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| Name: | Meredith |
| E-mail address: | meredith12@mac.com |
| Comments: | I was referred to the guestbook for a film request.
Does anyone know of any way I might go about getting my hands on a copy of the 1983 film version of Timothy Findley's "The Wars?" This starring Brent Carver, Martha Henry, and William Hutt. I'm not expecting a shiny new DVD, but if there's a VHS out there somewhere I'd more than like to have one. I'm determined to end this search with success. Thanks. M |
| Name: | Franzi |
| E-mail address: | graveyard.cat@gmail.com |
| Comments: | Hello,
I just discovered this great webpage. Seeing that you are an expert for Canadian Movies and TV series, I was wondering if you knew how I can get my hands on "The City" (feat. Torri Higginson)? Being from Germany, the series didn't air over here but I really want to see it. Any suggestions? Thanks a lot in advance, - Franzi |
| Name: | Joe Pepper |
| Comments: | Why do you object to Canadian co-productions not being set in Canada? For example, you objected to THE STATEMENT (a Canada-U.K.-France-U.S. production) not being set in Canada, and you objected to STEAL (a Canada-France-U.K.) production) not being set in Canada. Don't you think those other countries in these co-productions have an equal right to demand where the movies are set? Why do you think it has to be Canada all the time? |
| Name: | John |
| E-mail address: | cyclemiles2000@yahoo.com |
| Comments: | Looking for the movie title of a romantic comedy, set in Saskatchewan (as I recall). The story involves a young woman from the urban east whose Euro sports car breaks down near a farm town out on the prairies. Her type A personality eventually succumbs to the slower, friendlier ways of the locals and she stays to reopen the general store with a love interest from the locals.
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| Name: | Goddess Boo |
| Comments: | Love your site!
You might want to include a link to www.canuxploitation.com as his love for cheesy candiana is thorough and explicit! Also, I wanted to comment that anti-Canadian sentiment in the movie industry may be coming mostly from resentment as a lot of industry insiders are outwardly furious that Canadian cinema is "stealing their jobs" (their words) Keep it up! |
| Name: | Cristina |
| E-mail address: | cnicolesco@videotron.ca |
| Comments: | can anybody help? I am lucking for a recent canadian movie, about a young swimmer ( around 14-15) who almost looses everything because of an addiction to the internet chating and porno. His parents helped him out.. Unfortunatelly I do not know the name of the movie. Can anybody help ?? |
| Name: | Alphonse |
| Comments: | Other than this forum, I see nowhere on the site to comment on the content contained within. As I have no particular "Dream" per se...is there another forum? |
| Name: | Thomas A. King |
| E-mail address: | tom.king@sjrb.ca |
| Comments: | Love the site! I have another recommendation on Canadian films (made by Non-Canadians. Fiend Without A Face. It is a 1958 British film about an US airbase at Winthrop, Manitoba, Canada and how their radar tests with nuclear power creates invisible brain creatures to suck out the brains. There is a little more to it than that. The local farming community thinks a crazy US recruit is the cause of the deaths. I can't remember if this was on the list originally or not. I do check it out once a week.
Thanks Thomas A. King |
| Name: | PJ |
| Homepage URL: | http://www.memorabletv.com |
| Comments: | Love the site, keep up the great work! |
| Name: | Clara |
| E-mail address: | loromudo@hotmail.com |
| Comments: | I've just spent 4 very enjoyable hours looking for something that I couldn't find (more about that in a sec). I would skim a page, something would catch my eye, I would pause to read, and then onwards.
