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2006 Toronto International Film Festival
The 31st Toronto International Film Festival ran from September 7 to September 16, 2006. Opening the festival was Zacharias Kunuk and Norman Cohn's ''The Journals of Knud Rasmussen'', a film that "explores the history of the through the eyes of a father and daughter." In a press release dated June 27, 2006, twenty-six international film selections were announced which previously premiered at major film festivals worldwide. Of the films announced, twenty-five of them will receive their North American premiere. Among the many anticipated films were ''Babel'' by Alejandro González Iñárritu, ''Volver'' by Pedro Almodóvar, ''Election 2'' (a.k.a. '' Triad Election'') by Johnnie To, ''The Fountain'' by Darren Aronofsky and '' The Host'' by Bong Joon-ho. ''Bella'' took top prize at the 2006 Toronto International Film Festival by winning the highly coveted "People's Choice Award", a distinction which puts them in the company of such Oscar-winning films as Chariots of Fire, American Be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Journals Of Knud Rasmussen
''The Journals of Knud Rasmussen'' is a 2006 Canadian-Danish film directed by Zacharias Kunuk and Norman Cohn. The film is about the pressures on traditional Inuit shamanistic beliefs as documented by Knud Rasmussen during his travels across the Canadian Arctic in the 1920s. Produced by Isuma, the film premiered on September 7, 2006 as the opening film of the Toronto International Film Festival, after pre-release screenings in Inuit communities in Canada and Greenland. Synopsis Set primarily in and around Igloolik in 1922, the film depicts the encounter between a group of Inuit in Arctic Canada led by one of the last shamans of the Canadian Inuit, Aua, and three Danish ethnographers and explorers, Knud Rasmussen, Therkel Mathiassen and Peter Freuchen during the latter's "Great Sled Journey" of 1922. The film is shot from the perspective of the Inuit, showing their traditional beliefs and lifestyle. The shaman and his entourage must ultimately decide whether to join the ranks of an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bong Joon-ho
Bong Joon-ho (, ; Hanja: 奉俊昊; born September 14, 1969) is a South Korean film director, producer and screenwriter. The recipient of four Academy Awards, his filmography is characterised by emphasis on social themes, genre-mixing, black humor, and sudden tone shifts. He first became known to audiences and achieved a cult following with his directorial debut film, the black comedy ''Barking Dogs Never Bite'' (2000), before achieving both critical and commercial success with his subsequent films: the crime thriller ''Memories of Murder'' (2003), the monster film '' The Host'' (2006), the science fiction action film ''Snowpiercer'' (2013), and the black comedy thriller ''Parasite'' (2019), all of which are among the highest-grossing films in South Korea, with ''Parasite'' also being the highest-grossing South Korean film in history. All of Bong's films have been South Korean productions, although both ''Snowpiercer'' and ''Okja'' (2017) are mostly in the English language. T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maxime Giroux
Maxime Giroux (born 16 April 1976) is a film director from Quebec, Canada. Giroux was born in Montreal, Quebec. He has directed several short films, videoclips and commercial videos. In 2006, his film '' The Days (Les Jours)'' won the prize for best short film at the Toronto International Film Festival, and in 2007 his film ''Red (Le Rouge au sol)'' won the award for Best Live Action Short Drama at the 27th Genie Awards. His videography includes music videos for Sam Roberts, Sarah Harmer, The Dears, Pilate, Louise Forestier, Corneille, Marc Déry, Les Cowboys Fringants and Vulgaires Machins. In October 2007, he began working on his first feature film, '' Tomorrow (Demain)'', which premiered at the Torino Film Festival in 2008 before going into commercial release in 2009.Charles-Henri Ramond"Demain – Film de Maxime Giroux" ''Films du Québec'', January 5, 2009. In 2014, he directed '' Félix et Meira'', which premiered at the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival, where it w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manufactured Landscapes
''Manufactured Landscapes'' is a 2006 feature-length documentary film about the industrial landscape photography of Edward Burtynsky. It was directed by Jennifer Baichwal and is distributed by Zeitgeist Films. It was the first of three documentary collaborations between Baichwall and Burtynsky, followed by ''Watermark'' in 2013 and '' Anthropocene: The Human Epoch'' in 2018. Subject matter The film involves the photographs and videos of photographer and visual artist Ed Burtynsky's trip through landscapes that have been altered by large-scale human activity, captured with Super 16 mm film. Most of the photographs featured in the film are pieces that are exhibited all over the world and are taken with a "large format field camera on large 4x5-inch sheet film and developed into high-resolution, large-dimension prints (of approximately 50x60 inches)" While some would call the work beautiful, his main goal was to challenge notions while raising questions about the interplay of envir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
On The Trail Of Igor Rizzi
''On the Trail of Igor Rizzi'' (french: Sur la trace d'Igor Rizzi) is a 2006 Canadian drama film starring Laurent Lucas, written and directed by Noël Mitrani. The film's production companies are Atopia and StanKaz Films. The distributor is also Atopia in Canada and United States. This film won the Award for Best Canadian First Feature Film at 2006’s Toronto International Film Festival. Plot A grief-stricken and destitute French ex-soccer player has moved to Montreal, the hometown of his lost love, in an effort to recapture her presence. He is haunted by the regret of never having told her how much he loved her. To earn money he accepts to kill a certain Igor Rizzi. Cast * Laurent Lucas as Jean-Marc Thomas * Pierre-Luc Brillant as Jean-Michel * Emmanuel Bilodeau as Gilbert McCoy * Isabelle Blais as Mélanie * Yves Allaire as Howard * Dan Chapman as Igor Rizzi * Jacinthe Pilote as The dead woman Awards * 2006 Toronto International Film Festival — Best Canadian First F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Noël Mitrani
