List of Canadian films of the 1960s
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This is a list of Canadian films which were released in the 1960s.
Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes | ||
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1960 | ||||||
Circle of the Sun | Colin Low | Documentary | ||||
Frames of Reference | Richard Leacock | Documentary | ||||
Universe | Roman Kroitor, Colin Low | NFB animated/live-action short | Nominee at the 33rd Academy Awards in the category of Best Documentary Short Subject | |||
1961 | ||||||
1 + 1 (Exploring the Kinsey Reports) | Arch Oboler | Leo G. Carroll, Kate Reid, Austin Willis, Douglas Rain, Barbara Hamilton | Docudrama | [1] | ||
The Canadians | Burt Kennedy | Robert Ryan, John Dehner, Torin Thatcher, Burt Metcalfe | Western | UK-Canada coproduction | ||
Golden Gloves | Gilles Groulx | NFB short | ||||
Macbeth | Paul Almond | Sean Connery | CBC-TV drama | |||
The Mask | Julian Roffman | Paul Stevens, Claudette Nevins, Anne Collings, Martin Lavut | Horror | |||
Morning on the Lièvre | David Bairstow | NFB short | Canadian Film Award – Theatrical Short; Berlin Film Festival – Silver Bear for Short Film[2] | |||
Nikki, Wild Dog of the North | Jack Couffer & Don Haldane | Jean Coutu, Émile Genest, Uriel Luft, Robert Rivard | Family film | The first of three live-action films made in Canada by Disney, with a Canadian co-producing partner. | ||
Very Nice, Very Nice | Arthur Lipsett | NFB experimental short | It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film at the 34th Academy Awards. | |||
Wings of Chance | Edward Dew | James Brown, Frances Rafferty, Richard Tretter, Patrick Whyte | Drama | |||
Wrestling (La Lutte) | Michel Brault, Claude Jutra, Marcel Carrière & Claude Fournier | NFB short | ||||
1962 | ||||||
À St-Henri le cinq septembre | Hubert Aquin | NFB documentary | ||||
Alone or With Others (Seul ou avec autres) | Denis Héroux, Denys Arcand, Stéphane Venne | Nicole Braun, Pierre Létourneau, Marie-José Raymond | Drama | Student film and Denys Arcand's first directorial credit[3] | ||
Big Red | Norman Tokar | Walter Pidgeon, Gilles Payant, Émile Genest, Janette Bertrand | Family film | The third of three co-productions with Disney | ||
Day After Day (Jour après jour) | Clément Perron | Documentary | ||||
Drylanders | Donald Haldane | Frances Hyland, James Douglas, William Fruet | NFB drama | NFB's first English-language feature | ||
Lonely Boy | Roman Kroitor, Wolf Koenig | NFB documentary | This National Film Board of Canada production won a Canadian Film Award as top film of the year. | |||
Manouane River Lumberjacks (Bûcherons de la Manouane) | Arthur Lamothe | NFB documentary | ||||
My Financial Career | Gerald Potterton | Animated short | ||||
Nahanni | Albert Faille | NFB documentary | ||||
1963 | ||||||
À tout prendre | Claude Jutra | Claude Jutra, Johanne Harrelle | Drama | Best Picture at the 1964 Canadian Film Awards. | ||
Amanita Pestilens | René Bonnière | Jacques Labrecque, Huguette Oligny, Geneviève Bujold | Drama | |||
Anniversary | William Weintraub | Walter Pidgeon | Documentary | |||
The Bitter Ash | Larry Kent | Alan Scarfe, Lynn Stewart, Philip Brown, Diane Griffith | Drama | [4] | ||
Christmas Cracker | Norman McLaren, Jeff Hale, Gerald Potterton & Grant Munro | NFB animated short | Nominee for an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film at the 37th Academy Awards. | |||
The Incredible Journey | Fletcher Markle | Émile Genest, John Drainie, Tommy Tweed | Family film | The most famous of a trio of live-action animal films from Disney shot in Canada. | ||
Pour la suite du monde | Michel Brault & Pierre Perrault | NFB documentary | AV Preservation Trust Masterwork | |||
1964 | ||||||
21-87 | Arthur Lipsett | NFB experimental short | ||||
23 Skidoo | Julian Biggs | NFB experimental short | ||||
Canon | Norman McLaren, Grant Munro | Animated short | ||||
