Christopher's Movie Matinee (1968)
When a camera crew are sent to document hippie protests in Yorkville, Canada's counter-culture capital, they are charmed by a group of misunderstood kids with their own ideas about what kind of movie to make.
- Date of release
- 1968-05-05
- TMDB
- 6.0 / 10 (5)
- Runtime
- 1h 28m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Director
- Mort Ransen
Casting
- Graham Bourns — Self
- Jan Casson — Self
- Malcolm Dean — Self
- Roger Dowker — Self
- Tom Evans — Self
- Mort Ransen — Self - Director
- Martin Duckworth — Self - Cameraman
Interesting facts
Christopher's Movie Matinée is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Mort Ransen and released in 1968. Depicting the youth counterculture hippie movement in the Toronto district of Yorkville, the film was unusual in that it directly engaged the teenagers as active participants rather than subjects, depicting their own debates about what kind of film Ransen should make about them and incorporating footage directly filmed by the youth with personal video cameras.
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