Tom McCamus, Lindy Booth, David Hewlett, Sandrine Holt (10/00 Century Hotel)
Excerpt from Hollywood Reporter 10/17/00: Tom McCamus | Century Hotel
Feore, Kirshner book 'Hotel'
October 17, 2000 | Vlessing, Etan
TORONTO -- Canadian actors Colm Feore ("Titus") and Mia Kirshner ("Exotica") have been signed to star in "Century Hotel," a low-budget feature drama set to shoot in Toronto. Also brought on board for "Century Hotel" is Tom McCamus ("Long Day's Journey into Night," "The Sweet Hereafter") and Canadian pop music singer Chantal Kreviazuk making her movie acting debut.
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Excerpt from Jam! Canoe 12/1/00: Tom McCamus, Lindy Booth (Diana Moller in "Time Squared") and Sandrine Holt (Patricia in "The Future Revealed")
Raine, Chantal co-star in movie
Karen Bliss
Despite its low budget, the film, co-written by Bridget Newson ("Franklin", "Runaway Christmas"), features a huge cast of prominent Canadian actors, among them Colm Feore ("32 Shorts Films About Glenn Gould", "The Red Violin", "Titus", Steven Speilberg's upcoming "A.I."), Tom McCamus ("The Sweet Hereafter", "Long Day's Journey Into Night"), Mia Kirshner ("Exotica", "Mad City"), Lindy Booth ("Relic Hunter") and Sandrine Holt ("Black Robe"). Maida and Kreviazuk are the only non-professional actors in "Century Hotel", which was Weaver's intention for the two musician roles.
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Excerpt from Playback 2/19/01: Tom McCamus
Mr. X steps out of the shadows
February 19, 2001 by Mark Dillon
Weaver and producer Victoria Hirst are in post on the $750,000 feature Century Hotel, starring Colm Feore, Tom McCamus, Mia Kirshner and singer Chantal Kreviazuk in an episodic tale of a hundred years of goings-on in a single hotel room.
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Excerpt from Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television 4/16/01: Tom McCamus
ACADEMY LAUNCHES NEW SCREENING SERIES FOR ITS MEMBERS
(TORONTO - April 16, 2001) The Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television (The Academy) is continuing its highly successful Academy Screening Series this month. The series allows all Academy members to both view Genie award winning films and director cuts of soon to be released Canadian feature films, as well as provide Canadian filmmakers with a launching pad for their works. This month’s film, the highly anticipated premier of Century Hotel will be screening on April 19th. Directed by David Weaver, Century Hotel takes the viewer on a journey of the twentieth century through the perspective a seemingly anonymous hotel room.
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With Century Hotel, Weaver brings us Colm Foere, Tom McCamus, Mia Kirshner, and making their theatrical debuts singer/songwriters Chantal Kreviazuk, and Raine Maida (Our Lady Peace).
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Excerpt from Playback Online 6/11/01: Tom McCamus
Century Hotel’s Greene room
June 11, 2001 by Marise Strauss
The film features an all-star Canadian cast including Colm Feore, Tom McCamus, Mia Kirshner, Lindy Booth and singing/songwriting couple Raine Maida (Our Lady Peace) and Chantal Kreviazuk.
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Excerpt from Take One 9/1/01: Tom McCamus, David Hewlett (Hector Friemark in "Taking of Crows")
CENTURY HOTEL
"When you set out to write a script about a hotel room, you're going to be writing about sex, because that's what happens in hotel rooms," explains David Weaver, the director and co--writer of Century Hotel, a high--concept entry in this year's Perspective Canada at the Toronto International Film Festival.
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The salad days of that decadent decade brought about a certain self-indulgence that included the whims of an out-of-town businessman, Nicholas (Tom McCamus), who engages his first call girl, Dominique (Mia Kirshner). Their chemistry, which goes beyond the thrill of contract fellatio, endures and they agree to meet at yearly intervals. It's a nefarious take on Same Time, Next Year with nary a trace of Alan Alda. "There were stories I looked for that were reflections of myself and there were stories that were more distant from me," says Weaver. "The 1980s segment, even though Tom's character is middle--aged and even though I've never been with a prostitute, was about something that is real to me in my life. I have had that connection with a woman -- a deep sexual connection that throws the rest of your life into disarray -- but I've never seen this story, that kind of connection, portrayed on film in any kind of real way."
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The success of locking in Feore created casting momentum. Anything seemed within the realm of possibility. Why not Genie--winner McCamus (I Love a Man in Uniform)? Why not David Hewlett (Traders, Cube)?
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Excerpt from Eye Tap 9/6/01: Tom McCamus
Best of the Fest: Our reviewers tackle over 70 films in our biggest ever Toronto International Film Festival guide
CENTURY HOTEL Starring Tom McCamus, Mia Kirshner. Written and directed by David Weaver. 96 min. Perspective Canada. Sept. 9, 9:15pm, Isabel Bader Theatre; Sept. 11, 9am, Royal Ontario Museum. Among them are the tale of a john (Tom McCamus) and a hooker (Mia Kirshner) who meet one night every year, and that of a reclusive musician (Raine Maida) who's lured out of his hovel by a curious maid (Chantal Kreviazuk).
