The Painted Door

Last updated
The Painted Door
Directed by Bruce Pittman
Written byJoe Wiesenfeld
Based on"The Painted Door" by Sinclair Ross
Produced by Michael MacMillan
Janice Platt
Robert Verrall
Starring Linda Goranson
Eric Peterson
August Schellenberg
CinematographySavas Kalogeras
Edited byMargaret Van Eerdewijk
Music byBruce Levy
Distributed by National Film Board of Canada
Atlantis Films
Release date
  • 1984 (1984)(Canada)
Running time
24 minutes
Country Canada
Language English

The Painted Door is a Canadian short drama film, directed by Bruce Pittman and released in 1984. [1] Based on a short story by Sinclair Ross, the film was produced by the National Film Board of Canada and Atlantis Films of Toronto. [2] It received an Academy Award nomination for Best Live Action Short Film. [3]

Contents

Synopsis

The Painted Door is a dark, downbeat film set during a cold prairie winter. Anne (Linda Goranson) stays alone in an isolated farmhouse while her husband, John (August Schellenberg), leaves to help his ailing father. A neighbour, Stephen (Eric Peterson), whom she secretly loves, drops by to help with the chores. When John doesn't return home that night, Anne gives in to temptation, only to wake the next day to the realization of what she has done.

Cast

Distribution

The film received theatrical distribution in the United States, while in Canada it aired on Global Television Network as part of the Global Playhouse series of film adaptations of Canadian short stories. [2]

Accolades

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Norman McLaren</span> Scottish Canadian animator (1914–1987)

William Norman McLaren, LL. D. was a Scottish Canadian animator, director and producer known for his work for the National Film Board of Canada (NFB). He was a pioneer in a number of areas of animation and filmmaking, including hand-drawn animation, drawn-on-film animation, visual music, abstract film, pixilation and graphical sound. McLaren was also an artist and printmaker, and explored his interest in dance in his films.

Roman Kroitor was a Canadian filmmaker who was known as a pioneer of Cinéma vérité, as the co-founder of IMAX, and as the creator of the Sandde hand-drawn stereoscopic 3D animation system. He was also the original inspiration for The Force. His prodigious output garnered numerous awards, including two BAFTA Awards, three Cannes Film Festival awards, and two Oscar nominations.

<i>Neighbours</i> (1952 film) 1952 Canadian film

Neighbours is a 1952 anti-war film by Scottish-Canadian filmmaker Norman McLaren for the National Film Board of Canada. In 1953, it won the Oscar for Best Documentary, Short Subject.

Narcissus is a 1983 Canadian short musical and experimental film directed by Norman McLaren and produced by David Verrall, visualizing the legend of Narcissus in a modern way. It was produced for the National Film Board of Canada.

Stephen Low is a Canadian film director and screenwriter who works extensively in the IMAX and IMAX 3D film formats. Based in Montreal, Quebec, over his 30-plus year career Low has directed numerous award-winning film documentaries including Challenger: An Industrial Romance (1980), Beavers (1988), Titanica (1991), Super Speedway (1997), Volcanoes of the Deep Sea (2003), Fighter Pilot: Operation Red Flag (2004), Ultimate Wave Tahiti 3D (2010), Legends of Flight 3D (2010), Rescue 3D (2011), Rocky Mountain Express (2011) and Aircraft Carrier (2017).

Colin Archibald Low was a Canadian animation and documentary filmmaker with the National Film Board of Canada (NFB). He was known as a pioneer, one of Canada's most important filmmakers, and was regularly referred to as "the gentleman genius". His numerous honors include five BAFTA awards, eight Cannes Film Festival awards, and six Academy Award nominations.

Pas de deux is a 1968 short dance film by Norman McLaren, produced by the National Film Board of Canada.

City of Gold is a 1957 Canadian documentary film by Colin Low and Wolf Koenig, chronicling Dawson City during the Klondike Gold Rush. It made innovative use of archival photos and camera movements to animate still images, while also combining narration and music to bring drama to the whole. Its innovative use of still photography in this manner has been cited by Ken Burns as the source of inspiration for his so-called Ken Burns effect, a type of panning and zooming effect used in video production to animate still images.

Tony Ianzelo is a Canadian documentary director and cinematographer.

Blackwood is a 1976 Canadian short documentary film about Newfoundland artist David Blackwood, directed by Tony Ianzelo and Andy Thomson for the National Film Board of Canada.

<i>Hunger</i> (1973 film) 1973/1974 animated short film

Hunger/La Faim is a 1973/1974 animated short film produced by the National Film Board of Canada. It was directed by Peter Foldes and is one of the first computer animation films. The story, told without words, is a morality tale about greed and gluttony in contemporary society.

The Street is a 1976 animated short film by Caroline Leaf for the National Film Board of Canada.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Tom Daly (filmmaker)</span> Canadian film producer, film editor and film director

Thomas Cullen Daly was a Canadian film producer, film editor and film director, who was the head of Studio B at the National Film Board of Canada (NFB).

John Spotton C.S.C. was a Canadian filmmaker with the National Film Board of Canada.

<i>Me and My Moulton</i> 2014 film

Me and My Moulton is a 2014 Canadian-Norwegian animated short film written and directed by Torill Kove. It premiered at the 2014 Annecy International Animated Film Festival on 10 June 2014. It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film at the 87th Academy Awards. Me and My Moulton won the Golden Sheaf Award for Best Animation at the 2015 Yorkton Film Festival.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Albert Kish</span> Hungarian-Canadian documentarian/filmmaker (1937–2015)

Albert Kish was a Canadian documentarian/filmmaker.

Robert Verrall is a Canadian animator, director and film producer who worked for the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) from 1945 to 1987. Over the course of his career, his films garnered a BAFTA Award, prizes at the Cannes Film Festival and Venice Film Festival, and six Academy Award nominations.

Global Playhouse, intermittently also known as Bell Canada Playhouse or Bell Canada Global Playhouse, is a Canadian television drama anthology series, which aired on Global Television Network in the 1980s. A coproduction of Atlantis Films and the National Film Board of Canada, the series aired film adaptations of short stories by Canadian writers.

Paradise is a Canadian animated short film, directed by Ishu Patel and released in 1984.

Morten Parker was a Canadian director, producer and writer.

References

  1. Bruce Bailey, "Canada's Oscar hopefuls; Four movies in running for Hollywood honors". Montreal Gazette , March 16, 1985.
  2. 1 2 Rick Groen, "Short is sweet on Global". The Globe and Mail , September 27, 1984.
  3. "Oscar Nominations Give Canada the Nod Once More". Cinema Canada (116): 48. March 1985.
  4. "The Painted Door". onf-nfb.gc.ca. National Film Board of Canada. Retrieved 22 February 2023.
  5. "The 57th Academy Awards (1985) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved October 13, 2011.