amoMtfi FiunnEUJS CFDC investing in four low-budget of the Mayan civilisation), others were All four films will be about twenty features more like variety programmes, some minutes in length, and their budgets range The Canadian Film Development Cor­ didn't have any dramatic content, others from $5,600 to $7,500. The rest of the poration has accepted four proposals for were simply mediocre — their scripts were money is open for another script com­ production funds under its special pro­ just a httle thin as far as feature films go. petition: the deadline is January 15th, gramme for low-budget films with total He went on to say that some people 1973. budgets less than $100,000. The projects initially rejected were asked to re-apply, To assist in the selection of the pro­ chosen from a large number of submis­ and that in effect everyone is free to do jects, the Corporation established a small sions are Rosedale Lady by Don Owen, so, in theory at least. JJow much chance committee drawn from West Coast film­ and Peep submitted by Jack Cunningham, an unrevised script would have the second makers, who are not competing in the both to be produced in Toronto; plus the time around, he did not say. But the programme. A similar competition last Montreal-based productions Tu Brules . . . balance for this year of $360,000 is yet year provided at least nine filmmakers Tu Brules from I'Association Cooperative to be disbursed. Filmmakers requesting with a chance to produce a film. des Productions Audio-Visuelles to be production funds under this programme Each applicant must have completed directed by Jean-Guy Noel, and Bar Salon must submit their proposals by December at least one previous film (winners of proposed by Les Ateliers du cinema 15th, 1972. Application forms and ad­ previous CFDC grants are not eligible), quebecois Inc. to be directed by Andre ditional information are available in must be a citizen of Canada or a landed Forcier. The Corporation has agreed to Montreal (Suite 2220, P.O. Box 71, Tour immigrant with two years' residency in invest $60,000 in each of these projects, de la Burse, Montreal 115 - (514) British Columbia, and each proposal must provided the filmmakers comply with 283-6363), and in Toronto (Suite 18, include a shooting script, a detailed bud­ normal CFDC pohcies and requirements. Lothian Mews, 96 Bloor Street West, get, the previous film, and a curriculum More than forty projects were sub­ Toronto 5 - (416) 966-6436). vitae. Robert Linnell has been retained as mitted to the Corporation following the So far this year the CFDC has invested CFDC's West Coast administrator, and is public announcement that the CFDC had a total of $2,000,000.00 in Canadian film receiving applications at Suite 1502, 736 established a $600,000 annual fund for productions. This sum includes approxi­ Granville Street, Vancouver 1, British the purpose of helping to produce one- mately ten larger investments ($150 to Columbia (area code (604) 666-3838, or hundred thousand dollar features. Thirty $200 thousand range), and these four 731-2446). six of the proposals were rejected, accor­ smaller ones. The return ratio on invest­ Ted Rouse of the CFDC's Toronto ding to the official CFDC release, because ments is very small, but Rouse hopes for office stated in an interview that he "some of the submissions failed to meet bigger returns in the future, with tighter recognizes the problems short films like all the specified criteria, others lacked control on the money. The only change these face once they get to the distribu­ scriptwriting quality, and — in the Cor­ he could conceivably think a potential tion stage, but he added that the main poration's estimation — they did not Progressive Conservative government purpose of the non-repayable grants is to contain the substance of an interesting would bring about, is raising the percen give West Coast filmmakers a further film." The large number of proposals was tage of returns to the CFDC. opportunity to develop their talents as a surprise for the CFDC; they did not producers and directors (eventually) of realize that a lot of people 'out there' West Coast CFDC grants still feature films. were waiting for just such a chance. available He went on to say that once the film is Complaints are already coming in from Even though the Canadian Film made, it's up to the filmmaker to sell it, some filmmakers who submitted scripts Development Corporation is phasing out and since there is such a hmited market and feel that their proposals were treated its grant competitions in keeping with for 16mm shorts, selling it is an uphill unfairly. It seems that the Corporation Pelletier's July 4th Film Policy speech battle. Only in very special cases would relies on outside 'readers' to judge script (see August issue of Cinema Canada), the CFDC provide money for blowing up ideas, and that these readers mark up there still remains $20 to $25 thousand in a 16mm print to 35mm for theatrical each proposal in the margins as to what a previously budgeted West Coast contest. release: a distributor would really have to they think are the merits or shortcomings The competition was announced in Eke it, be wilUng to put some of his own of the project. Some people in turn have August, and more than half of the money into it, and the filmmaker too judged from these 'margin markings' that $50,000 total has already been awarded would have to pay at least a third of the their reader had absolutely no insight as to four aspiring feature film makers. The cost. Rouse doesn't think a Canadian to what their film was all about. recipients are Peter Bryant for a script content quota (such as the one in the Ted Rouse of the Toronto office of entitled The Rocco Brothers, Zale Dalen music industry) is imminent for film the CFDC explained that most of the for a film called Quitting Time, Bix exhibitors and distributors, consequently films rejected did not fit into the criteria Milanich for Funeral Ship, and Richard some other ways must be found to help of dramatic feature films. Some were Patton for his project. Old Man in a show Canaidan-made shorts and features. semi-documentary in nature (one inte'*";- Dream. Bryant's film is already in produc­ He commended the programme of the ting proposal concerned an expedition tion, and the others are due to start early Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Cen­ down to Mexico to search out the roots next year. tre, and pointed to it as an alternative

Cinema Canada 6 solution to marketing 16mm short films. Bernadette's producers Carle-Lamy Smattes, by Jean-Claude Labrecque, the Ted Rouse didn't care to comment on report that the film has been sold to 28 first feature directed by this well known the Secretary of State's appointment of a countries and negotiations are still being cinematographer, examining his people in five person committee to advise him on conducted with many other nations. It a setting in rural Quebec. (Carle-Lamy); the problem. The appointments have has been playing in Montreal since May La Conquete, (The Conquest) by Jacques been criticized, since none of the guilds 6th, as well as in many other towns in Gagne with cinematography by or unions were consulted about the com­ Quebec. In Paris, France, the film is being Labrecque, is the story of a slow coming mittee, which is supposed to be represen­ presented in five different theatres and is together of a man and woman, but it is tative of the private sector of the Cana­ very popular. More than 50,000 people not clear who conquers whom. Quebec dian film industry. The. five member have seen it in less than a month. Gilles City is the real star with its visual and board consisting of George Destounis, Carle's Les Males is also playing in the historical beauty unsurpassed in North Famous Players, and Rock Demers, Latin Quarter, and has been for the past America. (Carle-Lamy); La Maudite Gal- Faroun Films (distributors); Claude 24 weeks. lette by Denys Arcand, was shown at the Godbout, Prisma Films (producer); Tom Eliza's Horoscope, Gordon Sheppard's Stratford Festival, but this underworld Shandel, Vancouver (director) and Joan long awaited feature will finally go into story wasn't even entered in the Film- Fox, Toronto (publicist); has already met the theatres. To be distributed by Warner Awards