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.prauey OpensAwarcis ' Tonight _
CBC Film Critic and Commentator Gerald Pratley arrived in Charlottetown today to open the second program of the UPEI Film Society. The program will highlight the best films of the 1969 professional Canada Film Awards, and gets under- way tonight at 8:00 in the Duffy Amphitheatre.
' All UPEI students will be free of charge.
Gerald Pratley, internationally known as one of Canada’s leading film personalities, will intro- duce the six films, which include “Best Damn Fid- dler From Calabogie to Kaladar”, the fihnwhich swept seven out of a possible 13 awards. Also fear tured in tonight’s program is the award. winning film “And No Birds Sing”, produced by the Uni- versity of Manitoba Students Union.
V I The weekendSWI'll be a busy one for Pratley,
highlighted by a-special guest lecture and discus— J
sion on aspects of the Canadian Cinema Saturday afternoon at ..2:00 p.m. in the Montgomery Hall Common Room. Everyoneis invited to attend, and in particular, as Mr. Pratley stated in a recent tele- phone conversation, he would like people to feel free
. to ask questions.
This weekend’s film program will feature an added attraction in the Duffy Amphitheatre Sat- urday night. Commencing at 7 :30 p.m., the UPEI FilmVSociety will feature the Eastern Canadian pre- miere of “Don’t Let The Angels Fall”, starring Sharon Acker and Arthur Hill‘s Gerald Pratley will
be on hand to provide a special introduction for the , film, a full-length feature just released by Canada’s _. National Film Board. All students and the general ;, public will be admitted free of charge to this special presentation.
On Sunday a special press screening of THE KINETIC ART will be presented for review on na- v tional radio broadcast by Mr. Pratley. Local press critics, members of the Kinetic Art committee and special guests will be in attendance.
UPEI students are reminded to bring identifi-
' cation to Friday night’s program if they desire free
admittance.
ONE WEEK g AND COUNTING
It’s one week and counting for THE KINETIC ART, a showCase for international prize winning FILMS from nine countries, due to wind up it’s first
crossuCana-da tour at UPEI next week. The three '
separate programs which make up the series will be presented Sunday, Dec. 7th; Friday, Dec. 12th ; and Sunday, Dec. 14th, in the Duffy Amphitheatre. Tickets are now’on sale, and UPEI Film Society president Rick Hancox, reports advance sales indi- cate another overflow audience. To accommodate the numbers expected the small seating capacity of
the, Duffy Amphitheatre has been doubled by of- .
fering twoperformancesiof Kinetic Art pro— gram '— one at 7 :30 p.m.,anu, the other at 9:30 p.m‘.‘ It is advisable,“hoWever, to arrive early in order to. obtain .a good seat. .{I‘icket holders will
rieceive priority. e p ' . ‘ . . '.
:tWenty-six varyvfrom 55 seconds to '
{iii-"minutes- in length and receiving enthusiastic acceptance from theatre andeconcert goers, art patrons and college \studleirts—seeking a new and
stimulatingyapproach to film“ entertainment as a '
hfaCkers ’othhe project.
'éyinegseries has -already kefynoted such distin- gfiished‘film festivalsas ork’s Lincoln Cen-
film art, according to of Hollywood,
tet,“-Atlanta’sv High ~Museum;15 the Saratoga New '-
Yo‘r‘l‘c Summer Festival, as well as special perfor- some Of “the larger “Canadian universities.
critic’s praise .of ' THEEKINETI-C, ART is; ,un.
animus . . .' “Cannot be duplicated in any other art form,” comments the Chlis’tianz‘Science Monitor . . . “Nothing short of. fantastic? is‘the Utah Chronicle’s opinion; th'iIle. '5Vincentj Canva of The New York Illnescallsthe sieri‘esiz.“-;$Beautiful . . . with a lively sense offit’he visual ._ . {as exhilarating as it is in- describable.” There is what‘jhe says in his New
York Times review of July 29:
Because commercial picture distribution is geared entirely to the release of feature-length films, anyone who makes short movies —— other than those that promote the virtues of Standard Oil or the social benefits of Listerine —— must be either subsidized by a government, committed to
the arts or, simply mad.
In an attempt to rectify this situation by creat- ing a paying audience for short films Brant Sloan, an American movie entrepreneur who has the back— ing .of the MCA, Inc., has collected 26 shorts from around the world under the omnibus, Barnumesque title, “The Kinetic Art.” (Every movie that gets run through a projector, of course, is no mere or
, less kinetic than another movie.)
The first 11 films of the collection were shown at Philharmonic Hall last night. Another seven will be exhibited tonight beginning at 8:30 and eight more tomo‘rrow night at the same hour.
Later the three-part series —— each part of Which runs about two hours -— will tour college and university campuses and, if it is financially suc- cessful, it will be followed by a new collection next year.
An entire program devoted to short films is usually a somewhat difficult proposition because they have a way of blending together like the wat- ery components on a blueaplate special. Mr. Sloan, however, has taken pains to; get the most from the juxta—position of contrasting films.
