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At The Quinte Hotel - Tthip - 12-01-2005

For anyone who has not seen this yet - it is showing next week on my cable system in Western New York - Adelphia.
For anyone else - I have to assume if you have a dish it will be available on the same channel - Sundance East.
Tuesday, Dec 13
8:45 PM
At the Quinte Hotel
Adelphia ch:148
SUNDe

- Gunn - 02-01-2006

or.. watch it here Big Grin

http://www.bravofact.com/shorts/details.asp?projectID=1884

- the Doctorb - 02-02-2006

Gunn Wrote:or.. watch it here Big Grin

http://www.bravofact.com/shorts/details.asp?projectID=1884
Thanks for the link Gunn.
Nice little short film.
"Your beer is half art, and half horse piss"

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- Ballgame - 02-02-2006

Can’t get it to play. Asks me to save it, so I save to my desk top but wont save right to be able to play. What am I doing wrong?

- the Doctorb - 02-03-2006

Ballgame Wrote:Can’t get it to play. Asks me to save it, so I save to my desk top but wont save right to be able to play. What am I doing wrong?
You'll need RealPlayer in order to view it. Aside from that I'm not sure what else might be wrong...
MD

- Hairbird - 02-03-2006

In a waiting room at the hospital this morning, I was scrounging through the pityful assortment of magazines, and finally settled on a June 2003 issue of "Take One", a canadian film and TV magazine. I was flipping through it without much interest, when a little picture of Molson stubby bottles caught my attention. This was the article that went along with it:

At the Quinte Hotel - Short Takes - Movie Review
TAKE ONE, June-Sept, 2003 by Tom McSorley

2002
8 min
produced by Douglas Bensadoun, Michael Kronish;
directed by Douglas Bensadoun;
with Gordon Downie, Kent McQuaid, Terry Simpson.

Based on the eponymous 1968 poem by the late Al Purdy, At the Quinte Hotel concerns a proletariat barfly--played by The Tragically Hip's frontman, Gordon Downie--who waxes poetic about the transcendental qualities of beer. He also intervenes in a fight started by another man. Knocking down the aggressor and sitting on top of him, our visionary poet--warrior then delivers an ode to the bar and its beer, which he describes as "full of flowers." As Downie speaks Purdy's poem, director Bensadoun sets up an echo of Downie's performance with a recorded reading of the poem by Al Purdy himself. This unusual duet of voices is cleverly embroidered throughout the film's brisk and smart editing rhythms, demonstrating the implications of the poem as read and the poem as enacted. Performing with wit and assurance, Downie seems to effortlessly embody the Purdy aesthetic: rugged and insightful, with a paradoxical combination of the charismatic and the self-deprecating. Should his singing days ever end, Downie has a promising acting career ahead of him. Reminiscent of the inventive cinematic adaptation of a Michael Ondaatje poem by Bruce McDonald in Elimination Dance, the very impressive At the Quinte Hotel was presented at this year's Sundance Film Festival.

At The Quinte Hotel - guitarhearo - 02-03-2006

Where would i be able to obtain a written copy of the Al Purdy Poem?

- let me out - 02-12-2006

"beyond remembering : the collected poems of al purdy" by sam solecki (2000)

- lexian1 - 04-05-2006

Anyone know if there is a way to purchase the film on DVD or find a copy of a non-real file on the net? This is awesome, but the packrat in me wants to own the combination of my Downie-Purdy love.

Thanks for any help.

- adam23 - 04-05-2006

I'd be more then happy to upload the video for At the Quinte Hotel here (52.7mb in .mpg format). However I am not sure if it is allowed, so let me know if it is or isn't 8)

- adam23 - 04-05-2006

adam23 Wrote:I'd be more then happy to upload the video for At the Quinte Hotel here (52.7mb in .mpg format). However I am not sure if it is allowed, so let me know if it is or isn't 8)
Well since I could not find anywhere to buy this video on the internet, and it is on Bravo!FACTs website for free to watch, I'm going to take a chance that it is OK to post it here.

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- farmerdan - 04-05-2006

it's funny i actually was channel surfin earlier today and it was on TV (bravo)

- borgs - 04-09-2006

the Doctorb Wrote:"Your beer is half art, and half horse piss"

its actually, "half fart and half horse piss"... makes the line that much better.

- RJB - 07-21-2006

Would anyone be able to help me out, as to which book of poetry (if any) I could find this poem?

- IMissMyLungBob - 07-23-2006

Borgs... I thought it was "half fart and half horse piss" but I never spoke up because i was never sure of it.

RJB... That was already answered in this thread
Quote:let me out
PostPosted: Sun Feb 12, 2006 12:32 am Post subject:
"beyond remembering : the collected poems of al purdy" by sam solecki (2000)