CITY REFLECTIONS
William Harbeck's six-minute, hand-cranked footage from the front of a street car is the earliest existing moving imagery of Vancouver. The Vancouver Historical Society has placed this footage alongside an identical re-enactment, shot 100 years later. |
COME ON DOWN: SEARCHING FOR THE AMERICAN DREAM
Told through the eyes of a patriotic Canadian and his colourful Cadillac, this film captures Adamm Liley's raucous road trip into the heart of the elusive American Dream. |
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ENCHANTED APRIL
Two proper Englishwomen, determined to get away from their drab lives and inattentive husbands, find paradise in the serene countryside of the Italian Riviera. |
DOROTHY MILLS
Jane Morton, a psychiatrist from Dublin, is assigned to work on the case of Dorothy Mills, a teenaged girl in a small village who tried to strangle a baby. |
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JOHNNY GOT HIS GUN
Written and directed by Dalton Trumbo, this award winning 1939 anitwar novel is here at last on DVD; moving, provacative and masterfully crafted. |
WENDY AND LUCY
Featuring a luminous performance from Michelle Williams, this film explores sympathy and generosity at the edges of American life, revealing the limits of compassion and duty in the context of harsh financial times. |
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PULLING: SERIES 1
In the tradition of The Office comes the BAFTA-nominated series that critics on both sides of the Atlantic have called "the dark side of Sex And The City" and "the sitcom for people who hated Friends and everything it represented."
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LITTLE DORRIT
Acclaimed screenwriter Andrew Davies crafts an all new Dickens adaptation. |
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INDIA REBORN
This thorough documentary series takes the viewer past the Bollywood sets and through the rest of the country, shedding light on the the "new" India. |
SCIENCE IS FICTION: 23 FILMS BY JEAN PAINLEVE
The mesmerizing, utterly unclassifiable science films of Jean Painleve (1902-89) have to be seen to be believed. |