# Talk:Winter Kept Us Warm

The initial release of WKUW was at Cardiff, in Wales, in the autumn of 1965. I think it was the Commonwealth Film Festival being held there. The first print was rushed from the lab onto the airplane with Sector and one or two others, and then raced by rented car over to Cardiff just in time for the screening. I know this because I was the only person to have screened the whole film in Toronto as it came from the lab, and then I gave it to David to take on the plane.
I think some other source must settle whether this was ever shown at Cannes; and whether it was the first Canadian film there.
It was the first Canadian film to open the Commonwealth Film Festival, as I recall, but that also would have to be sourced. I think there is some real confusion here.
Ron B. Thomson (talk) 19:04, 16 September 2008 (UTC)

It's not standard format for a Wikipedia article to simultaneously include both footnoted "references" and a separate list of "sources". Sources and references are the same thing, and are treated consistently throughout the article, not separated into two distinct classes of thing. Accordingly, I've removed the following sources list from the article; these may be readded as inline references where appropriate, but not in the format in which they were previously included.

Canadian Broadcaster, vol. 24 no. 5 (4 March 1965), p. 9.
Globe and Mail, 21 November 1964; 17 November 1965; 19 May 1966.
Toronto Daily Star, 5 August 1966, p. 14.
Toronto Telegram, 15 January 1965 (p. 8: McKenzie Porter); 2 October 1965 (p. 7: Gerald Pratley).
Winnipeg Tribune, 8 January 1966.
- Bearcat (talk) 01:51, 2 March 2010 (UTC)

... that Winter Kept Us Warm inspired David Cronenberg to become a filmmaker?

ALT1: ... that the cast of Winter Kept Us Warm was not made aware of the film's queer subject matter? Source: Page 57 of Winter Kept Us Warm by Chris Dupuis
Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Ring of Nestor

Jon698 (talk) 02:09, 15 October 2025 (UTC).

Overall:  Out of the two, I would recommend the second hook, with a bit more context. That is, people unfamiliar with the film will be unaware of the time period and amount of queer content. We may also consider the following hooks:

ALT2: ... that the cast of Winter Kept Us Warm were not informed of the film's queer subject matter, despite homosexuality being a "triple taboo" in 1965?
ALT3: ... that Winter Kept Us Warm is considered English Canada's first gay film? Source: [1], [2]
Thoughts? Significa liberdade (she/her) (talk) 22:28, 19 October 2025 (UTC)

Either of those hooks would be fine @Significa liberdade: Jon698 (talk) 23:32, 19 October 2025 (UTC)
 Reviews needed for ALTs 2 and 3, as reviewers can't approve their own hooks; courtesy pings to Jon698 and Significa liberdade :) theleekycauldron (talk • she/her) 03:43, 22 November 2025 (UTC)