Allan King is making his films available to the public by selling them directly from his website. So, that's cool. I want to see Skid Row pretty bad and the one that has the guitarist from Rush as a teenager.
However, not all of the Canadian wonderfulness of movie history is available although great strides are being taken by the N.F.B. and others and they should be celebrated. Criminally unavailable (and I'm not talking about DVD-R) are the films of Janis Cole and Holly Dale. I have never seen P4W but I would nearly kill to do so. Honestly. And this is one of my all-time favourite films from any country and in any style. It's is pure magnificence. And purely Canadian, thankfully. I've had two television screenings in my lifetime but I need more, people.
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Wow, those are some rarities. I'm in love.
Excellent blog by the way!
xoxo
Meep
HOOKERS ON DAVIE is magnificent. Love that movie. Jealous of your poster.
Have you ever seen Allan King's A MARRIED COUPLE? Fucking great.
-Robin Bougie
Thanks, Meep!
Agreed, Robin. I want to see deluxe DVD releases of both Hookers and P4W as soon as possible!
I haven't seen that one but I am making an order from Allan King soon for sure.
I've been on the lookout for a copy of Hookers on Davie for a while.
My favourite bit of Canadian film paper is the poster for Stompin' Tom's Across This Land. Great concert film, also sadly unavailable commercially.
Do you have the Stompin' Tom poster? I've never seen it (or even knew of it) and now I have to!
P4W use to run on FIRST CHOICE (pre-Superchannel Merger) all the time. It's quite good, and ever features a Janis Gamble interview (and along the same time that came out, THE FIFTH ESTATE did an excellent 1 hour special on her case).
I have HOOKERS ON DAVIE and have run it a million times.
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