Allan King – MRQE

Leonardo: A Dream of Flight (TV)

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Leonardo da Vinci finds it difficult to pursue his own dreams while serving as the Duke’s court artist, but young Roberto takes risks to convince the Master not to give up on his dreams. In this moving story of friendship, the Renaissance genius invents a flying machine and helps Roberto reach new heights.

One Night Stand (TV)

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Carol Bolt’s adaptation of her stage play locks its audience in a claustrophobic bachelor flat for a night of black comedy, lust and terror. Jilted on her birthday by her boyfriend, Daisy picks up night club singer Rafe and takes him home. Is he a lover, liar or psychotic serial killer?

Orson Welles: The Paris Interview (V)

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A vintage interview captures the artist reflecting on Citizen Kane and expounding on directing, acting and writing and his desire to bestow a valuable legacy upon his profession. The scene is a hotel room in Paris. The year 1960. The star, Orson Welles. This is a pearl of cinematic memorabilia.

EMPz 4 Life

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Life in the housing projects of Scarborough, Ontario, Canada is documented.

Memory for Max, Claire, Ida and Company

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

At Baycrest, an old-age home in Toronto, we follow a social worker as she talks to residents, particularly Max, Claire, Ida, and Rachel. The film opens on Claire’s birthday, she’s 89; Max, a tiny cheerful man, is her close friend. Rachel is lonesome, missing her son, complaining he rarely visits. Ida relies on memory for her solace. Helen has no memory and doesn’t recognize her daughter; her moods swing. Murray keeps his cap on and likes women. Staff members bring medication, provide care, and offer small talk. Memory is fleeting: Claire re-experiences the death of a close companion several times, each time without remembering her previous grieving. Lives are circumscribed

Dying at Grace

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

This film is about the experience of dying. Five terminal patients in a Palliative Care Unit share the last days of their lives and deaths with a film crew.

Termini Station

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Termini Station is a Canadian made drama, released in 1989 and directed by Allan King. The film stars Colleen Dewhurst and Megan Follows as Molly and Micheline Dushane, a mother and daughter living in a small Northern Ontario town. Molly is an alcoholic, which creates tension between her and Micheline and inspires Micheline’s fantasies of escaping her stifling small-town life. The cast also includes Gordon Clapp and Debra McGrath as Molly’s son and daughter-in-law. Termini Station was the only film besides the Anne of Green Gables movies in which Follows and Dewhurst worked together. The film was nominated for six awards at the 11th Genie Awards, including Best Picture and Best Actress nods for both Dewhurst and Follows. Filmed on location in Kirkland Lake Ontario.

Silence of the North

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Director Allan King’s 1981 drama, based on true events, stars Ellen Burstyn as a strong-willed woman struggling to survive with her family in the Canadian wilderness.

Come on Children

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Five boys and five girls ages 13 to 19 live on a farm for ten weeks, to be filmed, and to see what might emerge for each of them personally.

A Married Couple

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

In this classic exploration of marriage in conflict, Billy and Antoinette Edwardsas well as their son Bogart and dog Mertonlive out their daily lives. Hoping to discover the heart of the trouble in their marriage, Billy and Antoniette offer up their day to day lives to documentary filmmaker Allan King, as laughter, tears, wit, tenderness, anger, patience, pain, and sorrow ensue.