Our Street Was Paved with Gold<\/a><\/b>
\nAlbert Kish, 1973, 28 min 37 sec <\/p>\n“Filmmaker Albert Kish revisits Montreal’s St Lawrence Boulevard – the Main – the road from the docks to the heart of immigrant Canada. This is a little Europe, a street of many languages, foods, and small courtesies that make a stranger feel at home. For the filmmaker his prevailing memory is of the seventeen steps of a walk-up apartment, but for all Canadians this film will evoke a shared multicultural experience.”<\/i><\/p>\n
The Main is easily the most nostalgic street in Montreal. There’s no shortage of material extolling its past glories: the 1940s through the words of Mordecai Richler, the sleazy 70s in Michel Tremblay’s Des nouvelles d’\u00c9douard<\/i>, the 1980s in Edward Hillel’s captivating photos and, most recently, the late-90s in Louis Rastelli’s surprisingly engaging A Fine Ending<\/i>. This documentary, which looks at the street’s heydey as a hub for European immigrants, is no exception. <\/p>\n
I have to admit that I haven’t watched most of it because I’m currently dealing with a crummy connection. Let me know if it’s any good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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