Boxoffice-August.16.1965

'Pussycat?' Grosses
Near Winnipeg Mark
WINNIPEG — Business generally continued
strong, up a shade from the previous
week despite the warm weather and
the long August 1 weekend holiday.
"What's New Pussycat?" did terrific business
at the Odeon and Odeon Drive-In,
grossing what was thought to be a new
weekly record locally for any satui-ation
booking. It shared top spot with the rock
and roll double bill of "Having a Wild
Weekend" and "Go Go Mania," which
had to yield to a previous commitment,
Elvis Pi-esley's "Tickle Me." The latter immediately
picked up the hot pace of its
predecessor and appears headed for a successful
run, too. Holdovers "Cat Ballou"
and "The Sound of Music" were both very
good and "The Sandpiper" ended its run
on a strong note.
Capitol The Sandpiper (MGM), 2nd wk,. Very Good
Gaiety Those Magnificent Men in Their
flying Machines (20th-Fox), 5th wk Good
Gorrick The Train (UA), 2nd wk Average
Kings The Sound of Music (20th-Fox),
I8th wk Very Good
Lyceum— Moving a Wild Weekend (WB);
Go Go Mania (Astral) .Excellent
Metropolitan Cat Ballou (Col), 3rd wk Very Good
Odeon What's New Pussycat? (UA) Excellent
Towne Le Gendarme de Saint Tropez
(Unitilm)
Fair
Out-of-Town Patrons Boost
Montreal First-Run Grosses
MONTREAL — Quality screen fare at
downtown theatres, consisting of an attractive
mixtm-e of long-run and new
product, di-ew good patronage from distant
points, along with a greater number of
tom-ists from south of the border. "What's
New Pussycat?" and "Strange Bedfellows"
were the new films competing with such
Montreal long-standing attractions as "My
Fail- Lady" and "Mary Poppins."
Atouette—My Fair Lady (WB), 41st wk Excellent
Avenue What's New Pussycat? (UA) Good
Copitol Von Ryan's Express (20th-Fox), 3rd wk. Good
Cinema Festival Bonono Peel (SR), IStti wk. ..Good
Cinema Place Ville Marie White Voices (SR),
3rd wk Excellent
The Monkey's Uncle
Dorvol (Salle
(E/U), 2nd
Doree)
wk Good
Dorval (Red Room) Strange Bedfellows (E/U) . .Good
Imperial The Hallelujah Trail (UA), 5th wk. . .Good
Kent One Potato, Two Potato (SR), 14th wk. Good
2nd
Palace—The
wk
Yellow Rolls-Royce (MGM),
Excellent
Loew's The Sandpiper (MGM), 6th wk Good
Porisien The Family Jewels (Para), 2nd wk. . .Good
Seville The Sound of Music (20th-Fox), 6th wk. Good
Westmount Mary Poppins (E/U), 26th wk Good
Two Newcomers, 3 Holdovers
Rate "Excellent' in Toronto
TORONTO — Grosses continued to be
heavy, with reruns predominating. "How to
Stuff a Wild Bikini" was reported excellent
at 11 houses, as were "Shenandoah" at
the Odeon Carlton, "What's New Pussycat?"
in its fifth week at the Odeon Hyland,
"Those Magnificent Men in Theii-
Flying Machines" at the Fairlawn and
"Bambole," a second week offering at the
Towne Cinema.
Capitol, Yorkdale, Northeast Murder Most Foul
(MGM) Very Good
Carlton Shenondoah (E/U) Excellent
Downtown (11 theatres) How to Stuff o
Wild Bikini (Astral) Excellent
Foirlown Those Magnificent Men in Their
Flying Machines (20th-Fox), 6th wk Excellent
Hylond— Whot's New Pussycat? (UA), 5th wk. Excellent
Internotional Zorbo the Greek (20th-Fox),
, 18th wk Fair
Suburban (12 theotres) Cot Ballou (Col), 2nd wk. Good
Towne Cinema Bombole (Col), 2nd wk Excellent
Stanley Baker and Juliet Prowse star in
Joseph E. Levine's "Dingaka," an Embassy
release.
