THE STRIP
Director: Ron
Mann
Year: 1973
Country: Canada
Runtime: 10 minutes
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DREAM TOWER
Director: Ron
Mann
Year: 1994
Country: Canada
Runtime: 47 minutes
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FLOWERS ON A ONE-WAY STREET
Director: Robin
Spry
Year: 1967
Country: Canada
Runtime: 57 minutes
INTRODUCED BY GEOFF PEVERE (Toronto on Film)! One of the best, most relevant and controversial works produced by the NFB in the Sixties, Flowers on a One-Way Street recounts the Yorkville hippies’ ill-fated attempts to close their street to traffic. Few films have captured the generational conflict in this country so well. All of the elders seem apoplectic when they meet their younger counterparts, flabbergasted that they may not want to work in dead-end jobs. Beautifully shot and smartly constructed, the film is a fine record of a pivotal moment in the history of the city, and in fact the country. In Dream Tower, fabled Toronto filmmaker Ron Mann picks up the hippie story where it left off, with the formation in 1968 of a new, “free” college called Rochdale, which collapsed because of lousy accounting procedures and probably Olympian drug intake. A touching and effective elegy for the ideals and hopes of the Sixties, Dream Tower is also a stellar account of the city’s counter-culture. The programme begins with Mann’s student short The Strip (Yonge Street around Dundas), a record of Seventies Toronto’s steamiest and seediest neighbourhood.
THE STRIP is rated 14A.
DREAM TOWER is rated 14A.
FLOWERS ON A ONE-WAY STREET is rated PG.
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