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The Backstreet Six
''The Backstreet Six'' (french: Comme les six doigts de la main, lit. "Like the Six Fingers of a Hand") is a Canadian children's comedy film, directed by André Melançon and released in 1978. Gerald Pratley, ''A Century of Canadian Cinema''. Lynx Images, 2003. . p. 126. The film centres on a group of five young children who are submitting a newcomer to their neighbourhood to an initiation test to determine whether he will be welcome to join their group of friends, while the group are simultaneously on the trail of an older man whom they believe to be a spy. The film's cast includes Éric Beauséjour, Philippe Bouchard, Caroline Laroche, Daniel Murray, José Neves, Nancy Normandin and Sylvain Provencher. The film won the Prix L.-E.-Ouimet-Molson The Prix Luc-Perreault, formerly known as the Prix L.-E.-Ouimet-Molson, is an annual Canadian film award, presented by the Association québécoise des critiques de cinéma to a film deemed to be the best film of the year from Quebec, fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
André Melançon
André Melançon (February 18, 1942 - August 23, 2016) was a Canadian actor, screenwriter and film director, best known for directing and writing several installments in the Tales for All series of children's films. Career The versatile André Mélançon – director, writer and actor – set out to become a youth guidance counsellor before he veered into film. His background in psychology and education helped orient his filmmaking toward films about, with, and for children. His first film was on Quebec separatist Charles Gagnon, then at the request of producer Jean Dansereau he directed a trio of short films for children in the early 1970s that confirmed the direction of his career. He turned to acting and won a Canadian Film Award for his performance in '' Bound for Glory (Partis pour la gloire)''. In the 1980s he directed ''The Dog Who Stopped the War'', which won the Golden Reel Award, and ''Bach et bottine'', and wrote, with Jacques Bobet, ''Tadpole and the Whale'' also a G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pierick Houdy
Pierick Houdy (18 January 1929 – 22 March 2021) was a French composer, organist, pianist, kapellmeister, and professor. Biography Houdy began his musical studies in 1935 at the Conservatoire de Rennes. His first compositions date from that year. In 1937, he first played publicly at the Opéra de Rennes and his first four works were published by Henry Lemoine under the title ''À mes petits amis''. He practiced piano with Marguerite Long and was admitted to the Conservatoire de Paris in 1939, where he studied under Noël Gallon, Nadia Boulanger, Simone Plé-Caussade, Maurice Duruflé, Olivier Messiaen, Darius Milhaud, and others. Outside the Conservatory, he studied piano with Lazare Lévy. He received the ''Deuxième Prix'' of the Prix de Rome in 1953 and won first prize in composition from the Conservatoire de Paris in 1954, as well at the Grand Prix de la Ville de Paris that same year. Houdy was the Director of the from 1955 to 1960, professor at Schola cantorum in 1963 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guy Dufaux
Guy Dufaux (; born July 18, 1943, in Lille, France) is a French-born Canadian cinematographer. The majority of his works have been in Canadian cinema; he immigrated to Canada in 1965 and became a Canadian citizen in 1971. He is also the father of Montréal-based sculptor Pascal Dufaux and the brother of the late Canadian documentary filmmaker, Georges Dufaux. Recognition * 2006 Montreal World Film Festival Best Artistic Contribution - '' The Chinese Botanist's Daughters'' - Won * 2002 Jutra Award for Best Cinematography (Meilleure Direction de la Photographie) - ''Tar Angel'' - Nominated * 2002 Canadian Society of Cinematographers Awards Kodak New Century Award * 2001 Genie Award for Best Achievement in Cinematography - '' Stardom'' - Nominated * 2001 Gemini Award for Best Photography in a Dramatic Program or Series - '' Haven'' - Won * 2000 Jutra Award for Best Cinematography (Meilleure Photographie) - ''The Eleventh Child'' - Nominated * 1996 Genie Award for Best Achievemen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
André Corriveau (filmmaker)
André Corriveau () is a film editor and director from Quebec, Canada. Corriveau won the Gemini Awards once (1994), and the Genie Award twice (1981 and 1985). In addition to the wins, he has one nomination to the Gemini Awards, six nominations to the Genie Awards, and one nomination to the Jutra Awards. His editing credits include the 2004 documentary ''My Son Shall Be Armenian ''My Son Shall Be Armenian'' (Original French title: ''Mon fils sera arménien'') is a 2004 Canadian documentary by Hagop Goudsouzian, who travels to Armenia and Syria with five other members of Montreal's Armenian community who lost relatives in ...''. External links * Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Canadian film editors Film directors from Quebec French Quebecers Best Editing Genie and Canadian Screen Award winners {{Canada-film-director-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gerald Pratley