competition. (CINAK) twice, and will presumably be very in­ Brothers, it features music by The Band. August and July, by Murray Marko- fluential in Ottawa's decision concerning Quelques Arpents de Neige (A Few witz, is ready for distribution. The story the Canadian distribution and exhibition Acres of Snow), Denis Heroux' dazzling concerns a love affair between two problem (Film Policy, Phase II). historical spectacular about English and women. Ivan Reitman's Cannibal Girls Since in our humble opinion the main French conflict in Quebec during the last has no distribution problems — American problem facing Canadian films and their century - interwoven with a love story — International Pictures is releasing it in the circulation is that 80 per cent of the is due in Quebec theatres by Christmas. It States. Paul Almond's Journey, with exhibition and distribution money in this should be released throughout the rest of Genevieve Bujold and John Vernon, country is controlled by Americans, it is the country as well, if only to flaunt its played in Toronto for four weeks to very disconcerting to see Destounis' name technical excellence, but no plans have mixed reviews, and has now opened in on this committee, since it is his com­ been announced. Bernard Chentrier did Montreal to considerably better reviews. pany. Famous Players, which runs the the superb cinematography. (Cinevideo) An English and French version are play­ distribution racket in Canada, and is at Some other features which we'd hke ing there simultaneously. the same time 5 1 per cent owned by Gulf to see playing in theatres throughout the Whatever happened to Mahoney's & Western, a giant U.S. conglomerate. No country (and if you think about it, Estate by Harvey Hart, Mille et Cha- wonder a Canadian content quota seems there's no reason why they shouldn't be teaugue by Alain Perisson, Bulldozer by far out of reach, with the very men sitting released, after all most of them were Pierre Harel, Come on Children by Allan on advisory committees, who dictate how partially financed with our tax money King, and Corps et Ames by Michel much American garbage is to be crammed through the CFDC) but most of which Audy, all of them films which the CFDC down our throats daily in our own will probably stay within Quebec's bor­ has invested in recently, and most of theatres! (Not that all U.S. films are ders are: Le Temps d'une Chasse, (Once them shot some time ago. Can we expect garbage — but we all know the ones in Upon a Hunt) a knock-out of a first a release date on some of these soon? question). feature by Francis Mankiewicz, with In the post-production stage at the In the meantime, the CFDC has turned award winning cinematography by Michel moment are these Canadian-made feature over all its grant-giving powers to the Brault. (NFB); La Vie Revee, an equally films; Canada Council, whose film budget is due impressive first feature by Mireille Dan- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer for a proportionate increase next year. sereau about the friendship between two (actually an American production invol­ women (see interview elsewhere in this ving Canadian cast and crew) completed Canadian feature activity rivals any issue); Montreal Blues, by Pascal Gelinas, shooting in Upper Canada Village, with in the world a film about young quebecois and where twelve Canadian actors and the participa­ At one point in October there were their heads are at, (Jean Dansereau); Les tion of Maurice-Jackson Samuels CSC, more feature films being shot in Canada, Colombes, (The Doves) produced and John Board, assistant director, and Sam than in the international film production directed by Jean-Claude Lord, a profes­ Jephcott, production manager. A centres of Hollywood, New York, Lon­ sionally sUck dramatic motion picture CBS/Universal production, originally for don, or Rome. about upper middle class hfe, with Jean TV, but also for theatrical release. Film Here is a breakdown of the truly Duceppe (Mon Oncle Antoine); Les House provided all lab services. amazing number of full-length motion pictures in this country ready for release, or presently being edited, shot, or pre­ pared for shooting. Canadian features due to be released by Christmas, include the following: La Vraie Nature de Bemadette (The True Nature of Bemadette), Gilles Carle's truly beautiful, award-winning rendering of a very special kind of Quebec love story, starring the best Canadian actress for 1972, Michehne Lanctot, is to be released in English-Canada soon. It better be.

On location in Halifax with The Neptune Factor — An Undersea Odyssey. Floralie Oii es-Tu? (FioraUe, Where are Onyx Films of Montreal are producing, You?) by Jean Dansereau, produced by and Cinema Center is to distribute the Les Atehers du Cinema Qu6becois. film. MGM was supposed to be original In Pursuit Of (Actually an American distributor, but they pulled out with production involving Canadian cast and $700,000. Could this have been a crew) produced in Vancouver by Richard political move? Walton of Los Angeles, shot by Kelly Duncan CSC, with Vancouver technicians Alio Tout I'Monde is a documentary and actors. on poet Raoul Duguay and composer J'ai Mon Voyage, directed by Denis Walter Boudreau. Directed by Roger Heroux with KIT films producing. Frappier, his second feature, it is being Kamouraska, award-winning director Pauline Julie/!. Carol Laure. Willie Lamothe, produced by him m conjunction with Claude Jutra's (Mon Oncle Antoine) and Denise Filiatrault in Gilles Carle's Le Mort I'Association Cooperative de Productions latest film, is being edited and is sche­ d'un Bucheron Audio-Visuelles. duled for a spring release date. Photo­ with a budget close to $1 milhon. Distri­ Bar-Salon started shooting in Novem­ graphed by Michel Brault and starring bution will be handled by MGM. The ber. The film was financed under the Genevieve Bujold, this period piece is story concerns the murder of a high-class CFDC's one hundred thousand dollar, based on Anne Hebert's best-selhng novel, call girl and is based on John Buell's low-budget feature fund, and is being (see next issue of Cinema Canada) novel. Christopher Plummer directed by Marc-Andre Forcier, with Les Keep It in the Family by Larry Kent, (Canadian-born!), Karen Black and Daniel atehers du cinema quebecois, producing. with Roger Moride CSC on camera, Pilon are the stars. Conflict Canada is a musical in produc­ finished shooting in Montreal. The film The Rainbow Boys was shot in the tion at the English section of the National will be distributed world-wide by Fraser Valley of British Columbia by Film Board in Montreal. It stars Jackie Cinepix. Etrog winner Claude Hazana- Montreal's Potterton Productions, Gerald Burroughs, Gerard Parkes, David Balcer, vicius did the sound, and Ned Stewart Potterton directing. Bob Saad was on and Dennis Kalman. wrote the script, with Patricia Gage, camera, and Patrick Spence-Thomas did Les Corps Celestes (The Heavenly Adrienne LaRussa and Alan McRae in sound. Reports about this $500,000 film Bodies) is still another Gilles Carle film, leading roles. Produced by KIT Films are very enthusiastic, it sounds like one to presently in production. A multi-lingual Ltd. of Montreal. watch. Donald Pleasence, who stars in it, picture, its story deals with prostitutes Last of the Big Guns, produced by is rumoured to have called it one of the setting up a brothel in 19th century John F. Bassett, wrapped on-location best he has ever worked on. Also starring Quebec. However, it's not a sex film. shooting in Delisle, Saskatchewan. Direc­ Kate Reid and Don Calfa. The story takes Get Back, Don Shebib's latest movie, ted by Peter Pearson, the $500,000 fea­ place in the Cariboo gold rush days, and is being shot in Toronto and Sudbury by ture stars Americans Keir Dullea, Eliza­ concerns a prospector, a divorcee, and a Richard Leiterman. Shebib also wrote the beth Ashley, and John Beck. The story New Yorker. Sounds like an ideal com­ script about ex-surfers from California (another sports oriented tale for Bassett) bination. who decide to smuggle some illegal stuff concerns itself with a small town hockey La Tendresse Ordinaire by Jacques into Canada and also pull off a robbery. stud, and his troubles in hfe. Leduc, is in the editing stage at the NFB. All this to capture their