When it comes to Canadian culture, I’ll probably be the last man standing, the last of the Mohicans believing in such a thing long after the country itself has abandoned it, the last of the Japanese soldiers camouflaging in the jungle adamant that they’re still fighting in World War Two.
I'm amazed at your fortitude. It's a great piece, but I'm exhausted even thinking about what we can do with our time. Le retour d’Anna Brodeur wasn't on my radar, but it exists because people like it. Do I mind? Nope. Was there something else I had to see that it pushed out of the way? There are lots of good Quebec films, but they don't escape Quebec. The cultural balkanization of Canada is shocking. But what do we expect of ourselves as cultural consumers? I grew up in 1950s England, when the radio, with three programs, offered bewildering choices. What about reading, cried the conscience?
I think the SRC and the CBC should be showing the best of Canadian cinema. Most of these films are hard to find and have no streaming availability. Cinematheques ofc do this in large cities, but sporadically and only for the people who can physically attend.
I agree wholeheartedly. I don't understand the financial case for perversely making things not available. Frankly, I'm not going into downtown Vancouver, which takes an hour, to go to the Cinematheque. Why doesn't a Quebec entity have a national streaming service, stick subtitles on stuff (not the auto kind - ugh) and charge? There's a massive library.
Exactly. The NFB has made a lot of its own archives available digitally, but we have no equivalent for feature films. The CBC/RC doesn't even own rights to most of their own TV series, which is why we can't find shedloads of them on Gem. Someone tried to explain this to me the other day - that individual production companies own rights to CBC TV shows, by and large. D'you remember the Trudeau Sr biopic series with Colm Feore from some 15 years ago by any chance? It was actually good; totally gone now, nowhere to be streamed or found on DVD. Then they also had a silly camp show in which Colin Mochrie and Deb McGrath played a showbiz couple for a season or two - I looked for that the other day, and no truck. The way things are going I AM surprised that they made Ken Finkleman's The Newsroom and Being Erica available on Gem.
I tracked down a clip on YouTube of the Trudeau film. It set off a gloomy speculation on Canadian cultural amnesia. OK, so the rights to this film belong to a production company. They are getting no money for it. So, can you find out why they wouldn't release it to Gem, and for what money? Is it because the residuals would be too much? That would be daft; nobody gets anything right now. It's this basic stuff that's so baffling. Maybe the Prime Minister has a DVD of it somewhere.
I'm amazed at your fortitude. It's a great piece, but I'm exhausted even thinking about what we can do with our time. Le retour d’Anna Brodeur wasn't on my radar, but it exists because people like it. Do I mind? Nope. Was there something else I had to see that it pushed out of the way? There are lots of good Quebec films, but they don't escape Quebec. The cultural balkanization of Canada is shocking. But what do we expect of ourselves as cultural consumers? I grew up in 1950s England, when the radio, with three programs, offered bewildering choices. What about reading, cried the conscience?
I think the SRC and the CBC should be showing the best of Canadian cinema. Most of these films are hard to find and have no streaming availability. Cinematheques ofc do this in large cities, but sporadically and only for the people who can physically attend.
I agree wholeheartedly. I don't understand the financial case for perversely making things not available. Frankly, I'm not going into downtown Vancouver, which takes an hour, to go to the Cinematheque. Why doesn't a Quebec entity have a national streaming service, stick subtitles on stuff (not the auto kind - ugh) and charge? There's a massive library.
Exactly. The NFB has made a lot of its own archives available digitally, but we have no equivalent for feature films. The CBC/RC doesn't even own rights to most of their own TV series, which is why we can't find shedloads of them on Gem. Someone tried to explain this to me the other day - that individual production companies own rights to CBC TV shows, by and large. D'you remember the Trudeau Sr biopic series with Colm Feore from some 15 years ago by any chance? It was actually good; totally gone now, nowhere to be streamed or found on DVD. Then they also had a silly camp show in which Colin Mochrie and Deb McGrath played a showbiz couple for a season or two - I looked for that the other day, and no truck. The way things are going I AM surprised that they made Ken Finkleman's The Newsroom and Being Erica available on Gem.
I tracked down a clip on YouTube of the Trudeau film. It set off a gloomy speculation on Canadian cultural amnesia. OK, so the rights to this film belong to a production company. They are getting no money for it. So, can you find out why they wouldn't release it to Gem, and for what money? Is it because the residuals would be too much? That would be daft; nobody gets anything right now. It's this basic stuff that's so baffling. Maybe the Prime Minister has a DVD of it somewhere.