Gerald Arthur Pratley (September 3, 1923 – March 14, 2011) was a Canadian film critic and historian. Piers Handling"Gerald Arthur Pratley" ''The Canadian Encyclopedia'', September 18, 2011. A longtime film critic for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, he was historically most noted as founder and director of the Ontario Film Institute, a film archive and reference library which was acquired by the Toronto International Film Festival in 1990 and became the contemporary Film Reference Library and TIFF Cinematheque. Born in London, England, Pratley emigrated to Canada in 1946 and joined the CBC two years later. For the CBC he hosted various radio shows about cinema, including ''The Movie Scene'', ''Music from the Films'' and ''Pratley at the Movies'', between 1948 and 1975. He was a writer for various publications including ''Variety'', ''Canadian Film Weekly'', ''Canadian Film Digest'', ''Hollywood Digest'' and ''Films in Review''. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prix Luc-Perreault
The Prix Luc-Perreault, formerly known as the Prix L.-E.-Ouimet-Molson, is an annual Canadian film award, presented by the Association québécoise des critiques de cinéma to a film deemed to be the best film of the year from Quebec, from among the films screening at that year's Rendez-vous Québec Cinéma. Winners 1970s * 1974 — ''Orders (Les Ordres)'', Michel Brault"Prix L.E. Ouimet-Molson". ''Ciné-Bulles'', Vol. 4, No. 5, February/March 1985. p. 17. * 1975 — '' Ntesi nana shepen (On disait que c'était notre terre)'', Arthur Lamothe * 1976 — ''Little Tougas (Ti-Cul Tougas)'', Jean-Guy Noël * 1977 — ''24 heures ou plus'', Gilles Groulx * 1978 — '' The Backstreet Six (Comme les six doigts de la main)'', André Melançon * 1979 — '' Blue Winter (L'Hiver bleu)'', André Blanchard 1980s * 1980 — ''A Wives' Tale (Une histoire de femmes)'', Sophie Bissonnette, Martin Duckworth and Joyce Rock * 1981 — '' The Plouffe Family (Les Plouffe)'', Gilles Carle * 1982 — ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ciné-Bulles
''Ciné-Bulles'' is a quarterly French-language film magazine published in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, by the Association des cinémas parallèles du Québec, an association of Quebec independent theatre operators. History and profile ''Ciné-Bulles'' has been published since 1982. The magazine was started as a bimonthly magazine. It is devoted in large part to Quebec cinema. See also *''Séquences'' *''24 images ''24 images'' is a French-language film magazine published in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. History and profile Founded in 1979 by Benoît Patar, ''24 images'' changed editors in 1987, with Marie-Claude Loiselle and Claude Racine assuming control. ...'' References 1982 establishments in Quebec Cinema of Quebec Film magazines published in Canada French-language magazines published in Canada Magazines established in 1982 Magazines published in Montreal Quarterly magazines published in Canada Bi-monthly magazines published in Canada {{Canada-mag-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1978 Films
The year 1978 in film involved some significant events. Highest-grossing films (U.S.) The top ten 1978 released films by box office gross in the United States and Canada are as follows: Events * February 6 – David Begelman resigns as president of Columbia Pictures. * March 1 – Charlie Chaplin's coffin is stolen from a Swiss cemetery three months after burial. After recovery a few weeks later, the casket is sealed in a concrete vault prior to reburial. * March – Leigh Brackett completes the first draft for ''The Empire Strikes Back'', but dies only two weeks later. * June – Daniel Melnick becomes head of Columbia Pictures after the David Begelman scandal. * June 4 – '' Grease'', starring John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John, has its world premiere at Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood. It becomes the highest-grossing musical ever and Paramount Pictures' highest-grossing film. * July 20 – Alan Hirschfield is fired as president and CEO of Columbia Pictures. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1970s Children's Comedy Films
Year 197 ( CXCVII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Magius and Rufinus (or, less frequently, year 950 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 197 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire * February 19 – Battle of Lugdunum: Emperor Septimius Severus defeats the self-proclaimed emperor Clodius Albinus at Lugdunum (modern Lyon). Albinus commits suicide; legionaries sack the town. * Septimius Severus returns to Rome and has about 30 of Albinus's supporters in the Senate executed. After his victory he declares himself the adopted son of the late Marcus Aurelius. * Septimius Severus forms new naval units, manning all the triremes in Italy with heavily armed troops for war in the East. His soldiers embark on an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canadian Children's Comedy Films
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] |
Films Shot In Quebec
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 sensitized ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Films Set In Quebec
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] |
