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By Piers Handling As We Approach nada's ten by Piers Handling As we approach increasing fragmentation of values, and their feet wet and not take the full the end of the second millennium, it is a proliferation of various agendas, plunge, a ten best program was a very becoming difficult to be original, and which has meant that many of us are sensible way to capture their attention. certainly ten best lists are almost as old even more aware of the contradictions And if we solicited lists from critics, as the movies theii.asels.7 When film in assembling lists of this kind. As perhaps they would have a vested reviewing became ini ortant to the Mike Hoolboom so interestingly interest in the results and write about industry, and the industry realized pointed out in last year's Perspective them. At the time, we needed all the how critics could be utilized, it became Canada panel entitled "Whose publicity we could garner for the retro- common practice for the major critics Canon?" (reprinted in part in Take spective. to assemble their ten best lists at the One No. 4, and in its entirety in the In 1984, we polled approximately end of each year. I have always been LIFT newsletter, December 1993), 100 or so critics, professors and indus- intrigued by Sight and Sound's survey establishing a canon is pregnant with try people in Canada and around the (published by the British Film implications. world. We approached people who Institute) of the ten best films of all When the Festival of Festivals decid- had worked extensively in the area and time which they conduct once a ed to present a mammoth retrospective who we felt would have a background decade. They poll critics from around of Canadian cinema in 1984, it in and a knowledge of Canadian film. the world and publish the results. became obvious that we needed to They would be aware of our history. When I was a neophyte, these lists had organize well over 100 films into dis- We did not circulate a list of films that an educational value (not only do they crete programs, allowing our audience they could choose from to make their provide a composite list, but they also (who had not seen much of this work) tasks easier; each one of them had to include the choices of each critic). the opportunity of accessing this huge invent their own lists. They point me towards films and event. As programmers, we needed to The 1984 list was a surprise to us. A directors, some of whom I have never break the material down into bite-size felicitous surprise. One has to remem- heard of before. In more mundane pieces (the "hook" or the "catch" in ber that 1984 marked the end of the terms, this list (and others) also begins Hoolboom's "Whose Canon?"); as disastrous Capital Cost Allowance to establish a canon of recognized promoters we needed a simple market- experience. Many of our best filmmak- works. ing tool to pull what we thought were ers were shunted aside in the late sev- Older, and presumably wiser, I am reluctant audiences into the cinemas. enties and early eighties. Seeing direc- now aware of the real limitations of What better idea than a ten best list. If tors like Jutra, Shebib, Carle, Owen ten best lists. There has been an the general public only wanted to get and Beaudin acknowledged for their TAKE ONE 1993 1 Mon oncle Antoine (197 1) 1984 1 Mon oncle Antoine (197 1) 2 Jesus de Montreal (1988) 2 Goin' Down the Road (1970) 3 Goin' Down the Road (1970) 3 Les bons debarras (1979) 4 Le declin de l'empire americain (1986) 4 The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz 5 Les bons debarras (1979) (1974) 6 Les ordres (1974) 5 The Grey Fox (1982) 7 The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz Les ordres (1974) (1974) 7 J.A. Martin photographe (1976) 8 The Grey Fox (1982) Pour la suite du monde (1963) 9 I've Heard the Mermaids Singing (1987) 9 Nobody Waved Good-bye (1964) 10est The Adjuster (1991) La vraie nature de Bernadette (1972) stellar contributions was a deserved every new film. The list is also an even corrective. All these directors struggled split between English and French during this period, yet their achieve- films, although the Quebec films dom- ments were remembered by those we inate the top half of the list. The major polled. omission is David Cronenberg; suffice Ten years later, to mark the 10th to say that Dead Ringers and Video- anniversary of Perspective Canada, the drome split the Cronenberg vote, so to Festival's annual showcase of the best speak, meaning that neither appeared. Canadian films produced in the coun- Compiling ten best lists is likened to try, we decided to revisit the idea and surgery in Hoolboom's piece, and I see how much had changed. Would totally agree with him. Perhaps, in this there be a consensus that spoke back to age of television