Xavier Dolan tied contemporaries Philippe Falardeau and Denis Villeneuve by winning his second Best Feature award at the 17th annual Jutra Awards. Quebec’s answer to the Oscars was a rather suspense-less affair as Mommy claimed nine (plus the top box office award honor) awards winning in all major categories with the exclusion of Best Supporting Actor category win, which would only end up going to Dolan’s other nominated film, Tom at the Farm. Pierre-Yves Cardinal was sublime in his predatory type role and as was the case for several nominees, was hard at work on another project and therefore not on hand for trophyware. Ricardo Trogi’s throwback to awkward teen years tale 1987 did win a trio of awards, but if there were any surprises in the Dolan camp it was the acceptance speeches: Dolan delivered a keynote speech type quality for the last win of the night...
- 3/16/2015
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
Former Rutgers University student Dharun Ravi was released from prison this morning after serving time for his bias crimes conviction, Reuters is reporting. The 20-year-old Indian citizen, who has been living in the United States for most of his life, served 20 days out of a 30-day sentence imposed by Judge Glenn Berman. Ravi left the Middlesex County jail in New Jersey shortly after 8:30 am Edt, and was accompanied by his attorney. He received a 10-day credit for good behavior. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials said yesterday they wouldn’t seek to deport Ravi back to India. Ravi was convicted in March for using a webcam to spy on [ Read More ]...
- 6/19/2012
- by Karen Benardello
- ShockYa
The former Rutgers student convicted of spying on his gay college roommate was sentenced to 30 days in prison today, the Chicago Tribute is reporting. Dharun Ravi faced a maximum of 10 years in prison for using a webcam to invade the privacy of his roommate, Tyler Clemeti, and an older man in their dorm room. Just days after learning that Ravi spied on him in September 2010 with a webcame, Clementi jumped to his death from the George Washington Bridge. While Ravi encouraged others to watch Clementi on social media sites, he wasn’t charged with causing his roommate’s death. Of the light sentence, Judge Glenn Berman said he never [ Read More ]...
- 5/21/2012
- by Karen Benardello
- ShockYa
Former Rutgers student Dharun Ravi, who in March was found guilty of invasion of privacy and hate crimes that resulted in the tragic suicide of his roommate Tyler Clementi, was sentenced Monday to 30 days in jail, as well as 300 hours of community service and counseling. He was also fined $10,000. He will begin his sentence on May 31. Ravi, 20, did not speak, but inside the packed New Brunswick, N.J., courtroom, his mother, Sabitha Ravi, in tears, pleaded for mercy for her son. "The media was ripping him apart with their misleading facts ... He was absolutely devastated and broken into pieces,” she said,...
- 5/21/2012
- by Stephen M. Silverman
- PEOPLE.com
Ex-Rutgers student was facing up to 10 years in jail after being convicted of bias intimidation in cyberbullying trial.
By John Mitchell
Tyler Clementi
Photo: Facebook
Dharun Ravi is facing 30 days in jail for using a webcam to spy on his roommate Tyler Clementi. The ex-Rutgers University student was convicted in March of invasion of privacy and bias intimidation, and on Monday afternoon (May 21), a New Jersey State Superior Court judge handed down the month-long sentence.
Ravi not only spied repeatedly on Clementi in their Rutgers residence, but he also invited fellow students and followers to watch a broadcast of the freshman while he was intimate with a male companion. Days later, on September 22, 2010, Clementi jumped to his death from New York City's George Washington Bridge.
Ravi was found guilty of all 15 counts against him, including hindering apprehension and tampering with evidence. In addition to jail time, the 20-year-old received three...
By John Mitchell
Tyler Clementi
Photo: Facebook
Dharun Ravi is facing 30 days in jail for using a webcam to spy on his roommate Tyler Clementi. The ex-Rutgers University student was convicted in March of invasion of privacy and bias intimidation, and on Monday afternoon (May 21), a New Jersey State Superior Court judge handed down the month-long sentence.
