Aesthetics: Arts: The worst movie ever made in Canada, perhaps, but richly rewarded with grants, apparently.
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A movie appeared a little bit ago. A Canada-made movie. It's got a somewhat bilingual title, Bon Cop, Bad Cop. You simply must read the review by Steve Burgess in the Entertainment section of The Tyee, an online periodical out of Vancouver, British Columbia. What we have here is a review of the mentioned movie, and a meta-review of reviews of the movie. In brief, Burgess doesn't like the flick. But in making his point memorable, he tasks not just the ploys that apparently cobbled together this "crap" (he says) along with the favourable reviews in three Toronto newspapers -- Globe & Mail, Star, and (the formerly conservative) National Post. He even names some of the reviewers.
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The wealth of witticisms in the veritable denunciad make the Burgess metareview a reading pleasure. It should get some kind of award, so refWrite announces that the author wins this year's praise as our Movie Criticism Award 2006. I don't want to give away the bite he adds to the govt-grant system for Canadian film, and how he discerns its operation in this quite suspect work of cinmatic f/art, as Burgess mite say.
Oh yeah, this year's Toronto Film Festival has just concluded with the major news coming forth focussed on Sean Penn's insistence on smoking in a public meeting of a panel discussion. The incident was on TV news for days.
And, oh yeah!, the second of the "Further Resources" below is the website of a govt film agency. Now, the text of most govt websites is impeccably grammatical. Not this one. It moves from an infinitive ("seeks to") to a list of five items ("Reaching," "Reflecting," "Investing," "Harnessing," and "Reaching" again), each beginning with a gerund in bold. This can't be the work of the govt that just came to power nine months ago ... or, it's perhaps the attack of some saboteur of English grammar who has little taste for either the language or film, but has had to become bilingual to get the text-writing job. Or ....
But click up the Burgess write-up of Bon Cop, Bad Cop, and cop a deliteful text about a phantom movie you'll never see. You'll howl!
Further Research:
Canadian film history
Canada's film and video tax credit programs
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