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Lie With Me (2005 Film)
''Lie with Me'' is a 2005 Canadian erotic drama film directed by Clement Virgo, based on the 2001 novel of the same name by Tamara Faith Berger. The film stars Lauren Lee Smith and Eric Balfour. Its plot concerns an outgoing, sexually aggressive young woman who meets and begins a torrid affair with an equally aggressive young man, which brings a strain on their personal lives. The film contains graphic, unsimulated sexual content. The film was set and shot in Toronto, primarily The Annex. It premiered at the 2005 Toronto International Film Festival. Included in the soundtrack is music by Broken Social Scene and Annelise Noronha. Plot A young woman masturbates to a pornographic film. She gets up abruptly and goes out to a party, looking for sex. Leila has learned she has some power over men with sex but feels a part of her is still untouched, holding back, despite her assertiveness. Before she can choose a partner for the night, she is corralled by David, into a bathroom, whil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clement Virgo
Clement Virgo (born June 1, 1966) is a Canadian film and television writer, producer and director who runs the production company, Conquering Lion Pictures, with producer Damon D'Oliveira. Virgo is best known for co-writing and directing an adaptation of the novel by Canadian writer Lawrence Hill, '' The Book of Negroes'' (2015), a six-part miniseries that aired on CBC Television in Canada and BET in the United States. In 2023, Virgo directed ''Brother'', which was critically acclaimed and received numerous accolades, including a nomination at the 24th Annual Black Reel Awards for Outstanding International Film and 12 awards at the 11th Canadian Screen Awards. Early life Virgo was born in Montego Bay, Jamaica. He immigrated to Canada at the age of 11 and grew up in Toronto. In the summer of 1991, he attended the Canadian Film Centre's inaugural Summer Lab initiative as a screenwriter, where he developed the screenplay for what would later become his feature film debut, ''R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Unsimulated Sex
In the film industry, unsimulated sex is the presentation of sex scenes in which actors genuinely perform the depicted sex acts, rather than simulating them. Although it is ubiquitous in films intended as pornographic, it is very uncommon in other films. At one time in the United States, such scenes were restricted by law and self-imposed industry standards such as the Motion Picture Production Code. Films showing explicit sexual activity were confined to privately distributed underground films, such as stag films or "porn loops". In the 1960s, social attitudes about sex began to shift, and sexually explicit films were decriminalized in many countries. With movies such as '' Blue Movie'' by Andy Warhol, mainstream movies began pushing the boundaries of what was presented on screen. Notable examples include two of the eight ''Bedside''-films and the six ''Zodiac''-films from the 1970s, all of which were produced in Denmark and had many pornographic sex scenes, but were nev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rude (film)
''Rude'' is a 1995 Canadian crime film directed by Clement Virgo in his feature-length directorial debut. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1995 Cannes Film Festival, before having its Canadian premiere at the 1995 Toronto International Film Festival as the opening film of the Perspectives Canada program. Plot Set in Toronto, Ontario, the film tells three distinct but interrelated stories about Black Canadian life in the impoverished Regent Park neighbourhood of the city. One focuses on "The General" ( Maurice Dean Wint), a drug dealer trying to rebuild his life with the help of his brother Reece (Clark Johnson) after being released from prison; one centres on Jordan (Richard Chevolleau), an amateur boxer who is convinced to take part in a gay-bashing which forces him to finally confront his own repressed homosexuality; the third centres on Maxine ( Rachael Crawford), a woman who has recently been dumped by her longtime boyfriend after having an abortion. Al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stylus Magazine
''Stylus Magazine'' was an American online music and film magazine, launched in 2002 and co-founded by Todd L. Burns. It featured long-form music journalism, four daily music reviews, movie reviews, podcasts, an MP3 blog, and a text blog. Additionally, ''Stylus'' had daily features like "The Singles Jukebox", which looked at pop singles from around the globe, and "Soulseeking", a column focused on personal responses in listening. Even though they never reached the readership of other music magazines such as PopMatters or Pitchfork, they still had a very consistent and fired-up audience . In 2006, the site was chosen by the '' Observer Music Monthly'' as one of the Internet's 25 most essential music websites. ''Stylus'' closed as a business on 31 October 2007. On 4 January 2010, with the blessing of former editor Todd Burns, ''Stylus'' senior writer Nick Southall launched ''The Stylus Decade'', a website with a new series of lists and essays reviewing music from the previous ten ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Last Tango In Paris
''Last Tango in Paris'' (; ) is a 1972 Erotic film, erotic Drama (film and television), drama film directed by Bernardo Bertolucci. The film stars Marlon Brando, Maria Schneider (actor), Maria Schneider and Jean-Pierre Léaud, and portrays a recently widowed American who begins an anonymous sexual relationship with a young Parisian woman. The film premiered at the New York Film Festival on 14 October 1972 and grossed $36 million in its U.S. theatrical release, making it 1973 in film#Highest-grossing films, the seventh highest-grossing film of 1973. The film's raw portrayal of rape and emotional turmoil led to international controversy and drew various levels of government censorship in different jurisdictions. Upon release in the United States, the MPAA gave the film an X rating. United Artists Classics released an Motion Picture Association of America film rating system, R-rated cut in 1981. In 1997, after the film became part of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer library, the film was rec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Variety (magazine)
