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Shadows of the Mind schedule includes 2 Sault films

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This article was posted original on SooToday on by Donna Hopper. reposted with permission.

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Never fear Sault film fans.

If you’re missing Saturday’s screening of Ecstasy at the Grand Theatre, you’ll have the chance to see another flick filmed in the Sault on the big screen soon enough.

Two, actually.

Both Edwin Boyd (which filmed on-location in the Sault in February of 2011) and The Collaborator (filmed in part here under the working title Longfellow in late 2009) will be screened during this year’s Shadows of the Mind Film Festival.

Although it is only tentatively booked, the Shadows of the Mind website indicates that The Collaborator will be shown at the Grand Theatre, 641 Queen Street East, on Saturday, March 3 at 9:30 p.m.

Edwin Boyd will screen the following morning, Sunday, March 4 at 10 a.m. at Galaxy Cinemas in the Station Mall.

Other confirmed film screenings include Starbuck during the festival’s opening night gala at Sault College on Wednesday, February 29; Cave of Forgotten Dreams at Galaxy Cinemas on Saturday, March 3; and A Dangerous Method on Sunday, March 4.

Film titles, times and locations are subject to change.

Terry Sheehan hustles us a piece of Snow Cake

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Yes, that’s Ward 2 Councillor Terry Sheehan buttonholing Oscar-winning producer/ director/ writer Michael Moore during the Big Guy’s recent surprise visit to the Shadows of the Mind Film Festival at Galaxy Cinemas.

SooToday.com has learned that Sheehan’s also been hustling the production team that’s coming to Wawa next month to shoot Snow Cake, starring three-time Oscar nominee Sigourney Weaver.

And we’ve further learned that, as a result, the Snow Cake team is now thinking of filming as many as six scenes here in the Sault.

Snow Cake to scout Sault locations this week

The film’s location manager will be here next week on a scouting trip, with Sheehan serving as tour guide.

You’ll remember that it was Sheehan who spearheaded the City’s bid to have the Canadian Music Hall of Fame established on Sault Ste. Marie’s waterfront.

That effort failed, but last month, Sheehan persuaded City Council to reinvent the Canadian Music Hall of Fame Committee as an “arts and entertainment economic opportunities” committee.

That was on Monday, February 21.

And the Ward 2 Councillor has been busier than a beaver ever since.

Sheehan invites Moore to shoot here By Friday of the same week, Sheehan was picking Michael Moore’s brain for advice on attracting more film productions here, suggesting that the Sault would be a great place to film for Moore’s upcoming documentaries.

 

Moore’s previous work, including the Academy Award-winning Bowling for Columbine, has painted Canada as a peaceful, caring nation.

How to get a really good deal on used army tanks

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When Stanley Kubrick was making Full Metal Jacket, it was Jan Harlan’s job to get the army tanks.

Not an easy task.

After all, miltary forces aren’t exactly in the rent-all business.

Their focus is usually on completely irrelevant things like saving the world from evil empires and other dumb stuff.

Harlan (shown) was Kubrick’s executive producer on Full Metal Jacket.

After considerable effort and a lot of rejection, he finally found three tanks in the Belgian Armed Forces and an officer who seemed willing to co-operate.

At this weekend’s screening of Harlan’s film Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures at the Shadows of the Mind Film Festival, Harlan charmed an audience of Saultites by relating how he closed the deal on the tanks Kubrick needed for the picture.

And cut a darn good deal in the process.

“We’re not really in the business of renting tanks,” the Belgian officer told him.

 

“Well, you aren’t using them, are you?” Harlan returned.

The officer paused for a moment or two of pregnant silence.

“Just make sure you bring them back!” he finally said.

So Jan Harlan got the tanks he wanted without paying a dime and they can be seen in Kubrick’s 1987 classic Full Metal Jacket.

Stanley’s brother-in-law

Audience members wanted to know exactly what jobs Harlan did for Kubrick and how he had managed to create such an intimate film portrait of the renowned director’s life.

Harlan was executive producer for Eyes Wide Shut, Full Metal Jacket, The Shining and Barry Lyndon, and was an assistant to the producer on Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange.

He’s also the brother of Kubrick’s third and last wife Christiane, whom he met while filming Paths of Glory in 1956.

They remained married until Kubrick died on March 7, 1999, shortly after the release of Eyes Wide Shut.

Harlan told his Sault audience that he was able to assemble a wide range of material for his documentary about his brother-in-law because after personal and professional relationships with Kubrick spanning more than 45 years, he knew who to approach and what to ask them.

Last day for Shadows of the Mind

Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures was screened at Galaxy Cinema 12 on Friday, with Oscar-winning filmmaker Michael sitting quietly as a surprise guest in the audience.

