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List Of Canadian Films Of 2006
This is a list of Canadian films which were released in 2006: See also * 2006 in Canada * 2006 in Canadian television External linksFeature Films Released In 2006 With Country of Origin Canadaat IMDbCanada's Top Ten for 2006(list of top ten Canadian feature films, selected in a process administered by TIFF) * List of 2006 box office number-one films in Canada {{Incomplete list, date=February 2012 2006 2006 in Canadian cinema Canada Canada is a country in North America. Its ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and northward into the Arctic Ocean, covering over , making it the world's second-largest country by tot ... * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cinema Of Canada
Cinema in Canada dates back to the earliest known display of film in Saint-Laurent, Quebec, in 1896. The film industry in Canada has been dominated by the United States, which has utilized Canada as a shooting location and to bypass British film quota laws, throughout its history. Canadian filmmakers, English and French, have been active in the development of cinema in the United States. Films by Thomas A. Edison, Inc. were some of the first to arrive in Canada and early films made in the country were produced by Edison Studios. Canadian Pacific Railway and other railways supported early filmmaking including James Freer, whose '' Ten Years in Manitoba'' was the first known film by a Canadian. ''Evangeline'' is the earliest recorded Canadian feature film. George Brownridge and Ernest Shipman were major figures in Canadian cinema in the 1920s and 1930s. Shipman oversaw the production the most expensive film up to that point. Brownridge's career led to '' Carry on, Sergeant!'' an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Away From Her
''Away from Her'' is a 2006 Canadian independent drama film written and directed by Sarah Polley and starring Julie Christie and Gordon Pinsent. Olympia Dukakis, Michael Murphy, Wendy Crewson, Alberta Watson, and Kristen Thomson are featured in supporting roles. The feature film directorial debut of Polley, it is based on Alice Munro's short story "The Bear Came Over the Mountain", from the 2001 collection ''Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage''. The story centers on a couple whose marriage is tested when the wife begins to develop Alzheimer's and moves into a nursing home, where she loses virtually all memory of her husband and begins to develop a close relationship with another nursing home resident. ''Away from Her'' premiered at the 2006 Toronto International Film Festival, Sundance Film Festival and the Berlin International Film Festival. It was theatrically released on May 4, 2007, and garnered critical acclaim, with critics praising Christie's performance and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caroline Dhavernas
Caroline Dhavernas (; born May 15, 1978) is a Canadian actress. She is best known in the United States for her collaborations with Bryan Fuller. She played Jaye Tyler in the Fox comedy-drama series ''Wonderfalls'', and Alana Bloom in the NBC psychological horror drama series ''Hannibal''. She also starred as Lily Brenner in the ABC medical drama '' Off the Map''. From 2017 to 2019, she portrayed the titular character in the Canada-produced and Canadian- and American-distributed medical drama-black comedy '' Mary Kills People''. Early life Dhavernas was born in Montreal, Quebec, the daughter of the Québécois actors Sébastien Dhavernas and Michèle Deslauriers. Her sister Gabrielle Dhavernas is also an actress and specializes in dubbing. The voice timbre of both actresses is very similar, enabling Gabrielle to dub the voice of Caroline. She learned English at a very young age, as her parents sent her to an English-speaking elementary school called The Priory School. Career ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carole Laure
Carole Laure O.C. (born August 5, 1948) is an actress and singer from Quebec, Canada. Career Throughout most of her career, Carole Laure primarily collaborated with Anglophone singer, songwriter, producer, and director Lewis Furey, whom she met in 1977 and who later became her husband. Laure was appointed an Officer of the Order of Canada in 2013, "For her international career as an actress, singer, director and dancer." Singing career Laure debuted as a singer on the album ''Alibis'' in 1978. In 1989, she devoted an acoustic-oriented bilingual album, ''Western Shadows'', to country and western standards. The album featured cover versions of Tammy Wynette's " Stand by Your Man", Phil Spector's "To Know Him Is to Love Him", Rosanne Cash's "Seven Year Ache", and Leonard Cohen's "Coming Back to You". The video for "Danse avant de tomber" (a cover of Boris Bergman's French adaptation of Doc Pomus' "Save the Last Dance for Me") featured dancer Louise Lecavalier of the internation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karim Hussain
Karim Hussain (Ottawa, born July 16, 1975) is a Canadian filmmaker and cinematographer. As a director he is best known for his 2000 film ''Subconscious Cruelty'', and as co-writer of Nacho Cerdà's '' The Abandoned''. In 2006, he adapted French-Canadian writer Marie-Claire Blais' work, '' La Belle Bête''. For it, he won the Director's Award at the Boston Underground Film Festival The Boston Underground Film Festival (BUFF) is an annual event held in the Boston area that specializes in alternative film and video. BUFF is the largest underground film festival in New England, spotlighting short films and feature-length films .... As a cinematographer his best known work is Brandon Cronenberg's Possessor, Jason Eisener's Hobo With A Shotgun, Brandon Cronenberg's Antiviral and many others. He is a full member of the Canadian Society Of Cinematographers. Filmography Films Short films References External links * Canadian screenwriters Living people 1974 births Place of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Beautiful Beast
''The Beautiful Beast'' (french: La Belle bête) is a Canadian drama film, directed by Karim Hussain and released in 2006. An adaptation of Marie-Claire Blais's 1959 novel '' Mad Shadows (La Belle bête)'', the film centres on a dysfunctional family headed by single mother Louise (Carole Laure), who has an abusive relationship with her children Patrice (Marc-André Grondin) and Isabelle-Marie (Caroline Dhavernas). The cast also includes David La Haye, Sébastien Huberdeau, Ludivine Reding, Normand Lévesque, Nicolas Girard Deltruc and Richard Tassé. The film premiered on October 11, 2006 at the Sitges Film Festival, before going into general release in Quebec on November 3. Patrick Watson and Dhavernas received a Genie Award nomination for Best Original Song at the 27th Genie Awards The 27th Genie Awards were held on February 13, 2007 to honour films released in 2006. The ceremony was located at the Carlu theatre in Toronto. '' The Rocket (Maurice Richard)'' was the most ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United States
