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Post by catgut on Oct 10, 2006 15:24:22 GMT -5
Saw Everything's Gone Green at the Van Film Fest yesterday and loved it. Really funny film about anxiety in the turn-of-the-thirties generation; also a perfect quirky postcard of contemporary Vancouver. Douglas Coupland is so good at all that.
And excellent soundtrack too, even apart from the FF song. The opening of The CN Tower Belongs to the Dead was used rather beautifully, and dramatically at about the Midpoint.
See it if ya can!
Catharine
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Post by jollyness on Oct 11, 2006 5:58:20 GMT -5
Cool. Will look out for it.
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Post by liederling on Oct 15, 2006 5:33:52 GMT -5
Imagine a 50-foot beached whale as the catalyst for an encounter with the gurentai Yakuza. Your parents with a thriving grow-op franchise. And these things help "sort out" your life.
Coupland rules.
Catgut too right about the evocative effect of "CN Tower;" it plays over a gondola's-eye view climbing the green heights of Whistler/Grouse mountain, just before the protagonist reaches his nadir. The rest of the soundtrack is also great, including cuts from the Deadly Snakes, Jason Collett, Black Mountain, & the Golden Dogs.
Incidentally, some of you UK kids might've seen Coupland live before, on your turf. He performed his RSC-commissioned, one-man play, "September 10, 2001," at Stratford-U-A in Oct-04. His new one, "Life After God," opens this Nov. in VanCan.
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Post by meryl on Oct 16, 2006 12:38:40 GMT -5
i get a strong feeling Everything's Gone Green won't be out anywhere else...
i'm a fan of Coupland's. though sometimes i hate England and its refusal to be Canada.
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Post by liederling on Oct 17, 2006 23:56:46 GMT -5
Meryl - there's hope yet; I hear that US and UK release dates are tba in near future. Keep an eye out for it at Doug's site: coupland.com, or the distrubutors: shorelineentertainment.com. You'd be surprised at how "England-y" (and British-Isley) some parts of Canada still are. Just look at Victoria BC's huge Crystal Palace reproduction, tearooms, garden fetish, and British Naval influences--and that's just the west coast. Culturally, some of us are, if not anglophilic, at least excessively "anglo-knowledgeable;" cool in a subversively post-colonial way, but no wonder we've got issues with national identity... [Our love/hate of big brother USA will also have something to do with it]  |
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Post by meryl on Oct 22, 2006 5:06:38 GMT -5
ah, thank you, LiederLust. that's something to look forward to, then. i'll keep an eye on the university theatres, they're likeliest to pounce on it. and re. Canada: i do get that sense, actually, though grass-is-greener syndrome makes it hard for me to imagine anyone identifying themselves as anglophilic... i shall have to see for myself someday soon.
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Post by catgut on Apr 8, 2007 14:48:04 GMT -5
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Post by suburbanmyth on Apr 28, 2007 12:46:23 GMT -5
well, it's playing in vancouver right now at tinseltown & silver city coquitlam. Yay!!! my favourite musician & my favourite canadian author!!! can't wait to see it!  oooh!!!! just a thought but obviously it would be incredibly awesome if for coupland's next film (please let it be jpod! /xfingers) there could be an entire score composed by owen.... yes, that would definitely be awesomeness. |
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Post by meryl on Apr 28, 2007 13:37:02 GMT -5
(please let it be jpod! /xfingers) there could be an entire score composed by owen.... yes, that would definitely be awesomeness. That would be one weird movie. |
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Post by vito on Apr 28, 2007 15:37:21 GMT -5
it played at the Vancouver Film Festival..i was volunteering so couldve seen it for free, but didnt! that sucked. Everytime i see the promo for the movie on TV i get excited cuz the first thing you hear is CN Tower |
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Post by liederling on Apr 29, 2007 16:28:31 GMT -5
there could be an entire score composed by owen -Yah; he could do a song cycle involving the Evil-Doug's rise to power via The DGlobe (coming soon for real, shouldn't wonder; check out these "analog" iterations at WORLD PROCESSOR: worldprocessor.com/catalog/world/). *Also, Owen's Internet (the original, natch) could guest... |
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Post by suburbanmyth on Jun 28, 2007 19:11:29 GMT -5
(please let it be jpod! /xfingers) there could be an entire score composed by owen.... yes, that would definitely be awesomeness. That would be one weird movie. true, but apparently now it's gonna be one weird tv series. (oh to have cable..... mmm, nah!) ummm.... theme music, owen?? insidethecbc.com/jpod-the-new-anne-of-green-gables-2print/ |
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Post by vito on Jun 29, 2007 2:17:06 GMT -5
a series? oh i'm excited!
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