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Mon Oncle Antoine
(1971)
Claude Jutra
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May 26 2003
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Mon Oncle Antoine is Claude Jutra's masterpiece: A poignant, starkly honest, but humane film, shot through with authenticity from beginning to end. Realized with an unflagging artistic vision, Mon Oncle Antoine poetically portrays a young boy's coming of age, vividly capturing the 1940s Quebec mining town in which ...
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Canada's Team of the Century: The Best of '72
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Sep 7 2004
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It was the most dramatic hockey series ever played, won by a historic goal in the last minute. Featuring the entire eight-game series of the 1972 hockey summit between Russia and Canada, ...
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Trailer Park Boys: The Complete First and Second Seasons (Collector's Edition)
(2004)
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Show Case
May 27 2003
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This wildly popular show has come to be considered by many to be the pinnacle of Canadian comedy. Filled with quintessentially Canadian humor and storylines, ...
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The Sweet Hereafter (Widescreen)
(1997)
Atom Egoyan
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May 27 1998
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Egoyan's Masterpiece, The Sweet Hereafter is a beautiful, stark, honest, poetic, and emotionally devastating examination of human nature and human resilience in the face of tragedy. A metropolitan attorney travels to a small B.C. town where 14 children have been killed in a school bus accident to ...
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Goin' Down the Road
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Nov 19 2002
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Any Canadian who has left home for Toronto can identify with this movie. The main characters, Peter and Joey, strike out from Nova Scotia in search of dreams in the big city. But as in any classic road movie, things never seem to work out as planned. Pete...
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Black Robe (Widescreen)
(1991)
Bruce Beresford
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Jul 1 2001
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It's been called "The Anti-Dances with Wolves." An epic, sprawling re-creation of the turbulence of the colonization of Quebec, ...
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Léolo
(1993)
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May 27 2003
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Leolo is a black comedy about an impoverished Montreal boy who creates his own mental world in response to his real-world chaos and his family's weirdness. This critically acclaimed art-house favourite, directed by Jean-Claude Lauzon with music by Tom Waits, is rendered in an amazing series of surreal ...
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Atanarjuat: Fast Runner
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Nov 19 2002
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Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner is the first feature film made in the Inuktitut language. Based on an ancient Inuit legend, it's an epic tale of love, betrayal, family, and survival played out against the harsh and barren white landscape of the Far North. Noteworthy for its cinematography, performances, ...
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SCTV: Volume 1, Network 90
(1981)
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Jun 8 2004
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Because of SCTV’s huge influence on comedy, TV, and movies today. Because of John Candy and Eugene Levy and Catherine O'Hara. And, of course, because of Doug and Ken McKenzie....
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Careful/Waiting For Twilight
(1993)
Guy Maddin
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Sep 1 2004
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A self-styled "pro-incest" movie about a town in the Alps where the fear of avalanches means that no one speaks above a whisper? When Winnipeg's Prairie surrealist Guy Maddin, slowly working his way through the forgotten genres of early film, decided to t...
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Strange Brew (Widescreen)
(1983)
Rick Moranis
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Oct 1 2002
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You gotta love a movie filmed in "hoserama." Bob and Doug McKenzie (Rick Moranis and Dave Thomas) attempt to scam a free case of beer from the Elsinore brewery, which is, of course, run by a mad scientist, and only our beer-swilling, plaid-shirt-and-ski-t...
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Tillies Punctured Romance
(1914)
Mack Sennett
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Oct 1 2002
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Several leading figures of early movies (among them actress Mary Pickford and director Allan Dwan) were transplanted Canadians, and this landmark film brought two of them together. When Quebec's Mack Sennett, the mastermind behind Keystone slapstick comed...
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Tales From The Gimli Hospital
(1988)
Guy Maddin
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Sep 1 2004
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Guy Maddin turned to (or, rather, on) his own Manitoban Icelandic [ds2]heritage for his first feature film, ...
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The Last Waltz (Special Edition)
(1978)
Martin Scorsese
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Feb 8 2005
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Universally acclaimed as one of the great concert films, ...