lost youth. It is Les Allees de la Terre by Andre It is being produced by Paul Larose and being produced by Clearwater Films, Theberge with Yves Leduc finished edit­ stars Luce Guilbault and Esther Auger. Chalmers Adams executive producer. The ing at the NFB. Tu Briiles . . . Tu Briiles has been shot CFDC is providing $200,000 of the half- Lies My Father Told Me about an old by the I'Association Cooperative des Pro­ a-million dollar budget. Starring are man and a httle boy was directed in ductions Audio-Vusuelles, Jean-Guy Noel Michael Parks, Chuck Shamata, Sean Montreal by East-European film master, directing. The first feature to be pro­ Sulhvan, and Henry Beckman. Jan Kadar. It's being edited presently. duced under the new CFDC $100,000 The Last Detail started shooting in Canadian Ted Allen wrote the script. feature fund. Toronto in November. It is actually an Le Mort d'un Bucheron (The Death of U-Turn, directed by George Kaczender American picture with hmited Canadian a Lumberjack), Gilles Carle's $250,000 in Montreal, is also in the post-production participation. The Columbia release stars film (yet another one) is now being stage. The $420,000 feature, to be distri­ Jack Nicholson, is produced by Gerald completed for release in January. It fea­ buted by Cinepix, was written by Douglas Ay res and directed by Hal Ash by. tures Carol Laure, Willie Lamothe, Denise Bowie and is about a lawyer searching for The Neptune Factor — An Undersea Fdiatrault, Daniel Pilon, and Marcel a dream-girl before getting married to Odyssey wrapped its Nova Scotia location Sabourin. Concerns an actual incident in another woman. shooting, and is presently being shot at which some woodcutters lost their hves. Actually being shot, in various parts of the Kleinburg Studios, near Toronto. Mother's Day (Actually an American Canada as we are going to press, are these Canadian-born Dan Petrie is directing, film with hmited Canadian participation) full-length motion pictures; with Harry Makin CSC as director of completed shooting in Lunenberg, Nova Alien Thunder is shooting at Duck photography. It is a million and a half Scotia, a place chosen because it looks Lake, 80 miles north of Saskatoon. The dollar 20th Century Fox spectacular, more like New England than New En­ $1.5 milhon movie is being directed by with an all star cast: Ben Gazzara, Walter gland itself. Darren McGavin, well-known Jean-Claude Foumier (Two Women in Pidgeon (who was incidentally bom in for his TV acting, directed this picture, Gold), and stars Donald Sutherland, Jean Canada), Emest Borgnine, and Yvette starring Patricia Neal and Cloris Leach- Duceppe, Chief Dan George, Kevin Mimieux, with six local actors in support­ man, with our own Gale Garnett. McCarthy, and Francine Racette. The ing roles. Co-produced by Harold Green- The. Pyx, directed by Harvey Hart, script is based on an actual incident in the berg (Bellevue-Pathe), and David Perl- completed production m Montreal. Mounted PoUce files about the massacre mutter (Quadrant Films) in association Maxine Samuels put together this feature of Cree Indians, led by Almighty Voice. with Hollywood's own Sandy Howard

Cinema Canada 8 the feature is due to for release next La Guerre, Yes Sir! This oft announ­ With the new ehmination of the tax spring. The elaborate sets were built and ced and delayed feature adaptation of the loophole (see Directors Guild page) many designed by Canadian Jack McAdam. stage production will finally begin filming people are worried that investment in M'en Revenant par les Epinettes is in in January in Montreal, Nicol Williamson, Canadian films will slacken off. Hopefully production at Les Ateliers du Cinema the superb British actor is being imported many of these projects wil make enough Quebecois. Frangois Brault is directing. for the lead role, supported by Jean money to still make Canadian motion O.K. . . . Laliberte is in production at Duceppe and members of Le Theatre du pictures an attractive and lucrative National Film Board. The film is directed Nouveau Monde. Eric Till will direct the investment. by Marcel CarriSre and stars Luce Guil- $750,000 film, produced by Lester In the meantime, Hollywood is beault. Persky, and financed in part by theCFDC disappearing. . . . The Paper Chase is another 20th Cen­ and a British group of investors. Hollywood (AP) - A milhon people tury-Fox movie being shot in parts of The Off Note is one of three major troop through Universal Studios on tour Toronto resembUng New England. The projects announced by Postal Tele- every year and take away a httle bit of Harvard classroom conflict-drama set in Science Productions of Port Perry, the studio with them. Literally. the 1940's stars Timothy Bottoms. Cana­ Ontario. See later item in film news. Hundreds of items are taken from the dian crew from lATSE. One Hundred Dollar Misunderstanding studio in a quest for souvenirs by tourists. Le P'tit Vient Vite is an adaptation of is to be shot in April, 1973 in Toronto, Universal is the only movie studio that a Feydeau farce, directed by Louis- and is only one of the major projects operates a tour. Georges Carrier and produced by Mont­ announced for the future by Broadway "They'll take anything they suspect a real's Mojack Films. It was shot on producer Hillard Elkins. See later item in star has touched," said Herb Steinberg, a videotape using Robert Lowry's Image film news. studio executive. "When Paul Newman Transform process for transfer to 35mm The Revolution Script is a film on the had his office on the lot they went film. This is the film we mentioned in the October crisis. Brian Moore will direct around taking beer cans out of the trash." Technical News section of issue no.4 c and it is being co-produced by David Rubber rocks on the outdoor sets are a Cinema Canada. Wolper, Potterton Productions, and Les favorite. John Wayne's cowboy hat Rejeanne Padovani is being directed by Productions Mutuelles, Ltee. of Montreal. vanished from the movie museum. Ash­ Denys Arcand and produced by CINAK. Rosedale Lady finally another film trays, parking signs, name plates — any­ Taureau is being directed by Clement from Don Owen (Nobody Waved Good­ thing with the name of the studio or a Perron, who wrote the screenplay of Mon bye, The Ernie Game), it was approved star is a target. Oncle Antoine. It is being shot 35 miles under the CFDC low-budget feature fund, Someone took the head off an Alfred from where the story of that film took and presumably will go into production Hitchcock dummy used to promote his place. Andre Melangon and Monique soon in Toronto. movie Frenzy. Lepage star in the film, which is the story Yet another film on the October crisis "I hope the thief went away with it of a young, stocky, and stubbom is being prepared by Michel Brault. He tucked under his arm in the best Anne quebecois, sort of an older version of the has been refused assistance by the NFB Boleyn manner," said Hitchcock. "That's boy in Antoine. More about it in the next and the CFDC, but is rewriting the script the way they used to tell the apocryphal issue of this magazine. It is an NFB for resubmission to the Film Develop­ story about how the ghost of Anne production. ment Corporation. Boleyn went about with her head tucked Une Nuit en Amerique, Jean Chabot's And Les Productions Mutuelles, Ltee under her arm." latest film is being produced by I'Associa­ are involved with three other projects, The Studio could call the poUce, but tion Cooperative des Productions Audio- but presumably all of them are to be one day after 500 kids had examined the VisueUes. Pierre Mignot is doing the filmed in France. One involves Belmondo, Adam-12 pohce car it was discovered the camerawork. another Jean-Louis Trintignant. radio and microphone were gone. 1461 Jours is also an NFB production, None of these hsts claim to be ab­ One stop on the tour is the Lucille Ball with GiUes Groulx directing and Paul solutely complete or even entirely dressing room. So many cans of hair Larose producing. accurate. We are too understaffed to do spray and other items on the dressing Coming up in the ever-expanding area major research. To the best of our know­ table vanished, that Walker said he asked of Canadian feature film produotion are ledge however, there are no other major the girl guides to bring in their empties. these