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Guy L'Écuyer
Guy L'Écuyer (July 26, 1931 – September 20, 1985) was a Canadian actor from Montreal, Quebec. He was most noted for his performance in André Forcier's 1983 film ''Au clair de la lune'', for which he received a Genie Award nomination for Best Actor at the 5th Genie Awards in 1984. Following his death in 1985, the Rendez-vous Québec Cinéma launched the Prix Guy-L'Écuyer, which was presented to the year's best acting performance in a Quebec film, in his memory. The award was presented until the organization created the comprehensive Jutra Awards Jutras may have several meanings : * Claude Jutra: an award-winning French Canadian filmmaker **Jutra Award: Film awards formerly given in the Canadian province of Quebec, named after the filmmaker and now known as Prix Iris **The Claude Jutra Awa ... program in 1999. He was the grandfather of actor Antoine L'Écuyer.Patrick Delisle-Crevier"Antoine L’Écuyer explique comment il s’est préparé pour son rôle dans «Mon fils»" ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Montreal
Montreal is the List of towns in Quebec, largest city in the Provinces and territories of Canada, province of Quebec, the List of the largest municipalities in Canada by population, second-largest in Canada, and the List of North American cities by population, ninth-largest in North America. It was founded in 1642 as ''Fort Ville-Marie, Ville-Marie'', or "City of Mary", and is now named after Mount Royal, the triple-peaked mountain around which the early settlement was built. The city is centred on the Island of Montreal 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. the city had a population of 1,762,949, and a Census geographic units of Canada#Census metropolitan areas, metropolitan population of 4,291,732, making it the List of census metropolitan areas and agglomerations in Canada, second-largest metropolitan area in Canada. French l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rope Around The Neck
''Rope Around the Neck'' () is a Canadian crime drama film, directed by Pierre Patry and released in 1965.Gerald Pratley, ''A Century of Canadian Cinema''. Lynx Images, 2003. . p. 48. Based on a novel by Claude Jasmin, the film stars Guy Godin as Léo Longpré, a man who is on the run from the police after murdering his mistress Suzanne ( Andrée Lachapelle). The cast also includes Henri Norbert, Jean Duceppe, Denise Pelletier, Tania Fédor, Guy L'Écuyer and Jean-Louis Millette. The film was not well-received by critics, which contributed to Patry's decision to stop making narrative films.Janis L. Pallister, ''The Cinema of Québec: Masters in Their Own House''. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Fairleigh Dickinson University Press (FDU Press) is a publishing house under the operation and oversight of Fairleigh Dickinson University, the largest private university in New Jersey. History FDU Press was established in 1967 by the university ..., 1995. . p. 334. References ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Flower Between The Teeth
''The'' is a grammatical article in English, denoting nouns that are already or about to be mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with nouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when followed by a consonant sound, and as (homophone of the archaic pronoun ''thee'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Vultures (1975 Film)
''The Vultures'' () is a Canadian drama film, directed by Jean-Claude Labrecque and released in 1975.Odile Tremblay"Les «vautours» au temps de Duplessis" ''Le Devoir'', May 9, 2017. Set in 1959 at the end of the Maurice Duplessis era in Quebec politics, the film centres on Louis Pelletier (Gilbert Sicotte), a young man whose mother has just died, and who is coping with a trio of aunts who are much more interested in what they stand to inherit from their sister's estate than in supporting their nephew.André Duchesne"Projection spéciale pour Les vautours" ''La Presse'', May 7, 2017. Labrecque released a sequel film, ''The Years of Dreams and Revolt (Les Années de rêves)'', in 1984. Cast * Gilbert Sicotte as ''Louis Pelletier'' * Jean Duceppe as ''Maurice Duplessis, Premier Ministre du Québec'' * Monique Mercure as ''Tante Yvette Laflamme'' * Carmen Tremblay as ''Tante Marie Roberge'' * Amulette Garneau as ''Tante Adèle McKenzie'' * Jean Mathieu as ''Oncle John McKenzie'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lies My Father Told Me
''Lies My Father Told Me'' is a 1975 Canadian drama film made in Montreal, Quebec. It was directed by Ján Kadár and stars Jeffrey Lynas as an orthodox Jewish boy growing up in 1920s Montreal. The film received the Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Film in 1975. The original story was written by Ted Allan in 1949. Allan was working at an advertising agency. David Rome, editor of the Canadian Jewish Congress ''Bulletin'', asked him to write a story. Allan's short story is a dramatization of his own childhood memories. Allan comes from a Jewish family who lived in Montreal's Mile End neighbourhood. ''Lies My Father Told Me'' has been through many reincarnations since its original publication, as a radio play and a Golden Globe-winning film. The original short story was picked up by producer Harry Gulkin. Gulkin candidly told the ''Montreal Gazette'', "I really didn't know what I was doing, but then nobody knew I didn't know what I was doing". The film has become celebrated f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Night In America