Ok. What I was looking for was the name of the actor who appeared in a Canadian-made suspense. Do I have any more info? No. Which is probably why I wasn't able to find what I was looking for! Well, a few more details. I THINK the movie was set in B.C. Or was it New Brunswick? Anyway, the point is that the main actor (male) was extremely good-looking and not a terrible actor and I was surprised he wasn't more famous. His name flashed by so quickly on the credits that all I could determine was that it was Eastern European (too many consonants for me to figure out the pronunciation fast enough). It was one of those late-night movies, probably not terribly recent. And that's all I know (can't even remember the plot). |
| Name: | A. |
| E-mail address: | a.best@lsco.edu |
| Comments: | Can anyone tell me whether "Cowboys and Indians: The J.J. Harper Story," 2003, starring Adam Beach and Eric Schweig is out on DVD and, if so, where to buy it? Thank you. |
| Name: | mabel samudio |
| E-mail address: | mabelsplant@yahoo.com |
| Comments: |
there is a new movie that everybody is talking about it the name is the Secret were can I find it? is a documentaries |
| Name: | atom bruce mckellar |
| Homepage URL: | http://canadianfilminsider.blogspot.com/ |
| Comments: | keep up the informative site on all that's canadian film
http://canadianfilminsider.blogspot.com/ |
| Name: | PARLB |
| E-mail address: | parlb2hotmail.com |
| Comments: | i would like help looking for an old movie???? can you assist me???? sincerely parlb |
| Name: | tim |
| E-mail address: | timi@btconnect.com |
| Comments: | Great site! I'm trying to find a video/dvd/download of the (1972 I think) film Mahoney's Last Stand (aka Mahoney's Estate) . Anyone know if this is available somehow? The soundtrack is superb - I bought in on cassette in 1976 - Ron Wood (Faces, Stones) and the late Ronnie Lane (Faces, Slim Chance). |
| Name: | Frank |
| Comments: | Don't forget "Silent Hill", which was released on DVD just recently. It's a Canada-France production |
| Name: | Sylvie |
| E-mail address: | sylvievalois@hotmail.com |
| Comments: | I've seen Bon cop, bad cop and I understand why they put emphasis on the canadianess of the movie and not the plot, because the plot is as thin as a needle. Most of the movie is making big jokes about the difference or common stereotype. I like that movie, but well, just forget your brain home. Like Huard said, it's an entertainment, nothing more. Having that in mind, I'm sure you will have fun watching that movie like I did.
Just wonder if everyone will understand some of the jokes, some seems to be more francophone related like the phamiliprix joke. |
| Name: | Heather CANN |
| E-mail address: | eaglecann@hotmail.com |
| Comments: | There was a Movie "many" years ago, I was of the impression it was canadian made.
In the company of strangers. Is this so? I would love to aquire a copy .... it is a matter of finding the movie. Hope you can help, Heather |
| Name: | Dave Morgan |
| Comments: | I would like to see you do an essay analyzing the box office performance of this year's "The Rocket" (a.k.a. "Maurice Richard") and "Bon Cop Bad Cop". Both movies got good reviews. Both movies were heavily marketed. Both movies got a wide release in English Canada. Yet both movies bombed in English Canada. I would like you to explain this. P.S. Why didn't *you* go out and support these movies? |
| Name: | ellen epstein |
| E-mail address: | eepstein@huff.com |
| Comments: | Hi,
Looking for "The Fox" DH Lawrence produced in 1968 or 1970. Where can I find it? Thanks, ellen |
| Name: | gdott |
| E-mail address: | gdottmail@gmail.com |
| Comments: | Nice work. I've been checking in here for a few years now.
Any plans to add Robson Arms (CTV 2005)? g. |
| Name: | the masked movie critic |
| Comments: | Re: Cronenberg's "Spider" -- Time and effort has required a certain re-assigning of priorities. As a movie neither filmed nor set in Canada, with a predominantly non-Canadian cast, and based on a non-Canadian book...well, it's been bumped down the "to do" list for a "Canadian" film site. We'll get to it eventually, though, never fear. |
| Name: | Frank |
| Comments: | Where's David Cronenberg's "Spider"? |
| Name: | Lynn S. Smith-Roberts (Rev.) |
| E-mail address: | lss_r@hotmail.com |
| Comments: | I so enjoyed looking at the Guide, although I don't always agree with your reviews.
