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Blindside (film)
''Blindside'' is a 1987 Canadian film directed by Paul Lynch and starring Harvey Keitel.Contemporary North American Film Directors: A Wallflower Critical Guide 1903364523 Yoram Allon, Del Cullen, Hannah Patterson - 2002 1986 also saw two other films: the gymnastics movie Flying and a poor knock-off of Coppola's The Conversation (1974) called Blindside with Harvey Keitel .. Plot "A surveillance wizard becomes involved with the underworld after his wife's suicide." Penfield Gruber is a former scientist and surveillance expert who resigned and now runs a neglected motel. Criminals offer him money to spy on a resident, under coercion. Cast Production On 16 November 1986, filming began. Release On 28 August 1987, was shown at Montreal World Film Festival, and released in United States. Reception "...dull, Canadian-made thriller..." "...it was never really intended to have a theatrical run..." — Paul Lynch References External links * Blindside (Lynch, 1986) dcpfilm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Lynch (director)
Paul Lynch (born June 11, 1946) is a Canadian film director and television director. Lynch came to Canada in 1960. He left school to become a cartoonist for the ''Toronto Star'' and then served as a photographer for a number of small-town newspapers. This led to work in film, including a 90-minute documentary on ''Penthouse'' magazine commissioned by its publisher, Bob Guccione. His first feature film was ''The Hard Part Begins''. This was followed by the box-office hit '' Prom Night'', a straightforward slasher film starring Jamie Lee Curtis and Leslie Nielsen. Lynch has only made movies periodically, pursuing instead a career directing for American television. Filmography Films *''The Hard Part Begins'' (1973) *'' Blood & Guts'' (1978) *'' Prom Night'' (1980) *'' Humongous'' (1982) *''Cross Country'' (1983) *'' Blindside'' (1986) *'' Flying'' (a.k.a. ''Dream to Believe'', 1986) *''Bullies'' (1986) *''On the Prowl'' (1991) *''No Contest'' (1995) *''No Contest II'' (a.k.a. ''Fac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Rudder
Michael Rudder (born June 14, 1950) is a Canadian film, television, theatre and voice actor. Rudder was injured in the November 2008 Mumbai attacks. Acting work Born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Rudder was a Genie Award nominee in 1989 for Best Supporting Actor for his role in ''Buying Time''. His film credits include '' Scanners II: The New Order'', '' Breaking All the Rules'', '' The Adventures of Pluto Nash'', '' One Eyed King'', '' Taken'', ''Blindside'' and '' Splinter Cell'', and his television credits include episodes of '' Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman'', '' The Hunger'', '' Are You Afraid of the Dark?'', '' The Hitchhiker'', ''Katts and Dog'', '' Urban Angel'', '' War of the Worlds'' and the Canadian series '' Night Heat''. Rudder is a well-known voice actor for such video games as ''Prince of Persia'', '' Far Cry'', '' Jagged Alliance'', '' Splinter Cell'', '' Deus Ex: Human Revolution'', and ''Assassin's Creed''. He also does voices on several animated TV shows such ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Films Scored By Paul Zaza
A film also called a movie, motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere through the use of moving images. These images are generally accompanied by sound and, more rarely, other sensory stimulations. The word "cinema", short for cinematography, is often used to refer to filmmaking and the film industry, and to the art form that is the result of it. Recording and transmission of film The moving images of a film are created by photographing actual scenes with a motion-picture camera, by photographing drawings or miniature models using traditional animation techniques, by means of CGI and computer animation, or by a combination of some or all of these techniques, and other visual effects. Before the introduction of digital production, series of still images were recorded on a strip of chemically sensitiz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Films Directed By Paul Lynch
A film also called a movie, motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere through the use of moving images. These images are generally accompanied by sound and, more rarely, other sensory stimulations. The word "cinema", short for cinematography, is often used to refer to filmmaking and the film industry, and to the art form that is the result of it. Recording and transmission of film The moving images of a film are created by photographing actual scenes with a motion-picture camera, by photographing drawings or miniature models using traditional animation techniques, by means of CGI and computer animation, or by a combination of some or all of these techniques, and other visual effects. Before the introduction of digital production, series of still images were recorded on a strip of chemically sensitized ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1987 Thriller Films
