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Michel Corriveau
Michel Corriveau (born June 29, 1962) is a Canadian composer of film and television scores from Quebec. He has received multiple nominations and awards throughout his career for Canadian and international films and TV productions Biography Based in Montreal, Michel Corriveau was raised in Grand-Mère, Quebec."« Omnitudes », le nouvel album de Michel Corriveau est déjà en vente" ''Lien Multimédia'', May 5, 2018. His maternal grandfather, Philippe Filion, was an orchestral conductor for whom the main concert hall at the Centre des arts de Shawinigan in is named, and served as lieutenant chief of music for the [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brackets
A bracket is either of two tall fore- or back-facing punctuation marks commonly used to isolate a segment of text or data from its surroundings. They come in four main pairs of shapes, as given in the box to the right, which also gives their names, that vary between British English, British and American English. "Brackets", without further qualification, are in British English the ... marks and in American English the ... marks. Other symbols are repurposed as brackets in specialist contexts, such as International Phonetic Alphabet#Brackets and transcription delimiters, those used by linguists. Brackets are typically deployed in symmetric pairs, and an individual bracket may be identified as a "left" or "right" bracket or, alternatively, an "opening bracket" or "closing bracket", respectively, depending on the Writing system#Directionality, directionality of the context. In casual writing and in technical fields such as computing or linguistic analysis of grammar, brackets ne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prix Gémeaux
The Prix Gémeaux () or Gémeaux Awards honour achievements in Canadian television and digital media that is broadcast in French. It has been sponsored by the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television since 1987. Introduced as a French-language equivalent to the Gemini Awards, the Canadian Academy's former presentation for English-language television, it remains separate from the contemporary Canadian Screen Awards despite being presented by the same parent organization. History In 1986, ACTRA transferred their awards to the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television. The Academy called their television awards the Gemini Awards, or Prix Gémeaux in French. After their first Gemini awards ceremony for English-language television, the academy decided to have an awards ceremony for French-language television in 1987. In 2003 the Academy added categories for digital media. The first webcast for the awards ceremony was in 2008. In 2013, the Academy decided to keep the Prix Gémeaux sep ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Honey, I'm In Love
''Honey, I'm in Love'' () is a Canadian comedy-drama film, directed by Claude Meunier and released in 2008.Charles-Henri Ramond"Grand départ, Le – Film de Claude Meunier" ''Films du Québec'', January 9, 2009. The film stars Marc Messier as Jean-Paul Cardin, a successful surgeon who, following the breakup of his marriage to Céline Demers ( Guylaine Tremblay), must juggle his commitments to his children and his new relationship with younger artist Nathalie ( Hélène Bourgeois Leclerc). The film's cast also includes Patrick Drolet and Sophie Desmarais as Jean-Paul's children Guylain and Myriam, as well as Rémy Girard, Louis-José Houde, Catherine Trudeau and Cynthia Wu-Maheux in supporting roles. Meunier wrote the screenplay in part based on his own experience following the breakdown of his first marriage. The film premiered at the Chicago International Film Festival in October 2008, before opening commercially in December. The film received two Jutra Award nominations ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Accidental Friendship
''Accidental Friendship'' is a 2008 Hallmark Channel original film directed by Don McBrearty, and written by Anna Sandor based on a true story. It stars Chandra Wilson and Ben Vereen. Plot Homeless woman Yvonne Caldwell ( Chandra Wilson) is a woman with good reason to be bitter: she has lost everything except her two beloved dogs, Bebe and Man-Man. With her one friend, Wes (Ben Vereen), Caldwell lives the daily struggle of being homeless in Los Angeles until a chance encounter caused by her dogs leads to a friendship with LAPD officer Tami Baumann (Kathleen Munroe), and hope for a better life begins in earnest for Yvonne. Friendship between the two women seemed improbable, but their friendship provided a base of support and respect for Yvonne and Tami for more than five years. Cast * Chandra Wilson as Yvonne Caldwell * Kathleen Munroe as Tami Baumann * Ben Vereen as Wesley "Wes" Smith * Gabriel Hogan as Kevin Brawner * Alison Sealy-Smith as Tami's colleague and friend Tru ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Answered By Fire
''Answered by Fire'' is a two-part television film based on the 1999 conflicts in East Timor that led to its independence in 2002. The film is based on "Dancing with the Devil: A Personal Account of Policing the East Timor Vote for Independence", which was written by David Savage, an Australian Federal Police Officer who was based in Maliana during the vote and where the fictional "Nunura" is based, who returned to East Timor to lead investigations into the crimes against humanity committed there. The book is published by Monash University Asia Institute, Melbourne David Savage was a technical and script consultant during the filming and also played a minor role. The film stars David Wenham, Isabelle Blais and Alex Tilman. It is a co-production between ABC in Australia and CBC in Canada and was also shown in Portugal on RTP as ''Timor: A Ferro e Fogo'' (literally "Timor: By Iron and Fire") with Portuguese subtitles. It has also been shown on the Australia Network, which is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bon Cop, Bad Cop
