Canadian Film Digest (May 1974)

OO eee 8 8 ee... Me BO 3 6 Page 8 Visitors Passing Through Toronto > ROYAL YORK ba. See "a National Association of Concessionnaires President Harold Chesler was in Toronto to attend the Regional meet of the NAC. oan tp a i \ Matthew Burrill (left) and Harry Dean Stanton, both playing major roles in United Artists’ Where the Lillies Bloom, were in Toronto to promote the picture. Sm a. M Director Ted Kotcheff (left) and actress Micheline Lanctet were in Toronto for the opening of Astral’s The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz. Wally Boag and his crew of performers from Disneyland spent time in Toronto putting on shows in the guise of characters from Alice in Wonderland, the Disney effort they were here to promote for Bellevue Film Distributors. POSITION AVAILABLE Advertising and Publicity Director of Film‘ Distribu tion Company anxious to interview prospective assistant. Good company benefits and starting salary. Please send resume to: Box C, Canadian Film Digest, 175 Bloor St. East, Toronto M4W 1C8 The Canadian Film Digest Variety Club Tent 28 of Southern Ontario raised a net of $270,000 in its second annual Bike-a-thon on Sunday April 21, reported coordinator Jack Sturman to a Club luncheon on April 25th. This news was one of the highlights of a packed monthly luncheon with special guests Vic Damone, Frankie Vaughn, and the cast of a new musical, Hey Justine. Sturman announced the Bike-a-thon results. Total pledges were $315,000. Taking a seven per cent factor for non-collection from sponsors, and including the running of the day expenses, the net to Variety Village would be $270,000. Sturman also announced that the pool of fourteen dollars had been won by his cochairman of the event, Syd Koffman. Koffman donated the winnings to the Bike-a-thon. A gettogether for those who worked on the event is planned. The Variety Club International Convention in San Francisco on May 28-31 can be attended by joining a group booking set up by Variety Tent 28. Arrangements can be made through the Club offices. Furthermore, it was announced that the current clubrooms in the Colonnade are being closed at the end of May. New quarters are being sought, and one of possible sites mentioned is the King Edward Hotel. The Heart Award Luncheon is to be held on May 23. Heart Award recipient will be Len (x aa | ny “7a x Richard Dreyfuss was in Toronto for the opening of Astral’s The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz. porn a ~ Stewart, Frankie Vaughn. The National Programme of the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, working with the Canadian Filmmakers’ Distribution Centre in Toronto, has selected films by independent Canadian filmmakers and. packaged them into four programmes of one and a half hours each. They will be made available to galleries across Canada, in the hope that the gallerygoing public will appreciate the diversity of which the Canadian filmmaker is involved. As a new project in the National Gallery’s continuing National Programme of circulating exhibitions throughout Canada, the films were selected from among hundreds submitted for -reviewing. There are narrative films, collage films, optical-effect films, animated films, films processed to achieve vivid colour effects, films made from video tape, from 8 mm footage or from slides, films utilizing unusual sound tracks or having none at all. The films are of an experimental nature; exploring the diversity of the medium. After the period from May to December during which galleries can arrange with the Canadian Filmmakers’ Distribution Centre in Toronto to book the films, the films will become part of a new collection of films and video at the National Gallery of Canada. The four programmes selected for this year are as follows: T Sydney Newman led the board of Directors of the National Film Board in a Toronto Board board meeting, and a reception was held for the Toronto film community at the Toronto Club. The shooting of Black Christmas, an August Films-Vision |V production in Toronto, saw several actors visit the city to participate. Keir Dullea, Olivia Hussey, Margot Kidder and John Saxon are featured. The Canadian Federation of Film Societies announces that its 1974 Index of Feature Length Films available in Canada is about to be published. This year’s edition is being offered at a lower price ($20.00) than the 1973 effort, and has been expanded to include 2,850 new films. Total number of films listed is 7,000. They are listed alphabetically by original language title and cross-referenced by English and/or French alternate title. Actor Randy Quaid was in town to do promotion for the opening of the Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz for Astral. : Variety Bike-a-tho huge success Bishop, long-time Variety Club supporter and — At the Variety Club luncheon: (left to right) Jim styles, techniques and subject matter with GFFS publishes new directory ie Te eee ) , , well-known in the movie exhibition circuits. Natalie Spiegal, Ladies Variety head announced that this year’s birthday party for the Variety Village boys will be held in June. Mike Boothe of Astral presented the Club with a cheque for $849, the proceeds from a hockey game held between the N.H.L. Oldtimers and the Canadian P N Motion Picture Pioneers. Jim Cameron of Famous Players then inducted the new members, followed by a selection of tunes by the cast members of the stage musical Hey Justine, now playing in Toronto at the Global Village Theatre. The two main guests of the day were then introduced by Harvey Dobbs. Singer Vic Damone, currently playing the Royal York Hotel, said he intended to make a five hundred dollar donation to the Club, but after hearing the boy from Variety Village speak, he would raise the amount to one thousand dollars. Damone, obviously well-liked by the audience, certainly added to their esteem by this significant gesture. Entertainer Frankie Vaughn, currently headlining the London Palladium stage show at the O’Keefe Centre, whose charity work with boys’ clubs in England has raised more than one million pounds, said how pleased he was to be invited, and offered congratulations to the efforts of Tent 28. Armstrong, Harvey Dobbs, Vic Damone, Alex National Gallery to distrib Cdn pix PROGRAMME ONE: Eurynome by John Straiton; Steam Ballet by John Straiton; Migration by David Rimmer; Solidarity by Joyce Wieland; Le Loup Blanc by Brigitte Sauriol; Fountain by Leon Marr; Les Etoiles et Autres Corps by Paul Tana. PROGRAMME TWO: Mirror, Mirror by Michael Asti-Rose; Next to Me by Rick Hancox; A House Movie by Rick Hancox; Rhapsody on a Theme from ‘‘A House Movie’ by Lorne Marin; How the Hell Are You? by Veronika Soul; Software by Al Razutis; The Rocco Bros. by Peter Bryant. PROGRAMME THREE: Vortex by Al Razutis; Factories by Kim Ondaatje; Blue Movie by David Rimmer;. Animals in Motion by John Straiton; Thanks giving by Ken Wallace; Rat Life and Diet in North America by Joyce Wieland; Watercolours by Mike Collier; Earth Song by Bob Cowan. PROGRAMME FOUR: Essai a la mille by Jean-Claude Labreque; Le Premier Accident by Jean-Michel Labrosse; Standard Time by Michael Snow; Real Italian Pizza by David Rimmer; Yonge Street by Jim Anderson; Biowjob by Psychomedia; R.O.M. by Jim Anderson; Sons of Captain Poetry by Michael Ondaatje. Both 16 mm and 35 mm are included. Information supplied includes director, leading players, country, running time, year released, ratio, distributor, available print versions. Two appendices in alphabetical order list titles of films under the categories directors and leading piayers. ‘ Copies can be ordered from the CFFS Index Committee, P.O. Box 484, Terminal A, Toronto, Ontario M5W 1E4. n Ve se Se