A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Alias:
Ben Charest
Benoit Charest
Birthplace:
Montréal, Canada
Born:
July 16, 1964
Music:
2009 Polytechnique
2012 Upside Down
2014 Imelda
2020 Imelda 3 : Simone
2021 The Sticky Side of Baklava
Original Music Composer:
2003 The Triplets of Belleville
2008 Adam's Wall
2009 Polytechnique
2009 Runaway
2010 Route 132
2011 Oliver Sherman
2012 Mars and April
2012 Upside Down
2014 Imelda
2014 The Wanted 18
2016 Mamie
2017 Radius
2017 Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World
2020 Imelda 3 : Simone
2021 The Sticky Side of Baklava
2022 Imelda 4: Le Cadeau
2022 Imelda 5: Imperial 59
2022 Imelda 6: Les Pilules
2022 Imelda 7: Pipo
2022 Imelda 8: Mary Vone
2023 Victoire
2024 Born to Be Wild - Eine Band namens Steppenwolf
Musician:
2017 The Disappearance
Original Music Composer:
2017 The Disappearance
Most data and links to images for the Movies section come from TheMovieDB (TMDB).
Additional data for Film Titles come from The Open Movie Database (OMDb).
At least one plug-in comes from IMDb.
Data are -- hey, it's a plural -- subject to the limitations of their sources. (For example, TMDB search results currently max out at 20.) I am limiting myself to free data sources for now. (No, a "free trial" is not free.)
While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:
Regarding profile removals and data corrections:
Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).
Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.
Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.