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| 10/5 - |
Cynthia Scott's The Company of Strangers (aka Strangers in Good Company and Le Fabuleux gang des sept) is released. [MORE] [ADD] |
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David Cronenberg begins filming his adaptation of William Burroughs' Naked Lunch, long considered an unfilmable piece of work. [MORE] [ADD] |
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Canada 1991: Other Films of Note |
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The Events Leading Up to My Death (Bill Robertson) [MORE] [ADD] |
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Love-Moi (Marcel Simard) [MORE] [ADD] |
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Sam and Me (Deepa Mehta) [MORE] [ADD] |
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Being at Home With Claude (Jean Beaudin) [MORE] [ADD] |
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The Grocer’s Wife (John Pozer) [MORE] [ADD] |
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Memoire tranquee (Patrick Dewolf) [MORE] [ADD] |
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Calendar (Atom Egoyan) [MORE] [ADD] |
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The Lotus Eaters (Paul Shapiro) [MORE] [ADD] |
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Le Sexe des etoiles (Paule Baillargeon) [MORE] [ADD] |
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Thirty-Two Short Films About Glenn Gould (Francois Girard) [MORE] [ADD] |
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| 8/12 - |
Atom Egoyan’s film Exotica wins eight Genie awards in Toronto. [MORE] [ADD] |
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| 14/9 - |
Scott Hicks' Shine wins this year’s People's Choice Award at the Toronto International Film Festival. Second and third places go to Hettie MacDonald's Beautiful Thing and Carroll Ballard's Fly Away Home respectively. [MORE] [ADD] |
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Thom Fitzgerald’s The Hanging Garden wins the People's Choice Award at this year's Toronto International Film Festival. [MORE] [ADD] |
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Roberto Benigni's La Vita è bella (Life Is Beautiful) wins the People's Choice Award at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival. [MORE] [ADD] |
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Zacharias Kunuk’s Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner, reportedly the first feature film made in the Inuktitut (Canadian Eskimo) language, is shown at the Melbourne International Film Festival. [MORE] [ADD] |
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Denys Arcand's award-winning Les Invasions barbares (The Barbarian Invasions) is released. Rémy Girard stars as a terminally ill man whose estranged son (Stéphane Rousseau) determines to make his last few weeks memorable. Marie-Josée Croze also stars. [MORE] [ADD] |
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| 2004 | ||||
| 11/9 - |
Beyond the Sea, Kevin Spacey’s biopic of 50s singer Bobby Darin, premieres at the Toronto Film Festival. 327 other titles are to be screened at the festival, including Spike Lee's Sucker Free City, Pedro Almodóvar's Bad Education, Walter Salles' Diarios de motocicleta and Richard Eyre's Stage Beauty. [MORE] [ADD] |
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| 4/10 - |
The New York Daily News's "Rush & Molloy" column reports that director Ang Lee and writer Larry McMurtry have fallen out over changes made by Lee to McMurtry's script for Brokeback Mountain, the story of a homosexual love affair between two cowboys played by Jake Gyllenhaal and Heath Ledger. The film is currently shooting in Calgary. [MORE] [ADD] |
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Jerry Ciccoritti's adaptation of Tom Walmsley’s play, Blood, is released. Filmed in one continuous take, twice a day for four days, the film stars Emily Hampshire and Jacob Tierney as siblings with addiction problems. [MORE] [ADD] |
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Deepa Mehta 's Water receives its world premiere as the opening film at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival. The film is set in the 30s and explores the plight of an 8-year-old Hindu child widow. [MORE] [ADD] |
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| 17/9 - |
Tsotsi, a UK/South African co-production about a Johannesburg gangster who finds a toddler in the back seat of a car he has just stolen, wins the People's Choice award at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival, while the Australian film Look Both Ways wins the event's Discovery award [MORE] [ADD] |
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Newmarket Films purchase the U.S. distribution rights from producer-director Gabriel Range for his controversial documentary-style Death of a President, which depicts the assassination of President George W. Bush. [MORE] [ADD] |
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| 16/9 - |
Mexican director Alejandro Monteverde’s romantic drama Bella wins the People's Choice Award at the Toronto Film Festival. [MORE] [ADD] |
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The Toronto Film Critics Association votes Stephen Frears’ The Queen the best picture of 2006. [MORE] [ADD] |
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Sarah Polley’s Away From Her wins seven awards at this year’s Genie Awards including, best actor (Gordon Pinsent), best actress (Julie Christie) and best director (Sarah Polley). [MORE] [ADD] |
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| 2009 | ||||
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Milk, in which Sean Penn plays Harvey Milk, one of America’s first openly gay politicians, wins the Best Film award at the Vancouver Film Critics Circle awards. C'est pas moi, je le jure! wins the prize for best Canadian film. [MORE] |
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| 6/3 - | Deciding to avoid the opinion of professional film critics, the producers of Michael McGowan’s One Week use comments made by YouTube users about the film’s trailer to advertise the film itself. [MORE] [ADD] | |||
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Director David Cronenberg receives the Légion d'honneur, France’s highest honour, at a gala awards ceremony in Toronto. [MORE] |
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Paul Gross’s WW1 film, Passchendale wins six prizes at the 2009 Genie Awards including Best Picture, while Benoit Pilon wins the Best Director award for Ce qu'il faut pour vivre (The Necessities of Life). [MORE] |
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| Jun - | Documentary filmmaker Allan King, one of the founders of cinema verite and Direct Cinema, dies of brain cancer at his home in Toronto at the age of 79. [MORE] [ADD] | |||
| 8/7 - | Father and son cop comedy De pere en flic (Fathers and Guns) is released. It goes on to baffle industry watchers with its sustained success at the domestic box office. [MORE] [ADD] | |||
| 23/11 - | A panel of more than 60 film curators, historians, archivists and programmers from film festivals, cinematheques and other organisations worldwide vote Thai filmmaker Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Syndromes and a Century the most important film of the past decade for the TIFF Cinematheque. [MORE] | |||
| 2010 | ||||
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Denis Villeneuve’s Polytechnique wins nine awards at the 2010 Genie Awards, including Best Picture, Direction, Actress, and Supporting Actor. [MORE] |
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Comweb announces its intention to build a $20 million film production complex in Toronto. [MORE] |
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| 16/9 - | Three people reportedly faint during a screening of Danny Boyle’s latest film 127 Hours at the Toronto Film Festival. The offending scene involves a trapped climber amputating his own arm to free himself. The film is based on the true story of Aron Ralston, whose arm was trapped by a boulder in a canyon in Utah. [MORE] [ADD] | |||
| 19/9 - | Tom Hooper’s The King’s Speech, in which Colin Firth plays King George VI, wins the People’s Choice Award at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival. [MORE] | |||