Word: canadas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Canada Bill Jones' Motto and Supplement. It is morally wrong to allow suckers to keep their money. Supplement: A Smith & Wesson beats four aces.−Anonymous...
...sand film Sandman, and Caroline Leaf, whose experiments have been so numberous and noteworthy the last Center Screen showing will be devoted to her work--all are old friends of Carpenter Center. The movies in the New Personal Animation that are not products of the National Film Board of Canada, the British Film Institute, CalArts, or an Eastern European studio probably acknowledge a Harvard Vis Stud alum in the credits. Last weekend's New Personal Animation Part I included a Harvard senior thesis (Eggs. by Ruth Hays), a ten-foot set built in one of the studios in Vanserg...
...Sens' Interview with Ivan Shusikov has his unmistakeable signature: Day At the Office shown last weekend used exactly the same background. It seems to be part of his protest against the Canadian bureaucracy. In this interview, a disembodied voice welcomes to Canada a Russian dissident filmmaker, who hides behind a desk throughout the interview. He is afraid to answer the interviewer's questions about the political reception of his films at home, and their commercial reception in Canada where distributors have refused it "because they might have to buy Canadian short films then too." Shusikov scuttles at last...
...Canada may seem wildly unfair to independent American filmmakers, because the National Film Board of Canada provides steady work, almost a federal subsidy to Canadian filmmakers. But some find a conservative, cute streak in the National Film Board productions, such as Poets on Film, which is a series of poems, presumably by Canadian poets, illustrated so that, as in sign language, metaphors become literal and facts metaphorical...
...invasions, coups and assassinations. He has felt confident enough to send troops to Africa to stir up trouble. Yet he has now been taken, in a huge swindle brought off by a group of men accused of selling Cuba a cargo of nonexistent coffee. The ruse, involving transactions from Canada to the Caribbean, ultimately collapsed, but not before Cuba was relieved of about $8.7 million-perhaps the worst sting the Cuban dictator has ever suffered...