This week, actor, writer and podcaster Becky Shrimpton (Hollywood Suite's A Year in Film) celebrates Robert Fortier's mesmerizing 1981 documentary The Devil At Your Heels, about Ken Carter's quest to jump a rocket car across the St. Lawrence River. Your genial host Norm Wilner just knows this won't end well.
Becky Shrimpton, producer and host of Hollywood Suite's A Year in Film podcast and one of the dozen or so critics and programmers who appear in the new HS documentary series Cinema A to Z, is here to celebrate NFB filmmaker Robert Fortier's mesmerizing 1981 documentary The Devil At Your Heels, a chronicle of stunt driver Ken Carter's obsession with jumping a rocket car across the St. Lawrence River. Your genial host Norm Wilner (who also appears in the show!) just knows this won't end well.