Canadian Film Digest (Apr 1973)

Sy ae The Canadian Film Digest April 1973 Domestic Notes People, Places, Events from Across Canada Festival info: The International Advertising Festival at Cannes, to be held June 18-22; is in urgent need of Canadian entries. There are none to date. Address is 35 Picadilly, London W1V-9PB... For Cannes’ main Festival, from May 10, Canadian plans are detailed. Christian Rasselet will assist Jean Lefebvre. Liaisons in Toronto and Montreal are John Ross and Andre Link respectively. A meeting is planned for representatives of the industry. In Cannes itself: at the Carlton Hotel a secretariate with personnel and equipment will be available, plus two panels for advertising in the lobby; the Vox theatre will be used for screening, times to be chosen by draw; the same stand as last year will be occupied at the Palais des Festivals, complete with press agent and industryrep; and four masts on La Croisette have been engaged for corporate publicity. ; Quadrant films of Toronto has announced a new feature, The Carry-Cot, to be made in England with Oliver Reed and Anna Gael. It’s a suspense thriller based on a novel by Gael’s husband, and director is Andrew Sinclair. Quadrant has opened a London office ... Another Quadrant project, The Neptune Factor, has had much of its score redone. Twentieth Century-Fox’ music head Lionel Newman replaced about half of Toronto composer William McCauley’s effort with music by Lalo Schifrin. Alan King’s new film, Come on Children, had its world premiere at the Ontario Film Theatre recently. King attended and spoke to a packed house after the film was run. He still hasn’t got distribution for the pic, and its been on the shelf for a year now. Famous Players, backers and = 57 Ee 2 : Director Alan King confers with Ontario Film Theatre director Gerald Pratley at the premier of King’s latest film, Come on Children. é ‘Distributors Synonymous with great motion picture theatre presentation for nearly 4decades CENTURY THEATRES MANAGEMENT LIMITED 175 BLOOR EAST, TORONTO, CANADA to show it, say they offered him theatres and he -refused; he said they must be able to show it somewhere. The Toronto Film-Makers’ Co-op is looking for scripts. They will find the backing and production for low budget features. Each script will be read by three film-makers and a critique supplied. Contact Kirwan Cox or Jerry McNab at room 201, 341 Bloor West, Toronto 5 .-. In other production, a skin flick which opened at the ex-art house New Yorker theatre in Toronto was made in Toronto and financed by the theatre’s owner, Bennett Fode. The National Association of Concessionnaires will hold a one day Canadian Region Convention at Toronto’s Royal York Hotel on April 30. Maybe they’ll talk about the price of meat. Gerry Dillon recently announced that Theatre Confection’s hot dogs were a little smaller. : The Variety Club’s super Bike-a-thon is held April 8th in the A.M. Great interest being shown for Tent 28’s efforts, but not enough on the part of members, according to Chief Barker Doug Wells. . . . The Motion Picture Pioneers of Manitoba-Saskatchewan held their annual Bonspiel on March 8th at the Winnipeg Granite Curling Club. The Henry A. Morton Memorial Trophy was won by a team consisting of Gary Miles (skip), Cliff Hill, Bud Prygrocki, Ricki Baron. The Jacob Miles Memorial Trophy was won by a team consisting of Skip Jim Brega, Ernie Barlow, Barry Myers and Glenn Brodie. Morley Mogul has been appointed Theatrical Sales Manager for International Film Chief Dan George has received an honorary doctor of letters degree from Brandon University ... Leading con-: tenders in ACTRA’s Earle Grey Awards, to be presented April 28, are Jon Granik and Dawn Greenlaugh ... Canadian model and dancer Dale Haddon, recently in Disney’s World’s Greatest Athlete and John F. Bassett’s The Paperback Hero, is profiled in the April issue of Playboy magazine. The Stratford Film.Festival, September 15-22 will accept a number of uninvited entries. Contact the NFB Festivals office in Montreal ... Gilles Carle’s latest film, Heavenly Bodies, has backing not only from the CFDC, but also from French interests and French director Louis Malle ... A horror film was made recently by a Miami company at Oshawa’s Canukr Studios . Focus on: Genevieve Bujold Actress Genevieve Bujold was in Toronto recently to promote her appearance on April 18 as The Speaker in Leonard Bernstein’s work, Kaddish, with the Toronto Mendelson Choir at Massey Hall. She held a small, informal, relaxed press conference, from which these comments are taken. On movies in general: ‘We should have a way of seeing everything: all the takes, scenes and so on. We could leave, come in the middle and stay for a while, or see all of it. I don’t like the power of the director and editor. On her acting: I have to have something that will force me to reach out farther. To go beyond and stretch myself. I can be very lazy, so the director is very important for me. On her intention to do a play in the Fall: I need it now. I’ve been away from the stage for eight years. I want to feel the public again, and to try something different that will either crash or take off. On her current project, as the Speaker in Kaddish: It’s a new avenue I want to investigate, anew way of expressing what I want to feel and talk about. And who could refuse a backing of two hundred singers and one hundred musicians? On refusing the Order of Canada: That's ancient history. It was nothing personal; I like English Canadians. I don’t really like discussing it. It’s too hard to explain, and I feel that I can’t do it adequately enough. s Page 3 Bernstein’s ~ >