38 INTERNATIONAL MkRIETY Wednesday, August 18,1976 Canadian Cap's Fest INTERNATIONAL SOUNCI TuAck Now Ottawa 1976; London 71.65% for 70 cinemas; Turin with 73.40% (32 cinemas); Naples 66% (34) Lots Of Cartoons — descending to 44% in Trieste, a regional capital with only seven show­ Hoping to dispel some apparent confusion, indie producer James Drax cases. By PAUL A. GARDNER is on a campaign to alert the trade that his Dragon International produc­ Ottawa, Aug. 17. tion unit is in no way affiliated with EMI Films simply because it happens Films now being groomed for release and for censor battles the early months of the 1976-77 season include the U.S. fellatio money-maker "Deep Respecting Los Angeles Film Ex­ to base at the EMI studios in suburban Elstree. Supposedly the confusion position's mild objections to Cana­ traces to recent reports of embryonic film projects ... Ben Fisz, prepping Throat" (the original, probably in title only), Nagisa Oshima's "Empire Of The Senses," Marco Ferreri's "The Last Woman" and Miklos Jancso's dian Film Institute's use of term his true life spy epic' 'Philby," pitching the title role to such notable British ' 'Filmexpo,'' but more, says festival talents as Albert Finney, Michael Caine, Peter OToole and Alan Bates ... "Vice And Pleasures." ... Also noteworthy in the upcoming marathon is Roberto Rossellini's "The Messiah" — entering distribution but in a director Wayne Clarkson, because Admissions to theatres in the U.K. down to L2,210,000 ($3,955,900) in April it was felt this capital's name should from L2,740,000 ($4,904,600) for the same period last year... specialized circuit only under the banner of the New Communications co­ operative. This is the second Rossellini work failing to get normal distrib be in the title, in line with the prac­ The Carl Foreman Fund, set up last year and supported by royalties sponsorship in the Italian market (other was biopic on Alcide DeGasperi). tice of most film fests — the film from the sales of the paperback book about the making of Foreman's film festival here is now to be dubbed Ot­ "Young Winston," has so far given 40 students loans. Foreman, currently Fred Haynes is writing the script for "Salamander" — a William tawa 76. Foreman production that Richard Fleischer is signed to direct in Italy in Hollywood working on the screenplay of "The Day The World Ended" Incidentally, Filmex of Los Ange­ for Irwin Allen, began the Fund, which is administered by the directors of next spring. Peter Rawley, producer of upcoming "St. Petersburg- Cannes Express" and also rep of the Irish Film Studios has a handshake les is sending a rep to Ottawa 76. the National Film School, remembering that a loan he received while a Chicago Film Festival's Susan Mc- student from Dore Senary enabled him to finish school. deal with producer Edmondo Amati to bring "Leave It To Harry" (starr­ ing Tony Musante) to Irleand... Irving Shapiro of New York still believes Cormick will also attend, as will Geoffrey Lane joined the local office of Rogers & Cowan in new post as the Via Veneto is a deal-making Street if many are completed in other Ken Wlaschin, director of Britain's director of the motion picture dept. He was most recently publicity parts of the film world. Around the Cafe de Paris table with Shapiro were London Film Festival. (Frank manager with Columbia here ... The oldest theatre in Britain is to close Peter Rawley who is filming "St. Persburg" across Europe, Zey Braun Taylor, assistant director of Ottawa Sept. 4. The Haven in Stourport, Worcestershire county opened as the with a project for Canada, and Rawley again with his Amati studio deal for 76, will be a delegate to Edinburgh Electric in 1904 and the 368-seater has been used ever since... On its first Ireland.... Columbia production topper here Roger Beaumont is in Holly­ Film Festival late this month.) overseas date, "The Slipper And the Rose" took $102,513 in its fifth week at wood advancing sundry packages of Roman concoction. Ottawa will present an 11-feature the Lyceum in Sydney, Australia. Pic, out via BEF there, opens next in