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Post by lowtacks86 on Feb 12, 2020 20:13:37 GMT
Cronenberg?
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Post by theravenking on Feb 12, 2020 20:22:17 GMT
James Cameron
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Post by Jep Gambardella on Feb 12, 2020 20:36:26 GMT
Does he count? I don't think he's ever directed a single Canadian film.
David Cronenberg and Denis Villeneuve come to mind.
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Post by theravenking on Feb 12, 2020 20:40:19 GMT
Does he count? I don't think he's ever directed a single Canadian film.
David Cronenberg and Denis Villeneuve come to mind.
Does the OP mean a director who has worked in the Canadian film industry or just a director who is Canadian by birth?
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Post by lowtacks86 on Feb 12, 2020 20:46:21 GMT
Does he count? I don't think he's ever directed a single Canadian film.
David Cronenberg and Denis Villeneuve come to mind.
Does the OP mean a director who has worked in the Canadian film industry or just a director who is Canadian by birth? I didn't think it out that far. For simplicity's sake, let's say worked in Canadian film industry.
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Post by Jep Gambardella on Feb 12, 2020 20:48:06 GMT
Does he count? I don't think he's ever directed a single Canadian film.
David Cronenberg and Denis Villeneuve come to mind.
Does the OP mean a director who has worked in the Canadian film industry or just a director who is Canadian by birth?
Good question. I don't know. Personally, as a Canadian, I don't think of him as a Canadian director.
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Post by politicidal on Feb 12, 2020 21:01:37 GMT
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Post by lowtacks86 on Feb 12, 2020 21:01:45 GMT
Does the OP mean a director who has worked in the Canadian film industry or just a director who is Canadian by birth?
Good question. I don't know. Personally, as a Canadian, I don't think of him as a Canadian director.
I'm reading his wiki article, apparently he lives in California and New Zealand. I assumed he became a US citizen years ago, but apparenly he withdrew his application when George W Bush got re-elected.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 12, 2020 21:11:50 GMT
James Cameron I reckon.
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Post by Prime etc. on Feb 12, 2020 22:16:03 GMT
Good example of why multiculturalism is a fail.
Canada didn't encourage English film in Canada so it is a head scratcher about what makes a filmmaker a Canadian.
Sydney J Furie and Alan Gibson (Dracula AD 72) went to England.
Daniel Petrie, Norman Jewison, and George McCowan went to the US.
A few like Roger Spottiswoode got a few blips (a Tom Hanks movie and James Bond).
Cameron didn't make any films in Canada except short ones as a teenager. He was interviewed by a Canadian reporter who asked him about a film he was rumored to have made where he put a hamster in a model boat and filmed it approaching Niagara Falls. He said to the reporter: "where are you going with this?"
He moved to the US as a teenager but worked as a truck driver. He did not resume filmmaking until he saw Star Wars.
David Cronenberg and Ivan Reitman were probably the only two filmmakers born in Canada who saw the most benefit from the 1968-1985 tax shelter film boom although Bob Clark, American, was the one with the biggest box office success (Porky's).
After 1985 the government went into full retard mode and only funded films about disease or failure.
Thus Atom Egoyan became Canada's greatest filmmakers according to the media even though he was an Armenian born in Egypt.
The only McCanadians getting lots of funding and distribution were Bruce McDonald or Dan McKellar -- not exactly crowd pleasers.
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Post by northern on Feb 12, 2020 22:51:09 GMT
French: Denys Arcand.
English: Norman Jewison.
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Post by Popeye Doyle on Feb 12, 2020 22:56:24 GMT
Good example of why multiculturalism is a fail. Canada didn't encourage English film in Canada so it is a head scratcher about what makes a filmmaker a Canadian. Sydney J Furie and Alan Gibson (Dracula AD 72) went to England. Daniel Petrie, Norman Jewison, and George McCowan went to the US. A few like Roger Spottiswoode got a few blips (a Tom Hanks movie and James Bond). Cameron didn't make any films in Canada except short ones as a teenager. He was interviewed by a Canadian reporter who asked him about a film he was rumored to have made where he put a hamster in a model boat and filmed it approaching Niagara Falls. He said to the reporter: "where are you going with this?" He moved to the US as a teenager but worked as a truck driver. He did not resume filmmaking until he saw Star Wars. David Cronenberg and Ivan Reitman were probably the only two filmmakers born in Canada who saw the most benefit from the 1968-1985 tax shelter film boom although Bob Clark, American, was the one with the biggest box office success (Porky's). After 1985 the government went into full retard mode and only funded films about disease or failure. Thus Atom Egoyan became Canada's greatest filmmakers according to the media even though he was an Armenian born in Egypt. The only McCanadians getting lots of funding and distribution were Bruce McDonald or Dan McKellar -- not exactly crowd pleasers. Reitman was born in Czechoslovakia. |
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Post by Prime etc. on Feb 12, 2020 23:03:42 GMT
Reitman was born in Czechoslovakia. The bastard.
I guess that makes Cronenberg's case stronger.
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Post by wolf359 on Feb 12, 2020 23:13:21 GMT
James Cameron
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Post by Lebowskidoo 🎄😷🎄 on Feb 13, 2020 0:41:46 GMT
Bob Clark is American, yet Canadians have embraced him as their own for giving the world Black Christmas, Porky's and A Christmas Story.
Norman Jewison and Daniel Petrie made some great movies, but would the general public know them at all?
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Post by gw on Feb 13, 2020 1:02:52 GMT
I know he's nowhere near the most famous but the first one to come to my mind is Guy Maddin.
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Post by Prime etc. on Feb 13, 2020 1:06:20 GMT
DUHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
the most famous is obviously
William Shatner.
Star Trek 5.
He wins.
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Post by Dramatic Look Gopher on Feb 13, 2020 1:56:25 GMT
Ted Kotcheff comes to mind, although most of his movies are American productions. He's done only a few true Canadian productions, the most notable one being The Apprenticeship Of Duddy Kravitz.
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Post by spoonyrumble on Feb 13, 2020 2:07:15 GMT
Martin Luther King.
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