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1992 Toronto International Film Festival
The 17th Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) took place in Toronto Toronto ( ; or ) is the capital city of the Canadian province of Ontario. With a recorded population of 2,794,356 in 2021, it is the most populous city in Canada and the fourth most populous city in North America. The city is the ancho ..., Ontario, Canada between September 10 and September 19, 1992. ''Léolo'' was selected as the opening film. Quentin Tarantino's debut film Reservoir Dogs premiered at the festival and won FIPRESCI International Critics' Award. Awards Programme Gala Presentation *''Bad Lieutenant'' by Abel Ferrara *''Bob Roberts'' by Tim Robbins *''The Crying Game'' by Neil Jordan *''The Dark Side of the Heart'' by Eliseo Subiela *''Glengarry Glen Ross (film), Glengarry Glen Ross'' by James Foley (director), James Foley *''Hard Boiled'' by John Woo *''Husbands and Wives'' by Woody Allen *''Laws of Gravity (film), Laws of Gravity by Nick Gomez *''Léolo'' by Jean-Claude Lauzon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Léolo
''Léolo'' is a 1992 Canadian coming of age- fantasy film by director Jean-Claude Lauzon. The film tells the story of a young boy named Léo "Léolo" Lauzon, played by Maxime Collin, who engages in an active fantasy life while growing up with his Montreal family, and begins to have sexual fantasies about his neighbour Bianca, played by Giuditta del Vecchio. The film also stars Ginette Reno, Pierre Bourgault, Andrée Lachapelle, Denys Arcand, Julien Guiomar, and Germain Houde. Gilbert Sicotte narrates the film as the adult Léolo. With a story developed by Lauzon as a semi-autobiographical work, the project was supported by producer Lyse Lafontaine as a co-production with France. Filming took place in Montreal and Sicily in 1991. It was Lauzon's final film, as he died in a plane crash in 1997 while working on his next project. Initially released in the 1992 Cannes Film Festival, ''Léolo'' won three Genie Awards, including Best Original Screenplay for Lauzon, losing Best Motion ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Noam Chomsky And The Media
Noam ( he, נועם) is a Hebrew name which means "pleasantness", and although it started as the male version of the female ''Na'omi'' (English: " Naomi" or "Noémie"), today, it is a very common Hebrew name for both males and females alike. The common name day for both genders is often 7 December. People with the given name Noam Political activism * Noam Chomsky, American political activist, linguist, and philosopher. * Noam Federman, Israeli right-wing political activist. * Noam Bramson (born 1969), Mayor of New Rochelle. Television and film * Noam Steinerman, American Film director and visual artist. * Noam Murro, Israeli American director. * Noam Gonick, Canadian film director. * Noam Pitlik, American television director and character actor. * Noam Zylberman, Israeli-born voice actor, best known for the voice of Split Kit from the ''Garbage Pail Kids''. *Noam Jenkins, Canadian actor. Music * Noam Pikelny, American banjoist. * Noam Kaniel, Isra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tim Robbins
Timothy Francis Robbins (born October 16, 1958) is an American actor and filmmaker. He is known for portraying Andy Dufresne in the film ''The Shawshank Redemption ''(1994), and has won an Academy Award and two Golden Globe Awards for his roles in the films '' The Player'' (1992) and ''Mystic River'' (2003). Robbins's other roles include starring as Lt. Samuel "Merlin" Wells in '' Top Gun'' (1986), Nuke LaLoosh in ''Bull Durham'' (1988), Erik in ''Erik the Viking'' (1989), Ed Walters in ''I.Q.'' (1994), Nick Beam in '' Nothing to Lose'' (1997) and Senator Robert Hammond in ''Green Lantern'' (2011). He also directed the films '' Bob Roberts'' (1992) and '' Dead Man Walking'' (1995), both of which were well received. He received an Academy Award nomination for Best Director for ''Dead Man Walking.'' On television, Robbins played Secretary of State Walter Larson in the HBO comedy '' The Brink'' (2015), and in '' Here and Now'' (2018) portrayed Greg Boatwright. Early life Robb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bob Roberts
''Bob Roberts'' is a 1992 American Satire, satirical mockumentary film written, directed by, and starring Tim Robbins. It depicts the rise of Robert "Bob" Roberts Jr., a right-wing politician who is a candidate for an upcoming United States Senate election. Roberts is well financed, due mainly to past business dealings, and is well known for his folk music, which presents conservative ideas with gusto. The film is Robbins' directorial debut and is based on a short segment of the same title and featuring the same character that Robbins portrayed on ''Saturday Night Live.'' It also marks the film debut of Jack Black. Plot ''Bob Roberts'' takes place in Pennsylvania in 1990. It depicts a fictitious senatorial race between a Conservatism in the United States, conservative Republican Party (United States), Republican folk singer, Bob Roberts, and the incumbent Democratic Party (United States), Democrat, Brickley Paiste. The film is shot through the perspective of Terry Manchester, a B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abel Ferrara
Abel Ferrara (born July 19, 1951) is an American filmmaker, known for the provocative and often controversial content in his movies and his use of neo-noir imagery and gritty urban settings. A long-time independent filmmaker, some of his best known movies include '' Ms .45'' (1981), ''King of New York'' (1990), ''Bad Lieutenant'' (1992) and '' The Funeral'' (1996). Early life Ferrara was born in the Bronx of Italian and Irish descent. He was raised Catholic, which subsequently influenced much of his work. At 8 years old, he moved to Peekskill in Westchester County, New York and he started making movies at Rockland Community College. Later, he attended the film conservatory at SUNY Purchase, where he directed several short films. Career Early work Ferrara studied at the San Francisco Art Institute; one of his teachers there was the famous avant-garde director Rosa von Praunheim. In the early 1970s, while still in art school, Ferrara directed a number of independently produced sho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bad Lieutenant
