#Sarah McLeod

[kwistowee]

"If ever I was to marry someone, it would've been her." @lotrweek 2024 | Day 5 → here with me

[where-our-stories-start]

Thirteen months to the day since Gandalf sent us on our long journey, we found ourselves looking upon a familiar sight. We were home.

[badmovieihave]

Bad movie I have The Lord of the Rings : The Fellowship of the Ring Special Extended DVD Edition 2001

[thranduilofsmirkwood]

꧁𓊈𒆜 [D̲̅][A̲̅][Y̲̅] [2̲̅][7̲̅]𒆜𓊉꧂

꧁•⊹٭𝙻𝚊𝚍𝚒𝚎𝚜 𝚘𝚏 𝙼𝚒𝚍𝚍𝚕𝚎 𝙴𝚊𝚛𝚝𝚑٭⊹•꧂

꧁•⊹٭𝟹𝟶 𝙳𝙰𝚈𝚂 𝙾𝙵 𝙲𝚑𝚛𝚒𝚜𝚝𝚖𝚊𝚜 𝚐𝚒𝚏𝚜٭⊹•꧂

🎀𝕸𝖎𝖉𝖉𝖑𝖊 𝕰𝖆𝖗𝖙𝖍 𝕮𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖘𝖙𝖒𝖆𝖘🎀

[humanbrainrobotbody]

5/5 Of My Quasi-Annual Rewatch Of The Lord Of The Rings, The Return Of The King. Pardon The Spoiling, The Excessive Posting (My Inexperience On This App & My Love Of The Movies Has Overlapped Here), Thank You To Anyone In Cyberspace Who May See This For Tolerating It.

[kyyylerz]

would it hurt for you to throw me back to sea?

now theres nothing left for romanticizing

you were always here with me

there's not a safer emergency

[filmswithoutfaces]

Women Talking  2022 | dir. Sarah Polley

[angelstills]

Women Talking (2022)

[escapismthroughfilm]

#169

[theoscarchallenge]

Another film that I haven’t heard anyone talk about. Which is a shame, it’s a beautiful picture. Heartbreaking and surprising and understated and powerful and beautiful. Women Talking is definitely one I would recommend. It received the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay.

[kwistowee]

“Sam blushed... for Rosie’s eyes were shining and she was smiling at him.” - The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien

[moviemosaics]

Women Talking

directed by Sarah Polley, 2022

[foxsoulcourt]

Women Talking

For a VaRiEtY of reasons last week I went down some rabbit holes around this movie + the principals involved.

Navigating this experience illuminated how I want to stretch + grow in terms of exercising leadership, no matter my role within a group or community. I stand in wonder learning a bit about how DeDe Gardner, Sarah Polley + Frances McDormand collaborate. Their vision of how movies can create conversations to help shift important social dynamics INSPIRES ME.

If you are similarly interested, here's some links you might enjoy.

update 3/12/23 8:00pm SARAH POLLEY JUST WON THE ACADEMY AWARD FOR BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY!!! Watch her JoYfuLLy run up to give her iNsiGhTfuL acceptance speech here.

Back in Sept2022 at TIFF2022 (25 min) this L o V e L y small group convo happened. Among other bits, LOVED moderator Sonia Lawrence's summary statement that what she takes from the film into her life is not the community's lack of judgment, but their presence of care.

Here's Frances at MVFF (54 min) - where she read some bits from Sarah Polley's brave book Run Towards The Danger; spoke about the magnificient collaboration between Polley (screenwriter + director), producer Dede Gardner + herself; and described the impact of Polley's way of exercising leadership on others. Watching this video is the first time I've seriously considered using the descriptor 'matriarchal leadership style.' Loved this bit (which is mostly a direct quote), "Movies are not answers, but they are propaganda + conversation starters... we're actively screening at colleges + universities... using the moving to talk about the future, not about the horrible present, but the future + try to radicalise the conversation more. "

Claire Foy in a convo moderated by Kate Erbland (28 min) - about how Foy landed as Salome, what it was like to work with Polley as a director, and more. At 14:05 min there's a sweet bit about the experience of acting with Ben Whishaw + his role in the movie.

NYFF60 (19 min) - Eugene Hernandez does an admirable job getting each person to reflect on the movie within this relatively short panel conversation.

In February Polley + Ben, and then Buckley + Foy were on London Live (9:25 min). L O V E D how about 3/4 of the way through Buckley gently pushes back on interviewer's assumption that the women character's lives were foreign to the actors playing them. They're not, she said, not at all. What WAS foreign + welcome was the ability for a group of women to have an extended conversation about a complex issue and then to make a decision which will have an impact on the rest of their lives. D A M N, if that isn't sobering!

I didn't know August Winter before watching these interviews, so found this Autostraddle interview w/cast member August Winter about the movie + navigating the industry as a non-binary actor + this video. I appreciate hearing from them directly about their character Melvin who is a trans man + learning why silence is such a significant part of their character's behaviour.

Lastly, reading some of Polley's IG posts reminds me that the people I admire most know their worth, yet a l w a y s shine a light on those around them. After listening + watching Polley today, I am even.more.encouraged to do the same. Currently the latter is easier than the former. #work in progress

[scenesandscreens]

Women Talking (2022)

Director - Sarah Polley, Cinematography - Luc Montpellier

"We didn't talk about our bodies. So when something like this happened there was no language for it. And without language for it, there was a gaping silence. And in that gaping silence was the real horror."

[genevieveetguy]

Why does love - the absence of love, the end of love, the need for love - result in so much violence?

Women Talking, Sarah Polley (2022)