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in 1995). In it he described this “Ontario New Wave” as “one of the most vital and productive booms in the history of the country’s cinema” and a major “semantic reversal” that saw the artistic heart of
Canadian filmmaking shift from Quebec to Ontario during the 1980s.
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567:White Room
417:(Ron Mann)
332:Highway 61
179:Don Shebib
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