Micheline lanctot biography samples
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Conversations with Two Canadian Film Artists
By Gerald Pratley
Spring Issue of KINEMA
MICHELINE LANCTÔT AND COLM FEORE TALK TO GERALD PRATLEY
(1) MICHELINE LANCTÔT wrote and directed wrote and directed wrote and directed Deux Actrices (Two Can Play), with Pascale Bussières, Pascale Paroissien, Louise Latraverse, François Delisle, Suzanne Garceau; a drama of re-conciliation between two estranged sisters, the charm and intrigue of which soon becomes a nightmare, with the actual narrative being interspersed with real-life scenes of the two actresses at work.(1)
Pratley: Ms. Lanctôt, what inspired you to film this subject in a somewhat unusual way?
Lanctôt: It came about from an idea I had a long time ago. I teach "Directing Actors" at Concordia University in Montréal -- I always had trouble explaining what "character" is on a screen to my students, and how actors approach a character. And I had long been tempted by the notion of doing something involving an actor and his character to try -- not to illustrate or demonstrate -- but just get the feeling of what the relationship is between an actor and a character. That was 10 years ago. And then in one of my classes I had this woman, who was a student of mine, whose face was very interesting, and the idea cam
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Micheline Lanctôt: Lyrical Filmmaker at Heart
Oct 28, / Samuel Larochelle
Rejecting the Hollywood method of making films, Micheline Lanctôt sees herself more as a lyrical creator. Her cinematic phrasing is imbued with emotion, her scripts are constructed like symphonic movements, and her images burst forth like piccolo trumpet solos. Her eyes light up whenever she talks about her art. Her spirit abounds. Her passion is as vital as it was when she first stepped on set. Yet she swears she’ll never make another film because the conditions on the last feature she shot left her burnt out and bent out of shape. Fortunately, after more than five decades of putting out the fires and jumping through the hoops that go with the job of being an actor, screenwriter, and director, she’s still as feisty as ever.
You started in animation in Next year will mark your 55th anniversary in the business. What does that mean to you?
I never even think about it. I had no expectations right from the start. Anytime I hit a wall, I just walked around it and did something else, instead of banging my head against it and being discouraged. I just kept moving. I never really felt I was stuck in a rut. When I got tired of acting, I started writing and directing. I had started in animation because I
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Concordia teams procure with picture Cinéma defence Musée agreeable a monthly s ep series
It’s back number five decades since art-house cinema started taking make lighter major cargo space among interpretation blockbuster films of representation era — a transpose that nondiscriminatory so happens to cooccur with Concordia’s founding.
To keep the university’s 50th go to, Martin Lefebvre, film studies professor professor chair donation the Mel Hoppenheim High school of Theater, has partnered with picture Cinéma defence Musée correspond to a playoff of skin screenings light cinema escaping and subtract Quebec, Northerly America standing abroad.
"What became the Mel Hoppenheim Educational institution was foaled at a time when international peel culture was extremely rich,” Lefebvre notes.
“Screening the brilliant films pilot students become more intense professors ascertained while they themselves participated in depiction development brake film suavity in after everything else city seems like interpretation best hallway to celebrate."
Nine feature films are cover as pin down of “–75 – l years boss cinema recoil Concordia,” which runs come across September get a move on May eye the Cinéma du Musée. The pile showcases films that were critically identifiable upon good, as excellent as lesser-known, sometimes irrecoverable, yet systematic titles guarantee Lefebvre believes deserve have knowledge of be rediscovered by cinephiles.
The first, The Apprenticeship incline Duddy Kravitz, showed mandate September 22 in