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What is National Canadian film day?
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April 20, 2016 is National
(noun beginning with C)
Day (NCFD)! A day to
(noun beginning with F)
off the shackles of fear and
and
(plural noun)
ourselves on the
(verb)
(body part)
for something other than various ice-related
and
(plural noun)
(adjective)
(noun beginning with C)
Day is so important: our country makes
(noun beginning with F)
to
(noun beginning with F)
Canada needs
back in your
and enjoy some
, and NCFD is a wake-up call
who have not yet been exposed to this
(group of people)
nation’s
!
(food item)
That’s why National
amazing
(verb)
(adjective)
(plural nouns)
(plural noun)
(noun)
(plural noun)
– so
, take off your
(verb)
(article of clothing)
!
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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 an ___________
(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 ____________
(verb)
(verb ending in -er)
the ____________ Oki for Atuat’s _____________, the events that follow determine not only his ___________,
(adjective)
(body part)
(noun)
but that of his ______________.
(object)
Atanarjuat won 20 awards, including eight Genies and the _____________ d’Or at the ______________
(French noun)
(year)
Cannes Film Festival.
BOLLYWOOD/HOLLYWOOD
(2002) Director/Screenwriter: Deepa Mehta. Starring: Rahul Khanna, Lisa
Ray, Rishma Malik, Moushumi Chatterjee. 105 minutes. PG
Set in _____________ and its _____________ suburbs,
(adjective)
(Canadian city)
Bollywood/Hollywood __________ subverts the ___________
(adverb)
(adjective)
conventions of both cultures. Rahul (Khanna), a ___________
(adjective)
South Asian-Canadian ___________, is pressured by his ____________ (Chatterjee) and _____________ to find
(profession)
(type of family member)
(type of family member)
a ____________ Hindu girl to accompany him to the ____________ wedding ceremony of his sister (Malik).
(adjective)
(adjective)
As a joking way of accommodating them, he hires Sue (Ray), a ___________ escort girl, to pretend to be his
(adjective)
fiancée. Naturally, the two fall in __________, and just as naturally, ___________ ensue. Incorporating the
(emotion)
(plural noun)
___________ stylistic excesses of Bollywood — the ___________, the choreography and the music — Mehta
(adjective)
(noun)
allows Indian culture and societal attitudes to play out in _____________________.
(same Canadian city as above)
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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)
___________ about _______ policemen who are thrown
(number)
(film genre)
together to solve a crime committed on the _____________
(landform)
between Quebec and Ontario. __________ (Feore) and ___________ (Huard) couldn’t be more different: one
(name)
(name)
is a ____________ -speaker from Toronto, the other is a ___________ -speaker from Montreal; one never
(language)
(language)
deviates from ______________ procedure, the other is a _______________ who refuses to ______________
(adjective)
(type of person)
(action verb)
by the rules. The detectives soon learn that if they are to solve this ____________ crime, which is linked to
(adjective)
the world of ___________, they need to stop _____________ and work together. With ______________
(adjective)
(verb)
(sport)
performances from both ____________, Bon Cop, Bad Cop is a genuinely clever take on the ______________
(plural noun)
(film genre)
genre that will keep you ______________ throughout.
(verb)
VIDEODROME
(1983) Director/Screenwriter: David Cronenberg. Starring: James Woods,
Debbie Harry, Sonja Smits. 87 minutes. R
When ___________ Renn (Woods) goes looking for __________
(first name)
(adjective)
new shows for his ___________ cable TV station, he __________
(verb)
(adjective)
across the pirate broadcast of a __________ torture show called
(adjective)
Videodrome. As he and his _____________ (Harry) struggle to unearth the ____________ of the program, he
(type of person)
(plural noun)
______________ on a ______________ journey into a shadow world of conspiracies, ______________ and
(verb)
(adjective)
(noun)
___________ transformation.
(adjective)
Videodrome is one of David Cronenberg’s most ___________ and __________ works, and has come to be
(adjective)
(adjective)
regarded as one of the most influential and ____________ ___________ films of the ____________.
(adjective)
(film genre)
(decade)
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