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 ..