O Canadian film, we stand on guard for thee: Peter Rowe's Popcorn with Maple Syrup and Jill Sharpe's Weird Sex and Snowshoes.

From: Take One | Date: September 1, 2004| Author: Alioff, Maurie | Copyright information

Two new documentaries, both with television air dates in the fall, offer strikingly different takes on the slippery subject of Canadian film. Jill Sharpe's Weird Sex and Snowshoes is a one-hour documentary inspired by Vancouver Sun film critic Katherine Monk's book of the same title. Peter Rowe's feature--length Popcorn with Maple Syrup favours populist chronicle over cultural analysis in its survey of major personalities, events and turning points in Canada's movie history.

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