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more
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: unattended
! first in the series was shown at 7 p.m.
(3), with the other films being pro-
Thursday and Sunday evenings
)ut the month. Admittance is remembers
only but memberships
ible at the door for $2 each.
other section of this month's NFT
as includes several pictures by Sergei
among which are "The General
"Battleship Potemkin" and "Strike,"
film. These are being shown at 9:30
"Thursday and Sunday evenings
" Jut the month, offering first-rate
unment for a very low price and com-
Canadian and Russian film e.xcel-
'
Canadian Film Institute, located on
Avenue in Ottawa, publishes inbooklets
concerning the up-andfilms
to be presented at the National
eatre (National Library & Archives
i^ellington Street) and these booklets
obtained by dropping hy the CFI and
up a copy.
Canadian Film Institute also cooperthe
Towne Art Cinema in the
ition of Alexandro Jodorowsky's
lopo" Friday (15) through Sunday (17)
light. Jodorowsky both directed and
in
the film.
TAWA
ting item in a local paper pointed
the problems facing theatre manhe
try to add a little variety to their
S. The St. Laurent Odeon Theatre
a fashion show before the unreeling
i of the Saturday performances of "The
Apparently too many little details
to, because the show
some harsh comments, such as
"timing was off." "music had
"
"the commentator couldn't handle the
," "the models collided with patrons
popcorn" and "the movie was de-
Sat least 20 minutes." It seems that a
Br, shorter fashion show, making use
Jr areas of the theatre, would work
Certainly it wasn't necessary to use
lick to draw the crowds to a winning
Redford and Newman and cer-
;.a Saturday audience complete with
^children, wisecracking teenagers and
with one inner eye on the babysitnot
the ideal group for a fash-
V. These enclosed shopping malls
one or two theatres are ideal sites
ion shows and exhibitions and, with
thought and possibly better adj,
this kind of "added attraction" is
work.
Drive-In Being Revamped
tern
Edition
TEX.—Work continues at
iva Drive-In on the modernization
which began last year. Workmen
tore down the old concession stand.
been replaced by a new one.
Trout, manager, said new road
jand improved projection equipment
installed so far.
CALGARY
QeorKf lleiher, ( an.cdian geiKT.il nuuiager
for United Artists Corp.. flew into
town from Winnipeg for a whirlwind visit.
Looking very cool and dapper. Heiber
managed to run through a full-time schedule
and. after lunching with local business
executives, he flew on to Vancouver.
"Not Now Darling," the English comedy,
continues to break house records, not only
in the Towne Cinema. Edmonton, but in
other situations. It also is sweeping records
aside in the Towne Theatre, Saskatoon,
Sask. Playing in Edmonton in its 1 1th week,
this comedy has set new daily and weekly
house records and hopes are high that it
will set a record for the lencth of run as
well.
The Westbrook triplex here is proudly
showing three films that have a total of 1
Academy Award nominations. In Westbrook
One is 'A Touch of Class" (five nominations);
Westbrook Two has "Summer
Wishes, Winter Dreams" (two nominations),
and Westbrook Three has "Cries and
Whispers" (five nominations).
Cy Davies, branch manager of International
Film Distributors, reports a very successful
jaunt out to Vancouver recently. He
visited with former Calgarian Ken McBean,
who is happily settled in the balmier climes
. . . In its continuing Bergman Film
Festival, the Roxy Theatre in Edmonton
showed "Dreams." starring Eva Dahlbeck.
at a matinee Sunday (3) . . . The Canadian
Film Series offered "Journey" at the University
of Calgary in MacEwan Hall Room
322.
Sex and more sex was the order of the
day—or midnight—when Towne Cinema
here ran a midnight double bill of "The
Student Teachers" and "Private Duty
Nurses." This was a "restricted adult" program
and the free list was suspended.
Bob Corless of Towne cinemas, Edmonton,
was in town recently and spent some
time in the exchange . . . Edmonton's Klondike
Cinema screened Jacques Tati's wellknown
comedy, "Traffic," Saturday (2) and
Sunday afternoon (3). This version of the
highly rated picture carried English subtitles.
Saul Stone, Stone's Screening Service, is
in General Hospital here undergoing a
thorough checkup and tests. Everyone hopes
to see Saul back on his feet before long.
In the continuing series of Luis Bunuel
films being shown at MacEwan Hall Ballroom
on the University of Calgary campus.
I he Lxlermuiating .\ngcl" was shown recently.
This classic, filmed in 1962, focuses
on the deterioration of social graces when
a number of people are imprisoned in one
room ... A special German-language film
program was offered to Calgarians at a
Sunday and Monday showing in Studio 82.
The double bill, classified "family," was
composed of 'Romona," followed by "Morgen
Fallt die Schule Aus."
The department of tourism of Alberta and
various business enterprises connected with
the sport of skiing should give the National
Film Board of Canada a very warm vote of
thanks. The NFB's English-language production
of "Ski Albert," a 30-minutc featurette,
has been dubbed into three languages
French. German and Japanese. There arc
now 300 prints in circulation, which adds
up to an awful lot of free promotion for
the ski establishments in this province. Alberta's
world-famous mountains are used
as the background for numerous skiing
scenes. There arc "man-on-the-hill" interviews
interspersed with some spectacular ski
footage. This film recently was awarded
"best sports film of 1973" at the Canadian
Film Awards.
The Edmonton Film Society had two
presentations, one in its Classic Series and
one in the French Series. Both programs
were screened in the Tory Lecture Theatre
The Calgarj
.Series, showed
Film Societj, in its Classic
"Rashomon" Monday (4) in
1 1 on the University of Alberta campus.
the Allied Arts Centre Theatre. This film
The classic feature was "Trouble in Paradise"
was made in Japan in 1950 and directed by
and the French film was "L'Amour,
L'Apres-midi." Admission to both screenings
Akira KLiros.iwa.
mcnilxiship
The admission was
Tuesday
restricted
lo only . . .
was by membership only.
(5) the CI S Kcirospective Film .Series was
ended with the showing of "The Kremlin
Letter." U.S. picture made in 1969, in honor
of John Huston. Based on a novel by
Noel Behn, the movie starred Richard
Boone, Max von Sydow. Orson Welles,
Dean Jagger and George Sanders. The
screening was in the National Film Board
Theatre and tickets were prepurchased
through the CFS.
Universitj' of Calgary's division of continuing
education and the Arusha Cross-
Cultural Center are co-sponsoring a Third
World Cinema Series on the university
campus. The Arusha Centre is a resource
and education group concerned with international
development. The feature presentation
Sunday (3) in Science Theatre 143
was "When the People Awake." a fulllength
documentary on Chile. The audience
was invited to remain after the film show-
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