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Pascale Bussières
Pascale Bussières (born June 27, 1968) is a French Canadian actress. Her credits include ''Sonatine (1984 film), Sonatine'' (1984), ''Eldorado (1995 film), Eldorado'' (1995), ''When Night Is Falling'' (1995), ''August 32nd on Earth (Un 32 août sur terre)'' (1998), ''Bittersweet Memories (film), Bittersweet Memories (Ma vie en cinémascope)'' (2004), ''Afterwards (2008 film), Afterwards'' (2008), '' (Les Démons)'' (2015), ''Death of a Ladies' Man (film), Death of a Ladies' Man'' (2020), ''Bootlegger (2021 film), Bootlegger'' (2021), and ''Frontiers (2023 film), Frontiers (Frontières)'' (2023). Life and work Born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Pascale Bussières first played a suicidal teenager in Micheline Lanctôt’s 1984 film ''Sonatine (1984 film), Sonatine''. She starred in ''Blanche'', the 1993 Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Radio-Canada series directed by Charles Binamé, then landed a lead in Binamé’s Generation-X picture ''Eldorado (1995 film), Eldorado''. She p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Montreal
Montreal is the List of towns in Quebec, largest city in the Provinces and territories of Canada, province of Quebec, the List of the largest municipalities in Canada by population, second-largest in Canada, and the List of North American cities by population, ninth-largest in North America. It was founded in 1642 as ''Fort Ville-Marie, Ville-Marie'', or "City of Mary", and is now named after Mount Royal, the triple-peaked mountain around which the early settlement was built. The city is centred on the Island of Montreal and a few, much smaller, peripheral islands, the largest of which is Île Bizard. The city is east of the national capital, Ottawa, and southwest of the provincial capital, Quebec City. the city had a population of 1,762,949, and a Census geographic units of Canada#Census metropolitan areas, metropolitan population of 4,291,732, making it the List of census metropolitan areas and agglomerations in Canada, second-largest metropolitan area in Canada. French l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Denis Villeneuve
Denis Villeneuve Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, OAL (; ; born October 3, 1967) is a Canadian film director and screenwriter. He has received seven Canadian Screen Awards as well as nominations for four Academy Awards, five BAFTA Awards, and two Golden Globe Awards. Villeneuve's films have grossed more than $1.8 billion worldwide. Villeneuve began his career in Cinema of Quebec, Quebec cinema, directing four French-language dramas: ''August 32nd on Earth'' (1998); ''Maelström (film), Maelström'' (2000); ''Polytechnique (film), Polytechnique'' (2009), a dramatization of the École Polytechnique massacre, 1989 École Polytechnique massacre; and ''Incendies'' (2010). The last of these gained him international prominence and earned an Academy Award for Best International Feature Film nomination. He subsequently expanded into English-language films, directing the thrillers ''Prisoners (2013 film), Prisoners'' (2013), ''Enemy (2013 film), Enemy'' (2013), and ''Sicario (2015 film), Si ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Streetheart (film)
''Streetheart'' () is a 1998 film that was awarded the Crystal Globe at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in 1998. It was directed by French Canadian director Charles Binamé. Cast Awards *1998 Pascale Montpetit won ''Best Actress'' at the Jutra Awards *1998 Pascale Montpetit won ''Best Actress'' at the Mons International Festival of Love Films *1998 Anne-Marie Cadieux won ''Best Supporting Actress'' at the Jutra Awards *1998 Charles Binamé won ''Best Director'' at the 33rd Karlovy Vary International Film Festival *1998 The film won the '' Crystal Globe'' at the 33rd Karlovy Vary International Film Festival *1998 Charles Binamé and Monique Proulx won ''Best Canadian Screenplay'' at the Vancouver International Film Festival The Vancouver International Film Festival (VIFF) is an annual film festival held in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, for two weeks in late September and early October. The festival is operated by the Greater Vancouver International Film ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
When I Will Be Gone