It saddens me that so many Canadian films and TV shows seem to pander to American tastes so outrageously. I would hope that my countrymen and -women are more sophisticated than that! Surely Canadian stories are as good as American (and British, French, German, Australian, etc.) ones. I, for one, would like to know more about our neighbors to the north -- I really think this is necessary for world peace (!) I have always enjoyed the movies that I have known were Canadian ones. And I pride myself on recognizing a lot of Canadian actors. [I think I have titles for you, too, but I'll have to think about that.] You might consider references to such sites as: http://www.canadiancelebs.com/act.html http://www.canadiancelebs.com/actress.html (It's nice to have pictures!) Thank you for all of the work you have put into this site. It's quite good. Multitudinous accolades! and the IMDb |
| Name: | Ivan |
| E-mail address: | ivan@kukuruku.ru |
| Homepage URL: | http://www.egypt-ru.info |
| Comments: | Great site! Keep up the work! |
| Name: | solaris |
| E-mail address: | Solaris27@aol.com |
| Comments: | I have been seeking The Adventures of Faustus Bidgood for some time now. I caught bits of it on CBS well over 10 years ago, and I've been intrigued. As far as I have researched, there appears to be neither VHS nor DVD editions for commercial release. If there are other fans, or if people know of a "We Want Our [movie] on DVD" movement for this, I'm aboard. |
| Name: | Andy Grau |
| E-mail address: | andrew@abcstudio.com.au |
| Homepage URL: | http://www.abcstudio.com.au/ |
| Comments: | Hi,
Really enjoyed your guide – it is one of the best on the net. Keep this way. Best regards from Australia. Andy |
| Name: | sandra |
| E-mail address: | reds97@telus.net |
| Comments: | I am in need of help. There was a movie made somewhere in the 1986-1989 range. It was made for tv. It was filmed somewhere on the praries i believe. It was about two teenage girls who were working on a song for a community centre's talent show. I remember they bought their stage costumes at a saan store. (they were bright tie-dye) The one girl was staying with her grandmother for the summer and had met the other girl at the community center. The center was a wooden building with alot of exterior stairs, or decks. Please help me.. it is driving me insane. thank you
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| Name: | im pissed off |
| E-mail address: | wakomacko@hotmail.com |
| Comments: | the article about talking to americans is full of shit! |
| Name: | Will Thomas |
| Comments: | THE APPLE (1980) Sci-Fi Musical about a couple of Canadians who enter an American Idol type of contest. |
| Name: | L.F. |
| Comments: | Pretty good site ...
Long and behold, I was able to find the title of a christmas movie I have been looking for ... Thanks. Your site covers a lot of old and nebulous stuff ... french and english. It's a joy to peruse. Congrat! Maybe you should add a few more recent entries, ie: Five of us/Elles étaient cinq (Oct. 05), Québec-Montreal (04?), Dans l'oeil du chat (04) with Jean-Nicolas Verreault. correction: the french title of the series with Carl Marotte, about hockey, is "Lance et compte". In response to one of your articles, you are right. The french have disappeared from the english movies or series. However the reverse is not true. It would seem that the english characters are alive and well within the french culture (series and movies)... sometimes without subtitles. A movie fan. |
| Name: | Leonard Woods |
| E-mail address: | Lenwoodw@peoplepc.com |
| Comments: | Your page is very insiteful I will be back again! |
| Name: | Clay |
| Homepage URL: | http://www.angelfire.com/tv2/rainbowcountry |
| Comments: | We r organizing another CBC tv show reunion this summer of 2006. I did one for the Forest Rangers in 2004 and now there is going to be a bigger one for Rainbow Country. check out my site as u will see some pretty famous names . Its gonna be awesome. |
| Name: | Masked Movie Critic |
| Comments: | Spam has been dutifully deleted (OK, so it took me a while). |
| Name: | Will Thomas |
| Comments: | DELETE THIS SPAM!!!!!!!!! |
| Name: | Will Thomas |
| Comments: | SUBMARINE X-1 James Caan plays a Canadian submariner.MOSQUITO SQUADRON David McCallum plays a Canadian RAF pilot. |
| Name: | Sylvie |
| E-mail address: | sylvievalois@hotmail.com |
| Comments: | What do you think about this report?
