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:
“All film directors, whether famous or obscure, regard themselves as misunderstood or underrated. Because of that, they all lie. They’re obliged to overstate their own importance.”
—François Truffaut (1932–1984)
“I think of horror films as art, as films of confrontation. Films that make you confront aspects of your own life that are difficult to face. Just because you’re making a horror film doesn’t mean you can’t make an artful film.”
—David Cronenberg (b. 1943)
“The average Hollywood film star’s ambition is to be admired by an American, courted by an Italian, married to an Englishman and have a French boyfriend.”
—Katharine Hepburn (b. 1909)