Take One back issues from December 1999:
From the editor.
Dec 01, 1999; ... It is appropriate that Take One's first issue of the new millennium should be, in a way, a tribute to the National Film Board, which turned 60 last year. Undoubtedly, without the Film Board, there would not have been a Canadian film culture, or if there was, it would be in a radically ...
Camera eye: Peter Wintonick's Cinema verite: defining the moment.
Dec 01, 1999; ... Between the extremes of those who would prefer dental surgery to sitting through a documentary and the unquestioning champions of the form, are the ambivalent majority. Viewers know that docs can give them revealing, enlightening and thrilling film moments. But they've also suffered ...
Verite and the future of the NFB.
Dec 01, 1999; ... In many ways, the National Film Board was the living laboratory for the cinema-verite revolution. Ideally placed at the internexus of Europe and America, of continents and cultures, of English and French, the NFB was the incubus which catalysed what was to be one of the most important ...
Homegrown truths: Ron Mann's Grass lights a torch for reefer sanity.
Dec 01, 1999; ... Some filmmakers stumble on their subjects! others get them handed to them. For Ron Mann, his latest film Grass was something else entirely--fate. "Back in 1979, I made my first film--a short called The Only Game in Town. Later on it won an award from the Academy of Canadian ...
Alt.sex.documentarie: Cristine Richey's Tops & bottoms.
Dec 01, 1999; ... In 1994, the Canadian film industry acquired international notoriety with the film Exotica. By 1996, the reputation peaked with Kissed and Crash, but it has flagged slightly since then and is on the verge of being classified as missing in action. While The Five Senses is worthy of ...
Filmmaker of vision: Take one's interview with Colin Low pt2.
Dec 01, 1999; ... In the Spring issue, No. 23, Take One ran the first half of this interview with veteran NFB filmmaker, Colin Low, someone who has committed 50 extraordinary years to Canadian filmmaking, and still, in his 74th year, remains active. From the visually and technologically stunning Labyrinthe ...
On the occasion of the National Film Board's 60th anniversary: some thoughts on the future of the film board.
Dec 01, 1999; ... Let's go back to Grierson and the idea of the Board as something that would interpret Canada to Canadians and the world, which was the buzz phrase at the time. It was probably meant to be political, something you couldn't quite put your finger on, but it has had an amazing longevity .... In ...
Patricia Rozema's Mansfield park.
Dec 01, 1999; ... Cinema may not have been Rozema's first career of choice, but it has certainly proven quite the showcase for her talents. The way she tells it, a career in filmmaking was practically a foregone conclusion. "I sometimes look back and I think `My God, it's almost as if I knew I was going to ...
20th Banff Television Festival: "excellence" vs. "the market".
Dec 01, 1999; ... No matter how many times you make the drive from the Calgary airport, there's still that exquisite moment where the mountains suddenly materialize in the distance. By rights, the conversation in the delegates' bus should come to a hushed stop--but it doesn't. Many people don't even bother ...
West coast (18th Vancouver International Film Festival).
Dec 01, 1999; ... The 18th Vancouver International Film Festival finished on a high note with new records being set for both attendance and revenues. Local and Western Canadian filmmakers were honoured more than ever before by the audiences and juries at the festival. Vancouver director Scott Smith saw his ...
Prairies (Alberta).
Dec 01, 1999; ... In November, while most prairie people basked in extended autumn, producer/director Randy Bradshaw, of the Calgary-based film and television production company Bradshaw MacLeod and Associates, needed snow for his George Fox Christmas Music Special, a coproduction with Balmur, singer Anne ...
Winnipeg.
Dec 01, 1999; ... Paris, France, will host a major retrospective of Western Canadian independent filmmakers with a strong focus on the work of the Winnipeg Film Group, this year celebrating its 25th anniversary. The Museum of Contemporary Art (Galerie Nationale Jeu de Palme) in Paris together with the ...
Toronto.
Dec 01, 1999; ... The long-awaited new funding for the feature-film sector promised last winter (actually, make that the winter of 1998) saw the tentative light of day this past fall with the announcement that the feds are finally making good on that promise. Delivered by newly appointed Governor General ...
Montreal.
Dec 01, 1999; ... With Quebec's three most important film festivals (the veteran World Film Festival, the funky upstart Festival of New Cinema and New Media, and the always surprising Festival du Cinema en Abitibi-Temiscamingue) come and gone, and a rather low-key presence of Quebec productions in all of ...
East coast.
Dec 01, 1999; ... The 19th annual Atlantic Film Festival unleashed a record number of Atlantic features, including the long-awaited Halifax premiere of hometown boy Thom Fitzgerald's Beefcake, along with New Brunswick director Rodrigue Jean's impassioned Full Blast, Stephen Reynolds's The Divine Ryans and ...
Homage to Pierre Perrault ou triste nostalgie d'un pays perdu.
Dec 01, 1999; ... You can only look over your shoulder for so long before you get a crick in your neck. I should have remembered that in the cafe, the other day, when I was not-so-subtly eavesdropping on the conversation at the next table. It had been a while since I'd last witnessed a separation debate ....
Paul Sarossy's unique frame of reference.
Dec 01, 1999; ... Toronto-based, award-winning cinematographer Paul Sarossy began his training when he was a child growing up in Barrie, Ont. His father was a news cameraman with the local TV station, CKVR. Those were the days before videographers with camcorders. Film was actually shot each day for that ...
Zabava.
Dec 01, 1999; ... Zabava Written and directed by Greg Klymkiw. Cinema Zabava, 1999. 22 min., 16mm. As one of Canada's most imaginative and courageous independent producers, Greg Klymkiw has helped create impressive feature films by such filmmakers as Guy Maddin, John Paizs, Cynthia Roberts, Bruno ...
Exhuming Tyler.
Dec 01, 1999 ... Exhuming Tyler Written and directed by Merlin Dervisevic. Canadian Film Centre ,1999. 22 min., 16mm. What's with Canadians and corpses? There's several in Claude Jutra's Mon oncle Antoine, some dreamily irrepressible ones in Guy Maddin's films, and, of course, we all remember ...
Anderson unbound.
Dec 01, 1999 ... Anderson Unbound Directed by Sheldon Serkin, written by Randall Cole. Canadian Film Centre, 1999. 17 min., 16mm. When nebbish salesman Anderson (played to Woody Allenish perfection by David Boyce) takes a seminar on conflict management, his life is transformed. With the ...
Nobody's nothing.
Dec 01, 1999 ... Nobody's Nothing Written and directed by Bridge Farr. A farr-out production, 1999.4 min., 35mm. Ottawa-based filmmaker Bridget Farr's second short is a striking, high-contrast black-and-white examination of urban alienation. Partially funded, ironically enough, by the Regional ...
Take one's 1999 survey of films in the GTA.
Dec 01, 1999; ... Francois Girard's The Red Violin was the best of last year in terms of length of run and number of screens, and this Rhombus Media success story, which only received lukewarm reviews from the Canadian critics at the time of its release, now ranks as one of the most successful films at the ...
How a Genie came out of an Etrog: the Academy (of Canadian Cinema and Television) turns 20.
Dec 01, 1999; ... The Canadian film scene has changed a lot in 20 years. In 1979, the Academy of Canadian Cinema (later to become the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television) was established. Tax-shelter moviemaking was all the rage and a record 50 Canadian films were made that year. How ironic that no ...