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NOTE to French-speaking citizens of Canada: This page is constructed in English only,
since the builder is a citizen of the United States, and English is the only language
that he speaks fluently, or even can pronounce properly. No offense intended.
Books on Canadian Cinema
 | "Movie Years: A Nostalgic Remembrance of Canada's Film-Making Capital, Trenton, Ontario, 1917-1934" [1989] by Peggy Dymond Leavey Mika Publng Co. pb [11/89] out of print/used |
 | "Stardust and Shadows: Canadians In Early Hollywood" [2000] by Charles Foster The stories of eighteen Canadians who were celebrities during Hollywood’s formative years: Al & Charles Christie, Joe & Sam De Grasse, Marie Dressler, Allan Dwan, May Irwin, Florence La Badie, Florence Lawrence, Del Lord, Louis B. Mayer, Sidney Olcott, Jack Pickford, Mary Pickford, Marie Prevost, Mack Sennett, Douglas Shearer & Norma Shearer Dundurn Press 9¼x6½ hardcover [9/2000] for $15.59 |
 | "Guide To The Cinema(s) of Canada" [2001] Edited by Peter Harry Rist Greenwood Press 9¼x6½ hardcover [7/2001] for $107.95 [sic] |
 | "Canadian National Cinema" [2002] by Christopher E. Gittings Routledge 9¼x6¼ pb [1/2002] for $30.95 Routledge 9¾x6 hardcover [1/2002] for $125.00 [sic] |
 | "North of Everything: English-Canadian Cinema Since 1980" [2002] Edited by William Beard & Jerry White Univ Alberta Press 10x6¾ pb [6/2002] for $49.95 Univ Alberta Press 10x5¾ hardcover [6/2002] for $75.00 |
 | "One Hundred Years of Canadian Cinema" [2004] by George Melnyk Univ Toronto Press 9x6 pb [9/2004] for $35.00 Univ Toronto Press 9¼x6¼ hardcover [9/2004] for $70.00 |
 | "The Cinema of Canada (24 Frames Series)" [2006] Edited by Jerry White Wallflower Press 9x7¾ pb [6/2006] for $25.00 Wallflower Press 9¾x8 hardcover [6/2006] for $75.00 |
 | "Toronto on Film" [2007] by Geoff Pevere contributors include Piers Handing (of Toronto's International Film Festival), Matthew Hays, Wyndham Wise, Brenda Longfellow, Steve Gravestock & Justin D. Edwards (of Toronto's International Film Festival) Indiana Univ Press 8x5¾ pb [2/2007] for $14.00 |
 | "Canadian Animation: Looking For A Place To Happen" [2008] by Chris Robinson Indiana Univ Press 9x6 pb [12/2008] for $27.95 see also Magic Lantern's Animation Pages |
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NOTE: Oscar Awards for Best Foreign Language Film are not attributed
by A.M.P.A.S. or IMDb to the director or producer, but to the country of origin.
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Denys Arcand [Canada/Quebec]
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Wikipedia
Denys Arcand bio page at Canadian Film Encyclopedia
 | impressionist animator Frédéric Back [b. 1924] credits at IMDb • Wikipedia |
Atom Egoyan
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official website •
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Claude Jutra [1930-86]
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Wikipedia
Allan King [1930-2009]
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actor-director-writer Robert Lepage [Canada/Quebec]
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Ex Machina Theatre Company in Quebec City
La Caserne Dalhousie in Quebec City
Actors & Others of Canada
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There are many fine actresses & actors of Canada; however, the more successful ones attained that success
in Hollywood or New York, or in Europe. Such actors include Dan Aykroyd, John Candy [1950-94], Jim Carrey,
Michael J. Fox, Lorne Greene [1915-87], Mike Myers, Mary Pickford [1892-1979] & her brother Jack
Pickford [1895-1933], Keanu Reeves, Mack Sennett [1880-1960], Norma Shearer [1902-83] & Martin Short
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Genevieve Bujold
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[blacklistee] actress Madeleine Sherwood [b. 1922]
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Selected Movies & TV of Canada
{ in chronological order }
Canada's films have received 1 Best Foreign Language Oscar® win,
among 4 Best Foreign Film nominations.
