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Daniel Jobin
Daniel Jobin (born 1949) is a Canadian cinematographer from Quebec. He is a two-time Genie Award nominee for Best Cinematography, receiving nods at the 12th Genie Awards in 1991 for ''Cargo'' and at the 17th Genie Awards in 1996 for ''Lilies'', and a four-time Jutra/Iris Award nominee for Best Cinematography, receiving nominations at the 11th Jutra Awards in 2009 for ''Mommy Is at the Hairdresser's (Maman est chez le coiffeur)'', at the 12th Jutra Awards in 2010 for ''Je me souviens'', at the 14th Jutra Awards in 2012 for ''Coteau rouge'',Charles-Henri Ramond"Prix Jutra 2012: voilà les nominations" ''Films du Québec'', January 31, 2012. and at the 18th Quebec Cinema Awards in 2016 for ''The Passion of Augustine (La Passion d'Augustine)''. Filmography *'' A Woman in Transit (La Femme de l'hôtel)'' - 1984 *'' The Choice of a People (La Choix d'un peuple)'' - 1985 *'' Marie in the City (Marie s'en va-t-en ville)'' - 1987 *''Cargo'' - 1990 *''Louis 19, King of the Airwaves (Lou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quebec
Quebec ( ; )According to the Canadian government, ''Québec'' (with the acute accent) is the official name in Canadian French and ''Quebec'' (without the accent) is the province's official name in Canadian English is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada. It is the largest province by area and the second-largest by population. Much of the population lives in urban areas along the St. Lawrence River, between the most populous city, Montreal, and the provincial capital, Quebec City. Quebec is the home of the Québécois nation. Located in Central Canada, the province shares land borders with Ontario to the west, Newfoundland and Labrador to the northeast, New Brunswick to the southeast, and a coastal border with Nunavut; in the south it borders Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, and New York in the United States. Between 1534 and 1763, Quebec was called ''Canada'' and was the most developed colony in New France. Following the Seven Years' War, Quebec b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
18th Quebec Cinema Awards
The 18th Quebec Cinema Awards ceremony ( fr , Gala du cinéma québécois 2016) were held on March 20, 2016 to honour films made with the participation of the Quebec film industry in 2015."La Passion d'Augustine and Corbo lead the Jutra film nominations" '''', January 26, 2016. The ceremony was the first to be held since dropped the "Jutra Awards" name from its awards program, following the publication in February ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The United States Of Albert
''The United States of Albert'' (french: Les États-Unis d'Albert) is a Canadian, French and Swiss co-produced comedy-drama film, directed by André Forcier and released in 2005. The film stars Éric Bruneau as Albert Renaud, a young actor in Montreal who dreams of becoming a movie star in Hollywood, and sets off on a road trip across the United States in pursuit of his dreams; en route, he meets a variety of characters including Grace Carson (Émilie Dequenne), a young Mormon woman with whom he falls in love, and Jack Decker (Roy Dupuis), a mentally unstable man who takes Albert golfing in the Arizona desert.Brendan Kelly, "A goofy, surreal road trip". ''Montreal Gazette'', April 8, 2005. The cast also includes Andréa Ferréol, Alex Descas, Marc Labrèche, Geneviève Brouillette and Céline Bonnier. Brendan Kelly of the ''Montreal Gazette'' panned the film, writing that Forcier's decision to cast a mixture of Québécois and European actors resulted in a distracting diversity of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Collector (2002 Film)
''The Collector'' (french: Le Collectionneur) is a Canadian thriller film, released in 2002.''Le Collectionneur'' ''Films du Québec'', January 1, 2009. Written and directed by based on the crime novel of the same name by Chrystine Brouillet, the film stars as Maude Graham, a police detective trying to track down a serial killer ( |
Wedding Night
In many traditions and statutes of civil or religious law, the consummation of a marriage, often called simply ''consummation'', is the first (or first officially credited) act of sexual intercourse between two people, following their marriage to each other. The definition of consummation usually refers to penile-vaginal sexual penetration, but some religious doctrines hold that there is an additional requirement that no contraception must be used. The religious, cultural, or legal significance of consummation may arise from theories of marriage as having the purpose of producing legally recognized descendants of the partners, or of providing sanction to their sexual acts together, or both, and its absence may amount to treating a marriage ''ceremony'' as falling short of ''completing'' the state of being married, or as creating a marriage which may later be repudiated. Thus in some legal systems a marriage may be annulled if it has not been consummated. Consummation is also relev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Island Of The Dead (2000 Film)
''Island of the Dead'' is a 2000 Canadian horror film written by Peter Koper and directed by Tim Southam. Malcolm McDowell stars with Talisa Soto and Bruce Ramsay. Plot The story centers around a group of people that arrive at Hart Island, which has recently been purchased by real estate tycoon Rupert King to build what he calls Hope City, supposedly to help the poor and homeless of the city. The only problem is that the City of New York has been burying their unknown and unclaimed dead there since 1869. The group of people include King along with his personal assistant, a New York cop looking for a missing girl's body, and some employees from the Department of Corrections with inmates used to bury the unknown dead. Initially, the personal assistant goes missing after being attacked by what appears to be a swarm of aggressive flies. Later, he's found dead and badly decomposed. Large maggots feed on the corpse. The flies continue to attack, picking off the party one by one. Whe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laura Cadieux II
