NATIONAL CANADIAN FILM DAY CANLIBS Grab a friend – or five! Ask your group for word substitutions, then read it all back to them! DOUBLE HAPPINESS (1995) Director/Screenwriter: Mina Shum. Starring: Sandra Oh, Stephen Chang, Alannah Ong, Callum Keith Rennie. 87 minutes. PG Jade Li (Oh), a __________ Chinese Canadian, wants to become (adjective) a(n) ___________ without upsetting her extremely ____________ (profession) (adjective) ____________. It’s a ___________ that Jade is finding___________ (family members) (noun) (adjective) to achieve. Talking in English, _____________ western clothes and going out with ___________ guys, Jade (verb ending in -ing) (adjective) leads a __________ life when she leaves her ___________-but-___________ domestic scene each day. Things (adjective) (adjective) (adjective) come to a __________ when _________(Rennie), a white Canadian __________ student, insists on turning (noun) (name) (school subject) their ____________ into something more ___________. It’s a relationship that Jade’s _____________ would (noun) (adjective) (family members) ___________. What should she do? (emotion) Sandra Oh won the _____________ Award for her performance. The film also won awards in____________, (verb ending in -ing) (place) ____________ and ____________. (place) (place) Record something hilarious? Tag us! @CanFilmDay #CanFilmDay CANLIBS ATANARJUAT: THE FAST RUNNER (2001) Director: Zacharias Kunuk. Screenwriter: Paul Apak Angilirq. Starring: Natar Ungalaaq, Sylvia Ivalu, Peter-Henry Arnatsiaq, Lucy Tulugarjuk. 161 minutes. AA (Inuktitut with English subtitles) Based on an ancient Inuit legend, Atanarjuat is a(n) ___________ (adjective) tale of _____________, _____________ and ______________. (emotion) (noun) (noun) The ______________ Atuat (Ivalu) has been promised to the (adjective) _____________ Oki (Arnatsiaq), the son of the tribe’s _____________. However, she loves the ____________ (adjective) (noun) (adjective) Atanarjuat (Ungalaaq), a fast runner and excellent ___________. When Atanarjuat is forced to ____________ the (verb ending in -er) (verb) ____________ Oki for Atuat’s _____________, the events that follow determine not only his ___________, but that (adjective) (body part) (noun) of his ______________. (object) Atanarjuat won 20 awards, including eight Genies and the _____________ d’Or at the _______ Cannes Film Festival. (French noun) (year) THE F WORD (2013) Director: Michael Dowse. Screenwriter: Elan Mastai. Starring: Daniel Radcliffe, Zoe Kazan, Adam Driver, Rafe Spall. 102 minutes. 14A Wallace (Radcliffe) is a __________ school dropout who’s been (subject) __________ by __________relationships. Just when all his friends, (verb, past tense) (adjective) and even his ___________ roommate Allan (Driver), seem to be (adjective) finding ___________, Wallace decides to put romance on hold. Of course, that’s when he meets Chantry (Kazan), a (emotion) ____________ who lives with her longtime ____________, Ben (Spall). The dreaded “F word” in this _____________ (profession) (relation) (adjective) and hilarious______________ is “_______________.” Wallace and Chantry form an instant _____________ , but are (film genre) (word starting with F) (noun) both committed to keeping things ____________, which might prove to be more______________ than either one of (adjective) (adjective) them imagined. Record something hilarious? Tag us! @CanFilmDay #CanFilmDay CANLIBS GINGER SNAPS (2000) Director: John Fawcett. Screenwriter: Karen Walton. Starring: Emily Perkins, Katharine Isabelle, Kris Lemche, Mimi Rogers. 108 minutes. R In this Canadian cult ____________, a ____________ woman’s (noun) (adjective) adolescent transformation gets ___________ than expected. (adjective) Teenaged sisters Ginger (Isabelle) and Brigitte (Perkins) live in Bailey Downs, a ___________town that has been hit by a ____________ run of ___________ attacks. On the night of (adjective) (adjective) (animal) Ginger’s first ____________ she is _____________ by a monstrous creature, setting her on the path to a much more (life milestone) (verb ending in -ed) ___________ ____________ than mere puberty held in store! (adjective) (noun) With biting satire on the ____________ story,Ginger Snaps is a cult classic, _________ with___________, screams (film genre) (verb) (noun) and frightfully fun ___________. Nominated for _______ awards, the film went on to spawn two ______________. (noun) (number) (plural noun) BOLLYWOOD/HOLLYWOOD (2002) Director/Screenwriter: Deepa Mehta. Starring: Rahul Khanna, Lisa Ray, Rishma Malik, Moushumi Chatterjee. 