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Lions For Breakfast
''Lions for Breakfast'' is a Canadian family drama film, directed by William Davidson and released in 1975.Bryan Johnson, "Heartwarming drama comes up cold". ''The Globe and Mail'', November 25, 1975. The film centres on two brothers, 22-year old Trick ( Jim Henshaw) and ten-year-old Zanny (Danny Forbes), who are on a bus trip to find a new place to live after the death of their parents.Stephen Chesley, "William Davidson's Lions for Breakfast". '' Cinema Canada'', December 1975/January 1976 (Number 24). pp. 45-46. The supporting cast includes Jan Rubeš as Ivan, an older drifter the brothers connect with on the trip; Susan Petrie as Jenny, a young woman who becomes a love interest for Trick; and Paul Bradley as Charlie, a garage attendant. The film premiered on May 7, 1975 at the Guelph Spring Festival. It was a Canadian Film Award nominee for Best Picture at the 26th Canadian Film Awards, but did not win. It won the Canadian Film Award for Best Musical Score. Wyndham Wise, ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anthony Kramreither
Anthony Kramreither (August 7, 1926 – February 8, 1993) was an Austrian-Canadian film and television actor and producer."OBITUARY: Anthony Kramreither Toronto film producer". ''The Globe and Mail'', February 12, 1993. Primarily known as a producer of low-budget horror and exploitation films such as '' Thrillkill'', ''The Giant Spider Invasion'' and '' Humongous'',"Low-budget film-maker a dark horse". ''Toronto Star'', August 31, 1986. he was most noted as producer of the 1986 film '' Dancing in the Dark'', which was a Genie Award nominee for Best Picture at the 8th Genie Awards in 1987."Arcand's Decline tops Genie nominations with 13". ''The Globe and Mail'', February 5, 1987. Originally from Vienna, Kramreither was a stage actor in Austria and Germany before moving to Canada in 1954. In Canada, he had television acting roles in series such as ''Wojeck'', ''Quentin Durgens, M.P.'', '' R.C.M.P.'', ''Adventures in Rainbow Country'' and '' Seaway'', and films such as ''Change of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
University Of Toronto Press
The University of Toronto Press is a Canadian university press founded in 1901. Although it was founded in 1901, the press did not actually publish any books until 1911. The press originally printed only examination books and the university calendar. Its first scholarly book was a work by a classics professor at University College, Toronto. The press took control of the university bookstore in 1933. It employed a novel typesetting method to print issues of the ''Canadian Journal of Mathematics'', founded in 1949. Sidney Earle Smith, president of the University of Toronto in the late 1940s and 1950s, instituted a new governance arrangement for the press modelled on the governing structure of the university as a whole (on the standard Canadian university governance model defined by the Flavelle commission). Henceforth, the press's business affairs and editorial decision-making would be governed by separate committees, the latter by academic faculty. A committee composed of Vincent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
English-language Canadian Films
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Canadian Children's Drama Films
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1975 Drama Films
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1975 Films
The year 1975 in film involved some significant events. Highest-grossing films North America The top ten 1975 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows: International The highest-grossing 1975 films in countries outside of North America. Worldwide gross The following table lists known worldwide gross figures for several high-grossing films that originally released in 1975. Note that this list is incomplete and is therefore not representative of the highest-grossing films worldwide in 1975. This list also includes gross revenue from later re-releases. Events *March 26: The film version of The Who's ''Tommy'' premieres in London. *May: In order to create the necessary special effects for his film, ''Star Wars'', George Lucas forms Industrial Light and Magic. *June 20: ''Jaws'' is released and becomes the highest-grossing movie of all-time and the highest-grossing movie of the year and the first movie to earn $100 million in US and Canadian theatr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Regina Leader-Post
The ''Regina Leader-Post'' is the daily newspaper of Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, and a member of the Postmedia Network. Founding The newspaper was first published as ''The Leader'' in 1883 by Nicholas Flood Davin, soon after Edgar Dewdney, Lieutenant-Governor of the North-West Territories, decided to name the vacant and featureless site of Pile-O-Bones, renamed Regina by Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll, the wife of the Governor General of Canada, as territorial capital, rather than the previously-established Battleford, Troy and Fort Qu'Appelle, presumably because he had acquired ample land on the site for resale. "A group of prominent citizens approached lawyer Nicholas Flood Davin soon after his arrival in Regina and urged him to set up a newspaper. Davin accepted their offerand their $5000 in seed money. The Regina Leader printed its first edition on March 1, 1883." Published weekly by the mercurial Davin, it almost immediately achieved national prominence during the No ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CBC Film Festival
