If you spent your childhood in Canada then chances are the NFB is at least partly responsibly for that sweet little Canadian soul of yours. Well, you'll be pleased to hear that they've finally gone ahead and done the right thing by making a bunch of their best films available online. Now you can get back in touch with that sweater movie. Man, why did we have to watch that four times a year? I mean, it's reaaaally good and everything but was it like the only movie in the world back then? That and the one about the peanut butter and the one about the snowball fight and the dog that dies? Anyway, you can watch The Sweater, or Arthur Lipsett's film Very Nice, Very Nice, or you can watch a full-version of Murray Siple's amazing documentary Carts of Darkness, which came out last year and profiles a bunch of homeless dudes that hurl themselves down Vancouver's winding streets in shopping carts at SEVENTY MILES AN HOUR! To each their own, to each their own.
Oh man, we watched The Sweater, The Peanut Butter Something Something and La Guerre des Tuques in elementary school and we liked it, consarn it.
NFB FTW.
Posted by: Dave | 01/02/2009 at 06:36
Proper link to carts of darkness:
http://www.nfb.ca/film/carts_of_darkness/
shit, saw the trailer for this a while ago. awesome!
Posted by: fuck | 03/02/2009 at 08:22
the peanut butter solution is not an NFB film, it's a La Fête production, like La Guerre des Tuques, so it's not on the NFB site. But it is on Google video, in its entirety! even with the Celine Dion singing-in-english-before-Titanic opening song!
http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=-2798924676514781836&hl=en
Actually, you were close: it was the director's first fiction film right after he left the NFB...
Posted by: Mark | 09/02/2009 at 17:02
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Posted by: hell | 08/01/2010 at 00:01
I read a posting on Greater Joy and floolwed the link to here. The brain and its normalities and abnormalities interest me a great deal. I have an x husband affected by a bi-polar type issue and a brain injury. A son who has had symtoms of severe anxiety, and did not speak until he was four, also he has a learning disibility. Bright kid in many ways, for having not spoken until age 4 and still hating to read anything beyond sporting news he has an an excellent vocabulary and sounds like he should be a writer when he speaks. I also have a daugher who ended up on the psychiatric ward of the hospital and spent (as she likes to say) 99 days at a state hospital in Minnesota, where we live. Her diagnosis was bi-polar with psychotic tendencies. That was in her early 20 s, She is now 32 and has not taken medication for years. I also work with autistic and children with fetal alcohol syndrome and effects as a special education teacher. I have always felt that all of these are brain based. Support the brain, nourish the body, and get the intestinal/digestive tract working right and the person will improve. If you care to you can e-mail me, I am interested in learning more about what you do.Sincerely, Nancy B.
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