The Cat in the Bag (Le Chat dans le sac) | Gilles Groulx | Barbara Ulrich, Claude Godbout, Manon Blain, Véronique Vilbert | Drama | An essential feature of early Quebec cinema. AV Preservation Trust Masterwork[5] | ||
Eskimo Artist: Kenojuak | John Feeney | NFB short | Academy Award nominee[6] | |||
Fields of Sacrifice | Donald Brittain | Documentary | ||||
The Luck of Ginger Coffey | Irvin Kershner | Robert Shaw, Mary Ure, Liam Redmond, Tom Harvey, Libby McClintock | Drama | |||
Nobody Waved Good-bye | Don Owen | Peter Kastner, Julie Biggs, Claude Rae, Toby Tarnow, Charmion King, John Vernon | Drama | An essential feature of early English-Canadian cinema; AV Preservation Trust Masterwork | ||
Return to Oz | F. R. Crawley, Thomas Glynn, Larry Roemer | Carl Banas, Susan Conway, Peggi Loder, Susan Morse, Larry D. Mann, Alfie Scopp | Animated | |||
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer | Larry Roemer | Animated | ||||
Sweet Substitute | Larry Kent | Robert Howay, Angela Gann, Carol Pastinsky | Drama | [7] | ||
La terre à boire | Jean-Paul Bernier | Genevieve Bujold, Pauline Julien, Patricia Nolin, Gilles Pelletier | Drama | |||
Trouble-Maker (Trouble fête) | Pierre Patry | Lucien Hamelin, Jean Duceppe, Yves Létourneau | Drama | [8] | ||
Walls of Memory (Mémoire en fête) | Léonard Forest | Short documentary | ||||
1965 | ||||||
60 Cycles | Jean-Claude Labrecque | NFB documentary | Canadian Film Award – Cinematography[9] | |||
Bethune | Donald Brittain | Donald Sutherland | NFB documentary | [10] | ||
Buster Keaton Rides Again | John Spotton | Buster Keaton | Documentary | |||
High Steel | Don Owen | Documentary | ||||
Ladies and Gentlemen... Mr. Leonard Cohen | Donald Brittain, Don Owen | Leonard Cohen | NFB documentary | Canadian Film Award – TV Information[11] | ||
Memorandum | Donald Brittain, John Spotton | Documentary | ||||
The Merry World of Leopold Z (La vie heureuse de Léopold Z) | Gilles Carle | Guy L’Écuyer, Paul Hébert | Comedy | |||
The Mills of the Gods: Viet Nam | Beryl Fox | Documentary | Broadcast on CBC-TV; Canadian Film Award – Film of the Year[12][13] | |||
Mission of Fear (Astataïon, ou Le Festin des morts) | Fernand Dansereau | Jean-Guy Sabourin, Alain Cuny, Jacques Godin, Monique Mercure | NFB drama | |||
The Railrodder | Gerald Potterton | Buster Keaton | NFB short | |||
The Revolutionary (Le révolutionnaire) | Jean Pierre Lefebvre | Drama | ||||
Rope Around the Neck (La Corde au cou) | Pierre Patry | Guy Godin, Andrée Lachapelle, Henri Norbert, Jean Duceppe | Drama | |||
The Snow Has Melted on the Manicouagan (La neige a fondu sur la Manicouagan) | Arthur Lamothe | Monique Miller, Gilles Vigneault, Jean Doyon, Margot Campbell | Docufiction | |||
Summer in Mississippi | Beryl Fox | Documentary | Broadcast on CBC-TV[14] | |||
A Trip Down Memory Lane | Arthur Lipsett | Collage film | ||||
When Tomorrow Dies | Larry Kent | Patricia Gage, Douglas Campbell, Neil Dainard | Drama | |||
Willy McBean and His Magic Machine | Arthur Rankin Jr., Kizo Nagashima | Larry D. Mann, Billie Mae Richards, Paul Soles, Alfie Scopp | Animated | |||
Winter Kept Us Warm | David Secter | John Labow, Henry Tarvainen, Joy Fielding | Drama | |||
1966 | ||||||
Angel | Derek May | Leonard Cohen | NFB short | CFA – Arts and Experimental | ||
The Drag | Carlos Marchiori | Animated short | ||||
Footsteps in the Snow (Des pas sur la neige) | Martin Green | Peter Kastner, Ovila Légaré, Veronica Lake | Thriller | |||
Ghosts of a River (Trois hommes au mille carré) | Pierre Patry, Jacques Kasma | Documentary | ||||
Helicopter Canada | Eugene Boyko | NFB documentary | Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature at the 39th Academy Awards. | |||
Le Misanthrope | Louis-Georges Carrier | Guy Provost, Albert Millaire | Drama | A film record of a stage performance of the Molière play, thought to be the first in Canada, produced and distributed by Quebec’s film office and Ministry of Education.[15] | ||
