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CALGARY
Qalgan Film Society showed the last
ottering in its Specialists' Scries March
13 in the Bonis Rouhakinc Recital Hall
on the university campus. The feature.
"Zazie dans le Metro." was made in France
in 1960 and was directed by Louis Malic.
The public library in Edmonton scheduled
three film series to start last month
in the Central Library Theatre. Films
booked ranged from Harold Lloyd comedies
to horse operas and on to
features with outstanding
performances by supporting actors.
Starting March 22. the National Film Theatre/Edmonton
and the Edmonton Film
Society combined resources to present the
Lloyd classics Tuesday evenings. Starting
March 18, outstanding performances by
supporting actors began as a Friday night
offering. The community programs section
of the library was sponsoring the western
films, shown free to the public Saturday
and Sunday afternoons beginning March
19. There were admission charges for the
first two series.
The Edmonton Film Society showed
"The Pirate" in its Classic Series March 14.
Screened in the Student Union Building on
the university campus, the feature starred
Judy Garland and Gene Kelly.
The Provincial Museum was the site of
a meeting March 15 when the Canadian
Wolf Defenders of Edmonton gathered to
present the film "Death of a Legend." The
screening was open to the public-. In the
Central Library, the National Film Theatre/Edmonton
showed the last in the
"Classic Gangster" features March 11, with
VANCOUVER
J^uthor-director-producer James Clavell
spent a couple of weeks in town visiting
his home in West Vancouver and making
an assortment of TV appearances. He
casually mentioned that he had signed Richard
Attenborough to direct the film version
of his latest best seller, "Shogun." Clavell
himself is negotiating the picture deal and
will appear on the credits as executive producer.
His first novel, "King Rat," which
turned into a big winner, has come to life
again. The German magazine Stern has
acquired the rights to serialize the 12-yearold
book, which is a semi-autobiographical
account of Clavell's wartime prison-camp
experiences.
Also here were Bill
Mason, who got sidetracked
from painting and animating into
wildlife filmmaking; Australian filmmaker
Paul Winker, present for a structuralist/
minimalist cinema presentation, and Canada's
well-known Donald Brittain, whose
"Volcano," an inquiry into the life and
death of Canadian novelist Malcolm Lowry,
was nominated for an Academy Award. For
$10, interested film buffs were able to spend
"The Third Man" concluding the series.
"Otets Soldata" (A Soldier's Father), produced
in the USSR, the last in the Contemporary
Eastern Europe series, was shown by
the same group March 15.
Neighboring Banff played host to Farrah
Fawcett-Majors and her husband Lee Majors
for a few days. Mrs. Majors arrived
in Banff March 10 to join her husband, who
had arrived previously to enjoy a ski holiday.
It is expected that the two stars will
form their own company and, according to
reports, shooting on a made-for-TV movie
starring Lee Majors will begin soon.
Wain Covert, Warner Bros, branch manager,
reports that Blain jr. is just completing
another busy year of hockey. Playing in the
juvenile ranks, Blain jr.'s team—the Canyon
Meadow Cougars—were slated to meet with
Brentwood for the city championship in
their
division.
The faculty of the education department
of educational foundations at the University
of Calgary is presenting a series on
world development as a means of examining
the situation in the Third World and Canada.
Five movies were scheduled to be
shown dealing with Latin America, Asia
and Arica as well as world perspectives. A
different resource person was slated to be
at the screenings to comment on the film
unreeled. Offerings included the 1974 Danish
film "The History Book," "Calcutta"
and "The Long Chain," "A Luta Continua"
and "Tanzania," "The Double Day" and
"Mexico" and "That's the Price" and "The
Other Side."
a day with Brittain at the National Film
Board Theatre, 1185 West Georgia . . .
March 19, Peter Kubelka, co-founder and
director of the Austrian Film Museum, presented
three works, including the 12-minute
"Pause" . . . The Pacific Cinematheque's
"In Person" presentation ended March 23
with American Jon Rubin screening and
talking about his abstract films.
Laera Dalen, producer of the upcoming
"Skip Tracer," writes from Highlight Productions
to inform that the picture is now
fine cut, winding up 94 minutes long. It
has been screened for representatives of
Odeon, Canfilm, Warner Bros, and CBS,
who generally felt the picture has the makings
of a winner when scoring is complete.
Completion date for the feature has been
rescheduled for June 15.
The opening of the Capitol Six and the
Orpheum as a cultural and music center
gave media folks in town an occasion they
couldn't resist. Everyone rushed in to interview
Irvan Ackery, who had been involved
with both houses—the Capitol back in 1921
(as an usher) and the Orpheum for 25 years
(as manager). Some of the recollections
were priceless, such as the time a very
young Susan Hayward was here for an
opening and injured an ankle. For two days
Ivan had to carry her up and down the
stairs for every performance. The best
quote, though, came when he said that when
he started in the business the pictures were
all black and white — "today so many are
in flesh tones."
New Westminster High invested $9,000
in the school's production of "Fiddler on
the Roof." Starring Ross Laidley, the production
had a three-day stand. Columnist
Jack Wasserman remembers when they
mounted a whole week of "Theatre Under
the Stars," all professional and all union,
for that kind of money!
The best story of the week, not relating
to show business, concerned a mining type,
one of the early Variety Club members here
who always signed his letters with the initials
IRC after his name—Independent
Rock Crusher. He had the status-seekers going
nuts trying to figure out who he really
was . . . Getting lovely Linda Sorenson for
Michel Tremblay's "Bonjour la Bonjour,"
which opened at the 200-seat Arts Club, was
no small coup. She came direct from appearing
in two major motion pictures for
20th Century-Fox.
'Anomalies' Print Seized
At Theatre in Winnipeg
WINNIPEG—The Venus Theatre, 801
Sargent Ave., was raided by the police
morality squad March 18 and a print of the;
motion picture "Anomalies" was confiscated.
After officers viewed the film, thea-'
tre manager Joseph Gabrielle was charged
with "exposing an obscene film to the public."
The raid was carried out upon th«
advice of the attorney general's department
police said. A spokesman acknowledge!
that no complaints had been received fron
the public.
After submission to the Manitoba Filn
Classification Board January 24, "Anoma
lies" was labeled "restricted adult," meanin
that no one under the age of 18 could b
admitted to a theatre showing the pictun
The movie has been categorized by its di;
tributors as "a documentary sex educatioi
film
which shows simulated sex and front;
nudity of both sexes."
A theatre spokesman said that some 4
000 to 5,000 patrons viewed "Anomalie:
before the seizure and not one had con
plained to the management. He furth
pointed out that signs were posted at tl
theatre doors warning patrons not to
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if they "might be offended."
Gabrielle was scheduled to appear Man
23 in the provincial judges' court in L
Public Safety Building.
'Cinema in Casa' Foundec
ROME, ITALY—Italians interested J
renting 8mm films for home viewing m"
have a magazine of their own. Called Ciima
in Casa (Movies at Home), the receny
established periodical contains a wealth f
information about films for rent.
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