Of the 11 films in last night’s: program I par- ticularly like “Phenomena,” a short, abstract color film by Jordan Belson, and “La Pomme,” a college
, of livedaction film and drawings by Charles Matton.
flluntinrg’own Vermin at U. P. E. l.
,. “ Staff ;;.‘,1:,;.;.(cPs;). CADRE boy: (and who doesn’t)
Jim. fiembr, is» in twinkle *
x :“';It.‘appears that he lost 'theionly authentic Davy cap presently:- in existence, while at; Evaluation meeting iofuthe Atlantic Student Conference, held last Weekend at Beaumont Cottage
Moncton'.
3‘ cap, which says __quite distinctly .“‘Davy Crockietti’iion the leather part 'of the top (next to Davy’s picture) was apparently the crest and of- ficial symbOI of'the‘ Bear Party, a nebulous campus organization which has already placed fur-carrying
members on a variety of high-echelon bodies, in- ‘
eluding Senate, CADRE itself. '
Student Council, even 1 The It has already aroused'a storm of disinterest
over its leftist policies, which include Marxist slo-
gans like “get involv '.” Students were most in-
dig-nant‘over the efforts of some of .theSe pinkos '
in trying to relate the university to the community.
. An obviously annoyed student spokesman ex- pressed the majority opinion when he said: “If those gotlidamn bleeding-heart liberals on council would take their responsibilities seriously,we’d get rid of these outside «agitatbrs once and for all. They think they’re underground, but we all know who
they are." If something-isn’t done dam soon to rid
the peaceful pebble of 'UPEII of these radical scum, meters is“ 0?? 1m 7’
A Kent St. It begins at 8 p.m.
Word ‘ has reached us that the-vigilante arm of SNVC (The Student Non-Coordinating Violent Committee) is keeping a close eye on the offenders, said to number at least 5 or 6.
In the meantime, absentminded editor Hornby is moping around The CADRE office bawling out
. mournful snatches of song in his famous raspy
monotone. The only ones of these clear enough to be understood were “got his first b’ar when he was
4 only three” and “Dav-eeee, Daaa-vy Crockett, King
of The Wild Fron-tieeer.”
\ A reward of 10,000, Russian gold pieces is being offered for the return, dead or alive, of the lice ridden headgear to its righteous owner.
It may be only coincidental to my appreciation that “Phenomena” opened the program and that “La Pomme” closed it —— program-positioning that gave them individuality.
Quite significant, however, is the fact that both are the work of painters. Artists and poets fit into the short-film genre much more easily than would- be novelists, socially conscious activists or anyone who refuses to recognize film as an end itself.
In “Phenomena,” San Francisco’s Belson has composed a short, dazzling montage of colors that makes the climax of Stanley Kubrick’s “2001: A Space Odyssey” look comic-strip representational. Outer space is where Belson (who used to paint in the manner of Kandinsky) now lives and his film is a phantas-magoria of prisms, dots and explosions of light that are as exhilarating as they are indes- cribable.
“La Pomme” is the work of the French artist who did the drawings and painting attributed to the artist in Francois Truffaut’s “The Bride Wore Black.” His film is a moving, black-and-white record of the things that catch and hold the eye of an artist in love with life.
Drawings: of babies, or perhaps of a couple making love, emerge from still shots, and still shots turn into moving pictures in a random way that is structured simply by the artist’s compassion. It is a beautiful movie.
Of the several animated films on the program, the most interesting is “Ravickarna,” by Jan Svank- majer of Prague, in which two Punch and Judy puppets fight for possession of a live guinea pig. Svankmajer very adeptly mixes stop-motion and liveuaction photography to make his moral point.
GIVE A DAMN
A seminar in news-writing and other essential items like layout and advertising will be given this Sunday at The CADRE office, A
Also-and‘more important will be an evaluation. Should all, part or none of the present staff continue working on the paper? Is it worth it? In other words, what should we do, what are we trying to do, and is it worth continuing. Some are doubtful. We would appreciate opinions from the entire student body.
Special guest stars include Nancy Rodriguez from the Canadian
University Press, and a raft of old CUP how-to papers. 1
That’s Journalism 99, this Sunday at The CADRE office, 285
TONIGHT!
Friday, Nov. 28 —7 8:00 RM. The Duffy Amphitheatre
REST FILMS OF THE 1969 CANADA FILM AWARDS
* Six Films In All * Special Introduction by Gerald Pratley Noted Canadian Film Critic and Commentator
Saturday Afternoon, NOV. 29 — 2:00 PM. Montgomery Hall Common Room
GUEST LECTURE AND DISCUSSION “ASPECTS OF THE CANADIAN CINEMA”
With Film Personality Gerald Pratley
Saturday Night, Nov. 29 — 7:30 RM. The Duffy Amphitheatre
EASTERN CANADIAN PREMIERE L; “DON’T LET THE ANGELS FALL”
Starring Sharon Acker and Arthur
Admission: UPEI Students — all, events FREE
Other Students - Friday Night 75c — Sat. FREE
Faculty & Public - Night $1.00 — Sat. FREE Presented by THE UPEI FILM SOCIETY