projects; (subject to change, as feature length motion pictures being shot Those disappeared, too. Finally, they anyone connected with the business right now in Canada; but then we forgot glued the cans to the table top. knows only too well. . . .) to check uncle Henry's basement. Walker still has not figured out how Bourke's Liquidators is to be the first It leads one to be overly optimistic. someone made off with a 100-pound of five features produced by Vancouver's statue of Woody Woodpecker that was Adam Productions. The budget is to be standing in front of the tour centre. over one milhon dollars, and the film will |4.fe Another item taken was the feet of a be distributed by Futurama-International gorilla in a jungle set. of Studio-City, CaUfornia. Tony Mayger The missing item that causes the most will direct the movie, which is about amusement was taken from a western set. left-wing and right-wing students fighting "They were on a sound stage where a for the control of world government. ranch scene had been set up," Walker Godsend is scheduled to start shooting said. "The guide was teUing them how mid-winter in a Northern Ontario mining everything was a false front. False rocks, town. Don Brittain is slated to direct the fake trees, fake grass. So one woman Potterton Productions project. Film is reached down and picked up some horse budgeted at $500,000, and script is based manure and put it in her purse. That was on a short story by Joan MacKenzie. real." Panavision camera with Maple Leaf. Don Shebib with headband, and Richard Leiterman with concerned face on set of Get Back Cinema Canada 9 Broadway producer forms Toronto mnT It's been a lean year in British Colum­ public company to finance multi- bia for crews involved in feature produc­ million dollar features tion." Hillard Elkins, producer of Oh Cal­ And a week later, the following letter: cutta and The Rothschilds, held a press "I wrote to you about NIMCO last conference in Toronto recently, to week! As you can see by the newspaper announce the formation of a local pubUc clippings, the company has gone 'belly finance group (Elkins Productions of up' before it got off the ground!" Canada Ltd.), bankrolled initially at $1.5 The cUpping tells a fascinating story milhon. that could have been concocted by Kurt Elkins took off to London immediate­ Vonnegut. Marshall Hamilton, a twenty- ly to begin production on the fUm version five year old bright con artist blew into of A Doll's House with his wife Claire Francois Floquet receives gold medal in Atlanta Vancouver with huge plans to produce, Bloom as the lead. His other plans for Les Hommes Qui Viennent du Ciel. edit, transfer, and distribute video cas­ include a five miUion dollar movie version Laddie Dennis, and tentatively, Rita Hay- sette tapes, which Hamilton boasted will of The Rothschilds with Fox, to be shot worth. 'soon make movies obsolete.' laje next year, as well as an April start in Shooting is complicated by some of His background was a mystery, and so Toronto on A One Hundred Dollar Mis­ the French dialogue scenes in the fOm, a was the source of the financial backing understanding. very unusual love story which touches on for his venture. He dropped hints that he Elkins Productions also plans to move some problems of people in love in a was the son of a former Cuban plantation into publishing, recording, and the TV lonely big city. owner, and that his money was coming specials packaging fields. One television Added to this is plenty of 'meaningful' from New York, Delaware and the special already in the works is Hedda sex (should titillate the censors in Ontario, Bahamas. He must have been convincing, Gabler, also starring Claire Bloom. Now, especially) and beautiful winter scenes to because people actually believed him! if only all of this activity would be rival those of Mon Oncle Antoine. For credibility value he rented part of planned for Canada (some definitely is), Budget is $270,000, with the CFDC the Howard Hughes suite at the pres­ then it would be a cause for celebration being asked for help and money coming tigious Bayshore Inn and also took out a for local talent and technicians. . . . from private sources. The shooting sche­ lease on a studio. He got most of it on dule will be seven weeks. Director will be credit, including fumiture, carpets, phony Stulberg says Fox will bring more Steve Postal, and the script was written rubber plants, and a lot of services. projects to Toronto by Steve Postal and Julius Postal. The After he made his scheme known and Gordon Stulberg, Toronto-born presi­ story will appear as a paperback novel surrounded himself with eager, young dent of 20th Century-Fox studios in when the film is released." executives, people were ready to be taken Hollywood, visited his birthplace recent­ Postal goes on to describe two* more in as 'franchise agents' in his video cas­ ly. He made some interesting comments big feature projects, but more about sette selling operation. They had to make about his company's plans to make more those when they become current and a cash payment, though, in advance. This films in Toronto. timely. Production houses tend to make went on for a mere two weeks, until some "We're interested in more," Stulberg big plans and then change them as events more reputable films (including those he told a press conference, "considering the unfold. Postal's plans sound impressive hired as PR people) started questioning aggressiveness of the government, the enough, one of them tentatively stars the whole thing, and poof! Hamilton wilhngness of unions to work, and the George C. Scott, and we'll report on them disappeared without a trace leaving a long number of good post-production labora­ as details are finaUzed. hne of creditors with mouths agape. tories." One of the people (an experienced Currently two features are being made Vancouver hit by blitz con artists businessman) taken for at least ten in Toronto, in which Fox has an interest: Kelly Duncan CSC writes from Van­ thousand, betrayed his naivete: The Neptune Factor and The Paper couver: "He told different stories about where Chase. Stulberg is touting Neptune in Fox "No features being shot presently in the money was coming from, but I memos as another 20,000 Leagues Under B.C. although 'talk' of a 'possible' in thought this was just because he was not the Sea. December. I'll let you know when and if allowed to say." it develops. I read in a recent That's Take a young man with a keen mind Postal Tele-Science Productions Showbusiness about imminent produc­ and a good story, couple him with the planning feature films tion in B.C. from Nimco Productions and glamour myth of film or television, give Steve J. Postal writes from Port Perry, Tracker Productions. Presently it's so him enough gumption to order a lot of Ontario (55 miles northeast of Toronto): much 'hot air.' As you know 'prospective' things on credit, and watch the people "On September 1st, Steve Postal Pro­ producers use these news chppings to hning up to buy whatever he's selling. ductions and Tele-Science Productions promote money for a hopeful produc­ Kelly Duncan goes on: merged and became Postal-Tele-Science tion. "I'm afraid this is the fifth or sixth so Producti9ns. We have been in the business NIMCO PRODUCTIONS HAVE called production company (Nimco inten­ of making movies and producing TV TAKEN A LEASE ON PANORAMA ded to make features for TV) that has shows since 1945 all over the world. STUDIOS IN WEST VANCOUVER. gone broke or skipped town during the We will begin shooting The Off Note, a THEY WILL USE IT AS A HOME BASE past three years. Most of them have been 35mm, Panavision, Eastmarfcolor feature FOR THEIR TV VIDEO CASSETTE U.S. con men with a good story. Fortuna­ in late January in Toronto, Lindsay, Port RENTAL COMPANY. tely in most instances they were unsuc­ Perry, Ottawa and Gatineau, Quebec. (Even the headlines are revealing. They cessful in raising money, so few Canadian Starring will be Danielle Ouimet are not in production with anything, just backers were burned. But this kind of (Denis Heroux' Valerie), John HameUn, assessing the sales market.) thing certainly makes it tough for a Cinema Canada 10 legitimate film production to raise finan­ N.Y. Gaul really believes in what he's cing in B.C. In the meantime