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	Arcand, Denys (Profile) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The eldest of four children, Denys Arcand was born on June 25, 1941, in Deschambault, a village 40 km upstream from Quebec City.
		Arcand's father was a man of the world who left home at 16 and worked on ships around the globe before joining the river pilot elite.
		Arcand fell into a filmmaking career after graduating with a master's degree in history from the University of Montreal in 1963.
	thecanadianencyclopedia.com /index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=M1ARTM0012538 (2575 words)

	Denys Arcand - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Denys Arcand receiving the Order of Canada from Governor General Adrienne Clarkson in a ceremony performed at Rideau Hall on Friday, June 10, 2005.
		Georges-Henri Denys Arcand, C.C. born June 25, 1941 in Deschambault, Quebec, Canada is an Academy Award winning film director, screenwriter and producer.
		Arcand produced and directed his first English language film in 1993, titled Love and Human Remains, and did so again in 2000, with the film, "Stardom" which opened the Toronto International Film Festival.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Denys_Arcand (697 words)

	Movies101.com
		Arcand seemed to carry Rémy's attitude of overgrown adolescent entitlement into his own creative vision of the film, almost as though he were making an "Animal House" for intellectuals.
		Arcand has taken what might have been the dreary story of the end of a frustrating life and made it into a brilliant work that is at once the funniest film of the year so far and, perhaps, the saddest.
		Arcand the screenwriting award at Cannes this year, and also won the best-actress award there for Marie-Josée Croze as the young heroin-addicted daughter of one of Rémy's old lovers.
	www.movies101.com /BARBARIAN.HTML (521 words)

	Denys Arcand biography .ms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Georges-Henri Denys Arcand, born June 25, 1941 in Deschambault, Quebec, is an Academy Award winning Canadian film director, screenwriter and producer.
		During the early part of the 1970s Arcand produced a number of feature films that received critical acclaim and Arcand he returned to directing documentaries and did to work for television.
		Married a second time, neither Arcand nor his wife Denise had ever had children and he was 55 years old when they adopted an orphaned baby girl from China.
	denys-arcand.biography.ms (634 words)

	Denys Arcand - Northern Stars
		One of the more important filmmakers to emerge in Québec in the 1960s, Denys Arcand became interested in film at Université de Montréal where he studied history and made his first film.
		Arcand's experience in making this film and its subsequent fallout are reflected to a certain degree in a later film, Gina.
		Denys Arcand was awarded Best Director honors for this film, titled The Barbarian Invasions - The Decline Continues, in English.
	www.northernstars.ca /directorsal/arcandbio.html (256 words)

	Denys Arcand (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Denys Arcand, born June 25, 1941 in Deschambault, Quebec, Canada is an Academy Award winning film director, screenwriter and producer.
		Arcand produced and directed his first English language film in 1993 titled, Love & Human Remains; and did so again in 2000, with the film, "Stardom" which opened the Toronto International Film Festival.
		For his contribution to Canadian culture, in 1988 he was awarded his country's highest civilian honor, the Order of Canada and in 1990 the Government of France awarded him the Legion of Honor.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/denys_arcand (656 words)

	Arcand, Denys (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Arcand, Denys, filmmaker (b at Deschambault, Qué 25 June 1941).
		One of Québec's most politically aware filmmakers, Denys Arcand worked for PARTI PRIS before studying history at Université de Montréal, where he co-directed Seul ou avec d'autres (1962) with Denis HÉROUX and Stéphane Venne.
		In 2005 Arcand was named Companion of the ORDER OF CANADA, which recognizes individuals for exceptional achievements of national or international significance.
	thecanadianencyclopedia.com /index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=M1ARTA0000268 (407 words)

	French Culture \| Cinema \| Denis Arcand: The Barbarian Invasions (Les Invasions barbares) (2003) (MIramax DVD 2004) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Quebecois director Denys Arcand (director of Jesus of Montreal and Stardom) returns to the lusty, cantankerous intellectuals of his first film, The Decline of the American Empire.
		Denys Arcand's THE BARBARIAN INVASIONS is a story about the humor, hope and unspoken bonds that hold a Québecois family and friends together against the onslaughts of life in our time.
		"Denys Arcand reassembles many of the same lustful, left-wing French-Canadian intellectuals who populated "Decline of the American Empire" [...] This time, the bawdy talk and political banter is shadowed by mortality, and by the rueful awareness that history has had the last laugh.
	www.info-france-usa.org /culture/cinema/releases/arcand/barbarian.html (273 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Film \| Interviews \| Philistines all
		Arcand's latest film, The Barbarian Invasions, continues the stories of the Decline characters 17 years later, and it, too, has prompted a multi-gallon local ink spill about what it might be saying about the future of Quebec in the age of globalisation.
		What Arcand wants to talk about is internationalism - even if his vision of where the world stands now is apocalyptic, to say the least: "We are now at the end of what was called west European civilisation, the civilisation that started with the Renaissance and ended in north America, in the US," he says.
		Arcand has great fun illustrating Sébastien's technology-saturated life - the character, played by Stéphane Rousseau, is practically never seen without a piece of electronica about his person, and a stolen laptop becomes a plot point (Sébastien eventually bribes it back from a crooked union official, Arcand in a cameo role).
	film.guardian.co.uk /interview/interviewpages/0,6737,1147742,00.html (1327 words)

