Take One back issues from March 1998:
Editorial (Atom Egoyan and The sweet hereafter and Canadian film policy).
Mar 22, 1998; ... First, Take One wants to heartily congratulate Atom Egoyan on his Oscar nominations for Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay. By the time this issue hits the stands, The Sweet Hereafter will still only be a nomination, but by March 24, we'll know the results of the balloting. It's the ...
Quick, smart and dubious: the features of Kevin McMahon.
Mar 22, 1998; ... Imagine it is the year 2001. The millennium has arrived and with it the fabled 500-channel universe. You're sitting at home one night, bored, considering some of the major problems in your speck of the universe: fried foods, too much cognac, too little sleep, rampaging landlordism, the ...
Kitchen party Gary Burns returns to suburbia.
Mar 22, 1998; ... With his 1995 movie The Suburbanators, director Gary Burns framed the exploits of a group of young Alberta males as they whiled away their day in time-honoured fashion: getting their hair cut, making runs to the beer store, meeting girls, trying to score dope, traipsing through shopping ...
Top 20: the best Canadian films of all time.
Mar 22, 1998; ... In Take One's ongoing effort to promote and celebrate Canadian cinema, I asked the contributing editors, Tom McSorley (director of programming at Cinematheque Canada in Ottawa), Maurie Alioff (screenwriter and lecturer at Vanier College, Montreal) and Marc Glassman (freelance critic and ...
Mina Shum drives on.
Mar 22, 1998; ... "It was great. I felt like a general at war." Vancouver director Mina Shum--who brought us the much-praised comedy Double Happiness--is audibly excited as she recalls shooting the car-chase sequence in her latest film, Drive, She Said. Straight-laced Nadine (Moira Kelly) and her ...
Canada Council at 40.
Mar 22, 1998; ... Giving Credit: The Canada Council and Canadian Independent Cinema "If the man of action is without conscience, he is also without knowledge: he forgets most things in order to do one, he is unjust to what is behind him and only recognizes one law--the law of that which is to ...
Pete 'n' Joey have grown up: did anyone notice?
Mar 22, 1998; ... 1972: Will Cole, the irreverent, fun-loving Newfie, picks a fight with his ex-girl friend's new Toronto fiance, disgracing himself and reaffirming his status as the town clown. Fifteen years later: John Munn, proud and loyal patriarch of an East Coast hamlet, finally comes to terms with ...
Documentary renaissance.
Mar 22, 1998; ... The documentary is dead! Long live the documentary! The point-of-view docu-mentary is experiencing a renaissance on television and cinema screens around the world. Yearly Top 10 lists regularly include documentaries; others are winners at the box office; still others top the TV ...
Sea to sea (Canadian movie production).
Mar 22, 1998; ... East Coast The official opening party for the massive, four-studio complex Electropolis on the Halifax waterfront, marked a new era for East Coast filmmaking. Almost 3,000 people packed themselves into the former electrical generation station. The studio has already snagged ...
(Inside Out: the Lesbian & Gay Film + Video Festival).
Mar 22, 1998; ... In the film festival circles, Toronto is best known for the Toronto International Film Festival. But today, the megacity is home to numerous festivals focusing on themes varying from children to Asian culture to mental illness, and many people are unaware that Toronto's second largest ...
Kathleen Shannon.
Mar 22, 1998; ... ` ... we really have to stop being invalidated by people who call us idealistic, or naive, or too emotional, or all these other things that are said to silence the brilliance of ordinary people.' Kathleen Shannon Kathleen Shannon, who passed away in January, will be ...