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Seductio
''Seductio'' is a 1987 Canadian film written, produced, and directed by Bashar Shbib. The film stars Attila Bertalan and Kathy Horner as Mikael and Melanie, a couple who are lost in the woods when their vehicle breaks down while travelling; Melanie is consumed by a fear of being attacked by bears, while Mikael tries to stoke her fears as a psychological game. Jay Scott, "A Kid Brother who's special". ''The Globe and Mail'', August 31, 1987. Distribution The film premiered in the Panorama Canada stream at the Montreal World Film Festival on August 29, 1987. It later faced some controversy when the Rendez-vous Québec Cinéma initially refused to screen the film in its original form at its 1988 festival; Chbib attempted to blockade the venue in protest. When the film screened at the 1987 Toronto International Film Festival, Chbib also stripped in public to protest the lack of funding available to independent filmmakers. Critical response The film was poorly received by critics. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bashar Shbib
Bashar Shbib (born June 25, 1959) is a Canadian independent film director and producer. He started making independent films in Montreal the 1980s and became one of the most prolific independent filmmakers in Canada with over 30 films to his credit. In the early 1990s, Shbib moved Los Angeles and directed his most successful films to date; ''Julia Has Two Lovers'' (1990) starring David Duchovny. Biography Bashar Shbib was born in Damascus; he emigrated to Canada with his parents and two brothers at an early age. He attended McGill University in Microbiology and Concordia University, where he earned a Bachelor in Fine Arts in Film Directing. His romantic comedies, ''Julia Has Two Lovers'' (1990) and ''Lana in Love'' (1991), were premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival panorama, the 1991 Montreal World Film Festival and the New Orleans Film Festival. Another of his comedies, ''Love $ Greed'' (1991), was in competition at the 1991 Montreal World Film Festival. ''Crack M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Attila Bertalan
Attila Bertalan is a Canadian actor and filmmaker. He is most noted for his 1990 film '' A Bullet in the Head'', which was selected as Canada's submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1991."Bullet in the Head chosen for Oscar consideration". ''The Globe and Mail'', November 13, 1991. Originally from British Columbia, Bertalan was twice honoured by the Canadian Student Film Festival while he was a film student at the University of British Columbia, receiving an honourable mention in 1982 for ''The Glass Door'' and winning Best Director and Best Fiction Film in 1984 for ''The Roomer''. Later based in Montreal, he acted in several films, including Bashar Shbib's '' Seductio'', ''Clair Obscur'' and '' 15 Ugly Sisters'', while making ''A Bullet in the Head''. The film, a war allegory about an injured soldier's struggle to survive in unfamiliar territory, was spoken entirely in an invented language. In 1992, ''A Bullet in the Head'' was screened by the Museum ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1987 Toronto International Film Festival
The 12th Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) took place in Toronto, Ontario, Canada between September 10 and September 19, 1987. ''I've Heard the Mermaids Singing'' by Patricia Rozema was selected as the opening film. ''The Princess Bride'' by Rob Reiner won the ''People's Choice Award'' at the festival. André the Giant, one of the stars of the film, sat on a girth constructed especially for him during the premiere of the film at the festival. Awards Programme Galas *''Aria'' — Robert Altman, Bruce Beresford, Bill Bryden, Jean-Luc Godard, Derek Jarman, Franc Roddam, Nicolas Roeg, Ken Russell, Charles Sturridge and Julien Temple *''Boyfriends and Girlfriends (L'Ami de mon amie)'' — Eric Rohmer *'' Dark Eyes'' — Nikita Mikhalkov *''The Glass Menagerie'' — Paul Newman *''I've Heard the Mermaids Singing'' — Patricia Rozema *''Night Zoo (Un zoo la nuit)'' — Jean-Claude Lauzon *''Orphans'' — Alan J. Pakula *''The Princess Bride'' — Rob Reiner *''Sammy and Rosi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canadian Comedy-drama Films
Canadians (french: Canadiens) are people identified with the country of 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 .... 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-i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Films Directed By Bashar Shbib
A film also called a movie, motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere through the use of moving images. These images are generally accompanied by sound and, more rarely, other sensory stimulations. The word "cinema", short for cinematography, is often used to refer to filmmaking and the film industry, and to the art form that is the result of it. Recording and transmission of film The moving images of a film are created by photographing actual scenes with a motion-picture camera, by photographing drawings or miniature models using traditional animation techniques, by means of CGI and computer animation, or by a combination of some or all of these techniques, and other visual effects. Before the introduction of digital production, series of still images were recorded on a strip of chemically sens ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1987 Comedy-drama Films
File:1987 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: The MS Herald of Free Enterprise capsizes after leaving the Port of Zeebrugge in Belgium, killing 193; Northwest Airlines Flight 255 crashes after takeoff from Detroit Metropolitan Airport, killing everyone except a little girl; The King's Cross fire kills 31 people after a fire under an escalator flashes-over; The MV Doña Paz sinks after colliding with an oil tanker, drowning almost 4,400 passengers and crew; Typhoon Nina strikes the Philippines; LOT Polish Airlines Flight 5055 crashes outside of Warsaw, taking the lives of all aboard; The USS Stark is struck by Iraqi Exocet missiles in the Persian Gulf; U.S. President Ronald Reagan gives a famous speech, demanding that Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev tears down the Berlin Wall., 300x300px, thumb rect 0 0 200 200 Zeebrugge disaster rect 200 0 400 200 Northwest Airlines Flight 255 rect 400 0 600 200 King's Cross fire rect 0 200 300 400 Tear down this wall! rect 300 200 60 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