''CBC Film Festival'' is a Canadian feature film television series which aired on CBC Television from 1979 to 1980."Award-winning drama, One Night Stand on CBC Film Festival" '''', 19 July 1979. Premise Feature films, nearly all Canadian, were featured in this series. In the initial 1979 season, the remainder of the time slot after a film sometimes featured interviews with non-Canadian directors John Cromwell, George Cukor, ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CBC Television
CBC Television (also known as CBC TV) is a Canadian English-language broadcast television network owned by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the national public broadcaster. The network began operations on September 6, 1952. Its French-language counterpart is Ici Radio-Canada Télé. With main studios at the Canadian Broadcasting Centre in Toronto, CBC Television is available throughout Canada on over-the-air television stations in urban centres, and as a must-carry station on cable and satellite television providers. CBC Television can also be live streamed on its CBC Gem video platform. Almost all of the CBC's programming is produced in Canada. Although CBC Television is supported by public funding, commercial advertising revenue supplements the network, in contrast to CBC Radio and public broadcasters from several other countries, which are commercial-free. Overview CBC Television provides a complete 24-hour network schedule of news, sports, entertainment and child ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wyndham Wise
Wyndham Paul Wise is a Canadian film historian, critic, editor and publisher. He was the founder and editor-in-chief of the film magazine '' Take One: Film & Television in Canada'' (1992-2006). Career Born in London, England, Wyndham Wise was raised in Don Mills, a suburb of Toronto. He has a M.A. from the Graduate School of Drama, University of Toronto, and a Master of Fine Arts from the Graduate Programme in Film and Video, York University. On stage as a child with the Don Mills Players, he was the first film contributor to the monthly city listings in ''Toronto Life'' magazine (1972–74). During the mid-1970s, Wise was part of the nascent Toronto underground theatre scene, producing ''Shop-Talk'' ( Toronto Free Theatre, 1976), ''Spinning'' ( CEAC and P.S. 1. NYC, 1977) and ''Con/Notes'' (produced by Theatre Passe Muraille at CEAC, 1977) with Richard Shoichet. He was cameraman and editor on several installations by the noted Canadian artist Noel Harding, and he also produced ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jim Henshaw
Jim Henshaw (born September 28, 1949) is a Canadian actor, screenwriter and film and television producer. Early life and education Henshaw was born in Bassano, Alberta, Canada. He graduated from the University of Saskatchewan. Career A mainstay of the Canadian theatre scene during the 1970s, he appeared in more than 50 productions of new Canadian plays, including the first performances of several works by playwright George F. Walker. His film career included such films as ''The Last Detail'', '' Monkeys in the Attic'', ''Lions for Breakfast'', ''The Supreme Kid'' and '' A Sweeter Song'' for which he also wrote the screenplay. Henshaw was the voice of Daniel Mouse and Beaver Drummer in the 1978 animated film ''The Devil and Daniel Mouse'', a television special created by Nelvana Productions, the Canadian animation company that worked on various television specials during this time from 1977 to 1980. In the field of animation, he is best known for playing Bright Heart Raccoon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
26th Canadian Film Awards
The 27th Canadian Film Awards were held on October 12, 1975 to honour achievements in Canadian film.Maria Topalovich, ''And the Genie Goes To...: Celebrating 50 Years of the Canadian Film Awards''. Stoddart Publishing, 2000. . pp. 111-114. The ceremony was hosted by Peter Gzowski. Due to the Quebec boycott crisis which protested the treatment of films from Quebec at the 25th Canadian Film Awards in 1973, and the resulting cancellation of the awards in 1974, the 1975 awards covered films released in both 1974 and 1975. Accordingly, the Canadian Film Awards committee revived the Film of the Year category, which had not been used since 1970, so that it could name separate Best Picture winners for both 1974 and 1975. In all other categories, however, separate winners were not named for the two years. Winners Films *Film of the Year (1974): '' The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz'' — John Kemeny *Film of the Year (1975): ''Orders (Les Ordres)'' — Gui Caron, Bernard Lalonde *Fea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
