Nanook in a sentence

Year of the Hunter CBC Documentary Melanie McGrath, a writer, writes that, while living in Northern Quebec for the year of filming Nanook, Flaherty had an affair with his lead actress, the young Inuk woman who played Nanook's wife.

In 2000, she received the Order of the Nanook Award presented to the outstanding trainer at the 2000 Top of the World Men’s Basketball Classic in Fairbanks, Alaska.

Greenlandic duo Nanook performs Saturday at the Nunatta Sunakkutaangit Museum as part of Iqaluit's Alianait Arts Festival.

Renewed hellos to the (obviously incompetent) Nanook fae Nairn.

The credits clarify that the old man is named Nanook (Mikhail Aprosimov) and the old woman, Sedna (Feodosia Ivanova).

Milling and Nanook were airlifted to Anchorage.

For instance, in Nanook of the North, Flaherty did not allow his subjects to shoot a walrus with a nearby shotgun, but had them use a harpoon instead.

Going to trade his hunt from the year, including foxes, seals and polar bears, Nanook comes in contact with the white man and there is a funny interaction as the two cultures meet.

Hollywood Nanook of the North ( 1922 ) was a successful film, and Flaherty was in great demand afterwards.

In a 2014 Sight and Sound poll, film critics voted Nanook of the North the seventh best documentary film of all time. citation Legacy At the time, few documentaries had been filmed and there was little precedent to guide Flaherty's work.

In making Nanook, Flaherty cast various locals in parts in the film, in the way that one would cast actors in a work of fiction.

In this scene, Nanook and his family arrive in a kayak at the trading post and one family member after another emerge from a small kayak, akin to a clown car at the circus.

Man of Aran was a major critical success, and for decades was considered in some circles an even greater achievement than Nanook.

Nanook began a series of films that Flaherty was to make on the same theme; humanity against the elements.

Nanook; his wife, Nyla; and their family are introduced as fearless heroes who endure rigors "no other race" could survive.

On a contract with Paramount to produce another film on the order of Nanook, Flaherty went to Samoa to film Moana ( 1926 ).

Reception As the first nonfiction work of its scale, Nanook of the North was ground-breaking cinema.

Television * In the Bugs Bunny episode "Frigid Hare", Bugs comes across an Eskimo chasing after a penguin, whom he calls "Nanook".

The Inuit refer to the animal as nanook citation ( transliterated as nanuq in the Inupiat language ).

The scene is meant to be a comical one as the audience laughs at the naivete of Nanook and people isolated from Western culture.