Leaving Phog Hockey last week, I bumped into Phil Beaudoin. He’s a do-all film guy in Windsor. He’s heavily involved in filmmaking, and in the support of local film events. He was a major doer during this year’s Windsor International Film Festival (WIFF).
Phil and I talked briefly about the new film endeavor being unleashed by WIFF this week at the fabulous Capitol Theatre.
Listen. It’s short. As always.
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What’s controversial about “live sex” on camera? The porn industry has been doing it for centuries…..
The Capitol is the only viable venue in Windsor for film screening (i.e. 16mm & 35mm proper). A good move for WIFF to start using it! Media City’s been using it religiously every year since 1994 (we did also occasionally use the Windsor Film Theatre which is shuttered and long gone), our festival would simply not exist without the Capitol since:
a) it is equipped with a proper projection booth which allows us to screen multi-format programs in the format that the filmmakers intended them to be seen (this also means that many of those filmmakers are delighted to attend the festival from all corners of
the globe)
b) it’s got such a great atmosphere and a wonderful history of being an old school film theatre in the first place
This venue has to continue to be available to groups like WIFF and MC in the interest of downtown W… sometimes wonder what the future holds for the Capitol with it still being operated under bankruptcy some three-years later…
Glad to hear the Burton Theatre came into the rant: http://www.burtontheatre.com/
We’ll likely open our fest in Detroit at this great new venue May 2010!
This is not the first time that director Lars von Trier has included a bit of hard-core sex in his films, “The Idiots” featured explicit sex with the actual actors in the film. In “Antichrist”, however, the sex is not being performed by the main actors, Willem Dafoe & Charlotte Gainsbourg. The insert is two body doubles and lasts maybe 2 seconds. The film is brilliant and brutal and well worth seeing but I always have to wonder why WIFF only seems to bring to Windsor films that I have already seen! 95% of all WIFF screenings are either available on DVD prior to them being announced by WIFF, or they come out on DVD the week after playing WIFF. It is nice to see great films in a theatre (not an Art Gallery lecture room with card table chairs!) but can’t these people book films a little closer to their release date and not after every other Festival in the world has played them and they are being released on DVD?
“Oooh, look at the new WIFF schedule! Want to go to Blockbuster and rent any of these?”