list of Canada's submissions for Oscar consideration
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 | "Leonard Maltin's Animation Favorites From The National Film Board of Canada" [2001] Nine animated shorts, including Norman McLaren's "Begone Dull Care" [1949] & Oscar-nominated "Pas de Deux" [1968]; Jacques Drouin's "Mindscape" [1976]; John Weldon's "Log Driver's Waltz" [1979]; Cordell Barker's Oscar-nominated "The Cat Came Back" [1988]; Richard Condie's "Getting Started" [1979]; Sheldon Cohen's BAFTA-winner "The Sweater" [1980]; Caroline Leaf's Oscar-nominated "The Street" [1976]; and Marc Aubry & Michel Hébert's "Anniversary" [1989] Image Ent. b&w/color DVD [4/2001] for $22.49 |
 | "Animation Express" Collection, 2004-2009 [2010]
Image Ent. widescreen color Blu-ray [6/2010] 39 films for $24.99 Image Ent. widescreen color DVD [6/2010] 26 films on 2 disks for $26.99 contains 26 animated films (13 more on the Blu-ray); all are from The National Film Board of Canada: "Come Again In Spring" [2007], "Drux Flux" [2008], "Engine 371" [2007], "Forming Game" [2008], "Flutter" [2006], "Ha'Aki" [2008], "Here and There" [2006], "How People Got Fire" [2008], "Hungu" [2008], "Invasion of The Space Lobsters" [2005], "Land of The Heads" [2009], Oscar-nominated "Madame Tutti-Putli" [2007], "The Man Who Slept (L'Homme Qui Dort)" [2009], "The Necktie (Le Noeud Cravate)" [2008], "Paradise" [2007], "Rains (L'Ondée)" [2008], "Retouches" [2008], "Robes of War (Robe de Guerre)" [2009], "Rosa Rosa" [2008], "Runaway" [2009], "Sainte Barbe" [2007], "Sleeping Betty" [2007], "Spare Change" [2008], "The Spine" [2009], "Subservience" [2007], and "Vive la Rose" [2009]; 13 additional shorts on the Blu-ray disk including two Oscar© winners: "At Home With Mrs. Hen" [2006], "Cot Cot" [2007], Genie- & Oscar-winning "The Danish Poet" [2006], "Nightmare At School" [2007], "Peggie Baker Four Phrases" [2009], "Pimp My Boat (Pimp ma botte)" [2005], "The Real Place" [2009], "Roots" [undated], Oscar-winning "Ryan" [2004], "Stationery" [2005], "Terra" [2005], "The True Story of Sawney Beane" [2005], and "Uncle Bob's Hospital Visit" [2008] |
"Nanook of The North" [Pathé June 1922 silent]
Written & directed by Robert J. Flaherty
full credits from IMDb; listed on National Film Registry (1989)
"Challenge of The Yukon"
radio program [Feb 1938 - June 1955]
| "Challenge of The Yukon" was a radio series that began on Detroit's station WXYZ (home of "The Lone Ranger" and "The Green Hornet"); the program debuted in a 15-minute format on 3 February 1938; the local program ended 28 May 1947. Quaker Oats signed on as sponsor, and a half-hour A.B.C. radio network program began 12 June 1947, ending 30 December 1949. The program moved to the Mutual Broadcasting System on 2 January 1950; the title was changed to "Sergeant Preston of The Yukon" in November 1951; the radio series ended on 9 June 1955. |
"Sergeant Preston of The Yukon"
CBS-TV series [Sept 1955 - Sept 1958]
 | 78-episode color network television series about Royal Canadian Mounted Police Sergeant William Preston – with his dog Yukon King and his horse Rex – tracking crooks thru the often snow-bound north country of Canada; location filming at Big Bear Lake, east of Los Angeles, California and at Ashcroft, Colorado
Series written & supervised by George W. Trendle & Fran Striker; narrated by Vic Perrin & Gayne Whitman; starring Richard 'Dick' Simmons [1913-2003]
full credits at IMDb • series entry at Wikipedia Season 1: Falcon Picture Group color DVD [3/2009] 33 episodes on 5 disks for $22.99 Season 2: Falcon Picture Group color DVD [6/2009] 23 episodes on 4 disks for $24.99 Season 3: Critic's Choice color DVD [3/2008] 22 episodes on 4 disks - out of prodn/scarce ten-episode collection packaged in a tin can [2006] Timeless Media Group color DVD [6/2009] 10 episodes on 2 disks for $7.49 |
"Mon Oncle Antoine" smash [Canada 1971] by Claude Jutra
"Kamouraska" [1973] by Claude Jutra with Genevieve Bujold
"My Winnipeg" [2007] http://us.imdb.com/title/tt1093842/
Canadian Cinema Links
foreign movie poster catalog at AllPosters [dot] com
Foreign Films [dot] com
Canadian Film Encyclopedia
The Canadian Encyclopedia [online 1999]
Women In Film & Video of Vancouver BC Canada [est. 1989]
New German Cinema at University of Victoria, BC Canada
Complete Index To World Film
Yahoo! Canada Movies
HarbourFront Films of Scarborough (Toronto), Canada
Northern Stars cinema news website
Toronto Silent Film Festival [April 2011 = #2]
Toronto Urban Film Festival [Sept 2011 = #5]
![Worldwide Short Film Festival [June 2010 = #9] in Toronto, Canada](images/WorldwideShortFF.gif)
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