Upcoming: Historical Film At NW Film Forum
October 4th, 2007 @ 2:09 am by Cliffe | Sorted Miscellaneous
Ryan Davis from the Northwest Film Forum let me know that they have an upcoming screening of the 1963 Canadian indie film The Bitter Ash. As part of their annual Local Sightings Film Festival, they show a “Cinema 20” Northwest historical film. Last year was Beacon Hill Boys, and this year will be The Bitter Ash, showing a vintage Vancouver. This is taking place Monday, October 8 at 7pm. Sounds very interesting, thanks for the heads up Ryan. Here is a bit more info on the film and a completely unrelated piece of Vancouver history. Click on the image for a larger view.
The likes of Shadows and Breathless had yet to even play Vancouver in 1963 when Larry Kent, a then-26year-old college student, decided to make a feature with $5,000 and a handful of friends. That feature, The Bitter Ash, tells the story of a cynical working stiff and a struggling, self-deluded playwright whose lives collide. The film combines the best elements of 1950s Canadian B-movies and presents them in a way that is still fresh and believable four decades later. A raucous jazz soundtrack adds to the film’s edgy feel. Seldom shown since its debut, The Bitter Ash makes a pointed rebuttal to anyone who thinks of Canada in the early ’60s as comfy-sweatered and tragically unhip. Print courtesy of Library and Archives Canada.
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| Panoramic view of the city of Vancouver British Columbia 1898. Published by the Vancouver World Printing and Publishing Company, Limited. Toronto Lithographing Co. Limited. |