Ravi not only spied repeatedly on Clementi in their Rutgers residence, but he also invited fellow students and followers to watch a broadcast of the freshman while he was intimate with a male companion. Days later, on September 22, 2010, Clementi jumped to his death from New York City's George Washington Bridge.
Ravi was found guilty of all 15 counts against him, including hindering apprehension and tampering with evidence. In addition to jail time, the 20-year-old received three...
- 5/21/2012
- MTV Music News
Middlesex County Superior Court Judge Glenn Berman refused to dismiss criminal charges against defendant Dharun Ravi in the Tyler Clementi case on Friday. Ravi stands accused of using a webcam to stream coverage of his Rutgers roommate Tyler Clementi with another man last September. Clementi committed suicide last fall following the incident. "I'm finding there is testimony to support these charges," Judge Berman said during the hearing. Related: Tyler Clementi's Final DaysDefense attorney Steven Altman also asked the judge to make the prosecution give them the name of "M.B.," the man Clementi was with when Ravi allegedly spied on...
- 9/9/2011
- by Nicole Weisensee Egan
- PEOPLE.com
The text-message apology that Dharun Ravi sent to his Rutgers roommate Tyler Clementi on the night of Clementi's suicide last fall was a cynical attempt to avoid punishment from the school, prosecutors allege in newly filed court papers. Ravi, 19, composed the text - which he happened to send 14 minutes after Clementi jumped off the George Washington Bridge on Sept. 22 - after he learned he would be disciplined by Rutgers for using a webcam to film Clementi's romantic encounter with a male friend, prosecutors in Middlesex County, N.J., said. "This was just one of many attempts by [the] defendant to dilute,...
- 8/29/2011
- by Nicole Weisensee Egan
- PEOPLE.com
A somber-looking Molly Wei was accepted into a pre-trial intervention program for first-time offenders shortly before 9 a.m. Friday in the webcam-spying case of Rutgers student Tyler Clementi. Under the conditions approved by New Jersey Superior Court Judge Glenn Berman, Wei will have to continue to cooperate with law enforcement, meaning she will testify against Dharun Ravi, who is also charged in the case. She also has to perform 300 hours of community service, undergo counseling or training in cyberbullying and alternative lifestyles and has to work full time - or part time if she is in school. If she successfully meets those conditions then,...
- 5/6/2011
- by Nicole Weisensee Egan
- PEOPLE.com
Yesterday, the Jutra Awards, Quebec's Oscars, were presented. I personally didn't have the time to watch it, because I was finishing some research papers. However, here's the list of winners for this year's Jutra Awards.
Best feature film:
* 1981.
* Dédé, à travers les brumes.
* [Winner] J'ai tué ma mère.
* Polytechnique.
* Le jour avant le lendemain (Before Tomorrow).
Best director:
* Ricardo Trogi for 1981.
* Marie-Hélène Cousineau et Madeline Piujuq for Before Tomorrow.
* Jean-Philippe Duval for Dédé à travers les brumes.
* Xavier Dolan for J’ai tué ma mère.
* [Winner] Denis Villeneuve for Polytechnique.
Best actress:
* Céline Bonnier in Je me souviens.
* Marie-Thérèse Fortin in Les grandes chaleurs.
* Élise Guilbault in La Donation.
* [Winner] Anne Dorval in J’ai tué ma mère.
* Isabelle Guérard in Détour.
Best actor:
* Jean-Carl Boucher in 1981.
* Michel Côté in De Père en flic.
* Normand D’Amour in 5150, rue des Ormes.
* Xavier Dolan in J’ai tué ma mère.
* [Winner] Sébastien Ricard in Dédé à travers les brumes.
Best feature film:
* 1981.
* Dédé, à travers les brumes.
* [Winner] J'ai tué ma mère.
* Polytechnique.
* Le jour avant le lendemain (Before Tomorrow).
Best director:
* Ricardo Trogi for 1981.
* Marie-Hélène Cousineau et Madeline Piujuq for Before Tomorrow.
* Jean-Philippe Duval for Dédé à travers les brumes.