	Love & Human Remains - Production Notes
		According to Arcand, "The characters and situations were so modern, so 'now,' that I instantly wanted to do it." He was struck by Fraser's style.
		The combination of a unique script and the opportunity to work with Arcand was a draw for the actors, who concur with Mia Kirshner when she says, "What makes Denys so brilliant is that he realizes if he gives the actors enough freedom, he'll have enough freedom to direct.
		The other strategy was a state of perpetual camera movement, an idea Denys had as a method of mirroring the constant state of unease that the characters have in relation to the world and each other.
	www.sonyclassics.com /remains/misc/about.html (1178 words)

	ninemsn Encarta - Search Results - Arcand Denys
		Arcand, Denys (1941-), French-Canadian film director and screenwriter, maker of maverick documentaries and irreverent features.
		Lasdun, Sir Denys Louis (1914-2001), British architect of the modern movement who was known particularly as an exponent of British Brutalist...
		The International Modern style continued to flourish after World War II, but in the 1950s its dominance was challenged by a new style that was dubbed...
	au.encarta.msn.com /Arcand_Denys.html (87 words)

	The Decline of the American Empire, directed by Denys Arcand
		We recognize that the theories that get spun are expressions in abstract terms of the characters' personal concerns; we may come to suspect that the "decline" of the film's title refers to the older characters' experience of middle age.
		Denys Arcand, who wrote and directed, has conceived his film in thoroughly sexual terms; the camera takes us through the web of words and into the characters.
		Arcand's approach has the result of giving sex -- the unforeseen effects it can have and the variety of things it can mean to people -- a many-hued splendor.
	www.wiggleroom.org /arcand.htm (280 words)

	Offscreen :: An Interview with Denys Arcand (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Denys Arcand: It was not really that there were negative aspects; it was more than that.
		Denys Arcand: Yes, even though I made three feature fiction films during this period, the documentaries are nonetheless very important.
		Denys Arcand: I can’t say for sure whether it was due to my connection with the documentary film or not.
	www.offscreen.com /biblio/phile/essays/denys_arcand (2060 words)

	Sex, Drugs, and Canadian Health Care - The pleasures of Denys Arcand's Barbarian Invasions. By David Edelstein (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Denys Arcand's The Barbarian Invasions (Miramax) is a pungently funny and heartfelt piece of wish fulfillment about a grown son who reconciles with his selfish dying father by springing him from the purgatory of Canada's national health care system.
		Arcand's earlier film was an affront to many of my colleagues (I worked at the Village Voice at the time), and there is an aspect of neocon gloating in it.
		Arcand is extremely sympathetic to these people: The movie ends on the same note of dashed romanticism as another great house-party sex movie, Ingmar Bergman's masterpiece Smiles of a Summer Night (1955).
	slate.msn.com /id/2091541 (1019 words)

	A Tribute to Denys Arcand - Saturday October 11 2003 - Mill Valley Film Festival (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		An onstage interview with French-Canadian director Denys Arcand by film critic Michael Fox will be followed by a screening of Arcand’s Academy Award-nominated The Decline of the American Empire, the prequel to our Closing Night film, The Barbarian Invasions.
		French-Canadian writer-director Denys Arcand is a moral comedian, a realist who tends toward cynicism but nonetheless harbors a deep belief in the human impulse toward good.
		Arcand’s brilliantly acerbic follow-up, Jesus of Montreal, questions the role of faith in modern consumer culture, focusing on a group of young actors who yo-yo between perfume commercials, sex films and the Passion Play.
	www.cafilm.org /mvfffilms/129.html (297 words)

	An Interview With Denys Arcand
		During the long ago conference, Arcand was scribbling away at Rejeanne Padavoni, a scathing view of politics and corruption that would be invited to Cannes and gain him initial international attention.
		Arcand's French producer on Stardom passed on The Barbarian Invasions, claiming the tale of death, reconciliation and friendship had zero commercial appeal.
		Arcand assumes most of his audience haven't seen the earlier movie and, at best, might know it by reputation.
	www.moviecitynews.com /Interviews/arcand.html (947 words)

