Mal ,'Serenity'
A place to talk about movies--old and new, good and bad, high art and high cheese. It's the place to place your kittens on the award winners, gossip about upcoming fims and discuss DVD releases and extras. Spoiler policy: White font all plot-related discussion until a movie's been in wide release two weeks, and keep the major HSQ in white font until two weeks after the video/DVD release.
The extent of my Canadian film-making knowledge is Jesus of Montreal and Atom Egoyan. The latter of whom does include Francophone characters, now and then, but doesn't direct in French to my knowledge.
...and I thought I was all informed and stuff by knowing that Much Music, a music TV channel we used to get in the high, weird parts of cable was a Canadian (Anglophone) channel.
Aren't Godspeed You Black Emporer from Montreal? And Stars? And The Unicorns, who are now called Islands, I believe? And the genius guitarist for Pelican, Laurent Schroeder-Lebec. And the McGarrigle sisters - I can't think of their names, but one's Rufus & Martha Wainwright's mom? I think that's all I have.
As for Francophone African directors, I'm at a loss. But there's that actor guy, Isaac De Benkole (which I'm probably horribly misspelling), from the Jarmusch movies. I've heard of Ousmane Sembene, but I've never seen one of his movies. I've seen a movie about Fela Kuti called Music Is The Weapon, but I think the filmmakers were from French television.
The Barbarian Invasions is the only Quebecois film I've seen in recent memory. That was Quebecois, right?
Oh, and there was the French-Canadian movie The Barbarian Invasions.
xpost, and jinx.
Kate and Anna McGarrigle.
Thanks! Are they actually French-Canadian or am I misremembering?
Aren't Godspeed You Black Emporer from Montreal? And Stars? And The Unicorns, who are now called Islands,
When megan says Quebecois, I think she means Francophone Quebecois, not just from Quebec. But those bands are all from Quebec.
Wikipedia says they were born northwest of Montreal and are associated with Quebec's Anglophone community, but have also performed and recorded a lot in French.
Wikipedia's list of Quebec musicians:
The Barbarian Invasions is the only Quebecois film I've seen in recent memory. That was Quebecois, right?
Yes, that's Denys Arcand.
When megan says Quebecois, I think she means Francophone Quebecois, not just from Quebec.
Yes. Also, sadly, not cool-but-obscure Corwood bands, but more generic stuff.
Are they actually French-Canadian or am I misremembering?
They sing in French a lot. They sing one of my favorite Christmas songs, Il est né le divin enfant