''When I Will Be Gone'' () is a Canadian drama film, directed by Jacques Leduc and released in 1998. The film stars Annie Girardot as Caroline Bonhomme, an elderly woman who is preparing for death.Gerald Pratley, ''A Century of Canadian Cinema''. Lynx Images, 2003. . p. 238. The cast also includes France Castel, Pascale Bussières, Domini Blythe, Widemir Normil, Denise Bombardier and Jean-Guy Bouchard. The film was inspired in part by the death of Leduc's own mother.Charles-Henri Ramond"Age de braise, L’ – Film de Jacques Leduc" ''Films du Québec'', December 29, 2008. Pierre Letarte received a Jutra Award nomination for Best Cinematography at the 1st Jutra Awards The 1st Jutra Awards were held on March 7, 1999 to honour films made with the participation of the Quebec film industry in 1998."Red Violin makes sweet Jutra music: Wins nine awards, including best picture, best director". ''Montreal Gazette'', Mar ... in 1999. References External links * 1998 films 199 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Twilight Of The Ice Nymphs
''Twilight of the Ice Nymphs'' is a 1997 fantasy romance film directed by Guy Maddin. The screenplay was written by George Toles and inspired by the novel '' Pan'' (1894) by Knut Hamsun, with an additional literary touchstones being the short story "La Vénus d'Ille" (1837) by Prosper Mérimée.Beard, William. ''Into the Past: The Cinema of Guy Maddin''. Toronto: U of Toronto P, 2010. Print. ''Twilight of the Ice Nymphs'' was Maddin's second feature film in colour and his first shot in 35 mm, on a budget of $1.5 million. As seen in Noam Gonick's documentary ''Waiting for Twilight'', Maddin was dissatisfied with the filmmaking process due to creative interference from his producers. Plot A newly released prisoner, Peter Glahn, returns home to the land of Mandragora, where the sun never sets. Aboard the ship, Glahn has a romantic encounter with Juliana Kossel, then proceeds to the family ostrich farm, which is run by his sister Amelia. Amelia is in love with Dr. Isaac Solti, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Two Can Play (1993 Film)
''Two Can Play'' () is a Canadian drama film, directed by Micheline Lanctôt and released in 1993.Sid Adilman, "Two Can Play -- with script and without". ''Toronto Star'', May 20, 1994. The film stars Pascale Bussières and Pascale Paroissien as adult sisters meeting for the first time, not having previously known of each other's existence, and intersperses the dramatic storyline with scenes in which the actresses are interviewed about the process of building their characters. The film won the L.E. Ouimet-Molson Prize from the Association québécoise des critiques de cinéma in 1994, and Lanctôt was a Genie Award nominee for Best Director at the 15th Genie Awards. In 2023, Telefilm Canada announced that the film was one of 23 titles that will be digitally restored under its new Canadian Cinema Reignited program to preserve classic Canadian films.Pat Mullen"Oscar Winning Doc Leads List of Restored Canadian Classics" ''Point of View'', May 9, 2023. Production The film received $2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phantom Life
''Phantom Life'' () is a Canadian drama film, directed by Jacques Leduc and released in 1992. An adaptation of the novel by Danièle Sallenave, the film stars Ron Lea as Pierre, an academic at the Université de Sherbrooke who is torn between his marriage to Annie ( Johanne-Marie Tremblay) and his extramarital affair with the younger Laure (Pascale Bussières). The film's cast also includes Gabriel Gascon, Rita Lafontaine, Jean-Guy Bouchard and Élise Guilbault. The film premiered at the 1992 Montreal World Film Festival, where it was named the most popular Canadian film of the festival. Bussières also won the award for Best Actress. The film received five Genie Award nominations at the 13th Genie Awards, for Best Adapted Screenplay (Leduc and Yvon Rivard), Best Cinematography ( Pierre Mignot), Best Art Direction/Production Design ( Louise Jobin), Best Costume Design ( Michèle Hamel) and Best Sound Editing (Jérôme Décarie, Diane Boucher, Michel Bordeleau, Francine ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pascale Bussières
