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Richard Comeau
Richard Comeau (born 1960) is a Canadian film editor. He won the Genie Award for Best Editing two years in a row, for '' The Necessities of Life'' in 2008 and '' Polytechnique'' in 2009. He also won the Jutra Award The Prix Iris is a Canadian film award, presented annually by Québec Cinéma, which recognizes talent and achievement in the mainly francophone feature film industry in Quebec.Gabrielle'' (2013) and was nominated for '' My Internship in Canada'' in 2016. Filmography His films include:Awards and nominations References External links |
Film Editor
Film editing is both a creative and a technical part of the post-production process of filmmaking. The term is derived from the traditional process of working with film which increasingly involves the use of digital technology. The film editor works with raw footage, selecting shots and combining them into sequences which create a finished motion picture. Film editing is described as an art or skill, the only art that is unique to cinema, separating filmmaking from other art forms that preceded it, although there are close parallels to the editing process in other art forms such as poetry and novel writing. Film editing is often referred to as the "invisible art" because when it is well-practiced, the viewer can become so engaged that they are not aware of the editor's work. On its most fundamental level, film editing is the art, technique and practice of assembling shots into a coherent sequence. The job of an editor is not simply to mechanically put pieces of a film togeth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maelström (film)
''Maelström'' is a 2000 Canadian psychological drama film written and directed by Denis Villeneuve. It stars Marie-Josée Croze as a depressed young businesswoman who becomes romantically involved with the son of a man she killed in a hit-and-run accident. Employing fantasy and comedic elements, ''Maelström'' is narrated by a talking fish. Villeneuve conceived of the story, basing it on his interest in car accidents and modelling the protagonist after various women he knew. He cast Croze, then a novice actress, in the lead role. Filming took place in Montreal in 1999, with animatronics to depict the fish narrator. The film premiered at the Montréal World Film Festival in August 2000 and received positive reviews, with some detractors. It won five Genie Awards, including Best Motion Picture, and the FIPRESCI Prize at the 51st Berlin International Film Festival. Plot While being gutted alive by a fishmonger, a dying fish chooses to share a story that took place in Quebec dur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Vinland Club
''The Vinland Club'' (french: Le Club Vinland) is a Canadian drama film that was directed by Benoît Pilon and released in 2020. The film stars Sébastien Ricard as Frère Jean, a priest teaching at a private Roman Catholic school in the Charlevoix region of Quebec in the 1940s who enlists his students in a project to locate archaeological evidence of the ancient Norse settlement of Vinland. The film's cast also includes Rémy Girard, François Papineau, Fabien Cloutier, Arnaud Vachon, Xavier Huard, Émilie Bibeau, Guy Thauvette, Guy Sprung, and Émile Schneider. The film was originally slated for release on April 17, 2020,Charles-Henri Ramond"Le Club Vinland à l’affiche le 17 avril 2020" ''Films du Québec'', December 6, 2019. but that was delayed by the shutdown of movie theatres in light of the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada. The film had its world premiere at the Beijing International Film Festival in August 2020 and had its North American premiere later that year at the A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
And The Birds Rained Down
''And the Birds Rained Down'' (french: Il pleuvait des oiseaux) is a 2019 Canadian drama film, directed by Louise Archambault. An adaptation of the novel by Jocelyne Saucier, the film centres on a group of senior citizens living off-the-grid in a wilderness setting, whose orderly and quiet lives are threatened by changes in their personal group dynamics after the death of the group leader and the arrival of a new outsider. The film's cast includes Rémy Girard, Gilbert Sicotte, Andrée Lachapelle, Ève Landry, Louise Portal, Éric Robidoux, Marie-Ginette Guay and Kenneth Welsh. It was Lachapelle's final film role before her death, and one of the last film roles for Welsh before his. Premise Ted (Welsh), Charlie (Sicotte) and Tom (Girard) are three elderly men who have withdrawn from society, and are living off-the-grid at a wilderness cabin. Their only connection to the outside world is Steve (Éric Robidoux), the manager of a hotel in the nearby town who visits weekly to bring ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eye On Juliet
''Eye on Juliet'' is a Canadian drama film, directed by Kim Nguyen and released in 2017."TIFF 2017: Nguyen, Obomsawin, Côté lead Quebec contingent" '''', August 9, 2017. The film had its world premiere in the Venice Days program of the , and its North American premiere at the |
Two Lovers And A Bear
''Two Lovers and a Bear'' is a 2016 Canadian drama film written and directed by Kim Nguyen and starring Tatiana Maslany and Dane DeHaan. It was screened in the Directors' Fortnight section at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival. The film was released on 7 October 2016, by Entertainment One. It is Gordon Pinsent's final feature film. Plot The film follows the lives of Roman and Lucy, two people living difficult lives in a small, frozen town of Apex, Nunavut, Canada. They are in love, but Lucy tells Roman that she must leave as a stalker has followed her. Roman tells her that he cannot leave and go south again, because of dark things in his own past. He tries to get her to go without him, and is even pushed to the brink of suicide. Eventually, he knows that he must go with her. Roman can talk to bears which only he, it seems, can hear talking back, and a polar bear who talks to him about life makes several appearances in the story. On their snowmobile journey south, they are warned o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Good Lie