Noël Mitrani (born 11 November 1969 in Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian-born French film director, producer and screenwriter."In film and life, all roads lead to Montreal" '''', January 15, 2007. Biography 1999–2005: Early work in France Born in from French parents, he went back to age of 5 ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Death Of A President (2006 Film)
''Death of a President'' is a 2006 British docudrama political thriller film about the fictional assassination of George W. Bush, the 43rd and at the time, incumbent U.S. President, on 19 October 2007 in Chicago, Illinois. The film is presented as a future history docudrama and uses actors, archival video footage as well as computer-generated special effects to present the hypothetical aftermath the event had on civil liberties, racial profiling, journalistic sensationalism and foreign policy. Plot Broadcast in the year 2008, the film is presented in a TV documentary style format, combining talking head interviews, news coverage clips and video surveillance footage surrounding the assassination of U.S. President George W. Bush in Chicago around a year earlier on 19 October 2007. The president is fatally shot by a sniper after he addresses an economic forum at the Chicago Sheraton Hotel, before which an anti-war rally had taken place. News outlets immediately begin reporting ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gabriel Range
Gabriel Range is a British filmmaker, who is probably best known for his fictional political-documentary about the assassination of George W. Bush in '' Death of a President''. Range worked in journalism before moving into documentaries and docudrama. In 2003 he wrote and directed '' The Day Britain Stopped'', a feature-length drama told in the style of documentary. The film earned Range a nomination for a British Academy ( BAFTA) TV Craft Award for Best New Director and won a Royal Television Society Craft and Design Award. In 2005 Range wrote and directed '' Death of a President'', which had its debut at the 2006 Toronto International Film Festival. The film won a total of 6 awards including; the International Critics Prize (FIPRESCI) at Toronto, the International Emmy Award for the TV Movie/Mini-Series category, the RTS Television Award in the Digital Channel Programme category from the Royal Television Society, the RTBF TV Prize for Best Picture Award from the Brussels ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reprise (film)
''Reprise'' is a 2006 Norwegian comedy-drama film directed by Joachim Trier and co-written, over the course of five years, by Trier and Eskil Vogt. It is Trier's first feature-length film and the first, along with ''Oslo, August 31st'' (2011) and '' The Worst Person in the World'' (2021), in the director's "Oslo Trilogy". The film follows a friend group of Oslovians as they navigate their early 20s, focusing particularly on Erik (Espen Klouman Høiner) and Phillip (Anders Danielsen Lie), who both harbour ambitions of being writers but whose lives take different paths. It was the Norwegian submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 2006. Plot Best friends Erik and Phillip, both 23, have written books and fantasize that their novels will become cult hits. However when they both submit manuscripts Erik's is rejected. Phillip's, on the other hand, is immediately accepted and a year later he becomes a star of the Norwegian literary scene. Six months later, E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joachim Trier
Joachim Trier () (born 1 March 1974) is a Danish-born Norwegian film director, best known for ''Oslo, August 31st'' (2011), ''Louder Than Bombs'' (2015), ''Thelma'' (2017), and '' The Worst Person in the World'' (2021). For the latter film, he was nominated for the Best Original Screenplay at the 94th Academy Awards, with the film also being nominated for Best International Feature. His films have been described as "melancholy meditations concerned with existential questions of love, ambition, memory, and identity." Early life Trier was born in Denmark to Norwegian parents and raised in Oslo, Norway. His father, Jacob Trier, was the sound technician of ''The Pinchcliffe Grand Prix'', a notable film produced in Norway in 1975. His grandfather was Erik Løchen, artistic director of Norsk Film from 1981 to 1983 and also a filmmaker and screenwriter known for such experimental work as his 1972 film ''Remonstrance'' which was uniquely constructed so that its five reels could be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alejandro Gomez Monteverde
Alejandro is the Spanish form of the name Alexander. Alejandro has multiple variations in different languages, including Aleksander (Czech, Polish), Alexandre ( French), Alexandros (Greek), Alsander (Irish), Alessandro (Italian), Aleksandr (Russian), and Alasdair (Gaelic). People with the given name Alejandro * Alejandro Alvizuri, Peruvian backstroke swimmer * Alejandro Amenábar, Chilean-born Spanish director * Alejandro Aranda, American singer, musician, and reality television personality * Alejandro Arguello, Mexican footballer * Alejandro Avila, Mexican TV actor * Alejandro Awada, Argentine actor * Alejandro Betts, Argentine historian * Alejandro Bermúdez, Colombian swimmer * Alejandro Bustillo, Argentine architect * Alejandro Carrión, Ecuadorian poet and novelist * Alejandro Casañas, Cuban hurdler * Alejandro Castillo, Mexican footballer * Alejandro Cercas, Spanish politician * Alejandro Chataing, Venezuelan architect * Alejandro Cichero, Venezuelan footballer * Al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mel Gibson
Mel Columcille Gerard Gibson (born January 3, 1956) is an American actor, film director, and producer. He is best known for his action hero roles, particularly his breakout role as Max Rockatansky in the first three films of the post-apocalyptic action series ''Mad Max'' and as Martin Riggs in the buddy cop action-comedy film series ''Lethal Weapon''. Born in Peekskill, New York, Gibson moved with his parents to Sydney, Australia, when he was 12 years old. He studied acting at the National Institute of Dramatic Art, where he starred opposite Judy Davis in a production of ''Romeo and Juliet''. During the 1980s, he founded Icon Entertainment, a production company, which independent film director Atom Egoyan has called "an alternative to the studio system". Director Peter Weir cast him as one of the leads in the World War I drama ''Gallipoli'' (1981), which earned Gibson a Best Actor Award from the Australian Film Institute,The Australian Film InstitutPast Winners as well as a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