The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It consists of 50 states, a federal district, five major unincorporated territories, nine Minor Outlying Islands, and 326 Indian reservations. The United States is also in free association with three Pacific Island sovereign states: the Federated States of Micronesia, the Marshall Islands, and the Republic of Palau. It is the world's third-largest country by both land and total area. It shares land borders with Canada to its north and with Mexico to its south and has maritime borders with the Bahamas, Cuba, Russia, and other nations. With a population of over 333 million, it is the most populous country in the Americas and the third most populous in the world. The national capital of the United States is Washington, D.C. and its most populous city and principal financial center is New York City. Paleo-Americ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alice Munro
Alice Ann Munro (; ; born 10 July 1931) is a Canadian short story writer who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2013. Munro's work has been described as revolutionizing the architecture of short stories, especially in its tendency to move forward and backward in time. Her stories have been said to "embed more than announce, reveal more than parade." Munro's fiction is most often set in her native Huron County in southwestern Ontario. Her stories explore human complexities in an uncomplicated prose style. Munro's writing has established her as "one of our greatest contemporary writers of fiction", or, as Cynthia Ozick put it, "our Chekhov." Munro has received many literary accolades, including the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature for her work as "master of the contemporary short story", and the 2009 Man Booker International Prize for her lifetime body of work. She is also a three-time winner of Canada's Governor General's Award for fiction, and received the Writers' Trust of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alzheimer
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disease that usually starts slowly and progressively worsens. It is the cause of 60–70% of cases of dementia. The most common early symptom is difficulty in remembering recent events. As the disease advances, symptoms can include problems with language, disorientation (including easily getting lost), mood swings, loss of motivation, self-neglect, and behavioral issues. As a person's condition declines, they often withdraw from family and society. Gradually, bodily functions are lost, ultimately leading to death. Although the speed of progression can vary, the typical life expectancy following diagnosis is three to nine years. The cause of Alzheimer's disease is poorly understood. There are many environmental and genetic risk factors associated with its development. The strongest genetic risk factor is from an allele of APOE. Other risk factors include a history of head injury, clinical depression, and high blood press ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kristen Thomson
Kristen Thomson (born 1966) is a Canadian actress and playwright. Thomson was born in Toronto, Ontario. She is known for her one-woman play ''I, Claudia'', which was adapted to film in 2004. In that play and film, Thomson plays all of the roles, using masks to change character. Thomson received her undergraduate training and University of Toronto's theatre school "University College Drama Program" currently under the tutelage of former Artistic Director of Factory Theatre's Ken Gass. In 2003, Thomson won an ACTRA Award for her performance in ''I Shout Love'' (2001), a short film directed by Sarah Polley. She has also won three Dora Awards for her stage work. Her most recent win was for the Genie Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in the movie ''Away From Her ''Away from Her'' is a 2006 Canadian independent drama film written and directed by Sarah Polley and starring Julie Christie and Gordon Pinsent. Olympia Dukakis, Michael Murphy, Wendy Crewson, Al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Murphy (actor)
Michael George Murphy (born May 5, 1938) is an American film, television and stage actor. He often plays unethical or morally ambiguous characters in positions of authority, including politicians, executives, and lawyers. He is also known for his frequent collaborations with director Robert Altman, having appeared in twelve films, TV series and miniseries directed by Altman from 1963 to 2004, including the title role in the miniseries ''Tanner '88''. He had roles in the films ''Manhattan'', ''An Unmarried Woman'', ''Nashville'', '' The Year of Living Dangerously'', '' Phase IV'', ''The Front'', '' Shocker'', ''Magnolia'', ''M*A*S*H'' and ''Batman Returns'', among others. Early life Murphy was born in Los Angeles, California, the son of Georgia Arlyn (née Money), a teacher, and Bearl Branton Murphy, a salesman. After serving in the United States Marine Corps, Murphy attended the University of Arizona and the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA). He taught English and d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olympia Dukakis
Olympia Dukakis (June 20, 1931 – May 1, 2021) was an American actress. She performed in more than 130 stage productions, more than 60 films and in 50 television series. Best known as a screen actress, she started her career in theater. Not long after her arrival in New York City, she won an Obie Award for Best Actress in 1963 for her off-Broadway performance in Bertolt Brecht's ''Man Equals Man''. She later moved to film acting and won an Academy Award and a Golden Globe, among other accolades, for her performance in ''Moonstruck'' (1987). She received another Golden Globe nomination for ''Sinatra'' (1992) and Emmy Award nominations for ''Lucky Day'' (1991), '' More Tales of the City'' (1998) and ''Joan of Arc'' (1999). Dukakis's autobiography, ''Ask Me Again Tomorrow: A Life in Progress'', was published in 2003. In 2018, a feature-length documentary about her life, titled ''Olympia'', was released theatrically in the United States. Early life and education Olympia Dukakis ( e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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