In 2002, Canadian Heritage established the Canadian Feature Film Fund. The program aims to develop and retain filmmakers, foster the diversity of Canadian feature films and boost audience levels. Canadian Heritage set a target to capture five per cent of the domestic box office in five years. As of 2002, English-language films captured 1.1 per cent of the domestic box office share while French-language films held 12.5 per cent.-cbc website Because from my "side", your 2 last editorials(oct 2005) do not reflect my reality. Nothing as never been so good, we still have a good homemade tv shows and most of all people go see quebecers movies like they never did before. And I remember reading in the paper about Denise Robert, Les Invadions Barbares producer been angry at the canadian distributor because she thought they did not did their job to promote the movie (laxism on the canadian distributor part). She said something like english Canada was the only place where the film had less succes than expected. As for H2O, I did not watch as I did not watch the last chapter. I hate the bad dubbing on anglophones actors that can't do their own voice in french. At least in english you get the actor's real voice, but in french we got to suffer a very bad, very quebecer voice and very obvious dubbed voice over Micheal Ironside face. Awful! Franck Scorpio accent and true voice where a lot more enjoyable and I would take that anytime over the awful dubbed voice. Anyway IMO. :P Sylvie |
| Name: | togolane |
| Comments: | BLAZING MAGNUMS-Stuart Whitman plays a "Dirty Harry" style Ottawa Police Detective searching Montreal for his sisters killer.A "Giallo" shot in Montreal. |
| Name: | togolane |
| Comments: | 3000 Miles to Graceland-The title refers to Canada which is where the hero is going to escape the law. |
| Name: | Lars Ormberg |
| E-mail address: | whitethunder137@shaw.ca |
| Homepage URL: | http://www.cafeshops.com/angryalbertan |
| Comments: | Well, the main reason I came here was just browsing around seeking stuff for Counterstrike, which I'm still mad at CTV for not renewing (apparently the show was meant to last 3 years no more no less, regardless with the popularity of the show or any of those irrelevent factors).
What kept me laughing to the end was how the CanCon requirements have apparently in at least one case done what they set out to do: cultured in the viewers of its programs a truely Canadian delusion as to the power and wonder of the modern big-government nanny state. I mean, an episode of "Snakes and Ladders" (a show created by the writer of that rat-bastard Trudeau love-in show) "clearly appealing to ultra-right fanatics"? If the CBC has ever had a dramatic program that pandered to the "far right" of its audience it would be a show containing a sympathetic character who endorsed Audrey McLaughlin over Svend Robinson for NDP leader. If one episode showing an example of the welfare fraud which is known to exist (and in the case of OHIP is indeed quite rampant) marks a significant rightward shift, it certainly hasn't dampered...well... any other show that any of the 4 left-wing Canadian networks regularly produce. The unnering belief that the CBC "speaks for us" when more Canadians get their news from CNN than Newsworld or N1, or that "CanCon" is vital to insure that liberal Toronto gets to reach out to Canadians to block the "corruption" from liberal Hollywood (when one of the most conservative countries on Earth has such a liberal media, maybe the key to successful CanCon is a similar juxtaposition here? It's no less sensical than any other attempts that have been made for years before I was born and will continue with no greater impact for years after I'm gone). Also a delight from the editorials is a discussion of how any series or film that doesn't treat the military less respectfully than the McKenna brothers is tinged with "right wing fascism" (even if it was a Canadian movie symapthetic to the BATF at Ruby Ridge or the FBI at Waco), yet Canadian content rules and CBC grants are completely compatible with any notion of free speech. Trudeau's worldview wins again, in a dazzling display of perpetual motion. With this being the "great legacy" of Can-Con and the various funding incentives that have wasted untold sums of money to get us to watch shows that are often so poorly done and so heavy-handed to make the process laughable, I remain convinced the only "lesson" for Stephen Harper from "H20" is how much tax relief the billion-dollar CBC budget could provide us. |
| Name: | Jeff Wilson |
| E-mail address: | jeffw@bmts.com |
| Homepage URL: | http://www.geocities.com/wolf1958dog/ |
| Comments: | I read much of your website with great interest today. I hope you are still accepting new submissions for it.
