Capri News: Press Coverage | News Releases and Announcements   Note: Some of the links included here require publication subscriptions or registrations. March 4, 2008 Polley’s Away From Her triumphs at Genie Awards Movies by a pair of Canada’s best-known film-world personalities – Sarah Polley and David Cronenberg – dominated Monday night’s Genie Awards, which celebrated their 28th year of honouring homegrown cinema. Polley and her feature film debut Away From Her scored seven of the evening’s major honours: best picture, director, adapted screenplay, three of four Genie acting trophies and the previously announced Claude Jutra Award recognizing the effort of a first-time filmmaker. March 2, 2008 Away From Her, Polley feted on eve of Genies Sarah Polley and her acclaimed first feature Away From Her was the centre of attention at a special brunch in Toronto on Sunday, the eve of the Genie Awards honouring the best in film achievements in Canada. January 27, 2008 Julie Christie wins Screen Actors Guild Best Actress award Read her acceptance speech here. January 22, 2008 Juno among top Oscar nominees Toronto filmmaker Sarah Polley's Away From Her scores 2 nominations … Polley fared well with her feature film directorial debut, Away From Her. Aside from Christie’s acting nod, Polley received a best adapted screenplay nomination for her work on the Alice Munro short story The Bear Came Over the Mountain. December 5, 2007 Julie Christie in Away from Her hailed by U.S. film lovers Julie Christie was named best actress for her role in Sarah Polley’s Away from Her in year-end picks by the National Board of Review of Motion Pictures, a U.S. group of film historians, students and educators. November 29, 2007 Tricia Helfer: farm girl with a whip by Mike Usinger Your favourite Cylon, Alberta-bred Tricia Helfer, slides on hot pants and thigh-high boots as Walk All Over Me's dominatrix. Read the complete article here. November 16, 2007 Movie scores with goalies and glitter (***) The comfortable status-quo relationship of a gay couple is turned upside down — and festooned with feather boas and glitter — when they become guardians of a flamboyant 11-year-old in this contemporary family feature, adapted from the award-winning novel by American author Michael Downing. Click here for more Breakfast With Scot reviews and articles. September 13, 2007 'Gay hockey movie' hopes to score despite vicious remarks Director Laurie Lynd says he's shocked by the hateful comments aimed at his “sweet film” about tolerance — Breakfast with Scot, or the “gay hockey movie” as it has been dubbed. But if the movie can score at the box office as a result, Lynd says he doesn't mind. Read the complete article here. 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 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 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 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.” Click here for more Capri Films press coverage.