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BE NATURAL: THE UNTOLD STORY OF ALICE GUY-BLACHÉ

Filmmaker Pamela B. Green honours one of the world’s most talented and brilliant filmmaking pioneers who has been cheated, forgotten, and ignored for nearly a century. This documentary, narrated by Jodie Foster, shares the story and legacy of Alice Guy-Blaché, whose accomplishments of note include her experiments with sync’ed sound, colour-tinting, special effects, and interracial casting.

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True cinematic excellence. Every frame in this flick is a stunning composition. Alfonso Cuarón’s Roma (2018) engrosses the viewer in a beautifully crafted, deeply moving narrative following a year in the life of a middle-class family maid in Mexico City in the early 1970s.

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This film is one of the most unique, fun, and entertaining black and white films since the talkies were invented. An homage to Old Hollywood, French director Michel Hazanavicius’

The Artist (2011) was nominated for ten Academy Awards and won five, including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Actor. We love a timeless Hollywood fairytale.

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PRAIRIE GOTHIC

Photographs by George Webber, text by Aritha Van Herk Hardcover, 2013, 192 pages, $50

BADLANDS

By Robert Kroetsch, photographs by George Webber Hardcover, 2015, 360 pages, $40

George Webber’s images transport us to the Prairies in a way that will visually haunt you. In Prairie Gothic, the viewer is confronted by the mysterious particulars of life, death, landscape and faith. Intimate portraits and hard facts of prairie life create a body of work that is inspiring, consoling, and sometimes achingly sad.

Badlands is a unique take on the 1975 Kroetsch novel re-imagined. George Webber’s photographs accentuate a story that starts in 1916, when scientist William Dawe leads a paleontological expedition into the badlands of Alberta. Fifty years later, his daughter, Anna, enters these same badlands. In her visit to the expedition site, she exposes not only the absurdity of her father’s work but also the folly of his male ambition and attitudes.

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VERY NICE, VERY NICE Online + FREE

Arthur Lipsett’s seven-minute, 1961 avant-garde flick is a critically acclaimed classic that feels just as relevant now as it did when it was made. Very Nice, Very Nice is an animation of still images edited to be wickedly funny. This terrifying examination of modern life is bananas. www.nfb.ca/film/very_nice_very_nice