''Bon Cop, Bad Cop'' is a 2006 Canadian black comedy- thriller buddy cop film about two police officers – one Ontarian and one Québécois – who reluctantly join forces to solve a murder. The dialogue is a mixture of English and French. The title is a translation word play on the phrase "Good cop/bad cop". Plot When a body is found hanging on top of the sign demarcating the Ontario–Quebec border, police officers from both Canadian provinces must join forces to solve the murder. David Bouchard is a rule-bending, francophone detective for the Sûreté du Québec, while Martin Ward is a by-the-book anglophone Ontario Provincial Police detective. The bilingual detectives must resolve their professional and cultural differences as well as their bigotry and prejudices. The body is identified as Benoit Brisset, a hockey executive. The clues lead the pair to Luc Therrien at a roadside bar. After a fight in the bar, they imprison him in the trunk of Bouchard's car. Bouchard has pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miss Météo
''Miss Météo'' is a Canadian Quebec French-language television series that airs on Séries+. It is a 30 minute adaptation of the Quebec French language film ''Miss Météo''. The same actors are used in the TV series as were used in the film. Storyline Myriam Monette, a not very conformist and slightly whimsical Miss Weatherwoman, is now 40 years old, has a new boyfriend and a new mandate at Channel Météo (also called Channel M). On the surface, nothing has changed. In reality, nothing is the same anymore. Like a green lawn on a summer day suddenly covered in snow, Myriam went to bed a confirmed single "adulteen" and woke up in love, living with someone else and undergoing major changes. Main characters * Myriam Monette (played by Anne-Marie Cadieux): She is Miss Weatherwoman. A woman that we could call an "adulteen". * François Larivière (played by Patrice Robitaille): The boyfriend of Myriam. * Brigitte Caron (played by Sophie Prégent Sophie is a feminine given name ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Outlander (film)
''The Outlander'' () is a 2005 Canadian drama film from Quebec, directed by Érik Canuel. An adaptation of Germaine Guèvremont's novel ''Le Survenant'', the film stars Jean-Nicolas Verreault as the title character, a mysterious stranger whose arrival in the small town of Chénal-du-Moine significantly shakes up the community. Awards The film received five Genie Award nominations at the 26th Genie Awards:"Forget the awards. Watch the party". ''The Globe and Mail'', January 26, 2006. * Best Adapted Screenplay: Diane Cailhier *Best Cinematography: Bernard Couture * Best Costume Design: Francesca Chamberland * Best Sound Editing: Alice Wright, Valéry Dufort-Boucher, Alexis Farand, Jacques Plante and Christian Rivest * Best Original Song: Sylvain Cossette, Michel Corriveau Michel Corriveau (born June 29, 1962) is a Canadian composer of film and television scores from Quebec. He has received multiple nominations and awards throughout his career for Canadian and international fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maman Last Call
''Maman Last Call'' is a Canadian comedy-drama film, released in 2005."A blessed event, after all". ''Montreal Gazette'', February 11, 2005. An adaptation of Nathalie Petrowski's 1995 novel, the film was written by Petrowski and directed by François Bouvier. The film stars Sophie Lorain as Alice Malenfant, a career-oriented journalist who has resisted marrying and start a family with her boyfriend Louis (Patrick Huard), but unexpectedly finds herself pregnant. Petrowski garnered a Genie Award nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay at the 26th Genie Awards."C.R.A.Z.Y. faces off against Maurice Richard with 14 nominations apiece". ''Montreal Gazette ''The Gazette'', also known as the ''Montreal Gazette'', is a Canadian English-language broadsheet daily newspaper which is owned by Postmedia Network. It is published in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It is the only English-language daily newspape ...'', February 8, 2006. References External links * 2005 films Canadian com ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Incomparable Miss C
''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 Last Tunnel (2004 Film)
''The Last 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] |
Red Nose (film)
''Red Nose'' () is a 2003 Canadian romantic comedy film, directed by Érik Canuel. Starring Patrick Huard as Félix Legendre, an acerbic literary critic, and Michèle-Barbara Pelletier as Céline Bourgeois, a writer whose most recent work he harshly trashed, the film traces their journey from hate at first sight to falling in love when they are unexpectedly assigned as each other's partners while volunteering for Quebec's annual Opération Nez rouge Christmas driving service. The film's cast also includes Pierre Lebeau, Jacques Godin, Christian Bégin, Caroline Dhavernas, Sylvain Marcel, Stéphane Breton, Frédéric Desager and Dany Laferrière. Claudette Casavant received a Prix Jutra nomination for Best Makeup, at the 6th Jutra Awards, for her work on the film."Jutra nominations recognize art and commerce". ''National Post The ''National Post'' is a Canadian English-language broadsheet newspaper and the flagship publication of the American-owned Postmedia Network. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
