English-Canadian Film (Winter 2007)
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Jan. 7: Nobody Wave Goodbye
- Screening: Nobody Wave Goodbye (1964)
Jan. 14: Goin' Down the Road
- Screening: Goin' Down the Road (1970)
- comparison to Nobody Wave Goodbye
- fulfilling the dream - small town to big city
- Margaret Atwood's Survival - dramatization of failure
- overacting/underacting - docudrama
- John Hoffman - American failure spectacular and glamorized vs. Canadian failure 'grubby' and pathetic
- Christine Ramsay - plurality - postmodern reading - identification - gender/region/class - marginalization
- marginalized are not losers but rather sublime outsiders
- victims and losers in Canadian losers - noble nature of losers
- Screening: Pierre Berton interview with Shebib
Jan. 21: Dreamland
- Feldman Article
- Uselessness of written word in Canadian films - Nobody Wave Goodbye and Going Down the Road examples
- Feeling of emptiness in Shabib films - conveyed without the use of words
- Shabib characters often battered into silence
- Experimental works also suggest silence holds 'real power' in Canadian film
- What's not there is 'more horrifying' than what is there - absence
- Abigail's party - example of absence
- City of Gold
- Short Brittain bio + filmography
- Memorandum (1965)
postscreening discussion
- distribution problems - then and now
- quotas
- carry-on movies - product of quota system
- Canadian influence in Hollywood and vice-versa
- Lonely Boy (1962)
- Unit B
- Acknowledgement of ambiguity - acknowledgement of the camera
- dark nature of the film
- Barry Keith Grant text about the film
- darkness of film - at home everywhere/nowhere
- 'we had a nosejob' - Anka belongs to everybody/not himself - Freedomland scene
- Troy Donahue - godfather - Coppola - Hollywood + mafia connection
- comparison to Dreamland
Jan. 28: Winter Kept Us Warm
- McCarthyism
- Communism
- Anti-Semitism
- Homophobia
- Kenneth Anger's Fireworks - made just before Anger's departure for Europe
- Homophobia in Hollywood during the McCarthy era
- keeping up appearances
- Beat poets
- Jack Kerouac
- Allen Ginsberg
- Claude Jutra, Michel Tremblay's works in Quebec
- Robin Wood's 'The Return of the Repressed' - horror movies allow people to talk of repressive themes - horror movie often dismissed or marginalized
- Gay and Lesbian filmmakers statistically more frequent in Canada
- The Weinstein's involvement with and promotion of independent films
- Canadian benefit of newfound interest in low budget Sundance films
- Winter Kept Us Warm
- Critical reception - Variety magazine review
- influence on Cronenberg - quote from Cronenberg on Cronenberg on Winter Kept Us Warm - 'very sweet film'
Feb. 4: The Apprentice (1971)
- Susan Sarandon – Joe – pre-Apprentice success
- Larry Kent
- concern about job loss
- anticonformism
- Bitter Ash's reception + Success at McGill U
- High – censorship in Quebec
- CFTC - Telefilm
- distribution + promotion of films
- power in the hands of producers – taxcredit incentive
postscreening
- Larry Kent lecture
- English vs. French version
- appearance of the priest – French priest in French version – pressure to have english priest
- Susan Sarandon’s casting vs. Diane Keaton
- Starting up at UBC – Bitter Rash
- Directing french actors – non-Quebec native – challenges
- hope for Canadian films – 2007 and beyond
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