The fifth annual Shadows of the Mind Film Festival wraps up on Sunday.

The festival brings together members of the local film society, mental health and addiction professionals, and special guests from both the film and health industries, to encourage discourse around the myths and misconceptions surrounding mental illness.

This year, Shadows of the Mind featured its first annual video competition and several screenings of Looking For Angelina, a film about a landmark domestic violence case that happened in Sault Ste. Marie in 1911.

Michael & Me – Saultites hang with somebody really famous

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See anyone you recognize in this picture, taken tonight by SooToday.com at Galaxy Cinemas at Station Mall?

Yup, that guy in the front, trying to look inconspicuous in the ball cap, really is Michael Moore, the Oscar-winning documentary filmmaker and best-selling author.

For those of you who want to turn the spot into a shrine or something, or just sit where Michael sat, he was in the eighth row, far left seat in Theatre 12.

25 photos of Michael Moore meeting Saultites

 

Moore said he heard about Jan Harlan being here for a screening of his film Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures at the Shadows of the Mind Film Festival.

“I live in Michigan and I heard on the radio that Jan was going to be here showing his film. I hadn’t seen it yet,” said Moore.

“Kubrick is my favourite filmmaker and so it seemed like a good pilgrimage to come to Canada and take a look at Stanley Kubrick’s life.”

Moore drove up for an opportunity to see the film on the big screen, and popped in half an hour before showtime to chat with Harlan, sign autographs and pose for pictures with fans.

“I enjoyed it. It was great,” he said of his unpublicized visit.

The Shadows of the Mind Film Festival continues through Sunday.

Tomorrow, SooToday.com will post coverage of Harlan’s remarks.

In the meantime, click on the photo gallery immediately beneath this article to see SooToday.com’s images of Michael Moore mixing with his Sault Ste. Marie fans.

To read a SooToday.com article from 2003 that was declared a ‘must read’ by Michael Moore’s official website, please click here.

Tami Fremlin dumps Vic, moves in with Rudy Peres

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This week’s premiere of Looking for Angelina was such a mind-bending experience that it took us 24 hours before we could even think about writing anything about it.

There was Tami Fremlin, looking her usual radiant self, except that she’d dumped Vic and that whole Lock City Dairies thing and had run off to Ottawa to move in with Rudy Peres, who was playing Prime Minister Wilfrid Laurier.

Joe-Joe Giordano had given up his Hollywood Beauty Supply and Unisex Salon business and was spending his time loitering around crime scenes.

Donna Hillsinger had completely abandoned her housekeeping duties at Algoma’s Water Tower Inn, to hang out all day at the Sault Ste. Marie Court House, giving great close-ups from the front row of the main courtroom.

And Carol Gartshore had rolled her famous long hair into a tight bun, promenading up and down the East End like she owned the place.

On Wednesday night, 253 people sat for 96 minutes and 59 seconds in Theatre 12 at Galaxy Cinema, enraptured by the sight of themselves on the silver screen.

Brian Kelly gets too close

Lina Giornofelice and Alvaro D’Antonio were on hand for the big Shadows of the Mind Film Festival premiere, but on this night, they were just extras.

On this night, the only true stars were the countless Saultites who showed up in almost every scene.

There was Brian Kelly from the Sault Star, pretending to know how to use a press camera, even though he was way too close to his subject to get a decent shot.

There was Sarah Calvano and her brother Daniel, playing two of Angelina Napolitano’s children.

Cameron’s new mom

 

And there was Cameron Cupello (formerly from the Sault, now from Thunder Bay), as their brother.

“It was a good movie,” Cameron declares afterward.

“What was the best part?” he’s asked by SooToday.com.

“Seeing me,” he answers, without hesitation.

Cameron also enjoyed seeing Lina Giornofelice, his screen mom to whom he developed a strong attachment as a sort-of surrogate mom during the shooting.

Saultites seen running from brothel

Much of the action took place in and around the Sault Ste. Marie Courthouse.

Other scenes show the Sault Ste. Marie Museum and Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church.

The building shown as a local house of ill repute seemed very familiar and if you know where those scenes were shot, SooToday.com would be very appreciative if you’d let us know using the News Response forum on our Editorials page. (Of course, we also absolutely need to know who all those local extras were who came rushing down the brothel’s fire escape when the local constabulary arrived at the joint.)

Domestic Violence Report

Prior to the premiere screening, members of the cast and crew gathered with representatives of the Algoma Health Unit and the Algoma Council on Domestic Violence to release the 2005 Report on Domestic Violence in Algoma.

The film depicted Sault Ste. Marie in 1911, a segregated community in which Italians were not allowed to attend English schools and risked getting beat up if they showed up in the wrong parts of town.