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Night Magic
''Night Magic'' is a 1985 Canadian-French musical film written by Leonard Cohen and Lewis Furey and directed by Furey. The film stars Nick Mancuso as Michael, a down on his luck musician whose fantasies begin to come true after he meets an angel (Judy, played by Carole Laure)."Angel Eyes heads for Cannes". ''The Globe and Mail'', March 23, 1985. The film's supporting cast includes Stéphane Audran, Jean Carmet, Frank Augustyn, Louis Robitaille, Anik Bissonnette, Nanette Workman and Barbara Eve Harris.Jay Scott, "'Ooh, that is wonderful, yes!'". ''The Globe and Mail'', May 17, 1985. The film was originally slated for release as ''Angel Eyes'', but reverted to its original working title ''Night Magic'' by the time of its premiere at the Cannes Film Festival on May 17, 1985. Most of the score is in Spenserian stanzas. Plot Michael is an unsuccessful musician and playwright, leading a troupe. One night he is visited by three "angels" who offer him three wishes. He chooses as his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lewis Furey
Lewis Furey, born Lewis Greenblatt (born 7 June 1949) is a Canadian composer, singer, violinist, pianist, actor and director. Career Born in Montreal, Quebec to French and American parents, Furey trained as a classical violinist, and at age 11 performed as a soloist in the ''Matinées pour la jeunesse'' concert series of the Montreal Symphony Orchestra. From 1961 to 1965 he studied at the Conservatoire de musique du Québec à Montréal. Brendan Kelly, ''Montreal Gazette'', 23 October 2016 He later studied at the in New York City. In 1972, he began playing and recording his own rock ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barbara Eve Harris
Barbara Eve Harris (born Barbara Evadney Reid-Hibbert; March 8, 1959) is a Tobagonian-Canadian actress, known for her supporting performances on television. She is best known for her role as FBI Agent Felicia Lang on ''Prison Break''. Life and career Harris was born in Tobago, to Jamaican parents, and immigrated with her family to Canada at the age of six. She has made over 60 television appearances and co-starred in a number of feature films. Harris starred in the Canadian drama series ''Side Effects'' from 1994 to 1996. For her performance on the show, she was nominated for the Gemini Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Continuing Leading Dramatic Role. On American television she guest-starred in ''Knots Landing'', ''Party of Five'', ''The West Wing'', ''The Practice'', ''CSI: Miami'', '' ER'', '' JAG'', '' Commander in Chief'', ''Private Practice'', '' Brothers & Sisters'', ''Criminal Minds'', '' NCIS'', ''Rizzoli & Isles'' and ''Revenge (TV series)''. She also app ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
François Séguin
François Séguin is a Canadian production designer, art director and set decorator. Recognition * 1986 Genie Award for Best Achievement in Art Direction - '' Night Magic'' - Nominated * 1987 Genie Award for Best Achievement in Art Direction/Production Design - ''Exit'' - Nominated * 1988 Genie Award for Best Achievement in Art Direction/Production Design - '' Marie in the City (Marie s'en va-t-en ville)'' - Nominated * 1990 Genie Award for Best Achievement in Art Direction/Production Design - ''Jesus of Montreal'' - Won * 1992 Genie Award for Best Achievement in Art Direction/Production Design - ''Being at Home with Claude'' - Nominated * 1992 Genie Award for Best Achievement in Art Direction/Production Design - ''Léolo'' - Nominated * 1992 Genie Award for Best Achievement in Art Direction/Production Design - '' La Sarrasine'' - Nominated * 1996 Gemini Award for Best Production Design or Art Direction - ''Million Dollar Babies'' - Nominated * 1999 Jutra Award for Best Art Dir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Academy Of Canadian Cinema And Television Award For Best Achievement In Art Direction/Production Design ...
The Canadian Screen Award for Best Achievement in Art Direction/Production Design is awarded by the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television to the best Canadian film art direction/production design. 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s See also *Prix Iris for Best Art Direction References {{Canadian Screen Awards Awards for best art direction Art direction Art director is the title for a variety of similar job functions in theater, advertising, marketing, publishing, fashion, film and television, the Internet, and video games. It is the charge of a sole art director to supervise and unify the visi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 of Torstar's Daily News Brands (Torstar), Daily News Brands division. The newspaper's offices are located at One Yonge Street in the Harbourfront, Toronto, Harbourfront neighbourhood of Toronto. The newspaper was established in 1892 as the ''Evening Star'' and was later renamed the ''Toronto Daily Star'' in 1900, under Joseph E. Atkinson. Atkinson was a major influence in shaping the editorial stance of the paper, with the paper having reflected his values until his death in 1948. The paper was renamed the ''Toronto Star'' in 1971. The newspaper introduced a Sunday edition in 1973. History The ''Star'' was created in 1892 by striking ''Toronto News'' printers and writers, led by future mayor of Toronto and social reformer Horatio Clarenc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
7th Genie Awards ...
