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Christian Larouche
Christian Larouche is a Canadian film and television producer from Quebec. He is most noted as producer of the film '' Louis Cyr (Louis Cyr: L'homme le plus fort du monde)'', which was the winner of the Jutra Award for Best Film at the 16th Jutra Awards in 2014. He began his career in the 1970s as a driver for Cinépix, the production firm of John Dunning and André Link, working his way into greater roles with the company until making his debut as a producer with '' The Ideal Man (L'Homme idéal)'' in 1996. In 2000 he launched his own company, Christal Films.Etan Vlessing"Christal in bankruptcy protection" ''Playback'', May 16, 2008. The company made an aggressive push into film distribution in 2007; although its distribution arm put the company into bankruptcy by 2008, the studio arm survived as a division of Entertainment One, with Larouche remaining president of the division. In addition to his Jutra Award win for ''Louis Cyr'', he was producer of the Best Film nominees '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canada
Canada is a country in North America. Its ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and northward into the Arctic Ocean, covering over , making it the world's second-largest country by total area. Its southern and western border with the United States, stretching , is the world's longest binational land border. Canada's capital is Ottawa, and its three largest metropolitan areas are Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver. Indigenous peoples have continuously inhabited what is now Canada for thousands of years. Beginning in the 16th century, British and French expeditions explored and later settled along the Atlantic coast. As a consequence of various armed conflicts, France ceded nearly all of its colonies in North America in 1763. In 1867, with the union of three British North American colonies through Confederation, Canada was formed as a federal dominion of four provinces. This began an accretion of provinces and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The 3 L'il Pigs
''The 3 L'il Pigs'' (french: Les 3 p'tits cochons) is a 2007 Canadian French-language comedy film. The directorial debut of comedian and actor Patrick Huard, the film won the Golden Reel Award at the 28th Genie Awards and the Billet d'or at the Jutra Awards as top-grossing film of 2007 in Quebec. A sequel, '' The 3 L'il Pigs 2'', was released in 2016. Plot Two brothers (Legault, Lemay-Thivierge) discuss the positive and negative aspects of adultery as their mother lies beside them in a coma, while their brother Rémi (Doucet) attempts to discourage them. Their conversations become more explicit as time passes. A scene in the film reveals that Rémi is bisexual and in the closet, a storyline which is explored in more depth in the sequel. Awards * Genie Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role - Claude Legault - nominee * Genie Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role - Guillaume Lemay-Thivierge - nominee * Genie Award for Best Original Screenpl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Last Tunnel (2004 Film)
''The Last Tunnel'' (french: Le Dernier tunnel) is a 2004 Canadian crime drama film, directed by Érik Canuel."Dernier tunnel, Le – Film d’Érik Canuel" ''Films du Québec'', December 29, 2008. Based on the autobiography of convicted bank robber Marcel Talon, '' La Presse'', October 25, 2008. the film stars [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dead Awake (2001 Film)
''Dead Awake'' (also released as ''Dead of the Night'') is a 2001 Canadian-American dark comedy thriller film made for television, directed by co-producer Marc S. Grenier and starring Stephen Baldwin, Macha Grenon and Michael Ironside. Synopsis Marketing executive Desmond Caine (Stephen Baldwin) is stricken with a bizarre form of insomnia, spending his nights walking the city's dangerous streets at night. Caine ends up at a local deli where he encounters some unusual characters: a nice, if bit lost, young woman (Macha Grenon) and a slightly deranged man who looks homeless (Michael Ironside), and an anti-social policeman. During one of his half-hallucinogenic journeys, Caine witnesses a brutal murder. He finds the victim's watch and goes to the police. Returning to the scene, there is no sign of the crime. Stranger still, Caine's girlfriend (Maxim Roy) is completely unaware that he gets up at night and wanders the city, while his personal assistant (Janet Kidder) seems to know ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Bottle (2000 Film)
''The Bottle'' (french: La bouteille) is a Canadian comedy-drama film, directed by Alain DesRochers and released in 2000."Bouteille, La – Film d’Alain Desrochers" ''Films du Québec'', January 5, 2009. The film stars Réal Bossé and François Papineau as Réal and François, two longtime friends who decide to recover a beer bottle, containing a paper on which they wrote down their hopes and dreams for the future, which they buried 15 years earlier in the back yard of Antoine ( |
Airspeed (film)
''Airspeed'' is a 1998 Canadian disaster thriller film directed by Robert TinLul and starring Elisha Cuthbert. It was distributed by Lions Gate Entertainment & Melenny Productions. In the film, the passengers and crew of a private jet are incapacitated by an explosive decompression, except for the teenage daughter of the owner of the private jet. Their survival depends on her. Cast * Elisha Cuthbert as Nicole Stone * Joe Mantegna as Raymond Stone * Roc Lafortune as Captain Lopez * Bronwên Booth as Andrea Prescott * Lynne Adams Lynne Adams is an American actress and writer. Adams played the role of Leslie Jackson Bauer Norris Bauer from 1966 to 1971 and again from August 1973 to June 1976 on ''The Guiding Light''. She was the second generation in her family to act on ... as Marylin Stone * Russell Yuen as Mark * Gordon Masten as Frank * Don Jordan as Pilot Greg * Martin Lacroix as Co-Pilot Terry * Yvan Ponton as Lee 'Bickster' Biquette * Charles Powell as Jeff, A.T.C. * Larr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Kid (1997 Film)