''The Good Lie'' is a 2014 American drama film written by Margaret Nagle and directed by Philippe Falardeau. The film stars Reese Witherspoon in the title role, Arnold Oceng, Ger Duany, Emmanuel Jal, and Corey Stoll. ''The Good Lie'' was screened in the Special Presentations section of the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival before being released on October 3, 2014. Another major screening was held by the Greenwich International Film Festival on October 22, 2014, for the benefit of the U.S. Fund for UNICEF. Plot During the Second Sudanese Civil War, siblings Mamere, Paul, Jeremiah, Theo, Daniel, and Abital escape after their families and village are massacred. After numerous days of walking in the wilderness, they join a group of refugees but have to leave after they are caught by enemy soldiers and many people are killed. After sleeping in the grassland, Mamere wakes up and spots two enemy soldiers approaching them. Theo hides the rest of the siblings in the grass and l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
War Witch
''War Witch'' (french: Rebelle) is a 2012 Canadian dramatic war film written and directed by Kim Nguyen and starring Rachel Mwanza, Alain Lino Mic Eli Bastien and Serge Kanyinda. It is about a child soldier forced into a civil war in Africa, and who is believed to be a witch. The film was primarily shot in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in French and Lingala. After premiering at the 62nd Berlin International Film Festival, the film received positive reviews. It won several honours, including ten at the 1st Canadian Screen Awards, notably Best Motion Picture. ''War Witch'' was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film. Plot During a civil war in sub-Saharan Africa, a 12-year-old girl named Komona is abducted by rebel forces to become a child soldier under a warlord known as the Great Tiger. The rebels compel Komona to kill her own parents. Then, she is sailed to a deserted island with many more children. They are taught to use large weapons ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trash (2011 Film)
''Trash'' (french: Décharge) is a Canadian drama film, directed by Benoît Pilon and released in 2011.Charles-Henri Ramond"Décharge – Film de Benoît Pilon" ''Films du Québec'', September 12, 2011. The film stars David Boutin as Pierre Dalpé, a formerly homeless man who has rebuilt his life with a successful trash collection business and a marriage to Madeleine ( Isabel Richer), the woman who saved him from the streets; however, his fortunes begin to take a turn for the worse again after he meets Ève ( Sophie Desmarais), a young drug addict living on the streets whom he tries to help in the same way.André Duchesne"Décharge en première mondiale à Namur" '' La Presse'', October 3, 2011. The film began production in December 2009 in Montreal. It premiered on October 2, 2011, at the Festival International du Film Francophone de Namur, before premiering commercially in Quebec on October 21. Kathryn Casault received a Jutra Award The Prix Iris is a Canadian film award, p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
City Of Shadows (2010 Film)
''City of Shadows'' (french: La Cité) is a Canadian drama film, directed by Kim Nguyen and released in 2010. Partially inspired by but not a direct adaptation of Albert Camus's novel ''The Plague (novel), The Plague'', the film stars Jean-Marc Barr as Maxime Vincent, a war doctor serving in North Africa who comes across a city dealing with an outbreak of bubonic plague. The cast also includes Claude Legault, Pierre Lebeau, Sabine Karsenti, Lotfi Abdelli and Lotfi Dziri. The film was shot in Tunisia in 2008, but commercial release was delayed until 2010 by financial problems at original distributor Christal Films. It received five Jutra Award nominations at the 13th Jutra Awards, for Prix Iris for Best Director, Best Director (Nguyen), Prix Iris for Best Cinematography, Best Cinematography (Nicolas Bolduc), Prix Iris for Best Art Direction, Best Art Direction (Patrice Vermette), Prix Iris for Best Costume Design, Best Costume Design (Mariane Carter) and Prix Iris for Best Original ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
An American Haunting
''An American Haunting'' is a 2005 supernatural horror film written and directed by Courtney Solomon and starring Donald Sutherland, Sissy Spacek, James D'Arcy, and Rachel Hurd-Wood. The film was previewed at the AFI Film Festival on November 5, 2005 and was released in the UK on April 14, 2006 with follow-up in US theaters on May 5. The film is an international co-production between the United Kingdom, Canada, Romania, and the United States. The film is based on the novel ''The Bell Witch: An American Haunting'' by Brent Monahan. The events in the novel are based on the legend of the Bell Witch. The film switches from the 21st century to the 19th, and features a subplot about a recently divorced mother (Susan Almgren) whose daughter (Isabelle Almgren-Doré) is going through something like the same experience as Betsy Bell. Plot A terrified young girl runs through the forest and into her house to escape from an unseen threat. When she sees the Bell Witch, a ghost that takes the fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mambo Italiano (film)
''Mambo Italiano'' is a 2003 Canadian comedy-drama film directed by Émile Gaudreault. The screenplay was written by Gaudreault and Steve Galluccio, based on Galluccio's theatrical play by the same name. Both the play and the film are based on Galluccio's own life and experiences. Plot Angelo Barberini is the oddball son of Italian immigrants Gino and Maria, who inadvertently ended up in Canada rather than the United States. Angelo shocks his parents – and his sister, Anna – by moving out on his own without getting married, and, shortly after that, shocks them further still when he reveals he is gay. But his boyfriend (and childhood best friend), policeman Nino Paventi, isn't as ready to come out of the closet – especially not to his busybody Sicilian mother, Lina. Cast * Luke Kirby as Angelo Barberini * Claudia Ferri as Anna Barberini * Peter Miller as Nino Paventi * Paul Sorvino as Gino Barberini * Ginette Reno as Maria Barberini * Mary Walsh as Lina ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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