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Adrien Morot
Adrien Francis Morot (born 1970 in Montreal) is a Canadian makeup artist. He won the Best Makeup and Hairstyling Oscar for ''The Whale'' (sharing the award with Judy Chin and Annemarie Bradley), and received an additional nomination in the same category for the film '' Barney's Version'', and has won the Genie Award for Best Makeup twice for his work on ''Barney's Version'' and ''Cruising Bar 2''. Early career Morot had taken on various artistic interests since he was around five years old. He drew creatures inspired by those from monster movies; sculpted casts of his friends ''Star Wars'' toys; experimented with plasticine, Styrofoam, and Vaseline to make masks; and was making home movies beginning at the age of twelve. Though originally wanting to get into the film business as a stunt actor, his childhood experiences and a reading of a ''Fangoria'' feature about '' The Thing'' (1982) is what changed his career path to becoming a visual effects artist. Morot tried to break ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Montreal
Montreal ( ; officially Montréal, ) is the second-most populous city in Canada and most populous city in the Canadian province of Quebec. Founded in 1642 as '' Ville-Marie'', or "City of Mary", it is named after Mount Royal, the triple-peaked hill around which the early city of Ville-Marie is built. The city is centred on the Island of Montreal, which obtained its name from the same origin as the city, and a few much smaller peripheral islands, the largest of which is Île Bizard. The city is east of the national capital Ottawa, and southwest of the provincial capital, Quebec City. As of 2021, the city had a population of 1,762,949, and a metropolitan population of 4,291,732, making it the second-largest city, and second-largest metropolitan area in Canada. French is the city's official language. In 2021, it was spoken at home by 59.1% of the population and 69.2% in the Montreal Census Metropolitan Area. Overall, 85.7% of the population of the city of Montreal co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Visual Effects
Visual effects (sometimes abbreviated VFX) is the process by which imagery is created or manipulated outside the context of a live-action shot in filmmaking and video production. The integration of live-action footage and other live-action footage or CGI elements to create realistic imagery is called VFX. VFX involves the integration of live-action footage (which may include in-camera special effects) and generated-imagery (digital or optics, animals or creatures) which look realistic, but would be dangerous, expensive, impractical, time-consuming or impossible to capture on film. Visual effects using computer-generated imagery (CGI) have more recently become accessible to the independent filmmaker with the introduction of affordable and relatively easy-to-use animation and compositing software. History Early developments In 1857, Oscar Rejlander created the world's first "special effects" image by combining different sections of 32 negatives into a single image, making a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Glimpse Of Hell (film)
''A Glimpse of Hell'' is a 2001 American-Canadian made-for-television drama film directed by Mikael Salomon. It premiered in the United States on FX on March 18, 2001. It was filmed in Halifax, Nova Scotia Canada and stars James Caan, Robert Sean Leonard, and Daniel Roebuck Daniel James Roebuck (born March 4, 1963) is an American actor and writer. His best known roles include Deputy Marshal Robert Biggs in ''The Fugitive'' and its spinoff film ''U.S. Marshals'', Jay Leno in ''The Late Shift'', and Dr. Leslie Arz .... The film is based on the 1999 book ''A Glimpse of Hell: The Explosion on the USS Iowa and Its Cover-Up'' by Charles C. Thompson II about the 1989 turret explosion incident on and its aftermath. Cast Critical reception Buzz McClain of allmovie gave the movie 3.5 of 5 stars stating: "Taut and compelling, ''A Glimpse of Hell'' is a based-on-fact story that doesn't feel like it was drawn entirely from dry depositions and courtroom testimony." The movie when ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Subconscious Cruelty
