Film
Several prominent Canadian films were produced in Manitoba. These include The Stone Angel, based on the Margaret Laurence book of the same title, The Saddest Music in the World, Foodland (film), For Angela, and My Winnipeg. Guy Maddin, OM, the creator of My Winnipeg, is a prominent Manitoban screenwriter and film director. Cordell Barker, considered to be one of Canada’s best animators, is also Manitoban. His most notable animated short is The Cat Came Back (1988), which received an Oscar nomination. Another prominent Manitoban animator, Richard Condie, is best known for his 1985 work The Big Snit, which was nominated for an Oscar and won the Genie Award for Best Animated Short, along with over a dozen international awards. Condie is a founding member of the Winnipeg Film Group.
Several major American films were filmed in Manitoba. Among the most prominent of these are The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford and Capote, both of which received Academy Award nominations. Winnipeg-based Frantic Films has provided special effects for several American films, including Duplicity, Journey to the Center of the Earth, and Superman Returns.
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Famous quotes containing the word film:
“Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody’s piano playing in my living room has to the book I am reading.”
—Igor Stravinsky (1882–1971)
“A film is a petrified fountain of thought.”
—Jean Cocteau (1889–1963)
“Television does not dominate or insist, as movies do. It is not sensational, but taken for granted. Insistence would destroy it, for its message is so dire that it relies on being the background drone that counters silence. For most of us, it is something turned on and off as we would the light. It is a service, not a luxury or a thing of choice.”
—David Thomson, U.S. film historian. America in the Dark: The Impact of Hollywood Films on American Culture, ch. 8, William Morrow (1977)