File:1987 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: The MS Herald of Free Enterprise capsizes after leaving the Port of Zeebrugge in Belgium, killing 193; Northwest Airlines Flight 255 crashes after takeoff from Detroit Metropolitan Airport, killing everyone except a little girl; The King's Cross fire kills 31 people after a fire under an escalator Flashover, flashes-over; The MV Doña Paz sinks after colliding with an oil tanker, drowning almost 4,400 passengers and crew; Typhoon Nina (1987), Typhoon Nina strikes the Philippines; LOT Polish Airlines Flight 5055 crashes outside of Warsaw, taking the lives of all aboard; The USS Stark is USS Stark incident, struck by Iraq, Iraqi Exocet missiles in the Persian Gulf; President of the United States, U.S. President Ronald Reagan gives a famous Tear down this wall!, speech, demanding that Soviet Union, Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev tears down the Berlin Wall., 300x300px, thumb rect 0 0 200 200 Zeebrugge disaster rect 200 0 400 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
English-language Canadian Films
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Canadian Thriller Films
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1987 Films
The following is an overview of events in 1987 in film, including the highest-grossing films, award ceremonies and festivals, a list of films released and notable deaths. Paramount Pictures celebrated its 75th anniversary in 1987. Highest-grossing films (U.S.) The top ten 1987 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows: Events * January 31 - ''The Cure for Insomnia'' premieres at The School of the Art Institute in Chicago, Illinois, to officially become the world's longest film according to Guinness World Records. * May 23 - ''Starlog Salutes Star Wars'' is held in Los Angeles, California, the first officially sponsored Star Wars convention to commemorate the franchise's 10th anniversary. * June 29 - The ''James Bond'' franchise celebrates its 25th anniversary and premieres its 15th film, ''The Living Daylights'' * July 17 - Walt Disney's classic masterpiece ''Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs'' is re-released worldwide for its 50th anniversary. * 1987 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cordelia Strube
Cordelia Strube is a Canadian playwright and novelist. Raised in Montreal, Quebec, Strube began her career as an actor. After winning a CBC Literary Award for her first radio play, ''Mortal'', she wrote nine more radio plays for CBC Radio before publishing her debut novel, ''Alex & Zee'', in 1994. The novel was a shortlisted nominee for the Books in Canada First Novel Award. Her third novel, ''Teaching Pigs to Sing'', was a nominee for the English-language fiction award in the 1996 Governor General's Awards. Her novel ''Lemon'' was named to the longlist for the 2010 Scotiabank Giller Prize and shortlisted for the 2010 Trillium Book Award. In 2016, she won the City of Toronto Book Award for ''On the Shores of Darkness, There Is Light''. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lolita Davidovich
Lolita Davidovich ( sr-Latn, Lolita Davidović, italic=unset; born July 15, 1961) is a Canadian-born film and television actress, best known for portraying Blaze Starr in the 1989 film '' Blaze'', for which she received a Chicago Film Critics Association Award nomination. She later had starring roles in films including ''Leap of Faith'' (1992), ''Raising Cain'' (1992), '' Intersection'' (1994), '' Cobb'' (1994), ''Jungle 2 Jungle'' (1997), '' Gods and Monsters'' (1998), ''Mystery, Alaska'' (1999), and ''Play It to the Bone'' (1999). Early life Davidovich was born Lolita Davidović in London, Ontario, the daughter of emigrants from the former Yugoslavia. Her father was from Belgrade (the capital of Serbia), and her mother was from Slovenia. She spoke only Serbian during her early years. She studied at the Herbert Berghof Studio in New York. Career Davidovich began her career playing small parts on television and films. She first received notice co-starring in comedy-drama film ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Beattie
Richard Beattie is a Canadian screenwriter. He is most noted for the 1989 film '' Cold Comfort'', for which he and Elliot L. Sims won the Genie Award for Best Adapted Screenplay at the 11th Genie Awards in 1990. Born and raised in British Columbia, Beattie studied political science at the University of British Columbia before applying to, but then dropping out of law school in 1985. His first screenplay, '' Blindside'', was directed by Paul Lynch and released in 1987. His other credits have included the films '' Prom Night IV: Deliver Us from Evil'' (1992), '' The Shower'' (1992), ''Cold Sweat'' (1993), ''No Contest II'' (1997), ''Grizzly Falls'' (1999), ''The Highwayman'' (2000), ''The Baby Formula'' (2009),Barry Hertz, "A plot that's hard to conceive". ''The Globe and Mail'', June 19, 2009. ''High Plains Invaders'' (2009), ''Maximum Conviction'' (2012) and ''Cartels'' (2017), and episodes of the television series ''True Justice'', ''Olympus Olympus or Olympos ( grc, á½ŒÎ»Ï…Î¼Ï ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