''Subconscious Cruelty'' is a 2000 Canadian independent experimental anthology horror film written and directed by Karim Hussain and produced by Mitch Davis. It was filmed over a long period of time, from February 1994 to December 1999, and debuted at the Festival de Cine de Sitges in Sitges, Spain, on October 12, 2000. The film went on to screen at several other festivals, including the Stockholm International Film Festival and Amsterdam Fantastic Film Festival before being released on DVD on April 18, 2005. The film was first released in Canada on Friday, April 13, 2001. It screened at Cinema Du Parc in Montreal, Quebec, Canada for two weeks from April 13 to the 28th of 2001. It was again screened at the same theater for a single weekend in November 2001, and one last time in June 2003. It has not been screened publicly in Canada since then. Plot The film is divided into four anthological short stories without any connection to each other: Ovarian Eyeball It begins with a sm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maelström (film)
''Maelström'' is a 2000 Canadian psychological drama film written and directed by Denis Villeneuve. It stars Marie-Josée Croze as a depressed young businesswoman who becomes romantically involved with the son of a man she killed in a hit-and-run accident. Employing fantasy and comedic elements, ''Maelström'' is narrated by a talking fish. Villeneuve conceived of the story, basing it on his interest in car accidents and modelling the protagonist after various women he knew. He cast Croze, then a novice actress, in the lead role. Filming took place in Montreal in 1999, with animatronics to depict the fish narrator. The film premiered at the Montréal World Film Festival in August 2000 and received positive reviews, with some detractors. It won five Genie Awards, including Best Motion Picture, and the FIPRESCI Prize at the 51st Berlin International Film Festival. Plot While being gutted alive by a fishmonger, a dying fish chooses to share a story that took place in Quebec du ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Art Of War (film)
''The Art of War'' is a 2000 action spy film directed by Christian Duguay and starring Wesley Snipes, Michael Biehn, Anne Archer and Donald Sutherland. It is the first installment in ''The Art of War'' film series. The film's title refers to the ancient Chinese text of the same name by war strategist Sun Tzu. The film was followed by two direct-to-video sequels, '' The Art of War II: Betrayal'' and '' The Art of War III: Retribution''. The latter did not feature Snipes. Plot Neil Shaw is an operative for the United Nations's covert SAD, using espionage and quasi-ethical tactics to secure peace and cooperation. In Hong Kong, Shaw infiltrates a Chinese New Year party held by Chinese business mogul David Chan and covertly hacks an office laptop of a North Korean Defense Minister, and blackmails him with the misappropriation of U.N. aid money, in exchange for continuing negotiations with South Korea. Shortly after being discovered, Shaw fights his way out of the party and suffers a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Battlefield Earth (film)
''Battlefield Earth'' (also referred to as ''Battlefield Earth: A Saga of the Year 3000'') is a 2000 American science fiction film based on the 1982 novel by Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard. It was directed by Roger Christian and stars John Travolta, Barry Pepper, and Forest Whitaker. The film follows a rebellion against the alien Psychlos, who have ruled Earth for 1,000 years. Travolta, a Scientologist, began attempting to adapt ''Battlefield Earth'' in the mid-1990s. He was unable to obtain major studio funding because of concerns regarding the script and its connections to Scientology. In 1998, it was picked up by independent production company Franchise Pictures, which specialized in rescuing stars' pet projects. Production began in 1999, largely funded by the German distribution company Intertainment AG. Travolta, as co-producer, also contributed millions of dollars; he envisioned ''Battlefield Earth'' as the first in a two-part adaptation of the book, as it only c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Bone Collector
''The Bone Collector'' is a 1999 American crime thriller film directed by Phillip Noyce and starring Denzel Washington and Angelina Jolie. It was produced by Martin Bregman. The film is based on the 1997 crime novel of the same name written by Jeffery Deaver, concerning the tetraplegic detective Lincoln Rhyme. The film received mixed reviews, and earned about $150 million against a budget of $48 million. Plot In 1998 New York City, quadriplegic forensics expert Lincoln Rhyme is bed-bound after an accident that left him completely paralyzed from the neck down. Amelia Donaghy, a newly recruited patrol officer, discovers a mutilated corpse buried at a Civil War-era railroad bed. Due to clue-like objects found at the crime scene, Rhyme concludes that the scene was staged and subsequently teams up with an initially hesitant Amelia, impressed by her natural forensic instincts. The killer poses as a taxi driver and, before Rhyme and Amelia met, abducts married couple Alan and Lindsay ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Education Of Little Tree (film)
