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UPEI FILM SOCIETY ALL SET

FOR 2ND PROGRAM

UPEI’S student-operated University Film So- ciety opened its season Sunday, November 9th, to a 90% capacity audience which left the Duffy Am- phitheatre after seeing what must have been to some the strangest films they’d ever seen. Over 200 pople fought the driving rain Sunday night to see eight prize-winning films by student film—mak- ers from both this country and across the border. Appearing in person to introduce the program was Ronald Blumer, .Montreal film columnist for ‘Take one magazine, who incidentally was cameraman for Richard Bartlett’s controversial “Bitter Grapes” — a film which was the subject of discussion on this- campus for days afterwards.

The Film Society’s second program proves to be just as exciting, and if the turnout Nov. 9th was any indication of movie interest on this campus, an overflow audience can be expected. For this reason the films will be spread out over two days — Fri- day, Nov. 28, and Saturday, Nov. ‘29.

For years Canadian audiences have been forced to see films either from Europe or the Uni-ted States. Countries like Sweden, Czechoslovakia, Great Britain, France, Italy, and others, host a na~ tional film industry completely independent of Hol- lywood domination. Even a country the size and population of Denmark has its own commercial film industry. But practically no commercial, feature- length dramatic films are produced by this coun- try. Hollywood has strangled us.

Only now are we starting our first baby steps along the lucrative celluloid path. The National Film Board has just released its first independently— produced feature-length movie: “Don’t Let the Angels Fall”, starring Sharon Tate and Arthur Hill.

THE DUFFY Sat. Dec. 6th

AMPHITHEATRE

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MALPEQUE CAMPUS

7:30 & 9:30 pm.

UNIVERSITY OF PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND

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The UPEI Film Society will premiere one of the first showing of this film in Canada Saturday, Nov. 29, at 8:00 pm. in the Duffy Amphitheatre. The film has been praised by critics in Toronto, where it has just opened, and it will soon be releasedl in- ternationally. ‘ ‘

While Canada is just starting to develop its commercial film industry, there is one aspect of Cinema in which this country has been recognized as a world leader — the short film. Independent

Canadian shorts like Allan \. King’s “Warrendale” /

have received international acclaim; Norman Mc- Laren is a household word in world cinema; and National Film Board documentaries are famous throughout the globe. For twenty-one years this professional Canadian industry has held its annual equivalent of America’s Academy Awards -—— the Canada Film Awards, an event which marks the climax of commercial film production throughout the year.

Now, by special arrangement with the co—o-rdin- L

ators, the priz‘ehwinning films of the 1969 profes- sional Canada Film Awards will be made available exclusively to the UPEI Film Society for Screen- ing Friday night, November 28th. Showtime is 8 :00 pm. in the Duffy Amphitheatre. {Six films in all will be featured, highlighted by “Best Damn Fiddler from Calabogie to Kaladar”, which won seven out of thirteen awards, and a dramatic film entitled “And No Birds Sung”, produced by the University of Manitoba Student’s Union, which was so pro- fessional it not only made it to the Awards, but was one of the First Prize winners.

By far the high point of the Film Society’s pro- gram will be the arrival on campus Friday, Nov. 28, of C.B.C. Film Critic and Commentator Gerald Prat- ley, who has agreed to make a special trip to the Island to introduce the winning films and give a

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guest lecture. Mr. Pratley’s radio show, “Pratley at the Movies” can be heard Saturday nights at 9:30 on the CBC He is internationally known as Canada’s leading film critic, commentator, and in- terviewer, and each year his work keeps him shut- tling between Hollywood and Europe, and all over the North American continent. ,

The Film Society will keep Mr. Pratley busy all weekend, as indicated by the following itinerary:

Friday, Nov. 28, 8:00 pm“. — Screening of the Best Films of the 1969 Professional Canada Film fiwards with a special introduction by Gerald Prat- ey.

Saturday, Nov. 29, 2:00 pm. — Guest lecture by Gerald Pratley: “Aspects of the Cinema in Can- ada”, to be followed by an informal question period and discussion with the audience.

Saturday, Nov. 29, 8:00 pun. — Eastern Can- adian Premiere of “Don’t Let the Angels Fall,” starring Sharon Tate and Arthur Hill. Gerald Prat- ley will conduct opening ceremonies.

Sunday, Nov. 30, 1:00 pm. — Special press screening of THE KINETIC ART, for review by Gerald Pratley and local news critics.

Admission to Friday night’s film program: is free for all UPEI students, 50c for other students, and $1.00 for faculty and the general public. Ad'- mission to all events on Saturday is free for every- one.

Next program of the UPEI Film Society ~— THE KINETIC ART, December 6, 12 and 14th.

All events to take place in the Duffy Amphi- theatre, Malpeque Campus.

THE KINETIC ART IS COMING!

What is the KINETIC ART?

The question is a familiar one to film impres- sario Brant Sloan, who has christened his intrigu- ing short film package just that. THE KINETIC ART, consisting of three 2—hour contemporary film program-s will be the highlight of UPEI’s 1969 Film Society Season. THE KINETIC ART will make its Prince Edward Island debut at UPEzI’s: Duffp Am- phitheatre early in December. '

THE KINETIC ART, a showcasexfor interna— tional prize winning films from nine countries, is making its first coastato-coast cross-Canada tour this season. Capacity audiences and: rave reviews have been the story at Simon Fraser University, University of British Columbia; and the Univer— sity of Saskatchewan, where the series has played, and much more praise will have been noted by the time it reaches the University of Prince Edward Island. I ~ The 26, films were chosen by Sloan for the series from more than 1000 viewings at festivals, laboratories and screening rooms from Paris to Bratislava, Tokyo to Mannheim, and Venice to San Francisco: They range from 55 seconds to 55 min- utes in length — from the Widlly carefree anima- tion of Kuri’s “Two Grilled Fish” (Tokyo) to the comically bizarre antics of “Rakvickarna’s” antique carnival puppets (Czechoslovakia) ; from the sear-

. ing drama of Filipovic’s “Cruel Diagonal-s” (Sara-

jevo) to Jordan Belson’s “Phenomena” (San Fran cisco) — described by Vincent Canby of The New York Times as “making the climax of ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’ look like a comic strip”.

Admission to each of the three KINETIC ART performances is as follows: faculty and general public $1,.50, UPEI students $1.00, other students $1.25. For information call 894-6949.

Reflections on Resurrection City —4in memory of Martin Luther King "

For the poor, the poor give more than

They ought; the rich, suspicion.

Giving thus is crying: a form of love.

Yet King Buddha, on one soft palm of hand

Fondles the lacerations of the poor;

The delicate butterflies of petal express

Suns of pain; their jewelled' eyes

Diffuse rainbows of rich joy——

As pomegranates seem these hearts of the lotus.

And! Jesus, too, in tenderness of great pity

Seeing the frailty of many passing lives

Provides another small banquet

Of paradise: his heart rains tears of blood,

Washes clearer than the eyes of the eagle

Windows of fresh kingdoms: they see.

Thus are the poor in pain and charity endowed rich;

Thus are the rich blinded. I ' —Reshard: Gool

,(Ed. Note: We wish to congratulate Mr. Gool on his fine achievement in winning the Norma Epstein Award for Creative Writing, and! extend to him our best wishes for the future.) j