BOXOFFICE :: August 16, 1965
Exhibition of Norman McLaren Films
Features Sixth Montreal Festival
MONTREAL — The International
Film
Festival, held at the Loew's Theatre from
Friday through Thmsday (6-12), included
the films of internationally known Noiinan
McLaren. The exhibition was presented
by La Cinematheque Canadienne, in collaboration
with the National Film Board
and I'Ass'n Francaise Pour la Diffusion du
Cinema.
The McLaien exhibition was the same as
that shown in June at the Animation Film
Festival in Annecy.
It was an astonishing exhibition, almost
fonnidable in its documentation. It revealed
technique and technical know-how
and offered clues as to how it's done and
introduced the artist McLaren, the man of
incredible imagination and resourcefulness
of poeti-y, music and humor.
McLaren has made 45 films. They have
shown in 53 countries and won 66 awards
in 15 years. In Canada, moviegoers have
not had many chances of seeing this filmmaker's
magic.
At the exhibition, one could see the
"rhythm chai"t," which served as a reminder
of the visual structure of "Mosaic,"
with its notes of music and colors and directions,
such as: "slow burst open," "small
square drifts," and "zoom back into
distance." Also shown were the stage directions
for "A Chairy Tale": "chair
Montreal Background
For Godbout Picture
MONTREAL—Jacques Godbout of the
National Film Board has started shooting
here, with the city as his set, NPB's latest
full-length featm-e film, starring Charles
Denner of Paris. Canadian actors in the
film include Andree Lachappelle, Jean
DucepF)e and an 11-year-old girl Francine
LandiT, all of Montreal.
The Windsor Hotel, various parks and
streets, a hospital, a carwash and other
Montreal sights and scenes foiin the natm-al
backdi-op of the 90-minute Fi-enchlanguage
featm-e, entitled "YUL 871."
Written by Godbout, the film is both an
Odyssey and a love story, its central character
is a European engineer who discovers
Montreal and himself in a 48-hour period.
Charles Denner was chosen for the part
after Godbout had seen him in two roles so
different, "I felt he could play anything
even what I wrote."
Denner's first film was Claude Chabrol's
"Landru" about a man of 50 who married
and bui'ned to death a score of women.
The second was "La Vie a L'Envers" in
which Denner played a schizophrenic,
about 30.
"YUL 871"—the initials are international
code for Montreal and 871 is an Air
Canada flight number—will take two
months to shoot. The National Film Board
never publicizes budgets, but Godbout said
the cost would be considered low in Em'ope
and impossible in the United States.
Godbout. a native of Montreal, joined
the Film Board in 1958. His job first was
enters," "chair joyous," "crawling chase,"
"catstroke push," "chair peeps at man."
The study of synthetic sound, the animation
of cutouts, the examples of painting
directly on film, the stills from "Neighbors,"
including one cruel shot that did
not appear in the finished film—all of
these were fascinating. However, one item
even more fascinating was McLaren's exploitation
in stereoscopy.
Also, the international film section of
the festival presented 23 feature films, with
emphasis on young filmmaJcers and their
first pictures.
The fu-sts are "Four in the Morning"
(England) by Anthony Simmons; "The Enchanted
Isles" (Portugal) by Carlos Vilardebo:
"Walk Over" (Poland) by Jerry
Skolimowski; "That Guy" (Russia) by
Vassili Choukchine; "An Unworthy Old
Woman" (Prance) by Rene Allio and "The
Age of Daydreaming" (Hungary) by
Istvan Szabo.
Those films, all different and original,
gave the spectator a new and interesting
look at the turn the motion picture industry
is taking in each of the countries.
A total of 126 new fUms were shown at
the seven-day festival, which honors Mc-
Laren. The festival, once again, had a
competitive Canadian-made film section,
apai-t from the many shorts and
documentaries.
translating English films into French. In
1960, he directed his first film—a half hourdocumentary
on the Ecole des Beaux-Arts
—and others were soon translating his
work into English. Included were films on
Canadian painter Paul-Emile Borduas, on
the Montreal's St. Henri slum district, on
actress-singer Pauline Julien. The most
recent "Huit Temoins" (Eight Witnesses)
about juvenile delinquency, was selected
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