Sentences with phrase «canadian cinema history»
In 2016, it was named one of 150 essential works in Canadian cinema history in a poll conducted by the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF).
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The Toronto festival, which turns 40 in 2015, has a long history of championing Canadian cinema; this year it offers a spot to Atom Egoyan following his misjudged double bill of festival flops (2013's The Devil's Knot in Toronto; The Captive at Cannes last year) for Remember, a revenge thriller starring Christopher Plummer.
But Bill Morrison's «Dawson City: Frozen Time» is a major work in any category, a historical spelunking expedition that dives into a long - buried trove of films discovered in a Canadian mining town and comes up with a conjoined history of the Gold Rush and American cinema.
The title of a 1957 painting, Napoleon's Chest at Moscow (now destroyed), even showed a will to rival the French artist's somewhat ironical relationship with history, while another work from the same year was titled Patricia Owens, the name of a Canadian actress who had just left British cinema for Hollywood.