Cinema Canada (Dec 1974-Jan 1975)

Page scan 00051 from Cinema Canada

Record Details:

Title:
Cinema Canada
Date:
Dec 1974-Jan 1975
Volume:
Cinema Canada (Dec 1974-Jan 1975)
Leaf #:
00051
Language:
English
Collection:
Global Cinema, Canada, and Hollywood Studio System
Format:
Periodicals
Contributor:
Media History Digital Library, Canadian Media Magazines Project, Conorr Norquay, Paul Moore and Jessica Whitehead
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:

Cinema Canada

Earlier Title: Canadian Cinematography (1961-67)

Cinema Canada (1967-89) was the primary trade journal for film and television production in Canada. The magazine originated as Canadian Cinematography (1961-67), published by the Canadian Society of Cinematographers, but was renamed to appeal to a wider readership and to recognize a degree of maturity of the national film production industry. Cinema Canada hosted a new slate of stridently nationalist film critics, scholars and writers. The magazine’s emergence coincided with a threshold, of sorts, when a national cinema became recognizable in character as having an independence from Hollywood genres, even if output remained relatively small in quantity. The publication’s archives are housed at the Toronto International Film Festival’s Film Reference Library.

– Paul Moore, 2024

Date Added:
February 25, 2025
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she’s such an amazing actress! So fine! Haig and Loubert were hoping no-one gets singled out — everyone worked so hard getting this film done. The editors! Try not to forget to include their names. Fantastic job. Clive Smith, who did the title sequence. Beautiful work. Really. The hassle is, how do you get everyone in when there are so many fine people involved? Would love to feel (just once) that we could do justice to all those folks whose work we admire. The actors, costumes, sound, the music, the lighting, the mix, the AD, the gaffers, the grips... What can I say about the film? Kept asking the crew that while they were shooting. Nobody knew what the film was about. Jock finally came up with his perennial sunshine philosophy, ‘“‘When the whole crew thinks it’s good, it’s gonna bomb for sure. When they don’t know — well, it could be fantastic!” No wonder I never (almost never) write reviews. Probably get some for next issue. Hope they’re good. Love reading good reviews. Better to leave that for people who like doing it, anyway. What is it about? Twenty-four hours in the Grand Hotel in St. Thomas Ontario. People come and go. Lives interconnect and disentangle. What can you say? It’s about people in Canada, the way only our low-budget features seem to be able to capture them. Maybe that’s why I love low-budget Canadian films. They’re more real. How Canadian to have to make films for such absurd amounts. How Canadian that you never get to see them. The people are people I know. Keep getting the feeling I’ve met them somewhere, seen them in a streetcar maybe. Or in a train station. Or shuffling back and forth on the streets between jobs/homes/jobs. Sometimes the absurdity of filling this magazine with stuff on films they never get to see gives me them old futility blues. Sometimes it’s funny. It sure is Canadian. — A. Ibranyi-Kiss Scenes from “125 Rooms of Comfort” 50 Cinema Canada