Denis Villeneuve will have two films in the festival as it emerged that Canadian Features world premiere Enemy starring Jake Gyllenhaal as a man and his doppelganger [pictured] has joined the previously announced Prisoners, also starring Gyllenhaal.
The Canadian Features selection includes Michael Dowse’s Goon follow-up The F Word, Xavier Dolan’s Tom At The Farm and Chloe Robichaud’s Sarah Prefers To Run as well as work from Jeff Barnaby, Bruce McDonald and Bruce Labruce. Also receiving its world premiere is All The Wrong Reasons featuring the final performance by the late Glee star Cory Monteith.
Festival organisers also unveiled Producers Lab Toronto participants and Telefilm Canada Pitch This! finallists, the shorts programme and participants in the tenth Tiff Talent Lab.
“The scope of this year’s feature films is as broad as Canada’s filmmaking community and demonstrates the deep versatility of our filmmakers,” said Tiff senior programmer Steve Gravestock. “From clever...
The Canadian Features selection includes Michael Dowse’s Goon follow-up The F Word, Xavier Dolan’s Tom At The Farm and Chloe Robichaud’s Sarah Prefers To Run as well as work from Jeff Barnaby, Bruce McDonald and Bruce Labruce. Also receiving its world premiere is All The Wrong Reasons featuring the final performance by the late Glee star Cory Monteith.
Festival organisers also unveiled Producers Lab Toronto participants and Telefilm Canada Pitch This! finallists, the shorts programme and participants in the tenth Tiff Talent Lab.
“The scope of this year’s feature films is as broad as Canada’s filmmaking community and demonstrates the deep versatility of our filmmakers,” said Tiff senior programmer Steve Gravestock. “From clever...
- 8/7/2013
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Denis Villeneuve will have two films in the festival as it emerged on Wednesday [7] that Canadian Features world premiere Enemy starring Jake Gyllenhaal as a man and his doppelganger [pictured] has joined the previously announced Prisoners, also starring Gyllenhaal.
The Canadian Features selection includes Michael Dowse’s Goon follow-up The F Word, Xavier Dolan’s Tom At The Farm and Chloe Robichaud’s Sarah Prefers To Run as well as work from Jeff Barnaby, Bruce McDonald and Bruce Labruce.
“The scope of this year’s feature films is as broad as Canada’s filmmaking community and demonstrates the deep versatility of our filmmakers,” said Tiff senior programmer Steve Gravestock. “From clever, biting satire to intimate social commentary, powerful dramas and even a truly magical comedy, the settings and themes vary, but the perspectives are always uniquely Canadian.”
The City Of Toronto and Canada Goose Award for Best Canadian Feature Film will be given to one of many outstanding...
The Canadian Features selection includes Michael Dowse’s Goon follow-up The F Word, Xavier Dolan’s Tom At The Farm and Chloe Robichaud’s Sarah Prefers To Run as well as work from Jeff Barnaby, Bruce McDonald and Bruce Labruce.
“The scope of this year’s feature films is as broad as Canada’s filmmaking community and demonstrates the deep versatility of our filmmakers,” said Tiff senior programmer Steve Gravestock. “From clever, biting satire to intimate social commentary, powerful dramas and even a truly magical comedy, the settings and themes vary, but the perspectives are always uniquely Canadian.”
The City Of Toronto and Canada Goose Award for Best Canadian Feature Film will be given to one of many outstanding...
- 8/7/2013
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
As Sneak Peek first reported December 2008, Union Pictures will now start production September 27 on "Down The Road Again", a feature sequel to Toronto director Don Shebib's 1970 Canadian classic "Goin' Down The Road".
The new film, written/directed by Shebib, will see the return of original cast members Doug McGrath, Jayne Eastwood and Cayle Chernin. Also starring are Kathleen Robertson, Anthony Lemke and Tedde Moore.
"...Set forty years after the original, 'Down The Road Again' begins as 'Pete McGraw' retires from his days as a Vancouver postal employee. With the news of the demise of his life-long buddy 'Joey', Pete finds himself the custodian of a series of letters, an envelope full of money and a plea from his late pal to head back east with his ashes with details of a special delivery along the way..."
"Down The Road Again" is produced by Robin Cass for executive producers Sandra Cunningham and Anna Stratton,...
The new film, written/directed by Shebib, will see the return of original cast members Doug McGrath, Jayne Eastwood and Cayle Chernin. Also starring are Kathleen Robertson, Anthony Lemke and Tedde Moore.