* Xavier Dolan for J’ai tué ma mère.
* [Winner] Denis Villeneuve for Polytechnique.
Best actress:
* Céline Bonnier in Je me souviens.
* Marie-Thérèse Fortin in Les grandes chaleurs.
* Élise Guilbault in La Donation.
* [Winner] Anne Dorval in J’ai tué ma mère.
* Isabelle Guérard in Détour.
Best actor:
* Jean-Carl Boucher in 1981.
* Michel Côté in De Père en flic.
* Normand D’Amour in 5150, rue des Ormes.
* Xavier Dolan in J’ai tué ma mère.
* [Winner] Sébastien Ricard in Dédé à travers les brumes.
- 3/29/2010
- by anhkhoido@hotmail.com (Anh Khoi Do)
- The Cultural Post
This afternoon, the nominees for the Jutra Award, Quebec's own Oscars, were announced. Unlike last year, there are two new things that we should expect to see. The first one being that the jury will be formed by 18 people. Secondly, all members of the jury have seen the films that are nominated. Besides, the host of evening will be Patrice L'Écuyer and the ceremony will take place at La Tohu on March 28. Also note that the Jutra Award will be broadcasted live on Radio-Canada. Anyway, the following is the list of nominees.
Best feature film:
* 1981.
* Dédé, à travers les brumes.
* J'ai tué ma mère.
* Polytechnique.
* Le jour avant le lendemain (Before Tomorrow).
Best director:
* Ricardo Trogi for 1981
* Marie-Hélène Cousineau et Madeline Piujuq for Before Tomorrow.
* Jean-Philippe Duval for Dédé à travers les brumes.
* Xavier Dolan for J’ai tué ma mère.
* Denis Villeneuve for Polytechnique.
Best actress:
* Céline Bonnier in Je me souviens.
Best feature film:
* 1981.
* Dédé, à travers les brumes.
* J'ai tué ma mère.
* Polytechnique.
* Le jour avant le lendemain (Before Tomorrow).
Best director:
* Ricardo Trogi for 1981
* Marie-Hélène Cousineau et Madeline Piujuq for Before Tomorrow.
* Jean-Philippe Duval for Dédé à travers les brumes.
* Xavier Dolan for J’ai tué ma mère.
* Denis Villeneuve for Polytechnique.
Best actress:
* Céline Bonnier in Je me souviens.
- 2/17/2010
- by anhkhoido@hotmail.com (Anh Khoi Do)
- The Cultural Post
NEW YORK -- A fascinating documentary that would seem a prime candidate for dramatic treatment, last year's Oscar-nominated "Prisoner of Paradise" tells the tragic story of Kurt Gerron, a rotund German-Jewish cabaret and film star who met his untimely end at the Auschwitz concentration camp. What distinguishes Malcolm Clarke and Stuart Sender's film from the many similarly themed efforts that have preceded it is that it tells a morality tale of a man whose hubris partially led to his downfall and whose willingness to work for his Nazi overseers resulted in one of the most notorious propaganda films of the era.
Gerron was a leading entertainment figure in Berlin during the 1920s and early '30s, his credits including introducing the song "Mack the Knife" in the first production of "Threepenny Opera" and a supporting role in Josef von Sternberg's classic film "The Blue Angel". When the Nazis came to power, Gerron was too immersed in his career to take much notice, and despite entreaties from such colleagues as von Sternberg and Peter Lorre to leave Germany, he remained, even turning down a plane ticket sent by Warner Bros. because his seat wasn't in first class.
Although he moved to such cities as Paris and Amsterdam to continue his career, he was eventually captured by the Germans and sent to the Thereseinstadt concentration camp outside of Prague. Located in a former garrison town, the camp was used by the Nazis as a propaganda tool designed to demonstrate that the Jews weren't really being treated badly. To that end, they recruited Gerron to make the film "The Fuhrer Gives a City to the Jews," a sanitized portrait that is now on constant display in the town's museum. Despite his cooperation, Gerron was shortly thereafter sent to Auschwitz, where he and his wife were immediately murdered.