Pascale Bussières (born June 27, 1968) is a French Canadian actress. Her credits include ''Sonatine (1984 film), Sonatine'' (1984), ''Eldorado (1995 film), Eldorado'' (1995), ''When Night Is Falling'' (1995), ''August 32nd on Earth (Un 32 août sur terre)'' (1998), ''Bittersweet Memories (film), Bittersweet Memories (Ma vie en cinémascope)'' (2004), ''Afterwards (2008 film), Afterwards'' (2008), '' (Les Démons)'' (2015), ''Death of a Ladies' Man (film), Death of a Ladies' Man'' (2020), ''Bootlegger (2021 film), Bootlegger'' (2021), and ''Frontiers (2023 film), Frontiers (Frontières)'' (2023). Life and work Born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Pascale Bussières first played a suicidal teenager in Micheline Lanctôt’s 1984 film ''Sonatine (1984 film), Sonatine''. She starred in ''Blanche'', the 1993 Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Radio-Canada series directed by Charles Binamé, then landed a lead in Binamé’s Generation-X picture ''Eldorado (1995 film), Eldorado''. She p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Presse (Canadian Newspaper)
is a French-language online newspaper published daily in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Founded in 1884, it is now owned by an independent nonprofit trust. ' was formerly a broadsheet daily, considered a newspaper of record in Canada. Its Sunday edition was discontinued in 2009, and the weekday edition in 2016. The weekend Saturday printed edition was discontinued on 31 December 2017, turning ' into an entirely online newspaper. Audience and sections ' is published on its website, .ca, as well as on its mobile and tablet apps, and ''La Presse+''. The newspaper targets an educated, middle-class readership. Its main competitors are two Montreal print dailies, the tabloid-format ', which aims at a more populist audience, and the more left-leaning broadsheet . ' comprises several sections, dealing individually with arts, sports, business and economy and other themes. Its Saturday print edition (now discontinued) contained over 10 sections. The newspaper's archives from 2000 to 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karkwa
Karkwa is an indie rock band from Montreal, Quebec, Canada, formed in 1998. History Formed in 1998, the group consists of vocalist and guitarist Louis-Jean Cormier, keyboardist François Lafontaine, bass guitarist Martin Lamontagne, percussionist Julien Sagot, and drummer Stéphane Bergeron. The band's name is a phonetic rendering of ''carquois'' (French for a quiver of arrows). After reaching the final stages of the Francouvertes contest in 2001, the band released its debut album, ''Le Pensionnat des établis'', in 2003. The album's single "Poisson cru" reached the top of Quebec's campus radio charts, and was named the best album of the year by two critics for Montreal's alternative weekly ''Voir''. The band's second album, ''Les Tremblements s’immobilisent'', won three Félix Awards in 2006. In 2007, they were featured, along with The Stills, The Besnard Lakes and Mahjor Bidet, on the bill of Quebec Scene, a concert in Ottawa sponsored by CBC Radio 3. On the third album ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alys Robi
Alice Robitaille (February 3, 1923 – May 28, 2011), known professionally as Alys Robi, was a Canadian singer from Quebec, mainly remembered for her later French interpretations of Latin American songs. Youth Born in 1923 in the Quebec City neighbourhood of Saint-Sauveur, Robitaille displayed talent for singing and acting at a very young age. She first performed on-stage at the Capitol Theatre (Quebec), Capitol Theatre at 7. At the time, she had already sung on-air with the CHRC (AM), CHRC radio station and was a real phenomenon in the whole city. Career At 13 she moved to the Théâtre National, on Montreal's Saint Catherine Street. Under the direction of Rose Ouellette, she learned acting and singing during a 75-week engagement. She continued her career in the Montreal cabarets, making radio appearances. For a time during the war, she also hosted a French radio show named ''Tambour battant'' ("Rumbling drum"). Touring Canadian military bases propelled her career across Canada. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
25th Genie Awards
The 25th Genie Awards were held on March 21, 2005 to honour the best Canadian films released in 2004.Jay Stone, "Big, small get Genie nods". ''Kingston Whig-Standard'', February 9, 2005. The awards took place at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre in Toronto. Andrea Martin was the host. Nominees and winners The Genie Award winner in each category is shown in bold text. Notes References {{Canadian Screen Awards Genie Genie GEnie (General Electric Network for Information Exchange) was an online service provider, online service created by a General Electric business, GEIS (now GXS Inc., GXS), that ran from 1985 through the end of 1999. In 1994, GEnie claimed around ... 25 2005 in Toronto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
