Movies
It’s good that award-winning French filmmaker Alain Resnais listened to his mother.
March 8, 2018
The film “Dead Ringers” has garnered 12 Genie Award nominations (Canada’s version of the Academy Awards, in which the film was ignored), including best picture, director (David Cronenberg), actor (Jeremy Irons) and actress (Genevieve Bujold).
Feb. 22, 1989
For the Record
“Anne of the Thousand Days”: In the Nov. 15 Envelope section, an article about queens in films said Genevieve Bujold played King Henry II’s wife in “Anne of the Thousand Days.”
Nov. 16, 2018
The Canadian director Michel Brault is a filmmaker with an overwhelming talent for evoking the here and now, a talent that streaks through his latest film, “A Paper Wedding” (Laemmle’s Fine Arts).
Sept. 20, 1991
Video Express is the catch phrase trade papers use to describe movies jammed into theaters en route to the video bins.
June 8, 1990
Ivan Reitman’s “The Twins Project,” which Universal is set to begin in late March for a big Christmas release, is not to be confused with Fox’s “Twins,” which David Cronenberg is shooting in Toronto.
Jan. 31, 1988
Entertainment & Arts
Astral Bellevue Pathe Inc., a Canadian entertainment company, said Wednesday that it has acquired Canadian rights in all media to director David Cronenberg’s film “Twins” for the highest amount ever paid for distribution rights in Canada--well over $1 million.
Feb. 12, 1988
“Excuse me,” Mrs.
Oct. 10, 1997
Willem Dafoe and Gregory Hines will play military cops on the trail of a prostitute killer in Fox’s “Saigon” (tentative title), a thriller set at the height of the Vietnam War, now in pre-production. . . .
March 29, 1987
Television
TELEVISION First Female Captain: For the first time in the 28-year history of “Star Trek,” the Federation starship will be helmed by a female captain, when the franchise’s new syndicated series “Star Trek: Voyager” premieres in January.
Sept. 2, 1994