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Sep 18, 2013 · September 18, 2013. Reading time: 4 minutes. In 1984, the Toronto International Film Festival ranked Nobody Waved Good-bye number 9 on their list of the top 10 Canadian feature films of all time. That’s quite a feat for a film that was initially supposed to be a short documentary. How the film evolved and how it became such a seminal work is ...
alainsane-1 26 July 2007. The following commercial aired during the April 19th, 1965 broadcast of Jean Shepherd's radio program on WOR: "Unusual news about an unusual, new motion picture. It's called, "Nobody Waved Good-Bye," and here at last is a real, down-to-earth, dramatic film that shows what teenagers feel and never tell; what parents see ...
Nobody Waved Good-bye (1964) A startling film that shows what teenagers feel... but never tell! BUY BLU-RAY. Teenager Peter Mark (Peter Kastner) has it all: supportive parents (Charmion King, Claude Rae), a loving girlfriend (Julie Biggs), and a comfortable middle-class existence. But on the brink of finishing high school, he feels emboldened ...
Nobody Waved Good-bye is a 1964 Canadian film directed by Don Owen. It is a coming-of-age story set in suburban Toronto. The movie follows the life of a 19-year-old boy, John, played by Peter Kastner, who rebels against his traditional upbringing and struggles to find his place in society. John's life is heavily influenced by his parents.
Don Owen (filmmaker) Don Owen (September 19, 1931 – February 21, 2016) was a Canadian film director, writer and producer who spent most of his career with the National Film Board of Canada (NFB). His films Nobody Waved Good-bye and The Ernie Game are regarded as two of the most significant English Canadian films of the 1960s.
Don Owen was a key filmmaker of the 1960s, creating dramatic features — such as Nobody Waved Good-bye (1964) and The Ernie Game (1967) — that captured the spirit of the times and reflected a Canadian cinematic identity. These two films, in particular, are central to an understanding of the development of English-Canadian film and the use of ...