''Laura Cadieux II'' (french: Laura Cadieux...la suite) is a Canadian comedy film, directed by Denise Filiatrault and released in 1999. A sequel to the 1998 film ''It's Your Turn, Laura Cadieux (C'est à ton tour, Laura Cadieux)'', the film placed the characters from the first film, which was a direct adaptation of the novel by Michel Tremblay, in an original story written entirely by Filiatrault. In the film, Laura Cadieux (Ginette Reno) and her friends are taking a cruise ship, cruise on the St. Lawrence River to celebrate Laura's 50th birthday."Laura takes a cruise: Cadieux, part deux, offers laughs, but lacks depth of original". ''Montreal Gazette'', December 3, 1999. Laura is trying to fend off the advances of the ship's captain (Michel Dumont); Alice Thibodeau (Sonia Vachon) is freely flirting with nearly all of the men on board while Albert (Martin Drainville) is struggling to make his own feelings for her known; Lucille Bolduc (Adèle Reinhardt) is unsuccessfully trying to c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
It's Your Turn, Laura Cadieux
''It's Your Turn, Laura Cadieux'' (french: C't'à ton tour, Laura Cadieux) is a Canadian comedy film, directed by Denise Filiatrault and released in 1998. The film was based on the comedic novel by Michel Tremblay. The film centers on a group of women in Montreal who meet once a week at a weight loss clinic."From coarse comedy to subliminal drama: Nowhere else in cinema has the subject of a woman's obesity been as well dramatized as it is here - and without any politically correct sermonizing". ''The Globe and Mail'', March 5, 1999. Led by the titular Laura Cadieux (Ginette Reno), the women exchange stories and jokes and gossip in the waiting room. The women include Mme Bolduc (Adèle Reinhardt), who also suffers from eczema; the clinically depressed Mme Gladu (Mireille Thibault); the pregnant Mme Tardif (Sophie Lorain); and Mme Brouillette (Denise Dubois), a comic book fanatic. Meanwhile Laura's best friend, Mme Therrien ( Pierrette Robitaille), spends the entire film running arou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Hanging Garden (film)
''The Hanging Garden'' is a British/Canadian drama film, written and directed by Thom Fitzgerald and released in 1997.Wyndham Wise"The Hanging Garden" ''The Canadian Encyclopedia'', October 8, 2009. Fitzgerald's feature debut, the film was shot in Nova Scotia. Plot The film's central character is Sweet William, played by Chris Leavins as an adult and Troy Veinotte as a teenager. Its plot hinges on a fateful incident from his teenage years, when his grandmother ( Joan Orenstein) caught him attempting to have sex with his bisexual friend Fletcher ( Joel Keller), involuntarily outing him to his dysfunctional family as gay. As a consequence of the ensuing rejection, particularly by his alcoholic father Whiskey Mac (Peter MacNeill), Sweet William faced the difficult decision of whether to run away to live in a big city far away from his family, or to commit suicide by hanging himself from a tree in the family garden. The film's themes about the duality of life and death, and the way ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louis 19, King Of The Airwaves
''Louis 19, King of the Airwaves'' (french: Louis 19, le roi des ondes) is a Canadian comedy film, released in April 1994. The film stars Martin Drainville as Louis Jobin, a television fanatic who wins a contest to be on television. Unbeknownst to him, however, his prize is to become a reality show: he is followed around by a cameraman 24 hours a day for three months, and when his life doesn't make for compelling viewing, the show's producers decide to manipulate his life to make the show more exciting. The film was directed by Michel Poulette, and written by Poulette, Sylvie Bouchard, Michel Michaud and Émile Gaudreault. It won the Golden Reel Award as the year's top-grossing film in Canada. Cast * Martin Drainville : Louis Jobin * Zenhu Han : Sam Ying * Chantal Fontaine : la reporter * Gilbert Lachance : Remi * Jean L'Italien : Roger * Dominique Michel : Aline Jobin * Alexandra Boulianne : une chanteuse de la chorale * Mireille Thibault : une chanteuse de la chorale * Sylvi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marie In The City
Marie in the City (french: Marie s'en va-t-en ville) is a Canadian drama film, directed by Marquise Lepage and released in 1987. The film stars Frédérique Collin as Sarah, a prostitute in Montreal who befriends Marie (Geneviève Lenoir), a runaway teenager. The film garnered four Genie Award nominations at the 9th Genie Awards in 1988: Best Actress (Collin), Best Director (Lepage), Best Art Direction or Production Design (François Séguin) and Best Costume Design (Nicole Pelletier)."Un Zoo tops Genie list; Quebec film nominated for record 14 awards". ''Montreal Gazette The ''Montreal Gazette'', formerly titled ''The Gazette'', is the only English-language daily newspaper published in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Three other daily English-language newspapers shuttered at various times during the second half of th ...'', February 17, 1988. References External links * 1987 films Canadian drama films 1980s French-language films Films directed by Marquise Lepage 1987 dram ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Choice Of A People
''The Choice of a People'' (french: Le Choix d'un peuple) is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Hugues Mignault and released in 1985.Bill Brownstein, "Movie gets at guts of referendum". ''Montreal Gazette'', August 31, 1985. The film recounts the events of the 1980 Quebec referendum, on both the Yes and No sides. The film premiered on August 30, 1985, at the Montreal World Film Festival. The film was a shortlisted Genie Award finalist for Best Documentary Film at the 7th Genie Awards in 1986.Sid Adilman, "Genie films are coming on strong". ''Toronto Star The ''Toronto Star'' is a Canadian English-language broadsheet daily newspaper. The newspaper is the country's largest daily newspaper by circulation. It is owned by Toronto Star Newspapers Limited, a subsidiary of Torstar Corporation and part ...'', February 14, 1986. References External links * 1985 films 1985 documentary films Canadian documentary films Documentary films about Quebec politics Quebec fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
