The Best of Secter and the Rest of Secter

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The Best of Secter and the Rest of Secter
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Film poster
Directed byJoel Secter
Written byJoel Secter
Produced byJoel Secter
Starring David Secter
CinematographyPaul Suderman
Edited byMichael Margolis
Music by Kaveh Nabatian
Production
company
Gwendolyn Pictures
Release date
  • March 3, 2005 (2005-03-03)(NSI)
Running time
58 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguageEnglish

The Best of Secter and the Rest of Secter is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Joel Secter and released in 2005. [1] The film centres on Joel Secter's uncle, filmmaker David Secter, particularly but not exclusively on the impact of his 1965 film Winter Kept Us Warm . [2]

The film has its roots in the 1990s, when Joel Secter, who had not been in close contact with his uncle in many years and did not know that his uncle had directed films at all, unwittingly rented his uncle's 1976 sex comedy film Getting Together from a video store. [1] Himself an aspiring filmmaker, he contacted his uncle, and the two collaborated as producers on the 1999 sex comedy film Cyberdorm, although the film was not successful. [1] With even Secter's historically significant Winter Kept Us Warm nearly forgotten by the early 2000s, the two then collaborated on the documentary film, which explored both Secter's early success and his subsequent decision to join a bohemian artists' commune in New York City, where he virtually abandoned filmmaking. [1] In his book Romance of Transgression in Canada: Queering Sexualities, Nations, Cinemas, Thomas Waugh wrote that the film "fills in the gaps in the subsequent career of a cinematic and sexual rebel whose artistic promise was not to be fully realized." [3]

Notable figures who discussed Secter and Winter Kept Us Warm in the documentary included David Cronenberg, Michael Ondaatje, Philip Glass, Ed Mirvish, Joy Fielding and Lloyd Kaufman.

The film premiered at the National Screen Institute's FilmExchange festival in Winnipeg, Manitoba in March 2005, and received its first widespread coverage when it screened at the Inside Out Film and Video Festival in Toronto, Ontario in May. [2] The film won the award for Best Documentary Film at the 2005 Whistler Film Festival. [4]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Martin Knelman, "U of T star is born, lands in porn; '60s filmmaker went to Cannes, met Loren|. Toronto Star , May 18, 2005.
  2. 1 2 Michael Posner, "The first Canadian at Cannes". The Globe and Mail , May 21, 2005.
  3. ↑ Thomas Waugh, Romance of Transgression in Canada: Queering Sexualities, Nations, Cinemas. McGill-Queen's University Press, 2006. ISBN   9780773576803. p. 506.
  4. ↑ Nicole Fitzgerald, "More than just films". Pique Newsmagazine , December 9, 2005.


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