series with a World premiere and Brisbane at the end of the month... Lew Small upped to assistant manag­ Berlin three North American preems, ing director at Rank Leisure Services. He takes over from George Magnus segueing into an Animated Film who is moving to a Singapore-based company. Berlin filmer Rosa von Praunheim has just returned from New York, Festival, the latter held in a dif­ Jeanette Charles, the Elizabeth II look-alike, finally got her Equity card where he prepared a pic for the autumn Berliner Festwochen titled ferent land each year with sanction and is cast in "Queen Kong" shooting at Twickenham studios ... Bill "Underground and Emigrants." It's a cross section of the cultural scene of Assn. Internationale du Film over the past 30 years, with interviews made with film and theatre per­ d'Animation. Ingram, managing director of Technicolor, also takes on the vice- sonalities Andy Warhol, Lotte Lenya, and Grete Mosheim, among others presidency of Technicolor Cinema Systems ... Changes at Arthur Davis ... Jean Seberg is in Hans C. Geissendoerfer's "The Wild Duck," due for Unlike Ottawa's unreeling of Org. (Japan), the Tokyo-based distrib and producer's rep: Miyako Ejiri is release shortly. Pic also presents Bruno Ganz, Peter Kern, and Anne Ben- features, animation event is compe­ now firm's prexy, Mack Kawamura is head of their sister-company, Nan nent... The idea for Klaus Kirschner's' 'Mozart: A Childhood Chronicle'' is titive. Jury comprises Lillian Enterprises, while Arthur Davis becomes Board Chairman of both outfits. credited to Helmut Dotterweich, head of the "History and Musical Schwartz, N. Jersey computer- Mike Batt, who created a veritable industry out of "Wombles" music Program" of Bayerischer Rundfunk ... German State Film Aid in 1975 animator; Peter Brouwer, Dutch which sparked with his score of the Wombles' kiddie tv series, is cleffing amounted to $24,000,000, an increase of $2,500,000 over 1974. animation producer; Borivoj the animated "Watership Down" feature currently producing here ... Dovnikhovic, animator with Zag­ Volker Schloendorff is here directing the new Henze opera at the reb Film, Yugoslavia; Andre Elizabeth Taylor in town cutting songs for "A Little Night Music," filming Deutsche Oper ... Peter Lilienthal is putting the finishing touches on his in Austria ... The Rainbow, until last year a key London concert spot but Martin, animator and Canadian screenplay "Otto Lilienthal," a story of Berlin's earliest aviator who flew Radio-Television & Communica­ latterly dark and in need of extensive refurbishing, is due to relight at the over the city in a primitive flight... Wolf Gremm has begun shooting "The end of the year, per Allan Schaverien, a director of the Struthworth com­ tions Commission research direc­ Brothers'' in Mannheim; other locations are Heidelberg, a Hannover sub­ tor, Ottawa; Grant Munro, National pany which has apparently taken a seven-year lease on the hall... John urb, and Wilhelmshafen in the psycho thriller about two brothers who are Pope is the new repertoire manager within EMI's pop division ... Mike Film Board of Canada animation really father and son and the love that haunts them for the woman in director, Montreal. Everett turning in his RCA badge/as manager of international repertoire. between. Cast includes Erika Pluhar, Doris Kunstmann, Klaus He quits New York to become general manager of Charisma Records, a Loewitsch, Georges Wilson, Peter Sattmann, and Peter Fitz. It's a Regina 'Far Shore' Opener leading British indie label.... Elektra/Asylum joining the rush to reissue Ziegler production. Hans C. Blumenberg has been named to succeed Wolf Feature fest's world preem last as the new generation disk buyer hereabouts discovers the music of the Donner as film editor of "Die Zeit": he made his rep as tv critic and Thursday (5) was "The Far Shore," '50s and '60s. The U.S. labels are reactivating 50 singles in a special promo reporter for Cologne newspapers ...Berlin's newest star is Sylvia directed by Canadian artist Joyce ... British and American major diskeries will be