Take This Waltz

Sarah Polley Talks 'Take This Waltz': 'I wanted to make a film about the concept of emptiness'

"I feel like this film does raise questions that can be uncomfortable for people," Sarah Polley told Indiewire about her second directorial effort, "Take This Waltz." "About familiarity and passion... and whether those things are mutually exclusive. That's been really interesting to get to listen to...

15 Great Films About Failing Relationships

After doing the rounds on VoD for a few weeks, where many of you will have seen it, Sarah Polley's "Take This Waltz" starts to roll out in theaters from tomorrow, and we can't recommend it enough; it's a messy, sometimes frustrating film, but a deeply felt, beautifully made and wonderfully acted one...

Out This Week: 6 Reviews of New Indie Releases

On The Rise '12: 5 Cinematographers Lighting Up Screens In Recent Years

Following our looks at actors, actresses, screenwriters and directors to watch in recent months, when the time came to put together a list of cinematographers (as we did two years ago), we went in with an open mind. But what was interesting is realizing, after the fact, that in an era where 35mm fil...

Feist, Micah P. Hinson, Leonard Cohen & The Buggles: All The Music Featured In 'Take This Waltz'

Due in theaters this weekend in Canada and in limited release in the U.S. (and currently available on VOD), by now you hopefully know that Sarah Polley’s sophomore release “Take This Waltz” is one of our favorite films of the year so far. Starring Michelle Williams, Seth Rogen...

Michelle Williams, Sarah Polley and Luke Kirby Talk to Indiewire at 'Take This Waltz' Premiere

New York has been under a heatwave the last couple of days, but last night, some of the city's lucky residents got to seek refuge at the Landmark Theatres Sunshine Cinema for Forevermark's special screening of Magnolia Pictures' "Take This Waltz," hosted by The Peggy Siegal Company.

The Best Films Of 2012...So Far

It feels like only yesterday that we were talking about the best films of 2011, and yet here we are, nearly at the end of June, and we've seen pretty much everything that the first half of the year has to offer. So with the mid-point of 2012 nearly upon us, we thought we'd look over the best films w...

The 7 Indie Films You Must See This June

June is about to offer quite the selection to movie-goers, with over 30 films listed on Indiewire's June calendar.

Watch: 2 Clips From Sarah Polley's 'Take This Waltz' Starring Seth Rogen & Michelle Williams

Did you know that Michael Haneke originally turned his back on Palme d'Or-winning "Amour" because he had seen an unnamed Canadian film that treads the same ground? At the time, we came up with two possibilities for the work being referenced: Denys Arcand's "The Barbarian ...