''Bad Lieutenant'' is a 1992 American neo-noir crime film directed by Abel Ferrara. The film stars Harvey Keitel as the titular "bad lieutenant" as well as Victor Argo and Paul Calderón. The screenplay was co-written by Ferrara with actress-model Zoë Lund, both of whom appear in the film in minor roles. The film was screened in the ''Un Certain Regard'' section at the 1992 Cannes Film Festival. Since its release, ''Bad Lieutenant'' has become one of Ferrara's best known and most critically appreciated works, as well as a cult film. Plot After dropping off his two young sons at Catholic school, an unnamed NYPD police lieutenant uses cocaine and drives to the scene of a double homicide in Union Square. The lieutenant finds a drug dealer and gives him a bag of drugs from a crime scene, smoking crack during the exchange; the dealer promises to give him the money he makes from selling the drugs in a few days. At an apartment, the lieutenant gets drunk and engages in a threesome w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helen Lee (director)
Helen Lee () is a Korean-Canadian film director. Born in Seoul, South Korea, she emigrated to Canada at the age of four and grew up in Scarborough, Ontario. Interested in film at a young age, she took film studies at the University of Toronto and, later, New York University. While in university she was influenced by gender and minority theories, as reflected in her first film, the short ''Sally's Beauty Spot'' (1990). While continuing her studies she produced two more films before taking a five-year hiatus to live in Korea beginning in 1995. After her return, she released another short film and her feature film debut, '' The Art of Woo'' (2001). She continues to produce films, although at a reduced rate. Lee's films often deal with gender and racial issues, reflecting the state of East Asians in modern society; a common theme in her work is sexuality, with several films featuring interracial relationships. Early life Helen Lee was born in Seoul, South Korea, around 1965, but cam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rick Hancox
Rick Hancox (born January 1, 1946) is a Canadian filmmaker and film studies academic."Richard Hancox" '' Canadian Film Encyclopedia''. He is most noted for his short film ''Moose Jaw: There's a Future in Our Past'', which received a special jury citation for the Toronto International Film Festival Award for Best Canadian Short Film at the |
Laurie Lynd
Laurie Lynd (born May 19, 1959, in Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian film and television director and screenwriter, best known as the director of the feature film ''Breakfast with Scot''. In his early career, Lynd made the short films ''Together and Apart'' (1986) and ''RSVP'' (1991), the latter of which was cited by film critic B. Ruby Rich in her influential 1992 essay on the emergence of New Queer Cinema.B. Ruby Rich, "New Queer Cinema" in Michele Aaron, ''New Queer Cinema: A Critical Reader''. Rutgers University Press, 2004. . pp. 14-22. He then attended the Canadian Film Centre,Laurie Lynd at mediaqueer.ca. making the short film '' |
The Fairy Who Didn't Want To Be A Fairy Anymore
''The Fairy Who Didn't Want to Be a Fairy Anymore'' is a Canadian musical comedy-drama short film directed by Laurie Lynd, which premiered at the 1992 Toronto International Film Festival before going into wider release in 1993. Made as an academic project while Lynd was studying at the Canadian Film Centre,"Contrary fairy tale is class work". ''Toronto Star'', July 2, 1993. it won the Genie Award for Best Live Action Short Drama at the 14th Genie Awards. Plot An allegory for gender stereotypes and internalized homophobia, the film stars Daniel MacIvor as a fairy who approaches a surgical team (Holly Cole as the doctor and Micah Barnes as the nurse) to have his wings removed so that he can become a normal human being, after facing anti-fairy discrimination. Following a musical debate between the three, the doctor agrees to perform the surgery. As he leaves the clinic, the now-wingless fairy is initially happy to be just like everyone else around him, but soon comes to regret hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Don McKellar
Don McKellar (born August 17, 1963) is a Canadian actor, writer, playwright, and filmmaker. He was part of a loosely-affiliated group of filmmakers to emerge from Toronto known as the Toronto New Wave. He is known for directing and writing the film '' Last Night'', which won the Prix de la Jeunesse at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival, as well as his screenplays for films like ''Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould'', ''The Red Violin'', and ''Blindness''. McKellar frequently acts in his own projects, and has also appeared in Atom Egoyan’s ''Exotica'' and David Cronenberg’s '' eXistenZ''. He is also known for being a fixture on Canadian television, with series including ''Twitch City'', ''Odd Job Jack'', and ''Slings and Arrows'', as well as writing the book for the popular Tony Award winning musical ''The Drowsy Chaperone''. He is an eight-time nominee and two-time Genie Award winner. Personal life McKellar was born in Toronto, Ontario, the son of Marjorie Kay (Stirrett ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manon Briand
Manon Briand (born January 1, 1964, in Baie-Comeau, Quebec)Manon Briand at Toronto International Film Festival's Canadian Film Encyclopedia. is a Canadians, Canadian film director and screenwriter. After graduating in film studies from Concordia University, Briand went to France to study screenwriting in 1987. Returning home, she co-founded an independent filmmakers’ group, Les Films de l’Autre, and soon began directing. Her films include ''Letters of Transit (film), Letters of Transit (Les Sauf-conduits)'', a segment in ''Cosmos (1996 film), Cosmos'', ''2 Seconds'', ''Chaos and Desire'', ''Liverpool (2012 film), Liverpool'' and the television film ''Heart: The Marilyn Bell Story''. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