Utilizing a mixture of fascinating archival footage -- Gerron's less-than-Aryan looks were used to typify the Jewish menace in the incendiary propaganda film "The Eternal Jew" -- and talking-head interviews with many of those who worked with Gerron or knew him in the camp, "Prisoner of Paradise", narrated compellingly by Ian Holm, tells this resonant tale in clear and dramatic fashion. While its subject remains a rather elusive figure, he is nonetheless a haunting one, and the images of him directing Thereseinstadt's children for his film, a look of dark desolation in his eyes, is not likely to leave you for a very long time.
Prisoner of Paradise
Menemsha Films
Credits:
Directors: Malcolm Clarke, Stuart Sender
Screenwriter: Malcolm Clarke
Producers: Malcolm Clarke, Karl-Eberhard Schaefer
Executive producers: Jake Eberts, Stuart Sender
Director of photography: Michael Hammon
Editors: Glenn Berman, Susan Shanks
Composer: Luc St. Pierre
Narrator: Ian Holm
Running time -- 96 minutes
No MPAA rating...
Gerron was a leading entertainment figure in Berlin during the 1920s and early '30s, his credits including introducing the song "Mack the Knife" in the first production of "Threepenny Opera" and a supporting role in Josef von Sternberg's classic film "The Blue Angel". When the Nazis came to power, Gerron was too immersed in his career to take much notice, and despite entreaties from such colleagues as von Sternberg and Peter Lorre to leave Germany, he remained, even turning down a plane ticket sent by Warner Bros. because his seat wasn't in first class.
Although he moved to such cities as Paris and Amsterdam to continue his career, he was eventually captured by the Germans and sent to the Thereseinstadt concentration camp outside of Prague. Located in a former garrison town, the camp was used by the Nazis as a propaganda tool designed to demonstrate that the Jews weren't really being treated badly. To that end, they recruited Gerron to make the film "The Fuhrer Gives a City to the Jews," a sanitized portrait that is now on constant display in the town's museum. Despite his cooperation, Gerron was shortly thereafter sent to Auschwitz, where he and his wife were immediately murdered.
Utilizing a mixture of fascinating archival footage -- Gerron's less-than-Aryan looks were used to typify the Jewish menace in the incendiary propaganda film "The Eternal Jew" -- and talking-head interviews with many of those who worked with Gerron or knew him in the camp, "Prisoner of Paradise", narrated compellingly by Ian Holm, tells this resonant tale in clear and dramatic fashion. While its subject remains a rather elusive figure, he is nonetheless a haunting one, and the images of him directing Thereseinstadt's children for his film, a look of dark desolation in his eyes, is not likely to leave you for a very long time.
Prisoner of Paradise
Menemsha Films
Credits:
Directors: Malcolm Clarke, Stuart Sender
Screenwriter: Malcolm Clarke
Producers: Malcolm Clarke, Karl-Eberhard Schaefer
Executive producers: Jake Eberts, Stuart Sender
Director of photography: Michael Hammon
Editors: Glenn Berman, Susan Shanks
Composer: Luc St. Pierre
Narrator: Ian Holm
Running time -- 96 minutes
No MPAA rating...
NEW YORK -- A fascinating documentary that would seem a prime candidate for dramatic treatment, last year's Oscar-nominated "Prisoner of Paradise" tells the tragic story of Kurt Gerron, a rotund German-Jewish cabaret and film star who met his untimely end at the Auschwitz concentration camp. What distinguishes Malcolm Clarke and Stuart Sender's film from the many similarly themed efforts that have preceded it is that it tells a morality tale of a man whose hubris partially led to his downfall and whose willingness to work for his Nazi overseers resulted in one of the most notorious propaganda films of the era.
