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Article: Persistence of Vision: The wonderful World of John Paizs.(Canadian Filmmaker)(Critical Essay)
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- CineAction
- Article date:
- September 22, 2001
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John Paizs is Canadian cinema's forgotten child. Although his early films virtually established the postmodern style of the Winnipeg Film Group, (1) and his first feature, Crime Wave (1985), was named Best Film Made in Manitoba, (2) Paizs and his films remain little more than marginal notes in the history of Canadian cinema. For example, when Toronto-based Take One magazine asked critics and scholars to name the ten best Canadian films of all time, only four of the ninety-six published responses included Paizs's work. (3) Paizs is absent from both of the special issues of Post Script dedicated to Canadian Cinema, as well as from past Canadian cinema-themed issues of ...
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Article: 'Blame Canada!': 31-Film Series of Canadian Cinema.
PR Newswire;
April 7, 2000 ;
676 words
... ... rarely seen south of the border: John Greyson, Lea Pool, Robert Lepage, John Paizs and Paul Almond. "Blame Canada!" celebrates several new works, such as Paizs's hilarious sci-fi parody, "Top of the Food Chain;" Catherine Annau ...
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