Never a Backward Step | Donald Brittain, Arthur Hammond, John Spotton | Documentary | ||||
Notes for a Film About Donna and Gail | Don Owen | Michèle Chicoine, Jackie Burroughs | Short drama | |||
Notes on a Triangle | René Jodoin | NFB animated short | BAFTA – Animated Short[16] | |||
The Offering | David Secter | Kee Faun, Ratch Wallace | Drama | [17] | ||
Op Hop - Hop Op | Pierre Hébert | Animated short | ||||
Paddle to the Sea | Bill Mason | NFB animated short | Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film at the 40th Academy Awards. | |||
The Scribe | John Sebert | Buster Keaton | Comedy short | |||
The Trap | Sidney Hayers | Rita Tushingham, Oliver Reed | Adventure | |||
Transfer | David Cronenberg | Mort Ritts, Rafe Macpherson | Short drama | |||
What on Earth! | Les Drew, Kaj Pindal | Narrated by Donald Brittain | NFB animated short | Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film at the 40th Academy Awards. | ||
YUL 871 | Jacques Godbout | Charles Denner, Andrée Lachapelle, Paul Buissonneau, Jean Duceppe | Drama | [18] | ||
1967 | ||||||
Between Salt and Sweet Water (Entre la mer et l'eau douce) | Michel Brault | Claude Gauthier, Geneviève Bujold, Paul Gauthier, Robert Charlebois | Drama | |||
Canada '67 | Robert Barclay | Documentary | ||||
A Child in His Country (Un enfant...un pays) | Pierre Moretti | Animated short | ||||
Do Not Fold, Staple, Spindle or Mutilate | John Howe | Ed Begley, Bruno Gerussi, Al Waxman | Drama | |||
Don't Let It Kill You (Il ne faut pas mourir pour ça) | Jean Pierre Lefebvre | Drama | ||||
The Ernie Game | Don Owen | Alexis Kanner, Judith Gault, Jackie Burroughs, Derek May | Drama | CBC-TV/NFB co-production. | ||
La Fleur d’âge: Geneviève | Michel Brault | Geneviève Bujold, Louise Marleau, Bernard Arcand | Short | |||
Flowers on a One-Way Street | Robin Spry | NFB documentary | ||||
The Fox | Mark Rydell | Sandy Dennis, Anne Heywood, Keir Dullea | Drama | |||
From the Drain | David Cronenberg | Short | ||||
High | Larry Kent | Lanning Beckman, Peter Mathews | Drama | [7] | ||
The House that Jack Built | Ron Tunis | NFB animated short | Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film at the 41st Academy Awards. | |||
In the Labyrinth | Roman Kroitor, Colin Low, Hugh O'Connor | Multi-screen | Major attraction at Expo 67 precursor to IMAX[19] | |||
The Paper People | David Gardner | Marc Strange, Marigold Charlesworth | Drama | |||
A Place to Stand | Christopher Chapman | Short | Academy Award, Best Documentary Short Subject nominee and winner for Best Live Action Short Subject. | |||
The Sweet and the Bitter | James Clavell | Yoko Tani, Torin Thatacher, Jane Mallett | Drama | [20] | ||
The Things I Cannot Change | Tanya Ballantyne | Kenneth Bailey, Gertrude Bailey | Documentary | |||
This Is No Time for Romance (Ça n'est pas le temps des romans) | Fernand Dansereau | Monique Mercure, Marc Favreau | Short drama | |||
The Times That Are (Le Règne du jour) | Pierre Perrault | NFB documentary | [21] | |||
The Vulture | Lawrence Huntington | Akim Tamiroff, Broderick Crawford | Horror | Canada-U.K. co-production[22] | ||
Waiting for Caroline | Ron Kelly | Alexandra Stewart, François Tassé, Sharon Acker | Drama | CBC-TV/NFB co-production | ||
Warrendale | Allan King | Documentary | ||||
Wavelength | Michael Snow | Hollis Frampton, Joyce Weiland | Structural film | AV Preservation Trust Masterwork | ||
We Are Young | Alexander Hammid, Francis Thompson | Documentary | ||||
With Drums and Trumpets (Avec tambours et trompettes) | Marcel Carrière | NFB documentary | Canadian Film Award – Short Documentary[23] | |||
1968 | ||||||
At Home | Martin Lavut | Martin Lavut, Adrienne Horswill | Short documentary | |||
The Ballad of Crowfoot | Willie Dunn | Documentary | ||||
The Best Damn Fiddler from Calabogie to Kaladar | Peter Pearson | Chris Wiggins, Kate Reid, Margot Kidder | NFB drama | |||