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Fubar
(2002)
Michael Dowse
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Jul 13 2004
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A hilarious mockumentary about two Canadian metalheads (you knew these guys in high school) that brilliantly and unapologetically skewers Canadian rock culture. Gordon Skilling plays Farrell Mitchener, a filmmaker shooting a documentary about the lives of...
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Anne of Green Gables
(1986)
Kevin Sullivan
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Dec 2 2002
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The orphan Anne Shirley is a classic character in children's literature, brought to life in this adaptation of the popular book by Canadian L.M. Montgomery. This DVD version of ...
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Exotica
(1995)
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This critically acclaimed psychological drama-mystery won Atom Egoyan a Genie for best picture. ...
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Due South: The Complete Third Season with Original Pilot (4 Discs)
(1994)
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Sep 21 2004
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This TV show about an RCMP mountie (Men with Brooms’s Paul Gross) from the Northwest Territories going to Chicago to hunt down his father's murderers ran for only a few seasons but has become increasingly popular over the years. Due South does a great job of taking Americans' ...
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Calendar (Full Screen)
(1993)
Atom Egoyan
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Jun 26 2001
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Calendar is one of Atom Egoyan's most courageous works: Technically experimental but also very human. This strange but beautiful tale about a love triangle involving a photographer, his wife, and their guide as they travel through Armenia is required viewing for fans of Egoyan, one of Canada's most ...
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Thirty-Two Short Films About Glenn Gould
(1993)
François Girard
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Feb 20 2001
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A collection of vignettes highlighting different aspects of the life, work, and character of the acclaimed Canadian classical pianist, Glenn Gould. Directed by Quebec native Francois Girard, it won multiple Genie awards--including best picture, and best d...
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Mr. Dress-Up: Tickle Trunk Treasures
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Jun 21 2004
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Ernie Coombs' Mr. Dressup, along with his puppet friends Casey and Finnegan, was a staple of CBC's morning schedule for an incredible 32 years. He closed his tickle trunk for the last time in 1996, although this timeless children's show continues to be rerun today. That same year, ...
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Buster Keaton Rides Again: Featuring the Railrodder
(1965)
John Spotton
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May 26 2003
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Buster Keaton went to Canada in 1965 to star in The Railrodder, a National Film Board production. The Canadian railroad is one big playground for an aging Keaton to perform some of his best stunts in this classic slapstick travelogue. The Railrodder, a silent, "modern short," is one of ...
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Nanook of the North (Full Screen)
(1922)
Robert J. Flaherty
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Oct 1 2002
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Nanook of the North is a true landmark in the history of documentaries. Filmed around Hudson Bay by American anthropologist Robert J. Flaherty in the early 1920s, it depicts the life and culture of Nanook and his tribe of Eskimos. Nanook is really an homage to human perseverance ...
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I've Heard the Mermaids Singing
(1988)
Patricia Rozema
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Jan 13 2004
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A beautiful film about underdogs, life in the arts, love, and finding your true identity. Imbued by Canadian filmmaker Patricia Rozema with some very memorable moments, ...
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The Decline of the American Empire
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Aug 12 2003
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Writer-director Denys Arcand became an overnight success with ...
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The Red Violin (Full Screen)
(1999)
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Jul 1 2001
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Written by Don McKellar, [ds4]The Red Violin is a lavish, decorative, and ambitious film about the history of one very special instrument, the music it made, and the people connected with it--from its dramatic 16th century creation in Cremona, Italy, up to modern-day Montreal. Directed with vision and ...
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Dead Ringers (Widescreen)
(1988)
David Cronenberg
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Mar 23 2001
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A landmark psychological drama, Dead Ringers marked David Cronenberg's departure from grotesque horror films as he moved toward more dramatic, sophisticated movies. He continues to explore the dark side of human nature, tapping into primal fears in this movie about twin brothers, both Toronto-based gynecologists, and their common ...
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Strangers in Good Company
(1991)
Cynthia Scott (II)
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Dec 7 1999
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A premise that might not sound very promising--eight elderly women sitting around talking in an abandoned house after their tour bus breaks down--turns out, in the hands of director Cynthia Scott and her troupe of nonprofessional actors, to be a one-of-a-...
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