''Variety'' is an American trade magazine owned by Penske Media Corporation. It was founded by Sime Silverman in New York City in 1905 as a weekly newspaper reporting on theater and vaudeville. In 1933, ''Daily Variety'' was launched, based in Los Angeles, to cover the film industry, motion-picture industry. ''Variety'' website features entertainment news, reviews, box office results, plus a credits database, production charts and film calendar. History Founding ''Variety'' has been published since December 16, 1905, when it was launched by Sime Silverman as a weekly periodical covering theater and vaudeville, with its headquarters in New York City. Silverman had been fired by ''The Morning Telegraph'' in 1905 for panning an act which had taken out an advert for $50. He subsequently decided to start his own publication that, he said, would "not be influenced by advertising." With a loan of $1,500 from his father-in-law, he launched ''Variety'' as publisher and editor. In additi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rotten Tomatoes
Rotten Tomatoes is an American review aggregator, review-aggregation website for film and television. The company was launched in August 1998 by three undergraduate students at the University of California, Berkeley: Senh Duong, Patrick Y. Lee, and Stephen Wang. Although the name "Rotten Tomatoes" connects to the practice of audiences throwing rotten tomatoes in disapproval of a poor Theatre, stage performance, the direct inspiration for the name from Duong, Lee, and Wang came from an equivalent scene in the 1992 Canadian film ''Léolo''. Since January 2010, Rotten Tomatoes has been owned by Flixster, which was in turn acquired by Warner Bros. in 2011. In February 2016, Rotten Tomatoes and its parent site Flixster were sold to Comcast's Fandango Media, Fandango ticketing company. Warner Bros. retained a minority stake in the merged entities, including Fandango. The site is influential among moviegoers, a third of whom say they consult it before going to the cinema in the U.S. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Theresa Tova
Theresa Tova (born 1955) is a Canadian actress, singer and playwright."Tova, Theresa" ''Canadian Theatre Encyclopedia'', 2009. She is most noted for her play ''Still the Night'', which won several in 1997"Hit musical captures seven awards. A great time for Ragtime". '''', September 30, 1997. and was a shortlisted finalist for the |
Frank Chiesurin
Frank Chiesurin (born November 26 in Montreal, Quebec) is a Canadian film and television actor. He has had roles in a variety of American and Canadian productions, including the films '' Resident Evil: Apocalypse;'' '' 12 Men of Christmas''; ''The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio;'' '' Lie with Me;'' ''Suits'' and ''Cake'' and the television series ''Big Wolf on Campus;'' ''Un gars, une fille;'' ''Doc;'' ''Largo Winch;'' ''Météo+;'' '' Les Bleus de Ramville'' and ''The Latest Buzz ''The Latest Buzz'' is a Canadian teen sitcom produced by Decode Entertainment that aired on Family Channel (Canadian TV network), Family Channel from September 1, 2007, to April 19, 2010. It was the network's first original multi-camera sitcom. ...''. Filmography Film Television References External linksFrank Chiesurin* Living people Male actors from Montreal Canadian male film actors Canadian male television actors Year of birth missing (living people) {{Canada-screen-actor-s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Chevolleau
Richard Chevolleau is a Jamaican Canadians, Jamaican–Canadian actor, best known for playing Augur on ''Earth: Final Conflict'' from 1997 to 2002.Chris Krejlgaard, "Black actor hoping to play a superhero". ''Times and Transcript'', May 14, 1999. Early life Chevolleau was born in Kingston, Jamaica, and raised in Toronto. After completing high school, he studied the Meisner Technique of acting with Paul Bardier. Career He began his career in the late 1980s with guest parts in the television series ''My Secret Identity'' and ''Friday the 13th: The Series'', before having his first major starring role in the 1989 television film ''Pray for Me, Paul Henderson''. In 1994 he had a starring role in the television series ''Boogies Diner''. In 1995 he starred in Clement Virgo's film ''Rude (film), Rude''. He also starred in Virgo's 1997 film ''The Planet of Junior Brown''. He has appeared in supporting roles in the television series ''Street Time'', ''This Is Wonderland'', ''Da Kink i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mayko Nguyen
Mayko Nguyen is a Canadian actress. She has appeared in ''ReGenesis'', ''Rookie Blue'', '' Killjoys'', ''Titans'' and '' Hudson & Rex''. Early life Nguyen grew up in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada and currently lives in Toronto. Nguyen has had lead and recurring roles on a variety of television series, including ''Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures'', '' Cracked'' and '' Slasher''. Nguyen's most notable television roles are Mayko Tran on ''ReGenesis'', Sue Tran on ''Rookie Blue'' and Delle Seyah Kendry on '' Killjoys''. Currently she stars in the Citytv show '' Hudson & Rex'', a serial police drama where she plays a police forensicist. Nguyen's film work includes '' Going the Distance'', ''The Last New Year'' and '' Below Her Mouth''. Nguyen is also a stage actress, and performed in ''The Unending'' during the 2016 Toronto Fringe Festival and David French's two hander play, ''Salt-Water Moon'' in the spring of 2016. ''Salt-Water Moon'' went on to be named "Best Toronto The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Synagogue
A synagogue, also called a shul or a temple, is a place of worship for Jews and Samaritans. It is a place for prayer (the main sanctuary and sometimes smaller chapels) where Jews attend religious services or special ceremonies such as weddings, bar and bat mitzvahs, choir performances, and children's plays. They often also have rooms for study, social halls, administrative and charitable offices, classrooms for religious and Hebrew studies, and many places to sit and congregate. They often display commemorative, historic, or modern artwork alongside items of Jewish historical significance or history about the synagogue itself. Synagogues are buildings used for Jewish prayer, study, assembly, and reading of the Torah. The Torah (Pentateuch or Five Books of Moses) is traditionally read in its entirety over a period of a year in weekly portions during services, or in some synagogues on a triennial cycle. However, the edifice of a synagogue as such is not essential for hol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