Christopher's Movie Matinée | Mort Ransen | NFB documentary | [24] | |||
Cosmic Zoom | Eva Szasz | Animated short | ||||
Dust from Underground (Poussière sur la ville) | Arthur Lamothe | Guy Sanche, Michelle Rossignol | Drama | |||
A Great Big Thing | Eric Till | Reni Santoni, Louise Latraverse, Paul Sand | Drama | |||
Isabel | Paul Almond | Geneviève Bujold, Marc Strange, Gerard Parkes, Al Waxman | Drama | AV Preservation Trust Masterwork | ||
It Isn't Jacques Cartier's Fault (C'est pas la faute à Jacques Cartier) | Clément Perron, Georges Dufaux | Jacques Desrosiers, Paul Buissonneau, Paul Hébert | Comedy | |||
Juggernaut | Eugene Boyko | Documentary | ||||
Kid Sentiment | Jacques Godbout | Andrée Cousineau, François Guy, Michèle Mercure, Louis Parizeau | Docufiction | |||
The Man Who Wanted Nothing | Mary Walker-Sawka | Wallace McSween, Marilyn Marsh | Drama | |||
Pas de deux | Norman McLaren | NFB animated short | Academy Award nominee | |||
Patricia and Jean-Baptiste (Patricia et Jean-Baptiste) | Jean Pierre Lefebvre | Jean Pierre Lefebvre, Patricia Kaden-Lacroix | Comedy-drama | |||
Rat Life and Diet in North America | Joyce Weiland | Experimental | [25] | |||
The Rape of a Sweet Young Girl (Le Viol d'une jeune fille douce) | Gilles Carle | Daniel Pilon, Donald Pilon, André Gagnon | Drama | [26] | ||
The Rise and Fall of the Great Lakes | Bill Mason | NFB short | ||||
The River Schooners (Les Voitures d'eau) | Pierre Perrault | NFB documentary | ||||
Straight to the Heart (Jusqu'au coeur) | Jean Pierre Lefebvre | Robert Charlebois, Claudine Monfette | Experimental drama | Made for the NFB | ||
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde | Charles Jarrott | Jack Palance, Denholm Elliott, Leo Genn, Torin Thatcher | Drama | |||
Vienna | Orson Welles | Documentary | ||||
Walking | Ryan Larkin | NFB animated short | Academy Award nominee[27] | |||
1969 | ||||||
<---> (Back and Forth) | Michael Snow | Experimental | ||||
All About Women | Claude Pierson | Drama | ||||
And No Birds Sing | Victor Cowie | Ian Malcolm, Marsha Sadoway, Michael Posner, Judy Daniels, Brian Stavechny | Drama | |||
Bambi Meets Godzilla | Marv Newland | Animated | ||||
Blake | Bill Mason | Blake James | NFB short | Academy Award nominee[28] | ||
Circle | Jack Chambers | Experimental | [29] | |||
Deliver Us from Evil (Délivrez-nous du mal) | Jean-Claude Lord | Yvon Deschamps, Guy Godin | Melodrama | [30] | ||
Don't Let the Angels Fall | George Kaczender | Arthur Hill, Sharon Acker, Charmion King, Monique Mercure | Drama | |||
Dulcima | Matt Segal | Jackie Burroughs, John Colicos, Chuck Shamata | Drama | |||
Good Times Bad Times | Donald Shebib | Documentary | ||||
Hey, Cinderella! | Jim Henson | The Muppets | Television film | |||
The House of Light (Le Chambre blanche) | Jean Pierre Lefebvre | Michèle Magny, Marcel Sabourin | Drama | [31] | ||
A Married Couple | Allan King | Documentary | ||||
A Matter of Fat | William Weintraub | Documentary | ||||
My Friend Pierrette (Mon amie Pierrette) | Jean Pierre Lefebvre | Drama | ||||
Reason Over Passion | Joyce Weiland | Experimental | [32] | |||
Stereo | David Cronenberg | Ronald Mlodzik | Short | [33] | ||
To See Or Not to See (Psychocratie) | Bretislav Pojar | NFB animated short | Canadian Film Award – Film of the Year, Animated Short; Berlin Film Festival – Golden Bear for Short Film | |||
Valérie | Denis Héroux | Danielle Ouimet, Guy Godin, Yvan Ducharme, Claude Préfontaine | ||||
Vertige | Jean Beaudin | Documentary | ||||
Wow | Claude Jutra | Docudrama | ||||
You Are on Indian Land | Mike Kanentakeron Mitchell | Documentary |
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- ^ 1 + 1 (Exploring the Kinsey Reports) http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/films-videos-sound-recordings/canadian-feature-film-database/Pages/item.aspx?IdNumber=139&DotsIdNumber= Retrieved 8/6/15.
