Coming to the Kingston Film Festival: U-TURN (THE GIRL IN BLUE)
Saturday, March 2, 2019 @ 3:30pm, Baby Grand
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Written by: Douglas Bowie
Directed by: George Kaczender Featuring: David Selby Maud Adams Gay Rowan Language: English Runtime: 99 minutes Rating: Rating Not Available |
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ABOUT THE FILM
Released the same summer of 1973 as BETWEEN FRIENDS and PAPERBACK HERO, better-remembered, formative English-Canadian feature films, U-TURN fell unjustly into the margins of the margins. A young Montreal lawyer on a business trip spies a beautiful young woman on a ferry, as it pulls away, leaving him at the dock. Pursuing her, Scott (David Selby, then of TV’s Dark Shadows) risks his live-in relationship, his career, his comfortable life for a woman he’s never met (played by Maud Adams from THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN GUN and OCTOPUSSY). Directed by George Kaczender (IN PRAISE OF OLDER WOMEN) from a script by Kingston writer Douglas Bowie (EMPIRE, INC. and OBSESSED), with the Smiths Falls/Burritts Rapids area as the verdant location of the callow hero’s fantasy, U-TURN (released internationally as THE GIRL IN BLUE) veers from comedy to pathos in exploring the uncomfortable realm of male anxiety.
This very special screening of U-Turn (1973) will include an extended Q+A with screenwriter Doug Bowie, filmmaker Clarke Mackey and Piers Handling, the newly retired CEO of TIFF, to discuss U-TURN and the changing landscape of Canadian film since its initial release. This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to hear these Canadian film and television legends share personal stories and anecdotes about what once was, how things have changed, and what we might look forward to.
For more information or to buy tickets, click here.
Released the same summer of 1973 as BETWEEN FRIENDS and PAPERBACK HERO, better-remembered, formative English-Canadian feature films, U-TURN fell unjustly into the margins of the margins. A young Montreal lawyer on a business trip spies a beautiful young woman on a ferry, as it pulls away, leaving him at the dock. Pursuing her, Scott (David Selby, then of TV’s Dark Shadows) risks his live-in relationship, his career, his comfortable life for a woman he’s never met (played by Maud Adams from THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN GUN and OCTOPUSSY). Directed by George Kaczender (IN PRAISE OF OLDER WOMEN) from a script by Kingston writer Douglas Bowie (EMPIRE, INC. and OBSESSED), with the Smiths Falls/Burritts Rapids area as the verdant location of the callow hero’s fantasy, U-TURN (released internationally as THE GIRL IN BLUE) veers from comedy to pathos in exploring the uncomfortable realm of male anxiety.
This very special screening of U-Turn (1973) will include an extended Q+A with screenwriter Doug Bowie, filmmaker Clarke Mackey and Piers Handling, the newly retired CEO of TIFF, to discuss U-TURN and the changing landscape of Canadian film since its initial release. This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to hear these Canadian film and television legends share personal stories and anecdotes about what once was, how things have changed, and what we might look forward to.
For more information or to buy tickets, click here.
Canadian screenwriter and playwright Doug Bowie has written a wide range of film and TV dramas including The Newcomers, The Boy in Blue, Chasing Rainbows, Love and Larceny, Grand Larceny, and the Christmas perennial Must Be Santa. He has won an ACTRA Award for the hit CBC mini-series Empire, Inc., and a Gemini Award for an outstanding body of work in television. His stage plays include the award-winning comedy The Noble Pursuit; Goodbye, Piccadilly; Love & Larceny (the musical); Rope's End; Till It Hurts and Somewhere Beyond the Sea, which premiered at the Thousand Islands Playhouse where he was playwright-in-residence for many years.
FULL BIO
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