"...Set forty years after the original, 'Down The Road Again' begins as 'Pete McGraw' retires from his days as a Vancouver postal employee. With the news of the demise of his life-long buddy 'Joey', Pete finds himself the custodian of a series of letters, an envelope full of money and a plea from his late pal to head back east with his ashes with details of a special delivery along the way..."
"Down The Road Again" is produced by Robin Cass for executive producers Sandra Cunningham and Anna Stratton,...
- 9/22/2010
- by Michael Stevens
- SneakPeek
Canadian film actress Sarah Polley will star as the 17th century Queen of Sweden in the dramatic feature Queen Kristina, to be directed by Mika "The House Of Branching Love" Kaurismäki. The film is a co-production with Anna Stratton and Robin Cass of Toronto's Triptych Media, Kaurismäki through his Marianna Films and Hank "City Of God" Levine of Berlin's Hank Levine Film. The real Kristina, born into Swedish royalty in 1626, was her father.s only heir, raised as a Prince and educated as a boy. Upon her father's death she took the oath as a king, not a queen and was nicknamed 'Girl King'. The film will lense in Canada and Sweden, winter/spring of 2011 for a Canadian release by Union Pictures...
- 9/11/2009
- HollywoodNorthReport.com
Best-selling historical adventure and gothic love story to the big screen.
By Press Release
Trudie Styler of Xingu Films, whose film Moon recently won the top prize at the Edinburgh Film Festival, has joined forces with Canadians Sandra Cunningham of Strada Films, and Robin Cass and Anna Stratton of Triptych Media to capture the film rights to “The Outlander,” first time novelist Gil Adamson’s best-selling historical adventure and gothic love story published by House of Anansi Press, which the Washington Post says “bolts off the opening page...An absorbing adventure from a Canadian poet and short story writer who knows how to keep us enthralled".
...
By Press Release
Trudie Styler of Xingu Films, whose film Moon recently won the top prize at the Edinburgh Film Festival, has joined forces with Canadians Sandra Cunningham of Strada Films, and Robin Cass and Anna Stratton of Triptych Media to capture the film rights to “The Outlander,” first time novelist Gil Adamson’s best-selling historical adventure and gothic love story published by House of Anansi Press, which the Washington Post says “bolts off the opening page...An absorbing adventure from a Canadian poet and short story writer who knows how to keep us enthralled".
...
- 7/22/2009
- by Lew Harris
- The Wrap
Film rights to Gil Adamson's historical novel "The Outlander" have been picked up by Trudie Styler's Xingu Films, Sandra Cunningham's Strada Films and Robin Cass and Anna Stratton's Triptych Media.
Published last year by House of Anansi Press, "Outlander" tells the tale of a 19-year-old woman struggling to survive in the Canadian wilderness while being pursued by her late husband's brothers who are seeking revenge for his murder.
Xingu's most recent feature, "Moon," a sci-fi tale starring Sam Rockwell, was released last month by Sony Pictures Classics. Toronto-based Strada recently produced "Fugitive Pieces" with Serendipity Point Films. Triptych's credits include "Emotional Arithmetic," starring Susan Sarandon and Gabriel Byrne.
Published last year by House of Anansi Press, "Outlander" tells the tale of a 19-year-old woman struggling to survive in the Canadian wilderness while being pursued by her late husband's brothers who are seeking revenge for his murder.
Xingu's most recent feature, "Moon," a sci-fi tale starring Sam Rockwell, was released last month by Sony Pictures Classics. Toronto-based Strada recently produced "Fugitive Pieces" with Serendipity Point Films. Triptych's credits include "Emotional Arithmetic," starring Susan Sarandon and Gabriel Byrne.
- 7/20/2009
- by By Gregg Kilday
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Canadian filmmaker John Greyson follows up his AIDS musical "Zero Patience" with another gay-themed film with theatrical roots. Winner of the 1996 Genie for best picture, "Lilies" is based on the 1987 play by Michel Marc Bouchard about a bitter prisoner confronting an old friend over a long-ago romance that ended badly.
With attractive performers and a lively agenda, "Lilies" nonetheless gets bogged down in its unwieldy structure.
The film premiered in
Los Angeles at UCLA's recent series "Borderlines: New Canadian Cinema," as well as screening in the World Film section of the Sundance Film Festival.
From the outset, the film's premises and developments are fantastical despite the drama's somber setting in a prison chapel. Greyson carefully sets up the central gambit of Simon (Aubert Pallascio), which is to restage the great love of his young life for the benefit of a captive bishop (Marcel Sabourin), who knew him when the events took place.
At first the re-creations are indeed stagy, with prisoners playing the roles of men and women, but soon the film indulges in full-blown flashbacks. Sometimes the effect is startling, but most often it's annoying.