surfing, fast food out- the 1984 list, or would we be present- lets, disposable culture and instant ed with a radically different list? What gratification, a list of this kind only memories of the old material would reinforces values which many of us people have, or would our new list be want to challenge. Perhaps, audiences skewed towards the last decade of pro- and students will feel that after they duction? have seen the ten films they will not Surprisingly, six films are repeated need to go any further. Hopefully, by on the 1993 list, so a consensus of printing the lists in their entirety, peo- sorts is beginning to appear. Mon oncle ple will get a sense of the sheer range Antoine for the second time was voted of material which is considered impor- number one, perhaps a surprise in view tant. There are over 250 films men- of the popularity of Jesus of Montreal tioned here. They should all be and The Decline of the American searched out. Trying to see them is Empire. A woman director, Patricia another question! Rozema, makes an appearance for the Piers Handling is the Director of the first time, as does Atom Egoyan, Toronto International Film Festival and whose position in our cinema has is the editor of several books on Cana- assumed increasing importance with dian cinema. FALL 1994 g • Blaine Allan • Kass Banning • Rudy • Roger Currie Kingston Toronto Buttignol Winnipeg The Feeling of Rejection Le declin de rempire Toronto Mon once Antoine The Grey Fox americain Volcano: An Inquiry Les bons dibarras Linda Joy Back to God's Country into the Life and The Apprenticeship of The Mills of the Gods: La vie revee Death of Malcolm Duddy Kravitz Vietnam Les ordres Lowry The Grey Fox Les ordres The Making of Canada's Sweetheart: Les ordres Safe Clothing Monsters The Saga of Hal C. Nobody Waved Good- Sonatine Calendar Banks bye Surfacing on the Pouvoir intime Jesus de Montreal The Last Winter Thames Our Marilyn The Apprenticeship of Who has Seen the Wind Le vieux pays oil La guerre oubliee Duddy Kravitz Jesus de Montreal Rimbaud est mort Cold Comfort Mon oncle Antoine Dead Ringers Wavelength Deadly Currents Final Offer • Caroline Calendar • Aimee Danis • Hussain Benjo Goin' Down the Road Montreal Amarshi Toronto Perfectly Normal La vraie nature de Toronto The Company of Bernadette Masala Strangers Naked Lunch Calendar The Top of his Head • Charles J.A. Martin pho- Ledo Crime Wave Champlin tographe Canada's Careful I've Heard the Los Angeles Loyalties I've Heard the Mermaids Singing Leak Le declin de l'empire Mermaids Singing Calendar Eliza's Horoscope americain Roadkill Dead Ringers Jesus de Montreal Black Robe ten Cold Comfort La vie heureuse de Once Upon a Time in Leak Sonatine Leopold Z the East Les bons debarras Tectonic Plates Back to God's Country August and July The Apprenticeship of The Falls Train of Dreams Wedding in White Duddy Kravitz Manufacturing Act of the Heart Kamouraska best Consent: Noam Gain' Down the Road • David Chomsky and the Mon oncle Antoine Armstrong Media Outrageous! • Robert San Francisco Daudelin Mon oncle Antoine Montreal Le declin de l'empire • Andre OWayne Begone Dull Care americain Bennett Clarkson A tout prendre The Adjuster Toronto Toronto De la tourbe et du Black Robe Jesus de Montreal Mon oncle Antoine restant The Grey Fox Idol° The Apprenticeship of Les raquetteurs The Company of Le declin de l'empire Duddy Kravitz Warrendale Strangers americain Dead Ringers Le chat dam k sac The Apprenticeship of Crime Wave Les bons debarras Trois pommes a cote du Duddy Kravitz Careful The Grey Fox sommeil Perfectly Normal Tales from the Gimli La vraie nature de Bar salon Naked Lunch Hospital Bernadette Pour la suite du monde Anne of Green Gables I've Heard the Les ordres Gain' Down the Road Mermaids Singing Warrendale Family Viewing Nobody Waved Good- • Cameron Calendar bye • Rock Demers Bailey The Adjuster Jesus de Montreal Montreal Toronto L'homme qui plantait Family Viewing des arbres So is this • Bill • Kevin Mon oncle Antoine Sonatine Brownstein Courrier Les bons debarras Les ordres Montreal Toronto Bach et bottine The Making of Les bons debarras Mon oncle Antoine Pour la suite du monde Monsters Le declin de l'empire Le declin de l'empire Un zoo la nuit Careful americain americain Goin' Down the Road Kanehsatake: 270 Years Un zoo et nuit Perfectly Normal Fierro of Resistance Jesus de Montreal Gain' Down the Road Vincent and Me You Take Care Now Les ordres The Grey Fox The Company of Kanada Leolo Une histoire inventie Strangers Pouvoir intime Mon oncle Antoine The Adjuster Goin' Down the Road Highway 61 Montreal Main The Apprenticeship of The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz Duddy Kravitz Les bons debarras 24 TAKE ONE • Yves Dion • Sylvain Garel • Barry Grant Montreal Paris St.
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