A, or a, is the first letter and the first vowel letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, and others worldwide. Its name in English is '' a'' (pronounced ), plural ''aes''. It is similar in shape to the Ancient Greek letter alpha, from which it derives. The uppercase version consists of the two slanting sides of a triangle, crossed in the middle by a horizontal bar. The lowercase version is often written in one of two forms: the double-storey and single-storey . The latter is commonly used in handwriting and fonts based on it, especially fonts intended to be read by children, and is also found in italic type. In English, '' a'' is the indefinite article, with the alternative form ''an''. Name In English, the name of the letter is the ''long A'' sound, pronounced . Its name in most other languages matches the letter's pronunciation in open syllables. History The earliest known ancestor of A is ''aleph''—the first letter of the Phoenician ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cold Journey
Cold is the presence of low temperature, especially in the atmosphere. In common usage, cold is often a subjectivity, subjective perception. A lower bound to temperature is absolute zero, defined as 0.00K on the Kelvin scale, an absolute thermodynamic temperature scale. This corresponds to on the Celsius scale, on the Fahrenheit scale, and on the Rankine scale. Since temperature relates to the thermal energy held by an object or a sample of matter, which is the kinetic energy of the random motion of the particle constituents of matter, an object will have less thermal energy when it is colder and more when it is hotter. If it were possible to cool a system to absolute zero, all motion of the particles in a sample of matter would cease and they would be at complete rest in the classical physics, classical sense. The object could be described as having zero thermal energy. Microscopically in the description of quantum mechanics, however, matter still has zero-point energy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bar Salon
''Bar Salon'' is a Canadian drama film, directed by André Forcier and released in 1974.Gerald Pratley, ''A Century of Canadian Cinema''. Lynx Images, 2003. . p. 21. Considered to be the film which first established Forcier's reputation as a major filmmaking talent, the film stars Guy L'Écuyer as Charles Méthot, the owner of a seedy bar in Montreal which is failing due to its lack of clientele; desperate, he turns to his friend Larry (Gélinas Fortin) for help, and is offered a new job as manager of a busier suburban bar, where he is drawn into an affair with a topless dancer who steals his car, and eventually ends up in jail after a drunken brawl.Peter Morris"Bar salon" '' Canadian Film Encyclopedia''. The cast also includes Madeleine Chartrand as Charles's daughter Michèle, Jacques Marcotte as Michèle's fiancé Robert, and Albert Payette, François Berd and Gaby Persechino as the few remaining patrons of Charles's bar. Critical response Writing for ''The Globe and Mail'', Ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
You Are Warm, You Are Warm
''You Are Warm, You Are Warm'' (, lit. "You Are Burning, You Are Burning") is a Canadian drama film, directed by Jean-Guy Noël and released in 1973. Gerald Pratley, ''A Century of Canadian Cinema''. Lynx Images, 2003. . p. 245. The film stars Gabriel Arcand as Gabriel, a young man who grew up as the son of a firefighter ( Guy L'Écuyer) in a small town in Quebec, but rejects the social expectation that he will follow his father into the same profession, and starts living as a virtual hermit in the forest until moving to Montreal in search of something more for himself. The cast also includes Louise Francoeur, Raymond Lévesque, Serge Thériault, Marie Eykel, Janine Lebel, Pierre Curzi, Julien Poulin, François Boulerice, Arlette Couture, Dominique Chartrand, Georges Laterreur, Émile Couture, Robert Gagnon, Laurianne Laterreur, Katia Nelson, Germain St-Louis, Jacques Paquet, Yves Soutière, Alain Soutière, Victorin Paillé, Jean-Jacques Trudel, Nicole Trudel and Paul Vincent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Time Of The Hunt
''The Time of the Hunt'' () is a Canadian drama film, directed by Francis Mankiewicz and released in 1972. An examination of masculinity, the film centres on Willy ( Guy L'Écuyer), Richard (Marcel Sabourin) and Lionel (Pierre Dufresne), three friends on a weekend hunting trip who are instructing Richard's son Michel (Olivier L'Écuyer) in the rituals and practices of what they believe it means to be a man. The film's cast also includes Frédérique Collin, Luce Guilbeault, Amulette Garneau and Monique Mercure. The film won three Canadian Film Awards at the 24th Canadian Film Awards ceremony, for Best Cinematography (Michel Brault), Best Sound ( Claude Hazanavicius) and a special achievement award for Mankiewicz. It was later screened at the 1984 Festival of Festivals as part of Front & Centre, a special retrospective program of artistically and culturally significant films from throughout the history of Canadian cinema. Carole Corbeil, "The stars are coming out for Toronto's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
