Karla's financiers: "Haven't seen a penny from Canada."

It's always nice to see bad things happen to producers who make exploitive garbage. Karla is one of those films that you see in the bargain bins of Blockbuster for $1.99, and still know one wants to touch it.

What is so disturbing about this story, is not that the American producers made this story in the first place, or that the producers haven't received any money from their Montreal financiers who have allegedly withheld cash, but this movie actually made some $600,000 on its 8-week theatrical run.

That's sickening. Don't encourage these people.

via The Globe and Mail

Apparently in Scotland, they watch (French) Canadian films

We're a little late on this (a whole three weeks), but this past March a major international conference took place at the University of Glasgow, Scotland to "examine the texts and contexts associated with this current [good Quebecer cinema] phenomenon, but also to establish a balance-sheet of the forty or fifty years of Quebec cinema's existence as such. The conference will also be concerned to look at Quebec cinema in its international context, and contributions are actively sought on its Atlantic, including Scottish, dimensions."

Wow. Who knew?

Perhaps one day they'll look at the bastard child English cinema. I bet them Scots have never seen Karla. That film is just dying for a dissertation paper written about it.

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