	The Movie Chicks - Interview - Denys Arcand (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Denys: It was because of a technical problem I had in writing.
		Denys: The two young persons are based on people I knew - the others are composites because they are my generation and I know them - they are partly me in some circumstances.
		Denys: What he's going to do is really totally different - he's going to play Chicago in Paris.
	www.themoviechicks.com /fall2003/mctbarbarian.html (3082 words)

	Walk of Fame \| canada.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Arcand was raised in a strict Catholic home and spent nine years in Jesuit school.
		Arcand's film Stardom, a satire on fame, was the closing film at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival, marking the first time in over 50 years that a Canadian production was chosen for such an honor, and went on to open the 2000 Toronto International Film Festival before its theatrical release.
		Arcand was honoured recently for his latest film, The Barbarian Invasions, the sequel to The Decline of the American Empire using the same cast 17 years later.
	www.canada.com /entertainment/features/walkoffame2004/arcand.html (428 words)

	CTV.ca \| Quebec's Denys Arcand garners two Oscar nods
		Arcand also won a best screenplay prize at last spring's Cannes film festival while Marie-Jozee Croze won for best actress for her performance as a sympathetic junkie.
		Arcand said he's not sure what the nominations mean for his film because it is near the end of its theatrical run.
		Arcand said the foreign film nominations are selected by a committee of some 60 Academy members.
	www.ctv.ca /servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/1075239709227_1?hub=Entertainment (555 words)

	eye - Decline and fall - 11.20.03
		Arcand tried for years to broach the topic of death but always ended up with "gloomy scripts, East European scripts, Polishscripts." Two years ago he began to wonder how the characters he introduced in The Decline of the American Empiremight react to the demise of one of their own.
		Arcand resisted the idea of turning Rémy's offspring into "the usual punk in the street with dyed hair" or some other familiar totem of filial resentment.
		"Seen from Washington," Arcand writes in his notes on the film, "the French, the Bulgarians or the Japanese are one and the same thing: barbarians." While Arcand doesn't score a bullseye with all of his satirical targets, it's exciting to have one of the country's best filmmakers back on form.
	eye.net /eye/issue/issue_11.20.03/film/barbarianinvasions.html (1030 words)

	The Japan Times Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Arcand, one of Canada's most valued filmmakers, says he could feel "Invasions barbares" was going to be a success even during the shooting.
		Arcand has been accused of anti-American sentiments before, and in "Invasions barbares" Remy and his friends criticize the United States with frank candor, but the director says this isn't the point.
		Arcand says that a great physical distance between parents and children is nothing new, and family gatherings often require many air miles.
	www.japantimes.com /cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?ff20040421a5.htm (679 words)

	DENYS ARCAND - JESUS OF MONTREAL (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Denys Arcand was interviewed in the high tech offices of Max Films on colourful St. Lawrence Blvd. in Montreal.
		Arcand was struck by the irony and after he finished The Decline began to write about the contradiction between crass commercialism and spiritual values.
		Arcand has received offers to direct films in Hollywood and in France but he has decided that his next project will focus on a more personal trauma, the recent death of his parents.
	www.eciad.bc.ca /~rburnett/Arcand.html (1029 words)

	FFWD Weekly - December 11, 2003
		Yet the birth of Denys Arcand’s latest film was far from a happy one, even if the movie itself – an alternately scabrous and sentimental comedy-drama that has become one of the most internationally celebrated Canadian films since Arcand’s own Decline of the American Empire 17 years ago – has an irresistible sense of vitality.
		Arcand tried for years to broach the topic of death but always ended up with "gloomy scripts, east European scripts, Polish scripts." Two years ago he began to wonder how the characters he introduced in Decline of the American Empire might react to the demise of one of their own.
		Arcand resisted the idea of turning Remy’s offspring into "the usual punk in the street with dyed hair" or some other familiar totem of filial resentment.
	www.ffwdweekly.com /Issues/2003/1211/film2.htm (1028 words)

	EI > Interviews > Denys Arcand
		Arcand admitted that killing Remy off was necessary for two reasons: “(1) it’s the core of the movie although we don’t want him to disappear; and (2) life is like that, you know, it’s ironic that the ones who love life the most are the ones that often go first.”
		I told Arcand that I appreciated his use of technology and blending the old with the new.
		Arcand told me that the way Remy and his friends talk about things would be realistic because they would try to “interpret” the world events and find “meaning” in them.
	www.einsiders.com /features/interviews/denysarcand.php (836 words)

	TAKE ONE: Epidemic amnesia: AIDS is curiously forgotten in Denys Arcand's Les Invasions barbares
		Arcand's sidestepping of the issue appears even more glaring when one takes this into consideration, not to mention his pre-filmmaking career as a historian.
		Arcand's no fool, but it's extremely hard to take the man at his word on this point.
		Arcand deserves praise for Les Invasions barbares, easily one of the best films of the past year.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0JSF/is_46_13/ai_n6118273 (1154 words)

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