- ^ Morning on the Lièvre https://www.nfb.ca/film/morning_on_the_lievre Retrieved 8/6/15.
- ^ Morris, Peter (1984). The Film Companion. Toronto: Irwin Publishing. pp. 267–268. ISBN 0-7725-1505-0.
- ^ Wise, Wyndham (2001). Take One's Essential Guide to Canadian Film. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. p. 21. ISBN 0-8020-3512-4. Retrieved March 30, 2017.
- ^ Wise, Wyndham (2001). Take One's Essential Guide to Canadian Film. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. pp. 41–42. ISBN 0-8020-3512-4. Retrieved March 30, 2017.
- ^ Eskimo Artist https://www.nfb.ca/film/eskimo-artist-kenojuak Retrieved 8/7/15.
- ^ a b Clandfield, David (1987). Canadian Film. Toronto: Oxford University Press. pp. 103–104. ISBN 0-19-540581-1.
- ^ "1964 Revisited: The Sense of a Beginning". Film in Canada, 2006.
- ^ 60 Cycles https://www.nfb.ca/film/60_cycles_en Retrieved 8/9/15.
- ^ Bethune https://www.nfb.ca/film/bethune Retrieved 8/8/15.
- ^ Ladies and Gentleman, Mr. Leonard Cohen https://www.nfb.ca/film/ladies_and_gentlemen_mr_leonard_cohen/ Retrieved 8/8/15.
- ^ The Mills of the Gods: Viet Nam http://femfilm.ca/film_search.php?film=fox-mills&lang=e Retrieved 8/8/15.
- ^ Wise, Wyndham (2001). Take One's Essential Guide to Canadian Film. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. p. 145. ISBN 0-8020-3512-4. Retrieved March 30, 2017.
- ^ Summer in Mississippi http://femfilm.ca/film_search.php?film=fox-summer&lang=e Retrieved 8/9/15.
- ^ Le Misanthrope http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/films-videos-sound-recordings/canadian-feature-film-database/Pages/item.aspx?IdNumber=169&DotsIdNumber= Retrieved 8/8/15.
- ^ Notes on a Triangle https://www.nfb.ca/film/notes_on_a_triangle Retrieved 8/9/15.
- ^ The Offering http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/films-videos-sound-recordings/canadian-feature-film-database/Pages/item.aspx?IdNumber=200&DotsIdNumber= Retrieved 8/9/15.
- ^ YUL 871 http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/films-videos-sound-recordings/canadian-feature-film-database/Pages/item.aspx?IdNumber=183&DotsIdNumber= Retrieved 8/9/15.
- ^ "Cinema Expo 67 | Labyrinth". Cinemaexpo67.ca. Retrieved 2017-03-31.
- ^ The Bitter and the Sweet http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/films-videos-sound-recordings/canadian-feature-film-database/Pages/item.aspx?IdNumber=146&DotsIdNumber= Retrieved 8/9/15.
- ^ "Le règne du jour". 12 August 1967 – via IMDb.
- ^ The Vulture http://hammerandbeyond.blogspot.ca/2009/03/vulture-1967.html Retrieved 8/10/15.
- ^ Avec tambours et trompettes https://www.nfb.ca/film/avec_tambours_et_trompettes Retrieved 8/9/15.
- ^ Clandfield, David (1987). Canadian Film. Toronto: Oxford University Press. p. 90. ISBN 0-19-540581-1.
- ^ Clandfield, David (1987). Canadian Film. Toronto: Oxford University Press. p. 125. ISBN 0-19-540581-1.
- ^ Morris, Peter (1984). The Film Companion. Toronto: Irwin Publishing. p. 312. ISBN 0-7725-1505-0.
- ^ Wise, Wyndham (2001). Take One's Essential Guide to Canadian Film. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. p. 216. ISBN 0-8020-3512-4. Retrieved March 30, 2017.
- ^ "Blake". 1 January 2000 – via IMDb.
- ^ Institute, Art Canada (12 November 2013). "Jack Chambers - Circle" – via Vimeo.
- ^ Clandfield, David (1987). Canadian Film. Toronto: Oxford University Press. p. 73. ISBN 0-19-540581-1.
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- ^ "Joyce Wieland".
- ^ "For Criterion Consideration: David Cronenberg's Stereo". 20 May 2013.
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