Nobody Waved Goodbye
Apr 10 - Apr 11, 2007
(Don Owen, Canada, 1964, 35mm, 80 min.)
Young filmmaker Don Owen's assignment from the National Film Board of Canada was to make a half-hour docudrama on juvenile delinquency. On the sly, he turned the project into a feature that helped launch modern Anglo-Canadian cinema. Peter Kastner is Peter, a middle-class suburban Toronto teenager whose youthful rebellion against adult values lands him in trouble at home, at school and with the law. Julie Biggs is Julie, his likeminded girlfriend. Owen's rough and ready film, shot with a lightweight, hand-held camera, had a fresh, improvised, intimate feel and a documentary-like immediacy that charmed audiences.
“A remarkable film you should not miss!” NEW YORK HERALD TRIBUNE
“A marvelous movie! A story commensurate with THE CATCHER IN THE RYE!" NEW YORKER MAGAZINE