actors, doing, thinks that anyone who doesn't technical crews and labs hve in hope that get off on erotic films must be sick, and 'one day' something substantial will signs his letters Power to the happen in terms of feature film making. Pomographers! He was hauled into There are lots of skeptics here, I can tell court on four charges from last year's you." fest, but most of them have been dropped. It's worth it to drop him a line Tom, Becky, Huck, and the whole of support (or challenge) just to receive a gang . . . again reply on his stationery, which is far Bob Crone, President of Film House /j^N#& out, to say the least^ Ltd., flew regularly in his own plane to Upper Canada Village (a good four hours' Warner Brothers refuses to enter A drive otherwise) to deliver rushes to the Fan's Notes into festivals set of Adventures of Tom Sawyer, the Eric TiU's A Fan's Notes was shelved television feature shot up there by by Wamer Brothers for two years after CBS/Universal. Other Canadians involved editing was completed. Finally, as it is in the shoot were Maurice-Jackson Ken Gaul and friends of the N. Y. Erotic Film mmored, Michael Spencer of the CFDC Samuels CSC, John Board, first A.D., and Festival. managed to convince Hollywood to Sam Jephcott, Production Manager, with The Leipzig Festival of documentary release it and the film actually opened in an lATSE local technicians crew. There films selected Les Gars de Lapalme, a 26 Toronto late September. CFDC had cause was a bug in the new 'simultaneous minute short by Francois Dupuis and to be concerned, since they provided one video/film' system, so they ended up Arthur Lamothe, for showing in the third of the nine-hundred thousand dollar shooting only 35 mm film. After tele­ information section. budget. vision, the movie is also slated for theatri­ In closing, the actual number of Cana­ Now it seems Warners is trying to keep cal release. A considerable number of dian made films at the Second Annual the film from being entered into festivals Canadian talent participated in front of New York Erotic Film Festival has not and competitions. Although the CFDC the cameras, too, including Karen Pearson been finahzed, but the jury members have managed to get it to Cannes and to Berhn as Becky, Sue Petrie as Mary Sawyer, been picked for this mid-December event. this year, Wamers refused to have the Dawn Greenhalgh, Leonard Bernardo, Wilham Burroughs, author of "Naked film shown at the Canadian Film Awards and Chris Wiggins. Lunch," Xaveria Hollander, the "Happy presentation in Toronto, at the Chicago Hooker," screen writer and author Terry film festival, and in a Rochester competi­ Festivals, Awards, Prizes and Southern, Holly Woodlawn, star of tion - even though organizers specifically Showings "Trash," Kevin Sander, local TV movie invited the film. In addition to the 24th Annual Presen­ critic, and Joe Namath, "ladies' man" and As a result, the CFDC is wary of tation of the Canadian Film Awards (see football star. investing in any more films, where con­ feature story elsewhere in this issue), a Unfortunately the deadline for trol of the production is not in Canadian number of other festivals recently were entering films was November 15th, thus hands. Eric Till is understandably bitter either comprised entirely of Canadian by the time you read this, it will be too about the whole affair, especially since films or gave top prizes to works from late. However, you can still catch a plane Toronto audiences and critics hked his this country. down to Gotham and watch for two picture. It's not the kind of film people There was a festival of Cinema in weeks {from December 5th to the 15th) rave about, but reaction was consistently 16mm in Montreal, a student film festival as the best examples of contemporary positive. at Sir George Williams University, and all erotic filmmaking are unreeled in front of of these wiU be reported on in due course your hopefully aroused corneas. NFB films win 63 awards in 1972 at length. Seriously, I've had the occasion just The National Film Board of Canada There was a mini-festival of women's recently to watch Scott Bartlett's Love- won a total of sixty-three awards during films in Toronto recently and a major one making, which was a big winner last year, the course of the year in national and is planned for next June, on a tmly and it is a truly beautiful, poetic film. international film competitions. impressive scale. More about that again, For further information please contact 13 Etrogs went to the Film Board at as well. festival organizer Ken Gaul at Inner the Canadian Film Awards. Producer At the Hollywood World Television Limits, 143 East 37th Street, New York, Cohn Low won the special Grierson Festival, Toronto's Jim Hanley won two From Le Temps d'une Chasse /'TTie Weekend of Award for his distinguished contributions gold medals, one for his TV documen­ the Hunt). to Canadian film. Le Temps d'une Chasse, tary/profile of Jack Nicholson, and the a very impressive first feature by Francis other for the pilot show of a new series Mankiewicz, netted three statuettes for called True North, in the experinjental the Board: a special jury prize for its category. Hanley is educational producer director, best cinematography for Michel for the Ontario Educational Communica­ Brault, and best sound recording tor tions Authority, which is Toronto educa­ Claude Hazanavicius. tional television. Dans La Vie was voted best animated There was a major salute to the film, Francoise Durocher, Waitress best National Film Board of Canada at the TV drama, Je Chante a Cheval. . . Avec First Annual International Animation Willie Lamothe, best TV information/ Film Festival held in New York mid- public affairs film. This is a Photograph November. won as best theatrical short, and specialty Cinema Canada 11 awards in the non-feature category went anyway?) is expected to be 3.5 milUon come over and say, oh yeah, she's heard to Andre Brassard, best director shares, and is expected to make $28 of him all right, isn't he the husband of (Francoise Durocher); George Dufaux, milhon for its owners, Canadian Cable- Genevieve Bujold? This would go on, best cinematography (A Cris Perdus); systems. until someone upstairs would be called, Michel Tremblay and Brassard, best What's to prevent another U.S. owned and it turned out that Almond was in his screenplay (for Durocher); Les Halman, conglomerate or the hke from picking up office and had been for the past three best sound editing (Wet Earth, Warm most of those shares? Probably nothing, days. Mustang Drive-Ins, huh? People). Best sound recording went to but at least Canadians have an equal Claude Delorme for the same film, and chance to grab them. The whole thing is Magnasonic Canada and Cartridge best sound re-recording to Michel Des- meaningless anyway, since the power Ues TV sign pact combes for This is a Photograph. in the hands of those who own over 50 Magnasonic Canada Ltd., a Canadian At the Atlanta International Film Fes­ per cent. Gulf and Western. And if less manufacturer and distributor of a wide tival earlier this year, the Gold Medal than half of something goes for range of high quality electronic home Special Jury Award went to Grant $28,000,000, you don't need a business entertainment products and apphances, Munro's Ashes of Doom, an anti-smoking degree to figure out that Famous Players' has signed an agreement with the U.S. TV film. Gold Medals were also given to cut of the Canadian exhibition biz is over based Cartridge Television Inc. to adapt the Academy Award nominee Evolution, sixty milhon dollars. So don't expect the certain models in its line to television directed by Michael Mills, and to Hot Americans to let go of a good thing when products so that they will accept the Stuff, which was named top animated they've got a tight hold on it. Cartrivision videotape recorder for distri­ film at last year's Canadian Film Awards. Other big money moves in showbiz bution in the Canadian market. It was directed by Zlatco Grgic. land include Cambrian Broadcasting of The Cartrivision system, developed by Silver Medals went to Pandora by Sudbury purchasing majority interest in Cartridge Television Inc., is the first home Derek May and The Doodle Film by Toronto's Studio Centre, the Lakeshore videotape system and features