Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 3, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba 84 Winnipeg free March 1981 feuding and fighting in making of heartaches in most Peoples Don Shebib is the Best film director working in English she bibs Coin Down the Road remains most important film from the Early Days of the Canadian film in the decade since Coin Down the Shebib has made Only four in he people want to hire directors with a Strong they know Strong directors make the Best its a Basic truth Canadian producers have been slow to Shebib began a Western promotional tour in Winnipeg yesterday to Gen Erate interest in a Mil lion human comedy starring Margot Kidder which he directed last although the production was plagued by its own Brand of Shebib says initial reaction to the films rough Cut is by far the Best Hes Ever the production was no its not the film i intended to make but a lot More of what i was attempting to do reached the screen than even i Antici in still too close to the film not to be i have a lot of reservations but the audiences have come out Smil ing in delay and tension heartaches started filming last octo Ber after a months delay caused by Short after one week the set was shut Down when anticipated production monies dried alter Nate funding was secured and the film resumed shooting after a weeks Hia tension Between and Kidder during the first week spilled Over into the resumed Shebib says it was the most strife Ridden film Hes Ever movies Leonard Klady years ago i remember a Canadian film where the filming went off without a hitch and everyone was predicting a super the film turned out to be one of the worst turkeys Ever whats ultimately on screen is All that the problems with and the other actors Are i dont have a very Good bedside manner with i look More like a technician than the director and i think that makes it difficult for actors to Trust actors dont understand theres More to directing actors than directing the first direction you give an actor is a film a Good script will shape a performance if you have a capable Shebib says the friction Between kid Der and him occurred because she was faced with her first real acting the Story hinged largely on her performance and this made her Ner i told Margot it would be the Best work shed Ever done and i was i always knew the material worked but i want sure whether the characters would be acceptable As played rather than the people whole seen it have honestly liked Shebib says much of the credit for the films Success has to go to screenwriter Terence theres a real strength in the Story and my Only reservation was whether the films three stories would come together at the i possibly know whether things were working on set and it want till i got into the editing room that i could see things it was Shetti affably easy to like we had finished Cut five weeks after filming which is incredibly its funny and its poignant and the ending works audiences will be id say its a gimmick end ing but it so its not a Gim she bibs renewed optimism goes beyond he feels the whole process of making films in Canada is were finally beginning to make Good films despite All the Obsta cles in the Over restriction there Are so Many restrictions created by the capital Cost going through brokerage houses in plates budgets theres pressure to use and you virtually have to film in the fall which puts tremendous pressure on you could overcome most of these problems if it we rent for Canadas classic inferiority theres been a Lack of a Lack of Sel Confidence among that Why certain Hacks always got the Shebib says his frustration results from not being Able to make the Type of films he likes to do my ambition has always been to make big budget i want to do period pieces and you do that when we were making Low budget prod Shebib says heartaches is his most commercial film to it wont do jaws business but it should do Well Don Shebib on Canadian films were finally beginning to make Good films despite All the Obsta cles in the because audiences will identify with the characters the Story has the ability to make you laugh and then abruptly twist and catch your emotions the Canadian Cannes selection committee really liked the in anxious to see How the picture plays for a Large Hong Kong film output plummets Hong Kong Reuter the Hong Kong film once recognized for its highly profitable action is battling increasing costs and an increasingly limited Industry leaders predict a further fall in productions this although the problems Are More severe for Independent companies than for the major last year Hong Kong produced 145 feature a marked fall from the 1974 output of 201 review Ramon University of March 2 trumpet recital treat for audience by David Lasker recitals by pianists and string players Are frequent but brass recitals Are a Ramon Parcells plays principal trumpet with the Winnipeg symphony the pieces on his program of 20th Century works exploited All the technical tricks of the virtuoso triple flutter and in Parcells made use of three different mutes and a that soft and Mellow sounding Cousin of the the audience was treated to a Rich Pallette of tone George Antheil was an american surrealist who delighted in shocking the he created such works As the Ballet Echanique for eight and air plane Antheil trumpet sonata was the evenings major though there Are passages of introspection and the piece has sense of Iju mor in its fistfuls of wrong notes for the accompanying piano and in its abrupt rhythm in Trada by legend by and night songs by Richard Peaslee Are Necromantic works with singing by Way of four miniatures by Edward Hoffman and miniatures by the Edmonton composer George Andrix Are aggressively modern concatenations of swoops and jagged the intonation movement in the Andrix was a particular bit of a Challenge to the with its progressions of Quarter tone Parcells is a solid player intonation and rhythm Are right on the he has a creamy perhaps too big for the acoustically live Eva Clare Hall at the University of his Fortes at times overpowered the a nine foot concert grand with the lid wide it was easy to see Why a symphony orchestra needs a complement of 68 string players to balance its brass Barbara Riske accompanied with accuracy and sensitive the soaps by Lynda Hirsch no decision made on close captioning q i am totally hence no hearing Aid can help id like to know if the to serial Days of our lives will be close captioned As Are Little House on the Prairie and a few other to Ive got so interested in the Fine cast of Days of our lives that i try to read then lips As Well As guess what they say or a As far As we the networks have made no decision on using closed captions on their daytime shows close captioning is when a device is attached to the to Sei so the deaf or hearing impaired can see the to script literally typed out on their much the Way a news bulletin is run across the screen during a television newscast we think that close captioning for daytime is an excellent idea and Hope it will be suggest that you write the network of your favorite soap producers of soap operas Are not unresponsive to the problems of their the particular show that youre interested Days of our is produced at no ctr in write to that shows general Tell them of your and perhaps they can give you some advice on where to take this worthwhile q what Are the chances of the actress who originally played Jacquie returning to the guiding Light a very Cindy who left the first time to film a Roger Vadim movie which did zilch at the Box returned to the show for a Short she then decided it was truly time to leave the world of daytime and travel to Hollywood to search for movie and prime time aside from the Vadim whose father teaches acting in has made the to movie the Ivory have a question about your favorite soup or Suup Star write to Lynda in care of Field newspaper to Box 92714 she will answer As Many questions As she can in her column but volume of mail makes personal 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