Take One's: 2002 Survey of Canadian Cinema.Every year, Take One tracks all the Canadian features and feature-length documentaries that play in the Greater Toronto Area--the largest market in the world for English-Canadian films--in an effort to develop a picture of those Canadian films that are popular with the theatre-going public. The hands-down 2002 favourite was Zacharias Kunuk's Inuit epic, Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner. Although honoured at the 2001 Genies for Best Picture, Director and Screenplay, Atanarjuat didn't begin its commercial run until 2002 and outlasted all contenders, making it one of the most popular Canadian features of all time. In many respects, 2002 was an excellent year for Canadian cinema, one of the best in a long time. In addition to the highly regarded Atanarjuat, there was Paul Gross's curling comedy Men with Brooms, which became the highest-grossing English-Canadian film at the box office to date, Deepa Mehta's East-meets-West, all-singing, all-dancing romantic comedy Bollywood/Hollywood, and Atom Egoyan's Ararat, a gloomy meditation on memory and genocide. It's a sign of the quality of Canadian cinema in 2002 that Egoyan's latest opus was not the dominate film of the year. An out-of-the-blue dark horse "hit" was Michael Dowser's head-banging mock-documentary, FUBAR See foo. 1. FUBAR - (WWII military slang) Fucked up beyond all recognition (or repair). See foobar. 2. (hardware) FUBAR - The Failed UniBus Address Register in a VAX. A good example of how jargon can occasionally be snuck past the suits. , from Calgary, and Michael Moore's anti-gun documentary, Bowling for Columbine columbine, in botany columbine (kŏl`əmbīn), any plant of the genus Aquilegia, temperate-zone perennials of the family Ranunculaceae (buttercup family), popular both as wildflowers and as garden flowers. . Although only Canadian by virtue of its producing partner, Salter Street Films of Halifax, Columbine proved very popular with local audiences (and picked up an Academy Award nomination for Best Documentary). Another minority co-production, Formula 51, performed extremely well, taking in over $12 million States-side, making it one of the highest-grossing "Canadian" films ever released. And finally, the end of 2002 saw the release of Charles Biname's Seraphin: Un Homme et son peche in Quebec. By press time, the film had raked in over $7 million, making it the all-time domestic box-office champ in Canadian film history. With its unique mixture of critical and popular successes, 2002 will be a hard year to surpass. Take One's Canadian film of the year: Atanarjuat. RELATED ARTICLE: Canadian Features Released in the Greater Toronto Area The Greater Toronto Area (widely abbreviated as the GTA) is the most populous metropolitan area in Canada. The GTA is a provincial planning area with a population of 5,555,912 at the 2006 Canadian Census. in 2002 Thirty-nine features were released in the GTA GTA Grand Theft Auto (legal) GTA Grand Theft Auto (video game) GTA Greater Toronto Area (Canada) GTA Graduate Teaching Assistant in 2002 and are listed here in descending order with the director and the number of weeks played in parenthesis parenthesis: see punctuation. The left parenthesis "(" and right parenthesis ")" are used to delineate one expression from another. For example, in the query list for size="34" and (color = "red" or color ="green") . Atanarjuat, Zacharias Kunuk (17) Bowling for Columbine, Michael Moore  Editing of this page by unregistered or newly registered users is currently disabled due to vandalism. (11) Men with Brooms, Paul Gross For the biologist and author, see Paul R. Gross. For the Academy of Information Technology and Engineering principal, see Paul L. Gross. Paul Michael Gross (born April 30, 1959), is a Canadian actor, producer, director, singer and writer born in Calgary, Alberta. (9) Bollywood/Hollywood, Deepa Mehta (8) Ararat, Atom Egoyan (7) FUBAR, Michael Dowser dowser: see divining rod. (6) Red Green's Duct Tape duct tape n. A usually silver adhesive tape made of cloth mesh coated with a waterproof material, originally designed for sealing heating and air-conditioning ducts. Noun 1. Forever, Eric Till (6) Formula 51, Ronny Yu (5) The Pornographer, Bertrand Bonello (5) Rare Birds, Sturla Gunnarsson (4) Between Strangers, Edoardo Ponti (3) Un Crabe dans la tete, Andre Turpin (3) Inertia, Sean Garrity Sean Leslie Garrity is a fictional firefighter on the FX drama Rescue Me. The character is played by Steven Pasquale. Garrity is a young firefighter, who has been with the FDNY for several years. (3) Perfect Pie Perfect Pie is a 2000 play written by Canadian playwright Judith Thompson. The story concerns the childhoods of Patsy and Marie (later known as Francesca) and the impact it had on their lives. , Barbara Willis Sweete (3) Saint Monica, Terrance Odette (3) Virgina's Run, Peter Markle (3) Black Swan, Wendy Ord (2) The Fourth Angel, John Irvin (2) Khaled, Asghar Mossambagi (2) Lola, Carl Bessai (2) Looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. Leonard, Matthew Bissonnette and Steven Clark Steven Clark (born 17 November 1982 in Doncaster, Yorkshire) is an English cricket player. He is currently playing for Leicestershire. Clark had played for the Yorkshire Cricket Board and Loughborough UCCE before signing a contract with Leicestershire for the 2006 season. (2) Mariages, Catherine Martin (2) Passage to Ottawa, Gaurav Seth (2) Quebec-Montreal, Ricardo Trogi (2) The Rhino Brothers, Dwayne Beaver (2) Suddenly Naked, Anne Wheeler (2) Suspicious River, Lynne Stopkewich (2) Turning Paige, Robert Cuffley (2) Yellowknife, Roderigue Jean (2) Cyberman, Peter Lynch (1) Danny in the Sky, Denis Langlois Denis Langlois (born 10 December 1968 in Drancy) is a French race walker. Achievements Year Tournament Venue Result Event 1994 European Indoor Championships Paris, France 3rd 5000 m 1995 World Championships Gothenburg, Sweden 7th 20 km (1) A Girl at the Window, Francis Leclerc (1) I've Heard the Mermaids Singing, Patricia Rozema (1, re-release) Kevin of the North, Robert Spiers (1) Mile Zero, Andrew Currie (1) L'Odyssey de Alice Tremblay, Denise Filiatrault Denise Filiatrault, OC, OQ (born May 16, 1931, Montreal) is a Canadian actress and director. In 1982, she won a "Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role" Genie Award for her performance in Les Plouffe. (1) On Their Knees, Anais Granofsky (1) Rub & Tug, Soo Lyu (1) White Lies, Ruben Preuss (1) Genie Awards (Canadian Film Awards) Picture: Ararat (Robert Lantos, Atom Egoyan) Director: David Cronenberg, Spider Original Screenplay: Deepa Mehta, Bollywood/Hollywood Adapated Screenplay: Sharon Riis, Savage Messiah Actor: Luc Picard, Savage Messiah Actress: Arsinee Khanjian, Ararat Supporting Actor: Elias Koteas, Ararat Supporting Actress: Pascale Montpetit, Savage Messiah Cinematography cinematography: see motion picture photography. cinematography Art and technology of motion-picture photography. It involves the composition of a scene, lighting of the set and actors, choice of cameras, camera angle, and integration of special : Paul Sarossy, Perfect Pie Editing: Suddenly Naked Art Direction: Almost America Costumes: Ararat Musical Score: Ararat Original Song: Saint Monica Sound Editing: Max Overall Sound: Between Strangers Feature Documentary: Gambling, Gods and LSD LSD or lysergic acid diethylamide (lī'sûr`jĭk, dī'ĕth`ələmĭd, dī'ĕthəlăm`ĭd), alkaloid synthesized from lysergic acid, which is found in the fungus ergot ( Live-Action Short: I Shout Love Animated Short: The Hungry Squid Claude Jutra Award: Keith Behrman, Flower & Garnet Golden Reel Award: Richard Goudreau, Les Boys III Les Prix Jutra (Quebec Film Awards) Picture: Quebec--Montreal (Nicole Robert) Director: Ricardo Trogi, Quebec--Montreal Screenplay: Jean--Philippe Pearson, Patrice Robitaille, Ricardo Trogi, Quebec--Montreal Actor: Pierre Lebeau, Seraphin: Un Homme et son peche Actress: Karine Vanasse, Seraphin: Un Homme et son peche Supporting Actor: Luc Picard, Le Collectionneur Supporting Actress: Isabelle Blais, Quebec--Montreal Cinematography: Jean Lepine, Seraphin: Un Homme et son peche Editing: Le Neg Art Direction: Seraphin: Un Homme et son peche Musical Score: Seraphin: Un Homme et son peche Sound: Seraphin: Un Homme et son peche Documentary: Rein sans pennes Short Film: La Derniere voix Animated Short: Les Ramoneurs cerebraux Top Ten at the Box Office According to a Playback survey published November 25, 2002, covering the period from November 9, 2001 to November 7, 2002. The box--office totals are expressed in millions in parenthesis. Les Boys III ($5.3) Men with Brooms ($3.9) L'Odyssey de Alice Tremblay ($2.1) Savage Messiah ($1.6) Atanarjuat ($1.1) La Mysterieuse mademoiselle C. ($1.1) Le Collectionneur ($0.9) Quebec--Montreal ($0.9) Bollywood/Hollywood ($0.8) Formula 51 ($0.8). Toronto International Film Festival's 2002 Top Ten Selected by a 10-member national panel of filmmakers, festival programmers, journalists and industry professionals. Listed alphabetically with the director in parenthesis. Ararat (Atom Egoyan) Dracula: Pages from a Virgin 's Diary (Guy Maddin) Flower & Garnet (Keith Behrman) Gambling, Gods & LSD (Peter Mettler) Marion Bridge (Wiebke von Carolsfeld) Le Neg' (Robert Morin) Ocean (Catherine Martin) Spider (David Cronenberg) Tom (Mike Hoolboom) La Turbulence des fluides/Chaos and Desire (Manon Briand) |
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