English-language Canadian Films
English is a West Germanic language of the Indo-European language family, with its earliest forms spoken by the inhabitants of early medieval England. It is named after the Angles, one of the ancient Germanic peoples that migrated to the island of Great Britain. Existing on a dialect continuum with Scots, and then closest related to the Low Saxon and Frisian languages, English is genealogically West Germanic. However, its vocabulary is also distinctively influenced by dialects of France (about 29% of Modern English words) and Latin (also about 29%), plus some grammar and a small amount of core vocabulary influenced by Old Norse (a North Germanic language). Speakers of English are called Anglophones. The earliest forms of English, collectively known as Old English, evolved from a group of West Germanic (Ingvaeonic) dialects brought to Great Britain by Anglo-Saxon settlers in the 5th century and further mutated by Norse-speaking Viking settlers starting in the 8th and 9th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1987 Films
The following is an overview of events in 1987 in film, including the highest-grossing films, award ceremonies and festivals, a list of films released and notable deaths. Paramount Pictures celebrated its 75th anniversary in 1987. Highest-grossing films (U.S.) The top ten 1987 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows: Events * January 31 - ''The Cure for Insomnia'' premieres at The School of the Art Institute in Chicago, Illinois, to officially become the world's longest film according to Guinness World Records. * May 23 - ''Starlog Salutes Star Wars'' is held in Los Angeles, California, the first officially sponsored Star Wars convention to commemorate the franchise's 10th anniversary. * June 29 - The ''James Bond'' franchise celebrates its 25th anniversary and premieres its 15th film, ''The Living Daylights'' * July 17 - Walt Disney's classic masterpiece ''Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs'' is re-released worldwide for its 50th anniversary. * 1987 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kay Armatage
Kay Armatage (born 1943) is a Canadian filmmaker, former programmer at the Toronto International Film Festival and Professor emerita at the University of Toronto's Cinema Studies Institute and Women & Gender Studies Institute. Though she attained a B.A. in English Literature from Queen's University, her name is generally linked with the University of Toronto. Hailing from Saskatchewan, Armatage now lives in Toronto, Ontario. During her time as an international programmer at TIFF, Armatage worked hard to introduce audiences to female filmmakers and showed an affinity for risk-taking films. This tendency plays out in her films; Armatage makes feminist pieces that realist and experimental in form, usually documentaries. As a feminist filmmaker, Armatage makes observational films that speak to women's issues and challenges conventional filmmaking. Career Kay Armatage was an international programmer for the Toronto International Film Festival from 1982 to 2004, participating in a t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daphna Kastner
Daphna Kastner (born April 17, 1961) is a Canadian film and television actress, screenwriter, and film director. She is married to American actor Harvey Keitel. Personal life She and Harvey Keitel secretly married in Jerusalem, while attending the Haifa International Film Festival. In October 2001 they had their official ceremony at the Manhattan home of Keitel's friend, Ian Eckersley. They have a son. Selected Filmography * 1983 ''The Lonely Lady'' * 1986 '' Evixion'' * 1989 '' Girlfriend from Hell'' * 1990 ''Eating'' * 1991 ''Crack Me Up'' * 1991 '' Julia Has Two Lovers'' * 1991 '' Lana in Love'' * 1992 '' Venice/Venice'' * 1995 '' French Exit'' * 1996 '' Kiss & Tell'' * 1998 ''Spanish Fly'' * 2000 ''Timecode A timecode (alternatively, time code) is a sequence of numeric codes generated at regular intervals by a timing synchronization system. Timecode is used in video production, show control and other applications which require temporal coordination ...'' * 2001 ''Eden'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Now (newspaper)
''Now'' (styled as ''NOW''), also known as ''NOW Magazine'' is an online publication based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Throughout most of its existence, ''Now'' was a free alternative weekly newspaper. Physical publication of ''Now'' was suspended in August 2022, and there are no current plans to resume printed publication. Publication history ''Now'' was first published on September 10, 1981, by Michael Hollett and Alice Klein."Publisher of Toronto's iconic NOW Magazine files for bankruptcy." ''blogTO'', April 1, 2022. ''NOW'' is an alternative weekly that covers news, culture, arts, and entertainment. In its printed incarnation, ''NOW'' was published 52 times a year and could be picked up in Toronto subway stations, cafes, variety st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
L'Actualité
''L'actualité'' is a Canadian French-language news and general interest magazine published in Montreal by Rogers Communications until 2016, then by Mishmash (XPND Capital). The magazine has over a million readers, according to Canada's Print Measurement Bureau, from its circulation which is mainly subscribers. Eighty-six percent of its readership are Québécois. History and profile The magazine was established in 1909 with the name ''Bulletin paroissial''. Its name was changed several times: ''L'Action paroissiale'' (1932), ''Ma paroisse'' (1949), ''L'actualité'' (1960) and ''L'actualité magazine'' (1967). Until 1945 Jesuit Armand Proulx served as the editor-in-chief of the magazine. Maclean Hunter, publisher of ''Maclean's'', acquired the mailing list of the defunct ''Actualité'' magazine in the 1970s, and merged it with its own French-language edition, ''Le Magazine Maclean'' (c. 1961) in 1976. Maclean Hunter was acquired by Rogers Communications in the 1990s. Journalist Jea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