105 minutes. PG Set in _____________ and its _____________ suburbs, Bollywood/ (Canadian city) (adjective) Hollywood __________ subverts the ___________ conventions of (adverb) (adjective) both cultures. Rahul (Khanna), a ___________ South Asian-Canadian (adjective) ___________, is pressured by his ____________ (Chatterjee) and _____________ to find a ____________ Hindu girl (profession) (type of family member) (type of family member) (adjective) to accompany him to the ____________ wedding ceremony of his sister (Malik). (adjective) As a joking way of accommodating them, he hires Sue (Ray), a ___________ escort girl, to pretend to be his fiancée. (adjective) Naturally, the two fall in __________, and just as naturally, ___________ ensue. Incorporating the ___________ (emotion) (plural noun) (adjective) stylistic excesses of Bollywood — the ___________, the choreography and the music — Mehta allows Indian culture (noun) and societal attitudes to play out in _____________________. (same Canadian city as above) Record something hilarious? Tag us! @CanFilmDay #CanFilmDay CANLIBS BON COP, BAD COP (2006) Director: Érik Canuel. Screenwriters: Leila Basen, Alex Epstein, Patrick Huard, Kevin Tierney. Starring: Colm Feore, Patrick Huard. 116 minutes. 14A (Bilingual: French and English) A ___________ smash, Bon Cop, Bad Cop is a __________ ___________ (adjective) (adjective) (film genre) about _______ policemen who are thrown together to solve a crime (number) committed on the _____________ between Quebec and Ontario. (landform) __________ (Feore) and ___________ (Huard) couldn’t be more different: one is a ____________ -speaker from (name) (name) (language) Toronto, the other is a ___________ -speaker from Montreal; one never deviates from ______________ procedure, (language) (adjective) the other is a _______________ who refuses to ______________ by the rules. The detectives soon learn that (type of person) (action verb) if they are to solve this ____________ crime, which is linked to the world of ___________, they need to stop (adjective) (sport) _____________ and work together. With ______________ performances from both ____________, Bon Cop, Bad Cop (verb ending in -ing) (adjective) (plural noun) is a genuinely clever take on the ______________ genre that will keep you ______________ throughout. (film genre) (verb ending in -ing) THE GRAND SEDUCTION (2013) Director: Don McKellar. Screenwriter: Michael Dowse, Ken Scott. Starring: Taylor Kitsch, Brendan Gleeson, Gordon Pinsent, Liane Balaban. 113 minutes. PG A __________ and __________ English-language adaptation of the (adjective) (adjective) 2003 Quebecois __________La grande séduction, this film tells the tale (film genre) of a _____________ ______________ village in ______________ that (adjective) (industry) (province or territory) must secure a new ______________ in order to keep the community alive. When city ____________ Paul Lewis (profession 1) (profession 1) (Kitsch) arrives for a court-ordered trial residence, the townsfolk rally to ___________ and ____________ him into (verb) (verb) ___________. Under the __________of an unemployed ____________ (Gleeson), they go to ___________ lengths (verb ending in -ing) (noun) (profession 2) (adjective) to fabricate all the_____________ of the big city and make it seem as though their __________ town has everything (plural noun) (adjective) ____________ Lewis could possibly want. Will the he fall for their tricks, or will he _____________through them to (profession 1) (verb) the ___________ about small town life? (noun) Record something hilarious? Tag us! @CanFilmDay #CanFilmDay CANLIBS MY AMERICAN COUSIN (1985) Director/Screenwriter: Sandy Wilson. Starring: Margaret Langrick, John Wildman, Richard Donat. 90 minutes. PG Sandy (Langrick) is a ___________ _______-year-old preparing (emotion) (number) for another ______________ and __________ summer in rural (adjective) (adjective) 1950s ______________, when her older ___________, Butch (John (province or territory) (family member) Wildman), arrives unexpectedly from ______________ in a shiny red ___________. Of course, the __________ (city outside Canada) (vehicle) (adjective) Sandy is immediately dazzled by Butch’s ___________, ___________ swagger, whose appearance seems to promise (adjective) (music genre) all the ___________ that Sandy has been ______________ for. (noun) (verb ending in -ing) Based on writer-director Sandy Wilson’s own __________, My American Cousin won six __________ Awards (plural noun) (noun) including Best ___________, Best ___________ (Wilson), Best Original _____________, Best ___________ (verb) (verb) (noun) (verb) (Wildman), Best ____________ (Langrick), and Best _____________. It remains one of Canada’s best loved (verb) (verb) ___________ films. (film genre) VIDEODROME (1983) Director/Screenwriter: David Cronenberg. Starring: James Woods, Debbie Harry, Sonja Smits. 87 minutes. R When ___________ Renn (Woods) goes looking for __________ new (first