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Festival releases Canada’s annual Top 10 films
Wednesday December 07th 2011Art and commerce walked the aisle together as the Toronto International Film Festival Group announced this year’s top Canadian films.
Selected by a group of industry experts and film professionals, this year’s list included Ken Scott’s box-office smash from Quebec, Starbuck, as well as Sebastien Pilote’s deeply moving, and rather stark drama about a car salesman, Le Vendeur.
This was the first year a significant number of high-pro-file English releases made the list, but only one has so far seen widespread theatrical release: Jason Eisener’s Hobo With a Shotgun premiered at Sundance, and hit theatres in March.
The film, which starred Rut-ger Hauer as a homeless man with a big gun, didn’t set the critics’ hearts on fire, but it proved successful with a cult film fan base and proved established players in the Canadian film industry had a desire to make genre films.
The other English language releases to make the Top 10 included David Cronenberg’s drama about Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung, A Dangerous Method, Nathan Morlando’s biopic about a Canadian heist-meister Edwin Boyd, Guy Mad-din’s revision of Homeric Odyssey, Keyhole, and Sarah Polley’s heartfelt exploration of modern love in Take This Waltz.
All four of these English-language features will be released in the new year.
TOP 10 FEATURES:
Cafe de flore – Jean-Marc Vallee
A Dangerous Method – David Cronenberg
Edwin Boyd – Nathan Morlando
Hobo With a Shotgun – Jason Eisener
Keyhole – Guy Maddin
Marecages – Guy Edoin
Monsieur Lazhar – Philippe Falardeau
Starbuck – Ken Scott
Take This Waltz – Sarah Polley
Le Vendeur – Sebastien Pilote
TOP 10 SHORTS:
Choke – Michelle Latimer
Doubles With Slight Pepper – Ian Harnarine
The Fuse: Or How I Burned Simon Bolivar – Igor Drljaca
Hope – Pedro Pires (Phi Group)
No Words Came Down – Ryan Flowers and Lisa Pham
Ora – Philippe Baylaucq (National Film Board of Canada)
Rhonda’s Party – Ashley McKenzie
La Ronde – Sophie Goyette (Locomotion Films)
Trotteur – Arnaud Brisebois and Francis Leclerc (Phi Group and Cirrus Communications)
We Ate the Children Last – Andrew Cividino
Source: Vancouver Sun
Front Page, Industry News
Festival releases Canada’s annual Top 10 films
Wednesday December 07th 2011Art and commerce walked the aisle together as the Toronto International Film Festival Group announced this year’s top Canadian films.
Selected by a group of industry experts and film professionals, this year’s list included Ken Scott’s box-office smash from Quebec, Starbuck, as well as Sebastien Pilote’s deeply moving, and rather stark drama about a car salesman, Le Vendeur.
This was the first year a significant number of high-pro-file English releases made the list, but only one has so far seen widespread theatrical release: Jason Eisener’s Hobo With a Shotgun premiered at Sundance, and hit theatres in March.
The film, which starred Rut-ger Hauer as a homeless man with a big gun, didn’t set the critics’ hearts on fire, but it proved successful with a cult film fan base and proved established players in the Canadian film industry had a desire to make genre films.
The other English language releases to make the Top 10 included David Cronenberg’s drama about Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung, A Dangerous Method, Nathan Morlando’s biopic about a Canadian heist-meister Edwin Boyd, Guy Mad-din’s revision of Homeric Odyssey, Keyhole, and Sarah Polley’s heartfelt exploration of modern love in Take This Waltz.
All four of these English-language features will be released in the new year.
TOP 10 FEATURES:
Cafe de flore – Jean-Marc Vallee
A Dangerous Method – David Cronenberg
Edwin Boyd – Nathan Morlando
Hobo With a Shotgun – Jason Eisener
Keyhole – Guy Maddin
Marecages – Guy Edoin
Monsieur Lazhar – Philippe Falardeau
Starbuck – Ken Scott
Take This Waltz – Sarah Polley
Le Vendeur – Sebastien Pilote
TOP 10 SHORTS:
Choke – Michelle Latimer
Doubles With Slight Pepper – Ian Harnarine
The Fuse: Or How I Burned Simon Bolivar – Igor Drljaca
Hope – Pedro Pires (Phi Group)
No Words Came Down – Ryan Flowers and Lisa Pham
Ora – Philippe Baylaucq (National Film Board of Canada)
Rhonda’s Party – Ashley McKenzie
La Ronde – Sophie Goyette (Locomotion Films)
Trotteur – Arnaud Brisebois and Francis Leclerc (Phi Group and Cirrus Communications)
We Ate the Children Last – Andrew Cividino
Source: Vancouver Sun
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Front Page, Industry News
Festival releases Canada’s annual Top 10 films
Wednesday December 07th 2011Art and commerce walked the aisle together as the Toronto International Film Festival Group announced this year’s top Canadian films.
Selected by a group of industry experts and film professionals, this year’s list included Ken Scott’s box-office smash from Quebec, Starbuck, as well as Sebastien Pilote’s deeply moving, and rather stark drama about a car salesman, Le Vendeur.
This was the first year a significant number of high-pro-file English releases made the list, but only one has so far seen widespread theatrical release: Jason Eisener’s Hobo With a Shotgun premiered at Sundance, and hit theatres in March.
The film, which starred Rut-ger Hauer as a homeless man with a big gun, didn’t set the critics’ hearts on fire, but it proved successful with a cult film fan base and proved established players in the Canadian film industry had a desire to make genre films.
The other English language releases to make the Top 10 included David Cronenberg’s drama about Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung, A Dangerous Method, Nathan Morlando’s biopic about a Canadian heist-meister Edwin Boyd, Guy Mad-din’s revision of Homeric Odyssey, Keyhole, and Sarah Polley’s heartfelt exploration of modern love in Take This Waltz.
All four of these English-language features will be released in the new year.
TOP 10 FEATURES:
Cafe de flore – Jean-Marc Vallee
A Dangerous Method – David Cronenberg
Edwin Boyd – Nathan Morlando
Hobo With a Shotgun – Jason Eisener
Keyhole – Guy Maddin
Marecages – Guy Edoin
Monsieur Lazhar – Philippe Falardeau
Starbuck – Ken Scott
Take This Waltz – Sarah Polley
Le Vendeur – Sebastien Pilote
TOP 10 SHORTS:
Choke – Michelle Latimer
Doubles With Slight Pepper – Ian Harnarine
The Fuse: Or How I Burned Simon Bolivar – Igor Drljaca
Hope – Pedro Pires (Phi Group)
No Words Came Down – Ryan Flowers and Lisa Pham
Ora – Philippe Baylaucq (National Film Board of Canada)
Rhonda’s Party – Ashley McKenzie
La Ronde – Sophie Goyette (Locomotion Films)
Trotteur – Arnaud Brisebois and Francis Leclerc (Phi Group and Cirrus Communications)
We Ate the Children Last – Andrew Cividino
Source: Vancouver Sun
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