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Marthe Blackburn
Marthe Blackburn, née Morisset (1916 - 1991) was a Canadian screenwriter from Quebec. A television writer for Radio-Canada and later a film writer for the National Film Board of Canada, she was most noted for her collaborations with director Anne Claire Poirier. Blackburn and Poirier were Genie Award nominees for Best Original Screenplay at the 1st Genie Awards in 1980 for '' A Scream from Silence (Mourir à tue-tête)''. She was the author of "Le retour de l’âge", a short theatrical piece which was part of the collaborative feminist theatre work ''La nef des sorcières'' alongside pieces by Luce Guilbeault, France Théoret, Odette Gagnon, Marie-Claire Blais, Pol Pelletier and Nicole Brossard. She was one of the co-directors of the documentary film ''À qui appartient ce gage?'', and had a small acting role in the 1980 film '' Cordélia''. She was married to composer Maurice Blackburn, with whom she collaborated on the libretto for his opera ''Une mesure de silence'', and was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canadians
Canadians (french: Canadiens) are people identified with the country of Canada. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural. For most Canadians, many (or all) of these connections exist and are collectively the source of their being ''Canadian''. Canada is a multilingual and Multiculturalism, multicultural society home to people of groups of many different ethnic, religious, and national origins, with the majority of the population made up of Old World Immigration to Canada, immigrants and their descendants. Following the initial period of New France, French and then the much larger British colonization of the Americas, British colonization, different waves (or peaks) of immigration and settlement of non-indigenous peoples took place over the course of nearly two centuries and continue today. Elements of Indigenous, French, British, and more recent immigrant customs, languages, and religions have combined to form the culture of Canada, and thus a Canadian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cordélia (film)
''Cordélia'' is a 1980 Canadian French language film directed and written by Jean Beaudin.Gerald Pratley, ''A Century of Canadian Cinema''. Lynx Images, 2003. . p. 48. It is an adapation of the novel ''La lampe dans la fenêtre'' by Pauline Cadieux, itself based on the real-life 1890s murder trial of Cordélia Viau and Samuel Parslow. Plot Set in a village in the 1890s, the film centres on Cordélia Viau (Louise Portal), a woman who invites men into her home while her husband is away. This action offends the conservative villagers. One of the men who was invited in is found dead and the woman is suspected and judged for her immoral act rather than the crime of murder she may have committed. Cast Critical response Mark Leslie of ''Cinema Canada'' favourably reviewed the film, writing that "Like Beaudin's last feature, '' J.A. Martin photographe'', ''Cordelia'' is also a sumptuous period piece of pastel colours, soft, expressive lighting and glimpses of a visually beautiful ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1991 Deaths
File:1991 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Boris Yeltsin, 1991 Russian presidential election, elected as Russia's first President of Russia, president, waves the new flag of Russia after the 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt, orchestrated by Soviet Union, Soviet hardliners; Mount Pinatubo 1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo, erupts in the Philippines, making it the List of large historical volcanic eruptions, second-largest Types of volcanic eruptions, volcanic eruption of the 20th century; MTS Oceanos sinks off the coast of South Africa, but the crew notoriously abandons the vessel before the passengers are rescued; Dissolution of the Soviet Union: The Flag of the Soviet Union, Soviet flag is lowered from the Kremlin for the last time and replaced with the flag of the Russian Federation; The United States and soon-to-be dissolved Soviet Union sign the START I Treaty; A tropical cyclone 1991 Bangladesh cyclone, strikes Bangladesh, killing nearly 140,000 people; Lauda Air Flight ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1916 Births
Events Below, the events of the First World War have the "WWI" prefix. January * January 1 – The British Empire, British Royal Army Medical Corps carries out the first successful blood transfusion, using blood that had been stored and cooled. * January 9 – WWI: Gallipoli Campaign: The last British troops are evacuated from Gallipoli, as the Ottoman Empire prevails over a joint British and French operation to capture Constantinople. * January 10 – WWI: Erzurum Offensive: Russia defeats the Ottoman Empire. * January 12 – The Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony, part of the British Empire, is established in present-day Tuvalu and Kiribati. * January 13 – WWI: Battle of Wadi (1916), Battle of Wadi: Ottoman Empire forces defeat the British, during the Mesopotamian campaign in modern-day Iraq. * January 29 – WWI: Paris is bombed by German Empire, German zeppelins. * January 31 – WWI: An attack is planned on Verdun, France. February * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Salut Victor