''The Education of Little Tree'' is a 1997 American drama film written and directed by Richard Friedenberg, and starring James Cromwell, Joseph Ashton, Tantoo Cardinal, Graham Greene, and Mika Boorem. It is based on the controversial 1976 fictional memoir of the same title by Asa Earl Carter (writing pseudonymously as "Forrest Carter", a supposedly Cherokee writer) about an orphaned boy raised by his paternal Scottish-descent grandfather and Cherokee grandmother in the Great Smoky Mountains. Writer-director Friedenberg co-adapted the screenplay for the film alongside Earl Hamner Jr. and Don Sipes, shortly after completing his adaptation for Robert Redford's '' A River Runs Through It'' (1992). In the United States, the film was given a limited release through Paramount Pictures on Christmas Day 1997, less than one week after the release of Paramount's record-breaking box-office hit ''Titanic'' (1997), and grossed $323,411 domestically. Friedenberg was nominated for a Humanitas P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Relative Fear
''Relative Fear'' (also known as ''The Child'' and ''Le silence d'Adam'') is a 1994 Canadian independent psychological horror film that references the 1956 film ''The Bad Seed''. An autistic child is seemingly born to kill and does so. Cast *Matthew Dupuis as Adam Pratman (Adam Madison) * Darlanne Fluegel as Linda Pratman *James Brolin as Det. Atwater *Martin Neufeld as Peter Pratman *Bruce Dinsmore as Clive (Gary Madison) *M. Emmet Walsh as Earl Ladelle *Michael Caloz as Manny Dorff *Denise Crosby as Connie Madison *Linda Sorenson as Margaret Ladelle *Jason Blicker as Dennison * Vlasta Vrána as Mr. Schulman *Liz MacRae as Ms. Roark *Gisèle Rousseau as Dr. Hoyer *Jenny Campbell as Paige *Frank Schorpion as Dr. Shane *Alan West as Henry Pratman *Victoria Barkoff as Ms. Smith *Tyrone Benskin Tyrone Benskin (born 29 December 1958) is an English-Canadian actor, theatre director and politician. He was elected Member of Parliament in the Jeanne-Le Ber riding, in Montreal, Queb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Octobre
''Octobre'' is a 1994 Quebec film directed by filmmaker and noted independentist Pierre Falardeau. It tells a version of the October Crisis from the point of view of the Chénier Cell, the FLQ terrorist cell who in 1970 kidnapped and murdered Quebec minister and Deputy Premier Pierre Laporte, as reported to director Pierre Falardeau by Chénier Cell member Francis Simard during interviews in jail over a period of 5 years.''Les boeufs sont lents mais la terre est patiente'', p.104, Pierre Falardeau, 1999 The film is based on the 1982 book ''Pour en finir avec Octobre'' by Francis Simard, who was one of the members of the Chénier Cell. The film was co-produced by the National Film Board of Canada. Notable cast * Maryse Ouellet * Luc Picard * Serge Houde See also * Cinema of Quebec * History of Quebec Quebec was first called ''Canada'' between 1534 and 1763. It was the most developed colony of New France as well as New France's centre, responsible for a variety of dependenc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Wind From Wyoming
''The Wind from Wyoming'' (french: Le Vent du Wyoming) is a Canadian black comedy film, directed by André Forcier and released in 1994. The film centres on a dysfunctional family whose efforts at finding and keeping love become tangled up with a stage hypnotist performing at the local hotel."'Reality doesn't interest me at all': Filmmaker Andre Forcier's work Le vent du Wyoming is up for the grand prize at Montreal's World Film Festival - now, he says, if only people will come to see it". '' The Globe and Mail'', August 27, 1994. Daughter Léa (Sarah-Jeanne Salvy) is in unrequited love with Reo (Martin Randez), a boxer who has instead entered a relationship with her mother Lizette (France Castel), while her sister Manon (Céline Bonnier) has a crush on Chester Celine (François Cruzet), a writer she has never met, and her father Marcel ( Michel Côté) remains hurt by Lizette's betrayal of him. They all enlist Albert the Great (Marc Messier) to hypnotize their respective love inte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
