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Toppling Communist Oppression in #39;Chuck Norris vs Communism #39;
Writer-director Ilinca Calugareanu, Ilina Nistor and Mara Adina talk "Chuck Norris vs Communism" at the Variety Studio at Sundance. http://bit.ly/VarietySubs...
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A winning debut doc celebrating Hollywood's cultural impact.
Sundance Film Festival, World Cinema Documentary Competition
Ilinca Calugareanu
Movies really do change the world in Ilinca Calugareanu's Chuck Norris Vs. Communism, a we-were-there account of how bootlegs of Hollywood movies inspired citizens of Ceaucescu's Romania to dream of life beyond the Iron Curtain and, eventually, rise up for it. The film's message is a flattering one for an industry audience, even if many Sundancers would rather distance themselves from the lowest-common-denominator fare celebrated here. But Calugareanu's presentation, which evocatively braids reenacted storylines with present-day interviews, is skillful enough to win over viewers with no professional investment in cultural imperialism. While the focus on Romania may sound limiting, the film's narrative is broadly applicable and entertainingly told; it should fare well in the nonfiction marketplace.
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If not for commercial considerations, the doc should really be titled Irina NistorVs. Communism, as we quickly learn that this young woman's voice was synonymous throughout Romania with American movies. Though she worked during the day as a translator in a censor's office, Nistor's passion was her secret job, doing real-time dubbing for entrepreneur Teodor Zamfir, who smuggled movies across the border with Hungary. Translating seven, sometimes as many as ten movies in a row from English into Romanian, she dubbed all the film's characters (male and female) in a thin, high voice. Calugareanu's interviewees laughingly recall the euphemisms she'd use for profanity or sex talk (we see some hilarious examples), but their fondness for a woman they never got to see is clear.
The film cannily withholds Nistor and Zamfir from us (along with Mircea Cojocaru, a backup translator), using only their voices to narrate dramatic reenactments. We watch Zamfir bribe border guards; see an operation where more than three hundred VHS decks duplicated tapes at a time; go nervously with Irina to her day job, where officials hinted they knew what she was up to.
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It takes a while sometimes a very long while but the nations capital eventually gets around to dealing with the truly ugly.
The National Arts Centre, a centennial-year project completed in 1969, is about to begin a $110-million facelift that will, among other things, turn the hideous block of a building around to face the right way toward the street and Parliament Hill.
Another centennial project was to commission a statue to honour former prime minister Arthur Meighen. When another former PM, John Diefenbaker, saw what the artist had created, he dismissed it as a diabolical creature. Dief thought the depiction of Meighen might well be the greatest monstrosity ever produced a mixture of Ichabod Crane and Daddy Longlegs.
Meighens wife, Isabel, was so put off that she wanted nothing to do with it. For 20 years the statue was hidden away, stored in a concrete vault near the Rideau Canal, until finally it was shipped off to Meighens hometown, St. Marys, Ont., where it stands today as a monument to a local boy who made good in life, if less so in art.
Now, all of Ottawa is talking about another looming disaster a memorial to the Victims of Communism that is about to take over a parcel of land between the Supreme Court of Canada and the National Library, a small park-like oasis along Wellington Street where, this past week, there were only squirrel tracks to be found in the fresh-fallen snow.
That land is said to be worth $1-million. For nearly a century it had been earmarked as the site of a new federal court, but has now been handed over for the memorial, along with a pledge of $3-million to help pay for the $5-million project the remainder to be raised by a charity group called Tribute to Liberty.
Canada is, of course, the recognized world leader in apologies. Only a fool would deny that millions have been the tragic victims of communism, but that number pales, surely, in comparison with the victims of capitalism. If we agree to date communism to the Russian Revolution of 1917 feel free to argue the point the dating of capitalisms crimes would have to extend back beyond the Crusades and the spice wars to the very first deal that went badly sour.
Regardless of that, and despite the fact that there is already a most-impressive and expensive Museum of Human Rights in Winnipeg, this new memorial in Ottawa is going ahead.
But it certainly isnt going smoothly. Back in September, even before the final design had been selected from among the five competitors, Supreme Court Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin felt compelled to write to Public Works to share some concerns.
In the letter obtained by the Ottawa Citizen, the Chief Justice reminded Public Works that the site had long been designated as part of the judicial precinct, and she raised the rather valid point that such a memorial could send the wrong message within the judicial precinct, unintentionally conveying a sense of bleakness and brutalism that is inconsistent with a space dedicated to the administration of justice.
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