''Salut Victor'' is a Canadian film, released in 1989. Based on Edward O. Phillips's short story "Matthew and Chauncy", the film was directed by Anne Claire Poirier and written by Poirier and Marthe Blackburn. The film stars Jean-Louis Roux as Philippe and Jacques Godin as Victor, two older men living in a retirement home who fall in love; prior to moving into the home, Victor was openly gay while Philippe was closeted, in the closet about his own repressed homosexuality. The film was produced for the National Film Board."People to people; The first Halifax Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual Video, Film Festival opens on Friday". ''Halifax Daily News'', June 17, 1992. Cast * Jean Besré * Muriel Dutil * Jacques Godin as Victor Laprade * Juliette Huot * Marthe Nadeau * Huguette Oligny * Jean-Louis Roux as Philippe Lanctot * Julie Vincent See also * List of LGBT films directed by women References External links * 1989 films Canadian drama films Canadian LGBT-related films ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jovette Marchessault
Jovette Marchessault () (February 9, 1938 – December 31, 2012)"Jovette Marchessault, écrivaine et artiste, est décédée à l'âge de 74 ans" '''', January 2, 2013. was a Canadian writer and artist from , who worked in a variety of literary and artistic domains including novels, |
Louky Bersianik
Louky Bersianik (14 November 1930 – 3 December 2011) was the pen name of Lucile Durand, a French-Canadian novelist. She studied French literature at the Université de Montréal, the Sorbonne, and the Centre d'études de radio et de télévision. The first section of the film ''Firewords/Les terribles vivantes'' (Dorothy Todd Hénault, 1986) is dedicated to interviews with Bersianik and dramatized excerpts from ''L'euguélionne''. Awards *1966 - Prix de la Province, for ''Togo apprenti-remorqueur'' *1997 - Prix du Gouverneur général Works * ''L'Euguélionne: roman triptyque'', La Presse, 1976, **''The Euguélionne: a triptych novel'', Press Porcépic, 1981, ; Translator Howard Scott, Alter Ego Editions, 1996, * ''Le pique-nique sur l'Acropole'', VLB éditeur, 1979 * ''La page de garde'', Editions de la Maison, 1978 *'' Maternative: les pré-Ancyl'', VLB Éditeur, 1980 *''Au beau milieu de moi: photographies de Kero'', Nouvelle Optique, 1983 *'' Axes et eau: poems'', VLB ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beyond Forty
''Beyond Forty'' (french: La Quarantaine) is a Canadian drama film, directed by Anne Claire Poirier and released in 1982."Quarantaine, La – Film d’Anne Claire Poirier" ''Films du Québec'', March 21, 2009. The film centres on a group of childhood friends reuniting as adults in their 40s, and has been compared by critics to the 1983 film '' The Big Chill''. The film's cast includes , Louise Rémy, Pierre Thériault, |
Before The Time Comes
''Before the Time Comes'' (french: Le Temps de l'avant) is a Canadian drama film, directed by Anne Claire Poirier and released in 1975.Charles-Henri Ramond"Temps de l’avant, Le – Film de Anne Claire Poirier" ''Films du Québec'', April 27, 2009. The film stars Luce Guilbeault as Hélène, a housewife and mother who is raising her three children largely on her own without much help from her itinerant sailor husband Gabriel (Pierre Gobeil); when she becomes pregnant for a fourth time, she struggles both with her conscience and the opinions of her husband and her sister Monique ( Paule Baillargeon) as she considers whether or not to have an abortion.Gerald Pratley, ''A Century of Canadian Cinema''. Lynx Images, 2003. . p. 23. It was the first Canadian film ever to address the subject of abortion. The film opened in Quebec theatres in 1975, and was subsequently screened in the International Critics' Week program at the 1976 Cannes Film Festival The 29th Cannes Film Festival was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Esther Rochon
Esther Rochon (née Blackburn) (born 27 June 1948) is a Canadian science fiction writer. Born in Quebec City, Quebec, the daughter of screenwriter Marthe Blackburn and composer Maurice Blackburn, at the age of 16 she won the Governor General First Prize for a short story in the Young Author's contest of Radio Canada. Rochon studied Mathematics at the Université de Montréal. She has won the Quebec Science Fiction Fantasy Grand Prix four times. Selected bibliography *''En hommage aux araignées'' — 1974 *''L'épuisement du soleil'' — 1985 *''Coquillage'' — 1987 (translated as ''The Shell'', 1990) *''L'espace du diamant'' — 1991 References * W. H. New William Herbert New (born March 28, 1938) is a Canadian poet and literary critic. Born in Vancouver, British Columbia, he was educated at John Oliver Secondary School, where he received one of the top matriculation exam scores in British Columbi ..., ed. ''Encyclopedia of Literature in Canada''. Toronto: University of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