the abiUty Donald Winkler. A bronze medal was Studio complex having been put together to play pre-recorded programs for up to awarded Mike Rubbo's Wet Earth, Warm by Terry Dene not so long ago.Dene will 112 minutes on a single tape cartridge, People. stay on, renting production space (paying record television off the air, or — with a The sixty-three awards to the NFB money for something which he owned special camera — receive conventional TV were presented at 26 different competi­ until now). Deal becomes more complex, broadcasts and serve as an in-home, tions in 10 different countries. The when one finds out that Barco media, the closed circuit video security monitor. Atlanta prize for Hot Stuff is the sixth headliner entertainment booking firm, is For filmmakers who see video not as honor won by this animated short. Other part of it as a subsidiary of Studio Centre. competition but as a new, exciting tool multi-wins include four for Evolution, Another conglomerate is born, and and a compliment to film, myriad pos- four for Half, Half Three Quarters Full immediately plans to increase TV and sibihties would arise, once the majority of by Barrie Howells, three to The Sea by film production, what with Global going Canadian television sets are equipped Bane Jovanovic and two to Norman on the air in another two years. with a system hke this. Distribution of McLaren's Synchromy. And finally. Astral Communications of shorts and independently made films Among other trophies won this year Toronto went through a long period of could be feasible to private homes, and were the Gold Medal of the President of indecision after the death of founder consequently even those working in 16mm the Republic to The Sea in Milan, Italy Jerry Solway. Now everything seems to or Super 8 would have a source of income and the St. Finbarr Statuette to The be straightened out, with the control open to them which right now is denied. Huntsman in Cork, Ireland. Gold, Silver, block of shares in the company nicely Far-seeing visionaries could even con­ Bronze prizes in Berlin went respectively distributed between the President, Vice- sider coupling systems like this with new to Atonement (Mike McKennirey), Sea­ President, Edper Investments (Edward cable and UHF channels to create a visual weeds (Barrie McLean), and Small Smoke and Peter Bronfman), Bellevue-Pathe equivalent to the presently booming busi­ at Blaze Creek (Michael Scott). President Harold Greenberg, and a Mont­ ness of stereo-album sales. One or two One wishes Canadians would have as real investment firm. Astral distributes channels could be devoted to playing the much of a chance to see these excellent foreign art films, American International latest works of film and video artists the films as people in other countries. Pictures product (like Slaughter, The same way FM stations play pop music Deathmaster, The Thing With Two now, and the thus popularized works Selling out, almost (Canadian style) Heads, etc.), dabbles in investing in Cana­ could be mass-produced and marketed via or it's big biz, baby! dian films (Another Smith for Paradise), cartridges, the same way LP's are now. Gulf and Western, the U.S. conglo­ and controls Mustang Drive-Ins. There is no reason why the visual artist merate which happens to own 51.2 per Paul Almond wound up at Astral as a should be any less popular or make less cent of Famous Players' Canadian theatre result of Gendon Films being part of the money than his audial counterpart, the chain, had a chance to pick up the rest financial tiddly-winks. So Journey wound musician. Filmmakers could form groups and become 100 per cent owner, but up at Astral, but no one at Astral seemed and attain mass popularity a la the Stones declined to do so. Knowledgeable obser­ to be very enthusiastic about it. So Paul or the Beatles. It sounds far fetched now, vers beUeve Canadian government pres­ Almond had to do his own pubUcity. but in ten years, who knows? sure had something to do with that Even trying to find Almond at Astral was decision. an adventure. If you told the receptionist NFB making language-learning films Instead, the company which owns the that you wanted to speak to Paul The National Film Board is producing shares will offer them - 49 per cent of Almond, she'd reply, "Paul who?" If you a series of sixty, twenty-minute language- Famous Players (actually 48.8 per cent if explained that you'd hke to see the learning dramas, designed to support the you want to quibble) - to the pubUc on director of Journey, she'd say "what?" teaching of Canada's two official lan­ the stock exchange in mid-December. The She'd ask you if you were sure you had guages. Sydney Newman, Film Commis­ size of the issue (what is at issue here. the right place. Then her friend would sioner and Board Chairman, is behind this

Cinema Canada 12 ambitious project. The series will be entitled Here's Canada. The showing was production manager and pubhcist; Recha ready for adult education classes through­ attended by over 2,000 persons, including Jungmann, filmmaker; plus people from out the country in 1974. the visiting delegation, headed by Exter­ the CBC, NFB, the private sector, and the CBC-TV will mn a thirteen-week NFB nal Affairs Minister Mitchell Sharp and film co-op. At least seventy people in all. produced series entitled Adieu Alouette, Chinese Government officials. Sponsored This typical, hghthearted exchange, documenting the arts in Quebec. Also by the Department of Extemal Affairs, took place between two panelists. Michel offered to television from the Film Board the documentary was produced by CoUn Brault to Bryon Lowe from NABET: "So is an English-language feature called Cold Low (recipient of the special Grierson you pretend that you are more Canadian Journey, about the treatment of Cana­ Award at this year's Canadian Film than lA?" Startled reaction from the first Awards), and shot and directed by Tony dian Indians. row: "Did you say pretend?" Brault just lanzelo, who says that the picture pro­ smiled, and muttered into his beard: "My Film as a "fusion of all performing vides an exciting new image of Canada, in English is not so good. . . ." Laughter and arts" discussed at conference terms of the country's diversity, the applause from the audience. The power of film can be a decisive people's adaptability to the land and There is a more detailed report on the influence in the presentation of cultural other aspects of development from the arts evening's discussion elsewhere in this matters of real concern to Canadians, to technology. issue. A subjective impression is that it according to Wally Gentleman, CSC, BSC, A series of prize-winning NFB films was a worthwhile evening, marred more FRSP, a governor of the Canadian Con­ were shown daily to packed houses. But by omissions than by what was actually ference of the Arts. The annual week-long the film that seems to have caught Chou discussed. As a first step in a whole series conference was held in mid-September in En Lai's attention is a twelve-minute of exploratory talks designed to bring out Mount Orford, Quebec. short made by Derek Baker of Toronto's into the open the hidden problems and About 200 delegates from across Editcomm on a new, mammoth, divisions within the Canadian film com­ Canada, representing a diversity of cul­ $300,000, GM of Canada ore-transport munity, the meeting was successful. tural and performing arts, used films for diesel tmck, called TEREX. The Chinese One would hope that in the future the first time in their general meetings. leader was more impressed by advanced lATSE Local 644C would be wilhng to Gentleman, president of SPEAC Pro­ Canadian mining technology, than by engage in a dialogue of this type and not ductions Ltd. and representing the glossy attempts to sell Canada abroad. allow New York to dictate what meetings Society of Filmmakers, selected a variety its members and representatives may or of NFB pictures to show how film repre­ PdViel discussion on Canadian may not attend. A Toronto Star reporter sents a fusion of all performing arts. He unions pointed out the main omission of the chose such widely acclaimed works as The Toronto Filmmakers Co-op meeting, when he asked afterwards why it Walking, Pas de Deux, Zikarron, and organized a panel discussion on "Unions was never