The Kid or The Kids may refer to: Fictional characters * The kid (''Blood Meridian''), a character in Cormac McCarthy's 1985 novel ''Blood Meridian'' * The Kid (''The Matrix''), a character in the ''Matrix'' film series * The Kid (''The Stand''), a character in Stephen King's 1978 novel ''The Stand'' * Marshall Eriksen or The Kid, a character in ''How I Met Your Mother'' * The Kid, a character in the 1984 film '' Purple Rain'', played by Prince * The Kid, the narrator of Samuel R. Delany's 1975 novel ''Dhalgren'' * The Kid, a character in ''Bastion'' * The Kid, a character in '' Driver: Parallel Lines'' * The Kid, a character in '' Freedom Fighters'' * The Kid, a character in ''I Wanna Be the Guy'' * The Kid, a character in ''Jak II'' Films * ''The Kid'' (1910 film), a film by Frank Powell * ''The Kid'' (1921 film), a Charlie Chaplin film * ''The Kid'' (1950 film), a Hong Kong film that stars a young Bruce Lee * ''The Kid'' (1997 film), a film featuring Rod Steiger * ''The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Ballad Of Titus
''The Ballad of Titus'' () is a 1997 French-Canadian co-produced comedy film, directed by Vincent De Brus. Plot Burlesque fable addressing a serious subject : the right to difference through the adventures of Titus from a young age was locked in the basement by his adoptive parents with only companions a television, a VCR and five hundred cartoons cassettes. We find him twenty years later in the clinic of the terrible Dr. Schrink. But there, thwarting the plans of the wicked, he meets the love and glory soon. Cast * Michel Courtemanche as Titus * Jean-Claude Dreyfus as Doctor Shrink * Catherine Jacob as Louise * Natacha Lindinger as Jeanne * Antoine Duléry as Monsieur Marsan * Myriam Moszko as Madame Marsan * Sylvie Lachat as Josiane Médiocre * Patrick Paroux as Delile * Christian Pereira as Rouget * Marie-Christine Adam as The Minister * Suzanne Drouet as The Secretary * Macha Model as The Journalist Production The movie was first released in Germany, 17 July 1997, and th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Globe And Mail
''The Globe and Mail'' is a Canadian newspaper printed in five cities in western and central Canada. With a weekly readership of approximately 2 million in 2015, it is Canada's most widely read newspaper on weekdays and Saturdays, although it falls slightly behind the ''Toronto Star'' in overall weekly circulation because the ''Star'' publishes a Sunday edition, whereas the ''Globe'' does not. ''The Globe and Mail'' is regarded by some as Canada's "newspaper of record". ''The Globe and Mail''s predecessors, '' The Globe'' and ''The Mail and Empire'' were both established in the 19th century. The former was established in 1844, while the latter was established in 1895 through a merger of '' The Toronto Mail'' and the ''Toronto Empire''. In 1936, ''The Globe'' and ''The Mail and Empire'' merged to form ''The Globe and Mail''. The newspaper was acquired by FP Publications in 1965, who later sold the paper to the Thomson Corporation in 1980. In 2001, the paper merged with broadc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
7th Canadian Screen Awards
The 7th annual Canadian Screen Awards were held on March 31, 2019, to honour achievements in Canadian film, television, and digital media production in 2018."Award Season is Upon Us" ''Northern Stars'', December 31, 2018. Nominations were announced by the on February 7, 2019. Early coverage of the nominations highlighted the fact that the Best Picture category consisted entirely of French-language films from , with not a single English-language film named in the category. This ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canadian Screen Award For Best Motion Picture
The Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television presents an annual award for Best Motion Picture to the best Canadian film of the year.Maria Topalovich, ''And the Genie Goes To...: Celebrating 50 Years of the Canadian Film Awards''. Stoddart Publishing, 2000. . The award was first presented in 1949 by the Canadian Film Awards under the title Film of the Year. Due to the economics of Canadian film production, however, most Canadian films made in this era were documentaries or short films rather than full-length narrative feature films. In some years, a Film of the Year award was not formally presented, with the highest film award presented that year being in the Theatrical Short or Amateur Film categories. In 1964, the Canadian Film Awards introduced an award for Best Feature Film. For the remainder of the 1960s, the two awards were presented alongside each other to different films, except in 1965 when a Feature Film was named and a Film of the Year was not, and in 1967 when the sam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canadian Screen Award
The Canadian Screen Awards (french: link=no, Les prix Écrans canadiens) are awards given for artistic and technical merit in the film industry recognizing excellence in Canadian film, English-language television, and digital media (web series) productions. Given annually by the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television, the awards recognize excellence in cinematic achievements, as assessed by the Academy's voting membership. The awards were first presented in 2013 as the result of a merger of the Gemini Awards and Genie Awards—the Academy's previous awards presentations for television (English-language) and film productions. They are widely considered to be the most prestigious award for Canadian entertainers, artists, and filmmakers, often referred to as the equivalent of the Oscars and Emmy Awards in the United States, the BAFTA Awards in the United Kingdom, the AACTA Awards in Australia, the IFTA Awards in Ireland, the César Awards in France and the Goya Awards in S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
