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	May 7, 2007 Strong debut for Away From Her by Marise Strauss The joint push by Capri Releasing and Mongrel Media paid off for Away from Her, which connected with audiences over its debut weekend and generated nearly $63,000 on nine screens at the Canadian box office.

	May 4, 2007 Sarah Polley makes an assured directing debut by Liam Lacey Munro’s story gets a canny, admirable adaptation from Sarah Polley, the accomplished Canadian actress making her feature directorial debut. Apart from being a film about old age from a woman in her late 20s, Away from Her is a film rich in paradoxes.

	April 30, 2007 Away From Her review by Dennis Harvey Thesp Sarah Polley’s feature directorial bow “Away From Her” is a gracefully wrought study of a long-term marriage being wedged apart by Alzheimer’s.

	April 21, 2007 Respecting our elders In this podcast of the CBC Radio show Definitely Not the Opera (DNTO), they talk with Sarah Polley, who is not a senior, but is the director of Away From Her, a movie about an aging couple struggling with Alzheimer's.

	April 18, 2007 A Role About Winter for Julie Christie, a Star in Eternal Spring by Alan Riding For moviegoers who fell for Julie Christie in the 1960s (and they were legion), she will always be the tousle-haired blonde with the dazzling smile who lit up the screen in “Darling,” “Doctor Zhivago” and “Far From the Madding Crowd.” Today they need not feel disappointed. In her new movie, “Away From Her,” which opens on May 4, she is still a tousle-haired blonde with a dazzling smile.

	March 22, 2007 Sarah Polley adds director to resume by Belinda Goldsmith From child star, to political activist, to the thinking man’s pin-up, to film director, Sarah Polley’s varied career has made her one of Canada’s most talked about actresses.

	March 2, 2007 Getting irrelevant with Tom Cavanagh by John Walters In this lighthearted question-and-answer session with actor Tom Cavanagh, he talks about sports and his upcoming hockey-themed movie Breakfast with Scot.

	March 2, 2007 Flights of sick, creepy fantasy by Warren Clements … Tideland was reviled by critics – a reaction that sits badly with Gilliam, who spends much of this week’s two-disc DVD making the compelling argument that the critics missed the point of an often phantasmagorical, often macabre story he describes as “Alice in Wonderland meets Psycho.”

	February 28, 2007 The Transforming Landscape of Tideland (* * * 1/2) by Jeff Kuykendall Tideland is the bravest, most personal, and most harrowing film Terry Gilliam has ever made. But it didn't work out so well for him. Read the complete review here.

	January 9, 2007 The 2007 Genie nominees Tideland garners Genie nominations in the following categories: Achievement in Art Direction/Production Design, Costume Design, Cinematography, Editing, Overall Sound and Actress in a Leading Role (Jodelle Ferland). Read the entire list of nominations here.

	December 13, 2006 And this country's best films are … Jury's Top 10 list is just as notable for the movies that didn't make the cut by Liam Lacey The Top 10 films include three documentaries about the environment, one feature film mostly in the Inuktitut language (Zacharias Kunuk and Norman Cohn's The Journals of Knud Rasmussen) and dramas about Alzheimer's disease (Sarah Polley's feature directing debut, Away from Her) and political radicalism (Reginald Harkema's Monkey Warfare).

	November 24, 2006 Movie features gay Leaf NHL, Leafs give flick full support Due out in theatres next December by Randy Starkman, Sports Reporter The appearance of the first gay Toronto Maple Leaf will be groundbreaking, even if it is only in celluloid. Actor Tom Cavanaugh plays a gay ex-Leaf in a comedy film Breakfast With Scot currently being shot in the GTA and Hamilton. He’s one-half of a homosexual couple – his partner is the team lawyer – whose lives are turned upside down after becoming guardians of Scot, “a budding queen of an 11-year-old boy,” according to the storyline. Click here for more Capri Films press coverage.