The 7th Genie Awards were held March 20, 1986, at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre to honour achievements in Canadian film in 1985. The ceremony was co-hosted by Leslie Nielsen and Catherine Mary Stewart."Genie hosts announced". ''Toronto Star'', March 3, 1986. Nominees and winners References {{Canadian Screen Awards 07 Genie Genie Jinn ( ar, , ') – also romanized as djinn or anglicized as genies (with the broader meaning of spirit or demon, depending on sources) – are invisible creatures in early pre-Islamic Arabian religious systems and later in Islamic mytho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Genie Award
The Genie Awards were given out annually by the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television to recognize the best of Canadian cinema from 1980–2012. They succeeded the Canadian Film Awards (1949–1978; also known as the "Etrog Awards," for sculptor Sorel Etrog, who designed the statuette). Genie Award candidates were selected from submissions made by the owners of Canadian films or their representatives, based on the criteria laid out in the ''Genie Rules and Regulations'' booklet which is distributed to Academy members and industry members. Peer-group juries, assembled from volunteer members of the Academy, meet to screen the submissions and select a group of nominees. Academy members then vote on these nominations. In 2012, the Academy announced that the Genies would merge with its sister presentation for English-language television, the Gemini Awards, to form a new award presentation known as the Canadian Screen Awards. Broadcasting The Genie Awards were originally aire ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Future (Leonard Cohen Album)
''The Future'' is the ninth studio album by the Canadian singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen, released in 1992. Almost an hour in length, it was Cohen's longest album up to that date. Both the fall of the Berlin Wall and the 1992 Los Angeles riots took place while Cohen was writing and recording the album, which expressed his sense of the world's turbulence. The album was recorded with a large cast of musicians and engineers in several different studios; the credits list almost 30 female singers. The album built on the success of Cohen's previous album, ''I'm Your Man'', and garnered overwhelmingly positive reviews. ''The Future'' made the Top 40 in the UK album charts, went double platinum in Canada, and sold a quarter of a million copies in the U.S., which had previously been unenthusiastic about Cohen's albums. Background After touring successfully in support of his "comeback" album '' I'm Your Man'' (1988), Cohen took a year off to help his son Adam convalesce after a serious c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Various Positions
''Various Positions'' is the seventh studio album by Leonard Cohen, released in December 1984 (and February 1985). It marked not only his turn to the modern sound and use of synthesizers (particularly on the opening track), but also, after the harmonies and backing vocals from Jennifer Warnes on the previous ''Recent Songs'' (1979), an even greater contribution from Warnes, who is credited equally to Cohen as vocalist on all of the tracks. Background After recording ''Recent Songs'', Cohen did not record again for five years and published no new writing until ''Book of Mercy'' in 1984. Asked by ''Mojo (magazine), Mojo''s Sylvie Simmons about this period of inactivity in 2001, the singer replied, "My children were living in the South of France and I spent a lot of time visiting them. The pieces in ''Book of Mercy'' were coming and I was, slowly, writing the album that ended up as ''Various Positions''." Cohen did write and star in the 1983 made-for-TV musical ''I Am a Hotel'', w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karen Young (actress)
Karen Young (born September 29, 1958) is an American film, television, and stage actress. Early life and education Young was born in Pequannock Township, New Jersey on September 29, 1958. She graduated from Douglass Residential College at Rutgers University as an English major. Career After graduation, Young moved to New York City and became an actress. She was working as a waitress when she saw an advertisement in '' Backstage'' that read: "Wanted: 24-year-old Irish Catholic girl with long blond hair." Young responded to the ad and ended up starring in Tony Garnett's 1983 vigilante thriller '' Handgun'', for which she cut off her hair and in which she agreed to appear nude. She also appeared in films such as ''9½ Weeks'', ''Heat'' (1986), '' Jaws: The Revenge'', ''Night Game'', '' The Wife'', '' Daylight'' and ''Mercy''. Young has also portrayed Sister Mary in ''The Orphan Killer'' (2011), and starred in many U.S. independent and foreign films including ''Heading South'', ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aidan Devine
Aidan Devine is an English–Canadian film actor. He was born in England and immigrated with his family to Canada at the age of 15. He studied at Dawson College's Dome Theatre in Montreal, Quebec and began his acting career in Montreal. He would later relocate to Toronto, Ontario. His 1993 breakout role came in Denys Arcand's, ''Love and Human Remains''. Since then he has worked steadily in Canadian and American television and cinema capturing two Gemini Awards; a best actor award in 1997 for his performance as Ted Lindsay in '' Net Worth'' and in 1998, a best supporting actor Gemini for his performance as airframe engineer, Jim Chamberlin in '' The Arrow''. He has been nominated three other times. Filmography Feature films * 1985 '' Night Magic'' * 1986 '' The Boy in Blue'' * 1986 ''And Then You Die'' * 1988 ''The Jeweller's Shop'' * 1988 '' Criminal Law'' * 1990 ''A Touch of Murder'' * 1990 '' Falling Over Backwards'' * 1993 '' Love & Human Remains'' * 1997 ''Joe's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Don Alias
Charles "Don" Alias (December 25, 1939 in New York City – March 28, 2006 in New York City) was an American jazz percussionist. Alias was best known for playing congas and other hand drums. He was, however, a capable drum kit performer: for example, Alias played drums on the song "Miles Runs the Voodoo Down" from trumpeter Miles Davis's album '' Bitches Brew'' (1969) when neither Lenny White nor Jack DeJohnette was able to play the marching band-inspired rhythm requested by Davis.see the notes for ''The Complete Bitches Brew Sessions'' (1998) Alias performed on hundreds of recordings and was perhaps best known for his associations with Miles Davis and saxophonist David Sanborn, though he also performed or recorded with the group Weather Report, singer Joni Mitchell, pianist Herbie Hancock, the Brecker Brothers, Jaco Pastorius, Pat Metheny, Nina Simone and many others. Alias was born in New York City and arrived in Boston in the early 1960s intending to study medicine but, afte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
