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Prepare for Canada’s Centennial
Send for the film ‘The Quality of a Nation’. It contains many ideas to help your group or community plan a centennial project with time to spare. “The Quality of a Nation’ was produced for the Canadian Centenary Council by The E. 8. Eddy Company. Available rent free from the Canadian Film Institute (CW), 1762 Carling Ave., Ottawa, Ontario.
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Exciting Gila Season In Progress.
There is no question about it, that Toronto audiences were given a pretty lousy start of this film season. Many films shown here ” were of questionable merit, however, the little confidence | have — had in our so-called art house operators gained in strength after some promising announcements have been, made.
Let’s see then, what is coming to town; ELEKTRA will. probably © be the first. L'AVVENTURA and HARAKIRI are scheduled too. An extraordinary event for the mature viewer, | am sure, will be VIRIDIANA, announced for early 1964. fe
It proves again, that competition not only helps one of the competing parties, it also benefits the consumer: all of the aforementioned films are scheduled by different theatres.
There is a large number of GOOD movies, that are still awaiting their turn. One of them is the Polish film MOTHER JOAN OF THE ANGELS. A most controversial picture, it caused strong protests from Roman Catholic circles in many countries. The Metropolitan Curia of New York objected*to the showing of JOAN in that city. Church authorities:tried to stop the screening of JOAN at the festival in Vancouver. ' | : |
Loosely based on a celebrated case in 17th century France (which Aldous Huxley. skillfully described 11 years ago in his historical narrative, THE DEVILS OF LOUDUN), this picture set ~and filmed in Poland, is celebrated throughout the world and won in 1961 a special jury prize at the Cannes festival. —
_. We have received a good number of letters asking information about the Canadian Premiere of JOAN. All we can say is, that a group of film people in Toronto are contemplating the purchase of that film. Let us hope, that the deal will come through. On the following pages of this special supplement we are printing the various opinions about Kawalerowicz’s masterpiece.
—V_R.
Ed. Note: Kawalerowicz == Kha-vah-leh-roh-vitsh (Ugh!) ©»