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Six Figures (film)
''Six Figures'' is a Canadian psychological thriller film, directed by David Christensen and released in 2005. An adaptation of the novel of the same name by Fred Leebron, the film stars JR Bourne as Warner Lutz, a man struggling with the stresses and frustrations of trying to maintain his upwardly mobile executive lifestyle who becomes the primary suspect when his wife Claire, played by Caroline Cave, is left comatose by a violent physical attack."Thriller moves carefully: Mystery set in booming Calgary is told with documentary techniques". '' Montreal Gazette'', February 17, 2006. The film was Christensen's narrative feature debut following his prior work as a documentary filmmaker, and incorporated some documentary-style filmmaking techniques. The film received a Genie Award nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay at the 26th Genie Awards, and was a finalist for the Rogers Best Canadian Film Award at the Toronto Film Critics Association Awards 2006 10th TFCA Awards December ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caroline Cave
Caroline Cave is a Canadians, Canadian film, television and stage actor, known for her roles in the films ''This Beautiful City'', ''One Week (2008 film), One Week'', ''The War Bride'', ''Six Figures (film), Six Figures'' and ''Saw VI'', and the television series ''Cra$h & Burn''. She has also had guest roles in ''The L Word'', ''Haven (TV series), Haven'', ''Stargate Atlantis'', ''Kevin Hill'', ''The Associates (Canadian TV series), The Associates'', ''Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (TV series), Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency'', and ''Die neue Prophezeiung der Maya (End of the World)'' in 2013. She co-starred in the 2015 Lifetime TV movie ''Accidental Obsession''. Her stage roles have included productions of Pamela Gien's ''The Syringa Tree'', Joanna McClelland Glass' ''Trying'', Stephen Sachs' ''Miss Julie: Freedom Summer'' and David Eldridge (dramatist), David Eldridge's ''Festen (play), Festen''. Filmography Film Television Awards She won the Gemini Aw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Christensen
David Christensen is an Alberta film director and producer who since October 2007 has been an executive producer with the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) at its Northwest Centre, based in Edmonton. Directing His directorial credits include the 2003 NFB-co-produced documentary ''War Hospital'', co-directed with Damien Lewis, and his 2006 dramatic feature debut film, ''Six Figures''. A documentary filmmaker until ''Six Figures'', Christensen prepared for the project by taking a workshop on directing actors with Judith Weston. ''Six Figures'' was nominated for the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television Award for Best Screenplay at the 26th Genie Awards, and was a runner up for the Best Canadian Film Award from the Toronto Film Critics Association. Producing As head of the NFB's Edmonton studio, Christensen develops films from across the province of Alberta as well as northern Canada. In 2015, Christensen produced Guy Maddin and Evan Johnson's feature, '' The Forbidden R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
26th Genie Awards ...
The 26th Genie Awards were held on March 13, 2006 to honour films released in 2005. The ceremony was held at The Carlu theatre in Toronto. The ceremony was hosted by Lisa Ray and Terry David Mulligan. Nominees and winners The Genie Award winner in each category is shown in bold text. References {{Canadian Screen Awards 26 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] |
Films Shot In Alberta
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Films Based On American Novels
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 sensitize ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canadian Psychological Thriller Films
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English-language Canadian Films
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2005 Films
2005 in film is an overview of events, including the highest-grossing films, award ceremonies, festivals, a list of country-specific lists of films released, notable deaths and film debuts. Evaluation of the year Renowned American film critic and professor Emanuel Levy stated on his website, "Despite films like “Crash,” which deals with racism in contemporary America, and geopolitical exposes like ''Syriana'' and ''Munich'', the 2005 movie year may go down in film history as the year of sexual diversity." He went on to emphasize, "It's hard to recall a year in which sex, sexuality, and gender have featured so prominently in American films, both mainstream Hollywood and independent cinema. I am deliberately using the concepts of sexual diversity and sexual orientation, rather than gay-themed movies, because the rather new phenomenon goes beyond homosexuality or lesbianism. For decades, American culture has been both puritanical and hypocritical as far as sexual matters are con ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Variety (magazine)
''Variety'' is an American media company owned by Penske Media Corporation. The company was founded by Sime Silverman in New York City in 1905 as a weekly newspaper reporting on theater and vaudeville. In 1933 it added ''Daily Variety'', based in Los Angeles, to cover the motion-picture industry. ''Variety.com'' features entertainment news, reviews, box office results, cover stories, videos, photo galleries and features, plus a credits database, production charts and calendar, with archive content dating back to 1905. History Foundation ''Variety'' has been published since December 16, 1905, when it was launched by Sime Silverman as a weekly periodical covering theater and vaudeville with its headquarters in New York City. Silverman had been fired by ''The Morning Telegraph'' in 1905 for panning an act which had taken out an advert for $50. As a result, he decided to start his own publication "that ouldnot be influenced by advertising." With a loan of $1,500 from his father- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toronto Film Critics Association Awards 2006
10th TFCA Awards December 19, 2006 ---- Best Film: The Queen The 10th Toronto Film Critics Association Awards, honoring the best in film for 2006, were given on 19 December 2006. Winners *Best Actor: **Sacha Baron Cohen - '' Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan'' Runners-Up: Ryan Gosling – '' Half Nelson'' and Forest Whitaker – ''The Last King of Scotland'' *Best Actress: ** Helen Mirren - ''The Queen'' Runners-Up: Penélope Cruz – ''Volver'' and Judi Dench – ''Notes on a Scandal'' *Best Animated Film: **''Happy Feet'' Runners-Up: ''Over the Hedge'' and ''A Scanner Darkly'' *Best Canadian Film: **'' Manufactured Landscapes'' Runners-Up: ''The Journals of Knud Rasmussen'', '' Monkey Warfare'' and '' Six Figures'' *Best Director (tie): **Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne - '' L'Enfant'' **Stephen Frears - ''The Queen'' Runners-Up: Paul Greengrass – '' United 93'' and Martin Scorsese – ''The Departed'' *Best Docum ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rogers Best Canadian Film Award
The Rogers Best Canadian Film Award is presented annually by the Toronto Film Critics Association to the film judged by the organization's members as the year's best Canadian film. In 2012, the cash prize accompanying the award was increased to $100,000, making it the largest arts award in Canada. Each year, two runners-up also receive $5,000. The award is funded and presented by Rogers Communications, which is a founding sponsor of the association's awards gala. Unlike the other Toronto Film Critics Association awards, whose winners are announced in early January each year, the Best Canadian Film award only has its finalists announced at that time, and the winner of the award is then announced at the organization's gala in March. Toronto Film Critics Poll Prior to the official launch of the Toronto Film Critics Association in 1997, film critic Wyndham Wise Wyndham Paul Wise is a Canadian film historian, critic, editor and publisher. He was the founder and editor-in-chief of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canadian Screen Award For Best Screenplay
The Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television presents one or more annual awards for the Best Screenplay for a Canadian film. Originally presented in 1968 as part of the Canadian Film Awards, from 1980 until 2012 the award continued as part of the Genie Awards ceremony. As of 2013, it is presented as part of the Canadian Screen Awards. In their present form, two awards are presented for Best Original Screenplay and Best Adapted Screenplay, although historically this division was not always observed. In the Canadian Film Awards era, two awards were usually presented in Feature and Non-Feature (television films, short films, etc.) categories, although on two occasions the feature category was further divided into separate categories for Original and Adapted Screenplay, resulting in the presentation of three screenplay awards overall, and on two occasions only one award for Non-Feature Screenplay was presented. Under current Academy rules, the categories are collapsed into one if either c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
