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Margaret Atwood: Once in August is a canadien film of genre Documentary directed by Michael Rubbo with Michael Rubbo

Margaret Atwood: Once in August (1984)

Margaret Atwood: Once in August
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Length 58minutes
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OriginCanada
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Margaret Atwood: Once in August is a 1984 documentary film about Canadian writer Margaret Atwood, directed by Michael Rubbo and produced by the National Film Board of Canada (NFB). The film was made in Rubbo's trademark style of self-conscious documentary filmmaking or metafilm, with Rubbo foregrounding the creative process in making the film, including his frustrated attempts to uncover autobiographical influences in Atwood's work. It was his last film with the NFB.



^ "Michael Rubbo". Canadian Film Encyclopedia. Toronto International Film Festival. Retrieved June 13, 2012.

^ Feldman, Seth (1987). "Circling I's: some implications of the filmmaker's presence in Michael Rubbo's 'Once in August' and Marilú Mallet's 'Journal inachevé" (Abstract in Canadian Film and Video: A Bibliography and Guide to the Literature). Canadian and Quebec Cinema.

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