hypoing their classical Heidemann, who appears in Lothar Lambert's "Faux Pas de Deux"; she Wieland and based on the mys­ catalogs in and around Edinburgh during the festival (Aug. 22-Sept. 11) in plays an aging actress in love with a young worker (thus the title), and is terious drowning of painter Tom a drumbeat worthy of Barnum... Black Oak Arkansas set to headline the bruited now as an "Underground Star." Thomson years ago. three-day rock fest at Reading later this month ... British Phonographic Kve Betts, widow of British critic Ernest Betts, spent an afternoon talk­ North American preems are: Industry, trade org which is torpedoing local disk and tape pirates, notes ing about her husband's literary estate, a collection of writing as critic, Sohrab Shahid-Saless' "Time of with some surprise that many pirate tapes and disks retail at nearly the screenplay writer, and public relations man that covers over 40 years Maturity" (West Germany 76); cost of the originals... Elton John says he's dumping concert tours after his Rainer Werner Fassbinder's present American trek to concentrate on the charimanship of local soc­ Mexico City "Game Pass" (West Germany '72); cer Club, Watford FC. Skeptics think he's nursing an ambition to get into "La Casta Divina" which wraps principal photography in Merida, Andrzezj Wajda's "The Shadow films and wants a clear schedule in anticipation of offers ... Indicative of Yucatan, soon, will be a four hour feature split in two parts by director Line" (Poland '75J. the decline in sellpower of local acts, this week's five top selling albums, Julian Pastor. In the cast are Jorge Martinez de Hoyos, Ignacio Lopez The other, mostly Canadian representing about 30% of the total business, are by foreign artists... Fast- Tarso, Ana Luisa Peluff o and Tina Romero.... Mexico continues policy of preems are: Akira Kurosawa's comers (singles) here include: "You Don't Have To Go" (Brunswick) by emphasis on social and political themes. Example is "Cananea" about a "Dersu Uzala" (USSR-Japan 75); the Chi-Lites; "16 Bars" (H&L) Stylistics; "Morning Glory" (Mercury) miner's strike in northern Mexico which helped launch the Mexican Lina Wertmuller's "Let's Talk James & Bobby Purify; "Afternoon Delight" (RCA) (Starland Vocal Revolution of 1911 against Porfiro Diaz. About Men" (Italy '68); Werner Band; "Nice And Slow" (EMI) Jesse Green ... Twiggy's debut single for Churubusco Studios newest addition is $720,000 worth of the latest sound Herzog's "The Enigma of Kaspar Mercury, "Here I Go Again," just made the top 50 sellers... Dizzy Gillespie recording equipment.... Mex industry's most costly film, "Foxtrot" with Hauser" (W. Germany 75); Alan in for three weeks at Ronnie Scott's Sohd jazzejub, while Loudon Wain- Peter O'Toole, Charlotte Rampling, Jorge Luke, Max Von Sydow and Parker's "Bugsy Malone" (Britain wright is hitting the folksy spots. Claudio Brook, is getting special recouping treatment with simultaneous 76); Kung Hu's "A Touch of Zen" screening in six hardtops at 25 pesos ($2) admission. ... Director Felipe (Hong Kong 75); Jean Pierre Paris Cazals had to find new locations for his feature which just started shooting Lefebvre's "L'Amour Blesse" After Switzerland and Italy, the Sydney Pollack film "Bobby Deerfield" because original choice of picturesque Guanajuato had to be discarded (Canada 75-); Andre Forcier's is now shooting at Le Mans race circuit where actor Al Pacini), in title role, because of heavy rainfalls which inundated the city; "L'Eau Chaude l'Eau Frette' takes the wheel of a Formula 1 Martini Brabham car. He has picked up Former producer Jesus Sotomayor, named as supervisor and coor­ (Canada 76). driving tips from Ferrari racer Clay Regazzoni and ex-world champ dinator for production, exhibition and distribution over the entire film in­ All screenings will be in National Jackie Stewart. Driver Carlos Pace, disguised as "Bobby Deerfield", has dustry at the beginning of this year, resigned his post last week. National Arts Centre's 950-seat Theatre, ex­ been filmed while competing in real life Grand Prix races this