# English-Canadian Film (Winter 2007)
#### Jan. 7: Nobody Wave Goodbye

* Screening: Nobody Wave Goodbye (1964)

#### Jan. 14: Goin' Down the Road

* Screening: Goin' Down the Road (1970)
* comparison to Nobody Wave Goodbye
* fulfilling the dream - small town to big city
* Margaret Atwood's Survival - dramatization of failure
* overacting/underacting - docudrama
* John Hoffman - American failure spectacular and glamorized vs. Canadian failure 'grubby' and pathetic
* Christine Ramsay - plurality - postmodern reading - identification - gender/region/class - marginalization
* marginalized are not losers but rather sublime outsiders
* victims and losers in Canadian losers - noble nature of losers
* Screening: Pierre Berton interview with Shebib

#### Jan. 21: Dreamland

* Feldman Article
** Uselessness of written word in Canadian films - Nobody Wave Goodbye and Going Down the Road examples
** Feeling of emptiness in Shabib films - conveyed without the use of words
** Shabib characters often battered into silence
** Experimental works also suggest silence holds 'real power' in Canadian film
** What's not there is 'more horrifying' than what is there - absence
** Abigail's party - example of absence
* City of Gold
* Short Brittain bio + filmography
** Memorandum (1965)

##### postscreening discussion

* distribution problems - then and now
* quotas
* carry-on movies - product of quota system
* Canadian influence in Hollywood and vice-versa
* Lonely Boy (1962)
* Unit B
** Acknowledgement of ambiguity - acknowledgement of the camera
* dark nature of the film
* Barry Keith Grant text about the film
** darkness of film - at home everywhere/nowhere
** 'we had a nosejob' - Anka belongs to everybody/not himself - Freedomland scene
* Troy Donahue - godfather - Coppola - Hollywood + mafia connection
* comparison to Dreamland

#### Jan. 28: Winter Kept Us Warm

* McCarthyism
** Communism
** Anti-Semitism
** Homophobia
* Kenneth Anger's Fireworks - made just before Anger's departure for Europe
* Homophobia in Hollywood during the McCarthy era
** keeping up appearances
* Beat poets
** Jack Kerouac
** Allen Ginsberg
* Claude Jutra, Michel Tremblay's works in Quebec
* Robin Wood's 'The Return of the Repressed' - horror movies allow people to talk of repressive themes - horror movie often dismissed or marginalized
* Gay and Lesbian filmmakers statistically more frequent in Canada
* The Weinstein's involvement with and promotion of independent films
** Canadian benefit of newfound interest in low budget Sundance films
* Winter Kept Us Warm
** Critical reception - Variety magazine review
** influence on Cronenberg - quote from Cronenberg on Cronenberg on Winter Kept Us Warm - 'very sweet film'

#### Feb. 4: The Apprentice (1971)

* Susan Sarandon – Joe – pre-Apprentice success
* Larry Kent
** concern about job loss
** anticonformism
** Bitter Ash's reception + Success at McGill U
** High – censorship in Quebec
* CFTC - Telefilm
** distribution + promotion of films
** power in the hands of producers – taxcredit incentive

##### postscreening

* Larry Kent lecture
* English vs. French version
* appearance of the priest – French priest in French version – pressure to have english priest
* Susan Sarandon’s casting vs. Diane Keaton
* Starting up at UBC – Bitter Rash
* Directing french actors – non-Quebec native – challenges
* hope for Canadian films – 2007 and beyond