• CINE MAti Arcand's Le crime d'Ovide • Quebec critics ready Plou.fJe, all of which, as well as MONTREAL - Six Quebecois Sonatine and La femme de Eight launches, strong runs for 0C pix features out of the 1984 crop of l'hotel, are eligible for Genies this year. 18 have been selected as fina­ MONTREAL - During the last bec, another I.c.e. film, The The sleeper of the season is lists by the Association quebe­ four months, theatrical features Bay Boy, played for two weeks Jacques et No vembre, a film coise des critiques de cinema Aussie Monkey Grip from Quebec have made an in Quebec during the same which cost directors Jean for the $5000 Prix Ouimet-Mol­ TORONTO - Norstar launched exceptional showing. In all, period, grossing $2,700 in En­ Beaudry and Fran~ois Bouvier son to be awarded Jan. 29 . 1985 with a release of Monkey eight French-language films glish and $6,500 in French, dis­ $15,000 and four years to make, The six finalists are : Miche­ Grip and 1984. Monkey Grip is were distributed by six dif­ tributed by Pan Canadian.) . and which is an unmitigated line Lanctot's Sonatine, Lea an Australian picture directed ferent Canadian companies Riding on the popularity critical success. Launched in Pool's La femme de I'hiJtei, by Ken Cameron and produced and most had runs exceeding generated at the World Film November at the rep house Jean Beaudry and Francois by Patricia Lovell of Picnic at four weeks. Festival of Montreal, Mario by L' Autre Cinema by distributors Bouvier's Jacques et Novem­ Hanging Rock and Gallipoli Commercially, the most suc­ Jean Beaudin is also still hold­ Cinema Libre, the film played bre, Andre Melancon's La fame. 1984 is the second screen cessful film is La Guerre des ing in the theatres, having to full-houses every evening guerre des tuques, Jean Beau­ adaptation of Orwell's famous tuques, the family film by Andre played for 14 weeks and grossed for a month, and is now in din's Mario, and Roger Frap­ novel. The British production Melancon. Marcel Paradis of $275,000. It is being distributed distribution around the prlr pier and Jacques Leduc's Le was written and directed by Cinema Plus reports that after by Cinema International Cana­ vince. It has been invited as dernier glacier. Michael Radford. John Hurt 14 weeks, the film - made for da, the reorganized Cinepix. A one of ten films by young film­ The annual award comme­ plays Winston Smith and about $1 .3 million - had grossed second National Film Board makers to screen at the Tokyo morates the memory of L.E. Suzanna Hamilton, Julia. $560,000 and is still playing in feature, a docu-drama entitled festival this summer. Ouimet who opened Montreal's Montreal and throughout the Le Dernier Glacier by Roger The distribution disappoint­ first cinema in 1906. For the province. Frappier and Jacques Leduc, ment of the year is Micheline past 10 years the Quebec cri­ Genie screenings on With a run of njne weeks, Le opened quietly and closed after Lanctot's Sonatine. Re­ tics' association has honored TORONTO - The Academy of Crime d'Ovide Plouffe, direct­ two weeks. released after it won the Silver the art of filmmaking (as op­ Canadian Cinema is screening ed by Denys Arcand and distri­ Havil)g won the critics' prize Lion at the Venice festival by posed to the art of making Genie entries for members and buted by Les Films Rene Malo at both the Montreal and Toron­ Rene Malo, the film only played money). Since 1.982, the cash media at the Backstage theatre grossed $176,680, while Loui­ to festivals, Lea Pool's La Femme for one week. prize has been made possible in Toronto from Jan. 24-31. The siana played for the same num­ de I'hotel had a seven-week through the generosity of Mol­ Montreal screening at La Cite ber of weeks and grossed only run in Montreal before being son's Brewery. ran from Jan. 17-24. Hey Babe $98,843. Both films were over­ distributed throughout the Warning: Favored contenders for the has been withdrawn because it seen by International Cinema province by J.A. Lapointe. The Cinema Canada can be hablt-fermlag. association's 11th annual award did not met distribution re­ Corp ., and combined budgets, Montreal gross was $56,000. So why not keep yourself well­ are Sonatine, Jacques et No­ quirements. Genie entries which include a mini-series, The film also had a disappoint­ supplied 'I All ~ou have to do is 1111 vembre and La Femme de must have been released for amount to $18 million. (Al­ ing Toronto run of two weeks out the subscription coup~n In this [,hoteL seven consecutive days to a though not produced in Que- with English sub-titles. issue. 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