The viewer also must deal with the basic confusion that the bishop's younger self (Matthew Ferguson) is not the intense lover of young Simon (Jason Cadieux).
A delicate nobleman of some sort, it's Vallier (Danny Gilmore) who puts the moves on Simon after rehearsing a steamy scene for a church play.
Vallier's mother is played in drag by Remy Girard, and it's she who picks the titular flowers and causes much hardship for her son.
Set in the early decades of this century, the love of Vallier for Simon is scandalous, and the latter embarks on a tempestuous relationship with one Comtess de Tilly (played soulfully by Brent Carver), an elegant but difficult black lady.
There are several interruptions to monitor the effect of Simon's theatrical creation on the bishop.
An elderly holy man, he tries to stop Simon's elaborate "confession," but for the performers and the watchers, there's no turning back.
It's eventually revealed that the young bishop acted rashly after the lovers had finally experienced happiness. The old bishop is forced to confess to the man whose life he destroyed.
While the performances are engaging, when the film strays from the attractive duo of Cadieux and Gilmore, the heavy themes and choral music take over and one feels as trapped as the bishop.
LILIES
Alliance Communications presents
A Triptych Media/Galafilm co-production
Director John Greyson
Producers Anna Stratton, Robin Cass,
Arnie Gelbart
Writer Michel Marc Bouchard
English version Linda Gaboriau
Director of photography Daniel Jobin
Production designer Sandra Kybartas
Editor Andre Corriveau
Costume designer Linda Muir
Music Mychael Danna
Casting Dorothy Gardner
Color/stereo
Cast:
The Bishop Marcel Sabourin
Simon Aubert Pallascio
Young Simon Jason Cadieux
Vallier Danny Gilmore
Young Bishop Matthew Ferguson
Comtess de Tilly Brent Carver
The Baroness Remy Girard
Running time -- 96 minutes
No MPAA rating...
With attractive performers and a lively agenda, "Lilies" nonetheless gets bogged down in its unwieldy structure.
The film premiered in
Los Angeles at UCLA's recent series "Borderlines: New Canadian Cinema," as well as screening in the World Film section of the Sundance Film Festival.
From the outset, the film's premises and developments are fantastical despite the drama's somber setting in a prison chapel. Greyson carefully sets up the central gambit of Simon (Aubert Pallascio), which is to restage the great love of his young life for the benefit of a captive bishop (Marcel Sabourin), who knew him when the events took place.
At first the re-creations are indeed stagy, with prisoners playing the roles of men and women, but soon the film indulges in full-blown flashbacks. Sometimes the effect is startling, but most often it's annoying.
The viewer also must deal with the basic confusion that the bishop's younger self (Matthew Ferguson) is not the intense lover of young Simon (Jason Cadieux).
A delicate nobleman of some sort, it's Vallier (Danny Gilmore) who puts the moves on Simon after rehearsing a steamy scene for a church play.
Vallier's mother is played in drag by Remy Girard, and it's she who picks the titular flowers and causes much hardship for her son.
Set in the early decades of this century, the love of Vallier for Simon is scandalous, and the latter embarks on a tempestuous relationship with one Comtess de Tilly (played soulfully by Brent Carver), an elegant but difficult black lady.
There are several interruptions to monitor the effect of Simon's theatrical creation on the bishop.
An elderly holy man, he tries to stop Simon's elaborate "confession," but for the performers and the watchers, there's no turning back.
It's eventually revealed that the young bishop acted rashly after the lovers had finally experienced happiness. The old bishop is forced to confess to the man whose life he destroyed.
While the performances are engaging, when the film strays from the attractive duo of Cadieux and Gilmore, the heavy themes and choral music take over and one feels as trapped as the bishop.
LILIES
Alliance Communications presents
A Triptych Media/Galafilm co-production
Director John Greyson
Producers Anna Stratton, Robin Cass,
Arnie Gelbart
Writer Michel Marc Bouchard
English version Linda Gaboriau
Director of photography Daniel Jobin
Production designer Sandra Kybartas
Editor Andre Corriveau
Costume designer Linda Muir
Music Mychael Danna
Casting Dorothy Gardner
Color/stereo
Cast:
The Bishop Marcel Sabourin
Simon Aubert Pallascio
Young Simon Jason Cadieux
Vallier Danny Gilmore
Young Bishop Matthew Ferguson
Comtess de Tilly Brent Carver
The Baroness Remy Girard
Running time -- 96 minutes
No MPAA rating...
- 2/18/1997
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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