Action: The October Crisis of 1970 is a 1973 Canadian feature from Robin Spry, produced by the National Film Board of Canada (NFB). This was an essentially an all day thing and was very exhausting resulting in my making very little money even at Christmas time doing my collections. The 1965 short film The Red Kite follows a man who discovers the meaning of life one Autumn day spending time with his daughter. The current Aboriginal challenges and issues make me sense that while this crisis ended, it is certainly not over. Action: The October crisis 07 1970 Addeddate 2020-04-16 05:23:54 Color color Identifier 720301.42apr162020 Location Montreal Canadian Film Award – Non-Feature Direction, Reaction: A Portrait of a Society in Crisis, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Action:_The_October_Crisis_of_1970&oldid=956603285, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 14 May 2020, at 07:45. "The Boys" stars Aya Cash and Antony Starr chat about Season 2's most shocking scenes and share what they really thought about the finale.
Using news reports and clips from the time, the film reflects upon the October Crisis and reveals the relief, dismay and defiance people felt when the Canadian army stepped in. On October 12, Quebec premier Robert Bourassa, flanked by his ministers, sought refuge at Montreal’s Queen Elizabeth Hotel under police surveillance in hopes of avoiding further abductions. He decided to put the funds toward making two films. My delivery area was the main apartment buildings on Queen Mary Road, west of St. Joseph's Oratory, and the same buildings that housed the FLQ cells who were directly responsible for the kidnapping and the eventual assination of the British Minister to Canada, Mr. Cross. I became a fisherman. Haida Gwaii. I left town.
Action: The October Crisis of 1970 [electronic resource] / National Film Board of Canada. I left. provided by the National Film Board of Canada. I was fourteen at the time. I remember delivering the Sunday express in Baie D'Urfe Quebec at the time. That same day, the FLQ’s Libération cell, which was holding Cross, issued a communiqué laying out its demands to the federal government. One of the kidnappers ordered the maid, who’d opened the door, to take them to Mr. Cross. Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Radio-Canada, La Presse, Toronto Star, CTV, CFCF-DT, Canada Wide and Canadian Press. Dad was ex RCAF, and he could explain a lot of the weaponry we saw. More accurately, it is a successful laxative in which we spend one and one-half hours re-digesting and later discharging the trauma of October 1970. Film by National Film Board of Canada crews during the events themselves, and supplemented by news and other actuality films, this documentary of the Crisis shows that, beyond the immediate threat of the FLQ bombings, the kidnappings and finally the murder of Pierre Laporte, a Quebec cabinet minister, there were more widespread resentments that had been a long time in growing. During this whole crisis I was delivering papers for the Montreal Star where I walked from my small apartment in NDG to a mansion home in Westmount Hills, picked up and then packed my 130 papers for delivery on Queen Masry Road. The first British rulers of the region tried to accommodate the French with laws such as the Quebec Act, but in the end, the French-Canadiens would never truly belong to the expanding British Empire.
In October 1970, two cells of the separatist Front de Libération du Québec (FLQ), a revolutionary organization promoting an independent and socialist Quebec, kidnapped British Trade Commissioner James Cross and Quebec Labour Minister Pierre Laporte. An internationalist impulse has fuelled NFB animation from the get-go, instilled at the outset by Norman McLaren, the cosmopolitan and wildly inventive young Scot who founded the tradition back in... Set in 2050, Bubble imagines a world in which nothing has been done to slow down global warming. I was painting, in my room, watercolour, of the lights flashing on red brick wall across the street, 3 stories up....I went down to get a cup of coffee from a corner diner 2 doors over about 2 A.M. and a QPP car come screeching in front of me with men with Tommy guns throwing me against the red brick wall with barrels poking into my kidneys...I could feel the blood running down my cheek...and the red brick wall. Freedom is never absolute.
The day after the law was enacted, Laporte’s body was found in the trunk of a car near the Saint-Hubert airport. It is one of two NFB films by Spry completed in 1973 about the 1970 October Crisis, along with Reaction: A Portrait of a Society in Crisis. I was living on Maiseneuve, 3 stories up, 2 blocks crossways from where the taxi drivers gathered, when the QPP moved in cause Montreal police were on strike. Documentary, History. He also turned down Michel Brault’s proposed docufiction on the events, which would eventually become Les ordres (1974). For an enhanced browsing experience, get the IMDb app on your smartphone or tablet. The crews were everywhere and filmed the events as they happened: at press conferences and Montreal radio stations (which generally received the FLQ’s communiqués), in press rooms, in Montreal’s French- and English-speaking communities, and on the steps of Canadian Parliament.
The base was bristling with armed soldiers, and there were check points at every gate. Still, the reactions of some English speakers to the crisis, captured on camera by Spry, had the makings of a good documentary. With Thor Bishopric, Pierre Bourgault, Réal Caouette, Claude Charron. Not too big an issue during the week, but on Sundays instead of the twn bags slung across each shoulder I had four to contend with. I liked the depth of the whole video, starting from the real beginning of the crisis, because it really set the stage for what the Crisis was about. Then the FLQ struck. Seeing troops roaming the streets of Montreal convinced him of the urgent need to film what was going on. The crisis was the culmination of a long series of terrorist attacks perpetrated by the Front de libération du Québec (FLQ), a militant Quebec independence movement, between 1963 and 1970 I found it interesting how the video mentions that after the manifesto was read on the news, many people sympathized with the goal of the FLQ, even though they didn't necessarily agree with their methods.
The FLQ was a militant offshoot of these protesters with reasonable demands or representation and equality.
From this movie and The Champions film, it seems like the Duplessis regime in Quebec shaped the points of view of Trudeau, Levesque and the FLQ. I left. Good movie. Action: The October Crisis of 1970 (Les événements d’octobre 1970 in French) and Reaction: A Portrait of a Society in Crisis, which was in English only, were both released in 1973.
I went to B.C. To his surprise, then-commissioner Sydney Newman agreed to the project—but only on condition that the shoot involve both a French and an English crew. Early in the morning of Monday, October 5, 1970, four armed men, all of them members of the Front de libération du Québec (FLQ), rang the doorbell at the Westmount home of British Trade Commissioner James Richard Cross. 's response by declaring martial-law. It is one of two NFB films by Spry completed in 1973 about the 1970 October Crisis, along with Reaction: A Portrait of a Society in Crisis. Meanwhile, led by René Lévesque, 16 influential members of Quebec society proposed supporting the Bourassa government in its negotiations with the terrorists, which were already starting to falter.. On October 15, discussions between the government and the FLQ broke off. Fifty years later, the debate surrounding the October Crisis remains polarized, and opinions on the events are still strong. 's response by declaring martial-law.
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