explained about Richard Stravinsky. — their contribution to Canada's emer­ Leiterman being rejected for lA member­ ging film industry." The event took place ship. We'd all appreciate an official Documentary on Grierson at the theatre of the National Film Board lATSE statement on that matter. Maybe completed in Toronto. at the next meeting? A documentary about the late John At the head table were Bryon J. Lowe Grierson and his impact on film in com­ from NABET-AFC, Local 700; Roy Cheg- SMPTE Los Angeles Conference munications has been completed by the widden from lATSE, Local 873; Paul honors Canadians National Film Board. Entitled Art is a Siren from ACTRA; Michel Brault from Harold Edy of Toronto and Stanley Hammer, after an essay written by Grier­ SNC in Quebec; Sam Jephcott represent­ Quinn of Montreal were elected Canadian son in 1940, the film has been in produc­ ing the Directors Guild; and Richard Govemors at the 112th Society of tion since late spring, with shooting in Leiterman, free-lance, independent Motion Picture and Television Engineers New York, Great Britain, Canada, and cameraman. Moderator was Jerry Conference held recently in Los Angeles. other countries where Grierson is remem­ McNabb, Co-op coordinator. Mr. Edy, Vice President and General bered as a pioneer documentarian and the Each member of the panel had fifteen Manager of Bonded Film Services, looks first Commissioner and founder of the minutes to present his case, then the back on 25 years in the film business. NFB. meeting was thrown open to questions Prior to joining Bonded, he spent 12 According to researcher Marjorie from the audience. This latter part of the years with the CBC, and was film opera­ Saldhana, the film presents the biography evening obviously proved to be more tions manager there when he left in 1966. of an idea rather than of a person. It interesting than the prepared statements Mr. Quinn is technical supervisor at the portrays Grierson as a special kind of of the panelists. laboratory engineering headquarters of communicator and his often-quoted The audience represented a wide CBC Montreal. They will represent theory of "the creative treatment of cross-section of the film community. Canada on the SMPTE Board of Gover­ reaUty" in fUms. David Baristow was Present were Ted Rouse from the CFDC; nors. executive producer, and James Beveridge John Board, assistant and full director; At the same meeting, Findlay J. (Chairman, York University Film Pro­ Ken Post CSC, cameraman; Francoyse Quinn, President of Quinn Laboratories gramme) was film consultant. Roger Blais Picard from the NFB; Morley Markson, in Toronto, was honored as a Fellow of directed, and Eugene Boyko was chief filmmaker; Jean Murray and Michel the Society. The awarding of the Fellow­ cameraman. Gabereau from NABET, assorted techni­ ship is in recognition of Mr. Quinn's 24 cians, members of lATSE; Bill Dunn, years of service to the motion picture and New NFB documentary is big hit in cameraman; Vince Hatherly, editor, television industry in Canada. He founded Peking soundman; Kirwan Cox, activist pro­ Quinn Laboratories in 1969, after exten­ A feature of the recent Canadian trade ducer; David Tompkins and Tom sive experience with the National Film fair held in Peking was the screening of Urquhart from the Canadian Filmmakers Board and private motion picture labora­ the new National Film Board production Distribution Centre; Sandra Gathercole, tories. Qnema Canada 13 Another Canadian, Gerald G. Graham, The film will be completed in 1973 Director of Planning and Research for the and made available through the Canadian National Film Board, was elected SMPTE Film Institute and the Canadian Film­ Editorial Vice-President. His duties will makers Distribution Centre for educa­ be to run a large department which tional purposes across Canada. AU those pubUshes technical journals and books, who can aid this research with materials organizes conferences, and assists with or personal histories are urged to contact the development of technical Kirwan Cox (466a Danforth Ave. No.l, programmes. Toronto (416) 964-0732) or Peter Morris (Canadian Film Institute, 1762 Carling., Ottawa K2A 2H7, (613) 729-6193). Act fast if you want your film to be part of The Film Christmas Package! Coaching Association of Canada /yn>a« Gaal. director from Hungary. producing films for training If you've made a film and you have a 16mm print of it with an optical sound CBC-TV Drama department cancels Andre A. Sima, Audio-Visual director track, and if you'd hke to have it shown Program-X of the Coaching Association of Canada, to make some money, then send a print A decision has been made at the CBC reports that they've commenced an immediately (before December 31st, to cancel the low-budget, high quahty ambitious program this past summer. It 1972) to the Canadian Filmmakers Distri­ drama show, Program-X. This will involves the production of 16mm films bution Centre. It will be viewed by a seriously hurt the chances of writers and for coaching, teaching, and training pur­ group of cineastes, and if selected, it will directors to break into drama at the poses. be put in a package and shown in places Corporation. The initial phase of this plan was to around the world. Effective advertising Paddy Sampson, executive producer of shoot about 10,000 feet of film at the and sophisticated presentations will the show has, during its three year run, Olympic Games in Munich. These highly ensure large, intellectual, paying given many new writers a chance to have technical films will be transformed into audience. their works presented on network tele­ 16mm shorts and loops. They will also be Send your film on a reel in a can by vision. The show will be succeeded by a made available to institutions and coaches registered mail to : FILM PACKAGE, more costly and prestigious series called across the country in Super 8, or 35mra Canadian Filmmakers Distribution The Play's The Thing, concentrating pre­ format. Centre, Room 204, 341 Bloor Street sumably on more estabUshed works. The shooting was done with modified West, Toronto 189, Ontario. Bolex cameras, capable of recording All selected prints will be purchased at Feature length documentary on the images with l/2000th (!) of a second cost. Others will be returned postage history of Canadian cinema exposure on each frame. The resulting paid. Further details will be mailed to A major film compilation surveying film can be projected normally, or ob­ you. If you wish to learn more, call (416) the development of film in Canada from served frame by frame through special 921-2259 and ask for Patrick Lee or 1895 to 1940 is now underway. Made projectors. Sandra Gathercole. But send your film in possible by a grant from the Canadian now. Horizons programme of the Canada Council, the feature length film will French language films on art New wave Hungarian director visits depict through film extracts, graphics and catalogued Canada interviews with pioneers, the early The Canadian Centre for Films on Art attempts to estabhsh a feature film indus­ announces the pubhcation of a new cata­ Istvan Gaal, one of Hungary's fore­ try, the production of short films and the logue. Films sur I'art no. 9. some 500 most young directors, is presently touring involvement of the Federal and Provincial French language films on art, available for Canada with some of his own and other governments with film making. rental or loan in Canada, are listed and recent Hungarian films. At Gerald Prat- Kirwan Cox, Chairman of the Cana­ briefly described. ley's Ontario Film Theatre, four features dian Filmmakers Distribution Centre and The nucleus of the hsting is the group were screened: The Falcons (Magasiskola) a McGiU University lecturer, is responsi­ of important international films pur­ by Istvin Gaal, followed by a discussion ble for the project which is being under­ chased each year by the National Gallery with the director; Love (Szerelem) by taken in collaboration with the Canadian of Canada for the use of universities, art Karoly Makk, a film acclaimed last year Film Institute. Peter Morris, Curator of groups, and galleries. To these are added at Cannes, and more recently at the New Archives at the Institute, is directing appropriate films produced by the York Film Festival; The Upthrown Stone