A theme of choice cuts

The Clock by Christian Marclay
National Gallery of Canada, Feb 10 – 25 Mar 25 2012
"The Clock evokes the wonder and illusionism of more than a century of cinema through a captivating 24-hour looped video that plays in real-time. This remarkable production compiles thousands of film references to time and timepieces creating a compelling moving image illustration of the minutes of a passing day." - http://www.gallery.ca/theclock/



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xp4EUryS6ac


Canadian Spaces with Chopper McKinnon
CKCU Radio, Feb 11 2012, 10 AM
"Chopper has invited Bruce White, owner of the wonderful ByTowne Cinema, to co-host this special edition of 'Canadian Spaces'. Bruce has selected songs that are connected with movies in some way. For example, Emm Gryner and Joel Plaskett both make musical appearances in the movie 'One Week', and Lynn Miles' 'Surrender Dorothy' was inspired by 'The Wizard of Oz'. - http://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/129/info.html


The 50% off promotion
SAW Video, Ends Feb 29 2012
"In the spirit of the New Year SAW Video is offering a 50% off promotion on all production equipment and editing suite rentals until Feb 29th, 2012! This is a great opportunity to save on access to equipment so take advantage of it while you can!" - http://www.sawvideo.com/news/50-sale-announcement

Membership Discount
Ottawa Film Society
"Reduced membership fee for the 2012 portion (January to May screenings) is $40 for Tuesday nights of the International Series and $40 for the Série française." - http://www.filmfilmfilm.ca/


Curtain Call (again)
Ottawa-Gatineau Film and Television Development Corporation
"In January 2012, the Board of Directors of the Ottawa-Gatineau Film and Television Development Corporation (OGFT) voted to dissolve the organization. The City of Ottawa recognizes the huge potential that the film, television and the rapidly growing global digital media industry represents and is ready to make considerable investment into increasing the number of productions in Ottawa and growing our local resources. In this vein, OCRI (soon to known as Invest Ottawa) recently hired a Commissioner, Geneviève Ménard Hayles, to lead Film, Television and Digital Media at Invest Ottawa." - http://www.ogft.com/news-events/


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Better late than perfect

The moviequips.ca updates are up. There are more pages than premieres, though. Here's the extra candy, just in time for Hallowe'en weekend:

http://www.moviequips.ca/feature_2FoisUneFemme.html

http://www.moviequips.ca/feature_10EtDemi.html

http://www.moviequips.ca/feature_Curling.html

http://www.moviequips.ca/feature_Monsters.html

Elsewhere, check out how the Bytowne Cinema is celebrating CKCU radio's 35th anniversary - With film. Gratis screenings. A gratis gracias, I guess.

 http://www.bytowne.ca/movie/ckcu-35th-anniversary-short-film-show-and-auction


Out there, you probably saw it already. The Charlie Chaplin Time Traveller video on Youtube. Apparently there's a scene in The Circus (1928) where Charlie time travels, bumping into himself (see below), all caught on film... no, not really. That's an actual scene from Chaplin's The Circus. Here's the link to the Youtube channel for the production company that posted the "Time Traveller" video that's gone viral this week:

http://www.youtube.com/user/yellowfeverbelfast

I just think it's great Charlie Chaplin is in the news again. Here's the link to his site, where you can find the box set of DVDs that includes the premiere reel for The Circus cited above:

http://www.charliechaplin.com


Thanks for checking in. Happy Hallowe'en, hopefully it won't snow.