Each image is accompanied by a text written by the owner of the featured Doodiddle signed with only a first name that may or may not be their real names (Inanna? Darine? Phaedra? Souviens?).
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Screening at FIFA, March 21 & 26.
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When the punk movement reached Montreal in 1977, it ignited the passions of a handful of young people who were forever changed by it. Thirty years later, some of the players from this momentous time give a surprisingly frank account of their experiences at this key period in their lives—the music and the drugs, as well as a burning need to do things differently. The film includes rare archival footage of the Montreal punk scene and features the music of the earliest local punk bands: The 222s, The Normals and The Chromosomes.
Despite making up nearly half the student population in university film departments, women direct a disproportionately small number of the features made in our province – just a handful of the 40 films made here last year. It’s been calculated that the number of Quebec films made before the end of 2007 is somewhere between 700 and 900 (a number hard to get an exact fix on because until recently, directors didn’t have to register their films). But only around 100 of those have been directed by women.
The film is tragic yet energizing and inspiring and will generate many questions centring on its key themes of justice and morality. How can Prof. Cornett’s philosophy of education be advanced further and be implemented in an institution where individuals are not, as his late wife describes in the film, unlike “a cottonwood tree in the desert, singlehandedly trying to survive in times of draught”? In order to self-motivate, seek justice and succeed Prof. Cornett leaves us with the title of an American civil movement folk song: “Keep Your Eyes on the Prize”.
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Villeneuve, whose Polytechnique swept the Genies last year, said the competition was especially difficult this time.
“This year was very meaningful because there was a lot of very good films this year. I’m a huge fan of Barney’s Version,” he said.
Most of the awards were presented before the televised broadcast, and it was apparent from the beginning that Barney’s Version and Incendies would dominate the evening. Incendies won most of the technical prizes — including two awards for sound — while Barney’s Version took the more high-profile Genies, including the best-supporting actor award for Dustin Hoffman, who played the hero’s effusive father, and a best-supporting actress Genie for Minnie Driver for her turn as the shallow and difficult “second Mrs. Panofsky.”
Quebe Community Groups Network president Linda Leith appeared on CBC this morning to discuss a report about Quebec’s Anglophone community, released yesterday by the Senate Standing Committee on Official Languages.
Listen to the CBC Interview here (5 min).
More about the Senate Committee’s 16 recommendations below.
Or, download the full 129-page report, click here (PDF)
Because so much of what is produced in English in Montreal pops out of nowhere, on a shoestring budget, the launch inevitably offers many surprises, as well as an opportunity to shmooze and nibble.
Shatner – currently the star of the CBS sitcom – $#*! My Dad Says, the first television show ever based on a Twitter feed – is one of six 2010 recipients of the Governor General’s Performing Arts Award, it was announced Thursday.
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ANGLO ACCEPTANCE
The organizers of this year’s Rendez-vous du cinéma québécois raised a few eyebrows with the announcement that Dolly Parton would be the festival’s closing film. Not only is it in English, but the film doesn’t even take place in Quebec. “I was thrilled, but I was a bit surprised,” says Johns of the honour. “I wasn’t really concerned that much about the language, just how much does it represent or reflect Quebec, you know?”
Johns speculates that the festival’s attitude reflects a new openness in Quebec society, one that goes both ways. “I don’t know exactly how to characterize it, but just by virtue of the fact that I’ve lived here, that I’ve embraced this place, this culture and this language—and its cinema, and its popular culture—some of it’s gotta rub off on me,” she says.
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