season, Film Bank gen. manager Salvador Robles Quintero, accompanied by Pel- cept the finale (15) in its 2,000-seat doubling for Pacino in the pic. Mex chief Eduardo Lopez Latorre and Operadora de Teatros programm­ Opera. » The liner Mermoz, cruising off Greece, will unreel Sept 25 to Oct 9' 'first ing director Enrique Molina headed for Madrid on relations-improving biz There'll be world preem of an festival of films about art." Jury including painters, gallery directors and and to eye hardtop acquisition. animated feature, "Allegro no critics will see 150 pics. France's third tv web will screen winners... Alain Conacine expects to make at least seven more features this year, per Troppo," by Italy's Bruno Boz- Cohen, who was boy actor opposite the late Michel Simon in "The Old Man Max Vega Tato who heads the state film production company.... Juan Lo­ zetto, with music by Herbert von and the Child", now working again under direction of Claude Bern, as a pez MoctezumaVMary, Bloody Mary, "withdrawn from the Horror Film Karajan & Berlin Philharmonic. grown up actor in "The First Time." Festival in Sitges last year when Mexico broke relations with Spain, will Also retros of "development Jean-Claude Brialy's new pic "Barocco" due out in fall. He is preparing participate in this year's edition. ... The Society of Screen, Radio and material" by the late Oskar Fis- stage role of "Richard II" at the Theatre de Chaillot... Hungarian Alain Television Writers has only 10 entries, with closing date only five weeks chinger, German-born, who Miklos Beregi has finished his first short "The Socio-Dollars", which away. ... Deeply involved in shooting "Tintorera" (and still lacking an worked for years in Hollywood, with Roman Polanski helped to get into production. Beregi planning a feature American woman lead) Rene Cardona Jr., is already prepping his next Disney among others. CFI p.r. telling tale of refugee in Paris trying to raise finance for a film, on lines of feature ... "The Bermuda Triangle" ... a science fictioner about lost ships director Harris Kirshenbaum his experience. and planes. credits Louis Beaudet of Cine­ Jack Nicholson cruising the Riviera on Sam Spiegel's yacht Malahne... In its first six days on screens in the capital, "Celestina" chalked up matheque Quebecoise, Montreal, Pierre Lary, former Luis Bunuel assistant, directing his first pic "Le close to 1,500,000 pesos ($120,000 U.S.) at the boxoffice ... Filming "Tin­ with contacting Mrs. Fischinger, Diable dans la Boite", with Jean Rochefort... Organizer Jacques Robert torera" — a Mex takeoff on "Jaws" — off the coast of Isla Mujeres was who dug up the material and lent it. showed 150 films at the Avignon theatre festival cinema meet. Japanese delayed when actor Andres Garcia was attacked by a shark (but not Since it's all on nitrate, screening director Nagisa Oshima was there with 15 of his pics. Fred Wiseman from harmed) during underwater sequences by lenser Ramon Bravo. permission had to be obtained from the U.S. was present with nine films. Also from the States, John Baker The Polish and Mexican film industries will encourage coproductions, Dominion Fire Commissioner and brought along his collection of jazz pics. distribution, artistic cooperation, etc. with an official agreement due tob e Ontario Theatres Branch. inked in Warsaw. ... A delegation of Red China filmmakers visited Rome National Film Bank's Rodolfo Echeverria and the Churubusco Studios Only 70% of films slated to enter production last season reached first run screening pix for acquisition, as earlier from Canada ... Back from the John Cameron, who scored "A screen time in key cities according to market expert Alexander Ferrau. Berlin Film Fest where he was a member of the jury, Conacite I chief Fer- Touch Of Class" for Brut, will score The 70% is a general average ior- Italian and foreign production. Milan naiido^Macotelaroported that IsiafL'was. interested.in possible coproduc- Brutes .upcoming Glenda Jackson leads with 75% in 66 preem and moveover houses followedb y Rome wjth tions with, Mexico* Ditto Germany;. la