Geoff Pevere has been writing, broadcasting and teaching about movies and media for over twenty years. As a critic, his work has appeared in numerous international publications, periodicals and anthologies. The first program coordinator of the Toronto International Film Festival's Perspective Canada program, he is also the co-author of the national bestseller Mondo Canuck: A Canadian Pop Culture Odyssey. Currently, he is a movie critic with the Toronto Star and co-host of Reel to Real on Rogers Television.

A Married Couple (Allan King, 1969, 96 mins)
One of the key films to test the boundaries of documentary and fiction in this period. Shot over ten weeks in Toronto, as a documentary about a couple experienceing problems in the seventh year of their marriage, it was released as a fiction feature. In focusing on moments of conflict, King fashioned a very dramatic film out of the seventy hours of footage obtained.

Allan King
One of the most successful and durable filmmakers to emerge in Canada during the 1960's, Allan King built a career upon challenging the conventional wisdom of what Canadian filmmaking ought to be. His many documentaries and fiction features include Warrendale, Who Has Seen the Wind, Termini Station and Dying at Grace. In 2002 he was given a retrospective at the Toronto International Film Festival, showing seventeen of his films.

High (Larry Kent, 1967, 80 mins)
A young, amoral couple living amorously in Montreal and Toronto, and unable to make ends meet, take to seducing men and robbing them. Kent's most experimental film to date, leaping between black and white and colour stock and featuring a hallucinogenic credit sequence, it was banned by censors on its premier screening at the Montreal Film Festival, but subsequently supported by Festival jury members Jean Renoir and Fritz Lang.

Larry Kent
One of the original English-Canadian auteurs, Larry Kent produced, wrote and directed a number of enigmatic, personal and powerful dramas during the sixties and early seventies. He currently lives and works in Vancouver. His films were showcased in a retrospective at Cinema Quebecoise, Ontario Cinematheque and Pacific Cinematheque in 2002-03, "Exile on Main Street (and Hastings): The Films of Larry Kent."

Montreal Main (Frank Vitale, 1972, 88 mins)
Frank Vitale stars as a gay, misunderstood, 1960's-ish artist living on Blvd St. Laurent, who befriends a gay teenage boy from the suburbs. His friends and the boy's parents struggle to come to terms with the relationship. Notable for dealing with members of Montreal's marginalized gay and artistic communities, this film is an exploration of age difference in a homosexual relationship in a very personalized way.

Frank Vitale
Frank Vitale shot and starred in this, his first feature film, after co-directing Country Music with Allan Moyle in 1971. Vitale attended McGill University and now lives and works in New York but did not continue an active film career after the late seventies. Montreal Main was showcased at the Montreal Festival du Nouveau Cinema in 2005.

Rubber Gun (Allan Moyle, 1977, 86 mins)
The sequel to Montreal Main, featuring many of the same characters playing themselves, with Moyle playing Bozo, a sociology student who believes that drugs have a positive effect on group dynamics. He becomes involved with Steve, a gay artist/drug dealer who is also guru to a street community. Bozo completes his thesis on Steve while the film's audience is left with a very negative impression of the drug culture.

Allan Moyle
Allan Moyle is a Canadian film director who has made several commercially successful films in the United States and Canada, including Pump Up the Volume, New Waterford Girl and Weirdsville. Rubber Gun reflects the sensibilities of his community of Montreal filmmakers in the seventies (he was an actor in Montreal Main) and the fast and loose "direct cinema" style of the time.