research. National Film Board, and also titles from (Feldobott K6) by Sandor Sara, a poig­ Much basic research on the history of the collections of Ottawa diplomatic nant look at the StaUnist Fifties; and The filmmaking in Canada will be necessary. missions and the Canadian Film Institute. Toth Family (Isten Hozta Ornagy Ur) by A major search has now begun across In addition to the usual alphabetical Zoltan Fibri, a meaningful comedy about Canada and the USA to uncover films, and subject indexes, artists' names have the war years. Gaal's latest film The Dead documents, stills and other material of also been Usted, together with dates, to Landscape (A Holt Vid^k) was shown in a the early period and to interview film faciUtate programme selection and private screening, and further attested to makers, cameramen, actors and techni­ arrangement. the brilhance of the young director, cians who worked during these years. All To obtain a copy of the catalogue, or whose work is on par with Miklos material coUected will be preserved if for further information, please write to: Jancso's. An interview with Istvan Gaal possible, in the Archives of the Canadian Mrs. Dorothy Macpherson, Executive will appear in the next issue of Cinema Film Institute for use by other Director, Canadian Centre for Film and Canada. researchers in the future. Art, 150 Kent Street, Ottawa, Canada. Cinema Canada 14 Italian underground films available on location reports via her regular column Croix de Paix, at least! Film-maker Massimo Bacigalupo is in in The Toronto Star made fascinating Phil Forsythe, former host of CBC the U.S.A. until June, 1973 and is wilUng reading. radio's As It Happens, has been wander­ to show, comment and lecture on a group Claude Fournier's record-grossing sex ing around North America and Mexico of films from the Italian Co-op that he pic. Two Women in Gold, finally made it now for the last few years trying to has brought with him. Besides his own to Toronto, two years after it's original explore his own head and get a film work, films by Leonard!, Lombardi, release. In Quebec alone it grossed an together. He wrote an autobiographical Baruchello, Patella, De Bemardi, Bargel- unprecedented $2.5 million. Foumier is sketch in Alexander Ross' column Uni and others are available. He believes at present shooting Alien Thunder in recently. that the films, if screened all together (2 Saskatchewan, with Donald Sutherland. Vancouver filmmaker David Rimmer's or 3 programmes), would give the North This is Sutherland's first working trip to films were shown at the New York Film American audience a fair idea of the Canada since he made Act of the Heart in Festival and the New York Times gave independent film situation in Italy and, 1969. He's quoted as saying: "I'm a them a good review. Rimmer is Uving in by implication, in Europe; but he will Canadian. You know the minute you that city now and is making personal, gladly show a full programme of his latest come back. It's hke I've lost 15 years. I experimental films. work, including the one-hour feature just sat down when I arrived and I never Migrations, and a witty work-in-progress wanted to go away again. It was the first Bonnie Kreps, a Chatelaine columnist, called Wanning Up. For information and time in my life I just stopped." has managed to secure Canada Council details, write to M. Bacigalupo, 500 and Ontario Arts Council grants to form a Riverside Drive, New York 10027, N.Y., Kate Reid, had a series of unfortunate film unit, which will make documentaries U.S.A. Telephone (212) 666-7600. accidents on the set of Potterton's The about older women. She has chosen her Rainbow Boys in British Columbia. First own mother to be the first subject. Filmpeople, filmpeople, filmpeople she fell over a chff, then a motorcycle ran Working with an all-female crew, Ms. Michael Maclear of CTV's W-5 pro­ over her. She had to go to hospital in Kreps is to be commended for her gramme is receiving a considerable Vancouver. Back in Toronto and fully pioneering efforts. Her camerawoman will amount of praise for his superb reporting recovered, the only thing she could say be Carol Betts, who is shooting local news from Vietnam. was "I'm so lucky to be ahve." More and sports coverage in Toronto. Genevieve Bujold is taking a rest from recently she left for London to work in A Canadian-bom Norman Jewison is acting roles until next spring, when her Delicate Balance with Katherine Hepburn currently busy filming Jesus Christ, film Kamouraska is due to open, (see and Paul Scofield. Superstar in Israel. Finding the'original next issue of Cinema Canada for a rare Jacques Godbout, NFB director and Christian sites too cluttered with souvenir interview with the actress). Her vacation best-selhng author in Quebec, was in stands, Jewison decided to shoot the in Paris was interrupted recently when Toronto recently to show his last feature Calgary scene 200 miles away in the she was flown to Hollywood by Para­ IXE-13 to the French community here. Negev desert. mount to screen-test for the part of Daisy His feature is hard to follow for a in the film version of F. Scott Fitzgerald's non-Quebecois, especially since it lacks Canadian Conference on the Arts The Great Gatsby. subtitles. It's about a fifties pulp-serial In the wake of their successful Calgary Patricia Murphy, formerly of New hero in Quebec, and is hberally sprinkled and HaUfax sessions, the Canadian Con­ Cinema Enterprises, made her TV debut with anti-Church, and anti anglais- ference on the Arts will hold a working as regular hostess of Toronto CITY-TV's establishment sentiments, (see next issue conference in Toronto, January afternoon women's programme. of Cinema Canada for an intereview with 19th-21st, 1973. Artists from all disci­ Gordon Pinsent's film Rowdyman Godbout) plines are invited to attend. The purpose played to large crowds in Boston. Direc­ Michel Brault best Canadian cinema­ for the gathering is to formulate a cohe­ tor Peter Carter, actress Linda Goranson, tographer for 1972, was also in town sive policy toward the federal government and producer Larry Dane attended the recently for the Filmmakers Co-op union and its involvement with the arts in opening. Pinsent provided the only meeting. He talked about his problems in Canada. Those attending the conferences memorable, spine tingling moment at the trying to get a film off the ground about will be divided into small study groups, Canadian Film Awards with his moving the October crisis. Both the NFB and the and there .wUl be ample opportunity to yet funny speech upon receiving the CFDC have refused to back it (on poUti- discuss all the problems facing contem­ Etrog for best actor. cal grounds, presumably) so now he is porary Canadian artists. Exact place is yet Peter Pearson, director of Last of the re-writing the script and resubmitting it to be set. To be placed on mailing list for Big Guns, was ready to give up film­ for CFDC consideration. brochure, please call (416) 364-6398. making after financing consistently fell Francoyse Picard, in charge of distri­ Gordon Pinsent through on his own feature project. He buting Quebec films in Toronto for the left Canada, vowing never to retum. Well, NFB, is doing a fantastic job helping .#,,-• •*«; -K il^HHI ^ 1 he's back and working. His NFB short quebfecois filmmakers when they visit 0: ' ..*^J^' ' •-km with Kate Reid in 1968 won an unprece­ here. She keeps them on schedule, -^' ^L dented (at that time) eight Etrogs. arranges accommodations and sustenance k A ''i -• Gale Garnett landed a choice role in for them and acts as their interpreter, k:^^Hk Mother's Day, Darren McGavin's feature guide, and intellectual companion. She's a ^^^^an^^^ t which wrapped recently in Nova Scotia. fascinating woman, and this year has ^^^^^^^^^^ 1 il^^ H .%'- ^'^H Ms. Gamett had excellent company: shepherded Claude Jutra, Jean-Pierre ^r ^m Academy Award winners Patricia Neal Lefebvre, Gilles Carle, Jacques Godbout, tlU I^^H <-t ' ^^1 and Cloris Leachman, but she had to bow Clement Penon, Michel Brault, besides m^'*'4-yH^^x--'': i^ Mm I^Hr-^>> y.^H out from a Factory Theatre Lab produc­ helping out with the large Quebec contin­ UmMf':,f*'^. HL ^^^H «, .-'^^^1 tion in Toronto to accept the part. Her gent to the Film Awards. She should get a ^Be^""' \t' ^rfr r