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McCamus may be able to breathe life into this hokum but Maida sure can't.
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Excerpt from Divergent Thinking 10/01: Tom McCamus, Lindy Booth (Diana Moller in "Time Squared"), David Hewlett (Hector Freimark in "Taking of Crows") and Sandrine Holt (Patricia in "The Future Revealed")
Films Screening during AFF: Advance Screenings
Century Hotel (Canada, 96 min.) U.S. Premiere
Writer: David Weaver and Bridget Newson
Director: David Weaver
Cast: Joel Bissonnette, Lindy Booth, Colm Feore, David Hewlett, Sandrine Holt, Janet Kidder, Mia Kirshner, Chantal Kreviazuk, Eugene Lipinski, Raine Maida, Tom McCamus, Earl Pastko, Jeremy Ratchford
David Weaver’s feature film debut is a sumptuous tale that tracks the inhabitants of Room 720, a seemingly anonymous hotel room, over the course of a century. Witnessing every kind of human drama - an illicit love affair, an unsolved murder, a young woman’s first sexual encounter, and the creeping onset of madness - Century Hotel is a journey through the twentieth century.
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Excerpt from Variety 11/11/01: Tom McCamus
Review: ‘Century Hotel’
November 11, 2001 | 12:21PM PT Ken Eisner
Seven semi-related stories set in a single room, “Century Hotel” escapes omnibus hell thanks to clever design and strong performances, especially from Mia Kirshner and Tom McCamus as lovers who meet over the years. Pic opens in Canada Nov. 16, and could do some biz in the States, too, if the right distributer checks into its freewheeling mix of decade-hopping period detail and shades-drawn sexuality.
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The strongest storyline - and the one with the most startling sex scenes - finds “Exotica’s” Kirshner all grown up as a confident hooker whose dominatrix mask (and more) slips when McCamus’ gentle john truly falls for her.
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Excerpt from Canoe Jam!Movies 11/15/01: Tom McCamus
Century Hotel a movie worth checking into
By CLAIRE BICKLEY November 15, 2001
Assignations between a prostitute (Mia Kirshner) and a regular (Tom McCamus) reflect the financial ups and downs of the 1980s.
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Everybody will have his own favorites. Mine is the bittersweet X-Rated, with Kirshner and McCamus as the hooker and the John who yearn for their annual couplings to be something more.
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Excerpt from The Globe and Mail 11/16/01: Tom McCamus
Century Hotel proves grand only in design
Rick Groen Published Friday, Nov. 16 2001, 12:00 AM EST
An impressive array of Canadian actors -- including Colm Feore, Tom McCamus, Mia Kirshner and (in a dual role) Lindy Booth -- do a nice job of fleshing out their individual parts.
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Excerpt from Playback 12/19/01: Tom McCamus
Surprises mark Genie noms
by: Mark Dillon Dec 19, 2001
"Unexpected" is likely the best word to characterize this year's Genie nominations. No doubt many will be surprised by what isn't nominated. Absent among the best motion picture finalists are some of 2001's most high-profile Canadian releases.
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Century Hotel, David Weaver's debut feature about goings-on in a single hotel room over a period of 100 years, boasts a high-profile cast including Colm Feore, Tom McCamus, Mia Kirshner, Chantal Kreviazuk and Raine Maida of the band Our Lady Peace, but was only able to muster noms for cinematography and original song.
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Excerpt from Memorial University of Newfoundland 1/17/02: Tom McCamus
Century Hotel (Canada 2001) 96 min.
January 17
Directed by David Weaver. With Eugene Lipinski, Lindy Booth, Colm Feore, Tom McCamus, Mia Kirshner, Raine Maida, Chantal Kreviazuk, et al. A fabulous cast dominates this well written feature debut with a great concept at its core.
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Excerpt from Current Film 5/1/02: Tom McCamus
Century Hotel: A Review by Mark McLeod
May 1st 2002
In terms of males one of the stronger performances comes from Tom McCamus who plays Nicholas the john who meets up with Mia's Dominique each year during the 80s. He too shows an excellent range as his character changes over the years from a worried married man to someone with not a worry in the world. McCamus is a veteran of over 20 projects in Canada yet is unknown south of the border. Hopefully he'll take on a role in a prominent Canadian film that hits it big so that Americans can see what they are missing.
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Excerpt from Film Freak Central 5/20/13: Tom McCamus
Century Hotel (2001) - DVD
May 20, 2013 by Walter Chaw
The bits seem to progress towards a natural end, but with the exception of the Kirshner/McCamus segment, each is forced into some sort of poetic contrivance that undermines honesty and feel.
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For the melancholy and steam of Kirshner's and McCamus's performances alone, Century Hotel gets a recommendation; for the varying weaknesses of the other plots and devices, that recommendation is not a strong one.
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