First of all, I discovered a Hollywood "B" movie was filmed on location in my hometown of Markdale, Ontario in the year 1957. The movie was made under the working title of "A Boy and His Dog" and starred Jim Davis, Allison Hayes, Austin Willis and Canadian child actor, Tony Brown. The film also featured one-time former Lone Ranger actor John Hart under the name of his wife, B. Braithwaite. It was renamed WOLF DOG when released in 1958. You can find my fansite devoted to this film at the above 'homepage' link. I enjoyed your non-Canadian Canadian movies page a lot. I found it interesting you didn't mention the Marilyn Monroe murder drama "Niagara" from 1953, which also starred Joseph Cotten and comedian Don Wilson. There are a lot of scenes and period references to 1950s Canada. The American screenwriters made much of our connection to Britain, which was purely evident in our culture at the time. Among the most interesting scenes is the Nabisco mill, a familiar to Niagara visitors back then, at the picture's opening. Its also interesting to see the O.P.P. uniforms and squad cars of that age. |
| Name: | Will Thomas |
| Comments: | GRAVE OF THE GUNFIGHTER (1966) Spaghetti Western set in Canada.Stars George Martin. |
| Name: | Tim |
| E-mail address: | twvantran@hotmail.com |
| Comments: | Hello,
I just read your essay 'H2O Paul Gross ain't apologizing' and thought I'd answer your question on how an American would react... (Gasp! how did he get in here? -just kidding) Anyway, I really enjoyed the film. While surfing Amazon.ca I came across H2O and thought I'd take a chance, and was rewarded by a well thought out political thriller that I would compare favorably with the BBC's 'House of Cards'. Truthfully, a part of me was a bit startled at my country being portrayed as a nebulous danger to the south, but as nebulous dangers go we didn't come off that bad... somebody’s got to do it for the sake of drama. However, most of the plotting of Canada's downfall was accomplished by a Canadian in league with a sinister multi-national conspiracy. Ok, I admit there were American characters, but they mostly fell into the second banana hired henchmen category. What happens to Canada in the film is mostly the product of Canadians. Along the way each Canadian politician makes choices that gradually lead the country toward the film’s crisis. Ok, Gross's Character is pushing, but he wouldn't have gotten too far without the consent of the others. I think that’s an important point of the film; that internal politics are what drives a country towards is fate. What is scary is that Canadian’s are making what seem to be mostly correct choices (or at least understandable human choices) that snowball the film toward its conclusion… Sorry but there isn’t a US version of Richard the III in the wings, plotting North American Unification… Actually the overt US involvement really only comes at the end when everything has just about gone to hell... Overall a pretty good cautionary tale for anyone’s country… Tim V. |
| Name: | dom |
| E-mail address: | szotial@aol.com |
| Comments: | Hello,
Looking to find a copy of a made for TV movie called "Dream on the Run" Filmed in Toronto in 1973, and aired on TV in 1977. Any suggestions? I found information about the movie using your site but I just don't know where to find a copy to view. Thanks! -dom |
| Name: | Christopher |
| E-mail address: | tiredcriminalist@aol.com |
| Comments: | This site is amazing. I come here to look up a specific movie, say starting with the letter H, and end up spending hours reading about ALL the H movies! Not to mention the intelligent (and sometimes depressing)editorials. Why is Canadian cinema so often just a farm team for B-level American actors? Anyway, keep it up. |
| Name: | samson |
| E-mail address: | warriorz121@hotmail.com |
| Comments: | Where i can find rookies the movie for buying with yannick bission great canadain hockey movie which i wanna get to buy |
| Name: | Chantelle |
| E-mail address: | chantellepetersen@yahoo.com |
| Comments: | Hi Guys, I gotta say this is a really informative site, however I think that you missed a few TV shows. Reboot (which was the first computer animated tv show) and Putnams Prarie Emporium (I think this one would be very hard to come by) |
| Name: | cindy |
| E-mail address: | jesscinick@yahoo,com |
| Comments: | I have a question, in case anyone can help. I am looking for a film title but I have little info. It is about a mother and daugther who move to a new place in the summer and in order to fit in she pretends to be a boy and plays the keyboard in their band. Also, I know their main song was we are the champions. So yeah thats all I got. I saw it when I was a kid and can't get it out of my mind!!!
Thanks! |
| Name: | Sylvie |
| E-mail address: | sylvievalois@hotmail.com |
| Comments: | You're a little late on your québécois movies, no? Missing "La grande séduction" and "Le dernier tunnel" in your list. That are 2 great movies. La grande séduction, came out the same time than "Les invasions barbares" and got as much succes. It's a must |
| Name: | Carolyn |
| E-mail address: | info@carolynsmith-kizer.com |
| Homepage URL: | http://18thccuisine.blogspot.com/ |
| Comments: | marguerite volant Canadian TV Series
Starring:Pascale Buissieres;Catherine Senart;Gilbert Sicotte Director: Charles Biname I am looking for DVDs or VHS new or used |