SYNOPSIS: For his enthralling first feature, Allan King took his cameras to a home for emotionally disturbed young people. Situated inside the facility like a fly on the wall, we witness the full spectrum of emotions displayed by twelve fascinating children and the caregivers trying to nurture and guide them. The stunning Warrendale won the Prix d’art et d’essai at Cannes and a special documentary award from the National Society of Film Critics.
| The Children | Irene |
| Carol | |
| Tony | |
| Laurie | |
| Patrick | |
| Susan | |
| Robert | |
| Debbie | |
| Freddie | |
| Pegi | |
| Bob | |
| Davey | |
| The Staff | Terry Adler |
| Walter Gunn | |
| Robyn Rice | |
| Ena Brocklehurst | |
| Maurice Flood | |
| Alvyn Austin | |
| Executive director | John Brown |
| Medical psychiatric director | Dr. Martin Fischer |
| Director | Allan King |
| Cinematography | William Brayne |
| Editing | Peter Moseley |
| Sound | Russel Heise and Michael Billings |
By September 21, 2010
WARRENDALE: MAN OF ACTION Allan King was one of cinema’s most acute chroniclers of unadorned reality, but the term documentary seems too puny to describe the intense, passionate stories he contrived . . . Read more »
By February 02, 2011
These tributes first appeared in the winter 2010 issue of Brick, a literary journal based in Toronto. They are posted here by permission of the authors. The photographs appear courtesy of Colleen . . . Read more »
By February 02, 2011
This essay first appeared in the winter 2010 issue of Brick, a literary journal based in Toronto. It is posted here by permission of the author. Michelangelo said he could sense the figure in . . . Read more »
By February 02, 2011
This interview was published in the winter 2010 issue of Brick, a literary journal based in Toronto. It is posted here by permission of the Toronto International Film Festival. The photograph appears . . . Read more »
By September 16, 2010
I didn’t know quite what to say to Allan King when I met him for the first time in the fall of 2003 at his home offices in downtown Toronto. This was partly out of deference to his reputation as . . . Read more »
By September 16, 2010
Seven years ago, I was a bright-eyed recent university grad who had just moved to the big city—Toronto—for the first time. I was struggling to find my path as a filmmaker, and at the Toronto International . . . Read more »
September 27, 2010
In his Los Angeles Times review of Eclipse Series 24, critic Dennis Lim lays out why readers may not know the filmmaker honored by the set, and why they should: “The subject of The Actuality Dramas . . . Read more »
