, a film about her discovery that her father, Michael Polley, was not actually her biological father and she was the result of an extramarital affair. 

Polley also produced and wrote the 2017 adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s Alias Grace. Though she had initially planned to direct a movie adaptation of the novel, the adaptation eventually took the form of a miniseries and Polley turned over directing to fellow Canadian Mary Harron. 

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auteurstearoom:

Director Nicolas Roeg and David Bowie on the set of The Man Who Fell to Earth.

mastersofthe80s:

Friday the 13th (1980)

queen-of-mothra:

Friday The 13th - 1980

Directed by: Sean S. Cunningham

Starring: Betsy Palmer, Adrienne King & Jeannine Taylor

filmsploitation:

Carrie (1976) dir. Brian De Palma

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