Gerron was a leading entertainment figure in Berlin during the 1920s and early '30s, his credits including introducing the song "Mack the Knife" in the first production of "Threepenny Opera" and a supporting role in Josef von Sternberg's classic film "The Blue Angel". When the Nazis came to power, Gerron was too immersed in his career to take much notice, and despite entreaties from such colleagues as von Sternberg and Peter Lorre to leave Germany, he remained, even turning down a plane ticket sent by Warner Bros. because his seat wasn't in first class.
Although he moved to such cities as Paris and Amsterdam to continue his career, he was eventually captured by the Germans and sent to the Thereseinstadt concentration camp outside of Prague. Located in a former garrison town, the camp was used by the Nazis as a propaganda tool designed to demonstrate that the Jews weren't really being treated badly. To that end, they recruited Gerron to make the film "The Fuhrer Gives a City to the Jews," a sanitized portrait that is now on constant display in the town's museum. Despite his cooperation, Gerron was shortly thereafter sent to Auschwitz, where he and his wife were immediately murdered.
Utilizing a mixture of fascinating archival footage -- Gerron's less-than-Aryan looks were used to typify the Jewish menace in the incendiary propaganda film "The Eternal Jew" -- and talking-head interviews with many of those who worked with Gerron or knew him in the camp, "Prisoner of Paradise", narrated compellingly by Ian Holm, tells this resonant tale in clear and dramatic fashion. While its subject remains a rather elusive figure, he is nonetheless a haunting one, and the images of him directing Thereseinstadt's children for his film, a look of dark desolation in his eyes, is not likely to leave you for a very long time.
Prisoner of Paradise
Menemsha Films
Credits:
Directors: Malcolm Clarke, Stuart Sender
Screenwriter: Malcolm Clarke
Producers: Malcolm Clarke, Karl-Eberhard Schaefer
Executive producers: Jake Eberts, Stuart Sender
Director of photography: Michael Hammon
Editors: Glenn Berman, Susan Shanks
Composer: Luc St. Pierre
Narrator: Ian Holm
Running time -- 96 minutes
No MPAA rating...
Gerron was a leading entertainment figure in Berlin during the 1920s and early '30s, his credits including introducing the song "Mack the Knife" in the first production of "Threepenny Opera" and a supporting role in Josef von Sternberg's classic film "The Blue Angel". When the Nazis came to power, Gerron was too immersed in his career to take much notice, and despite entreaties from such colleagues as von Sternberg and Peter Lorre to leave Germany, he remained, even turning down a plane ticket sent by Warner Bros. because his seat wasn't in first class.
Although he moved to such cities as Paris and Amsterdam to continue his career, he was eventually captured by the Germans and sent to the Thereseinstadt concentration camp outside of Prague. Located in a former garrison town, the camp was used by the Nazis as a propaganda tool designed to demonstrate that the Jews weren't really being treated badly. To that end, they recruited Gerron to make the film "The Fuhrer Gives a City to the Jews," a sanitized portrait that is now on constant display in the town's museum. Despite his cooperation, Gerron was shortly thereafter sent to Auschwitz, where he and his wife were immediately murdered.
Utilizing a mixture of fascinating archival footage -- Gerron's less-than-Aryan looks were used to typify the Jewish menace in the incendiary propaganda film "The Eternal Jew" -- and talking-head interviews with many of those who worked with Gerron or knew him in the camp, "Prisoner of Paradise", narrated compellingly by Ian Holm, tells this resonant tale in clear and dramatic fashion. While its subject remains a rather elusive figure, he is nonetheless a haunting one, and the images of him directing Thereseinstadt's children for his film, a look of dark desolation in his eyes, is not likely to leave you for a very long time.
Prisoner of Paradise
Menemsha Films
Credits:
Directors: Malcolm Clarke, Stuart Sender
Screenwriter: Malcolm Clarke
Producers: Malcolm Clarke, Karl-Eberhard Schaefer
Executive producers: Jake Eberts, Stuart Sender
Director of photography: Michael Hammon
Editors: Glenn Berman, Susan Shanks
Composer: Luc St. Pierre
Narrator: Ian Holm
Running time -- 96 minutes
No MPAA rating...
- 12/12/2003
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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