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Post by galacticgirrrl on Dec 6, 2022 0:30:39 GMT
NATIONAL FILM BOARD OF CANADA
I have looked high and low for a place to post about this wonderful little film but I can't find an appropriate genre. It is a semi-documentary. One reviewer says it is taken from a true story, acted by the same people who lived it but I don't know about that for certain.
The Company of Strangers (1990)![]()  I thought a stand alone NFB streaming channel might be the right place. Heaven knows much of the Canadian Content we produce up here in The Great White North is, um, well...Canadian to be polite. But every once and while we produce something like this hauntingly beautiful film. NFB CHANNELSwww.nfb.ca/channels/NFB 10 BEST FILMS BY DECADEwww.youtube.com/user/nfb/playlistsThe Company of Strangers (1990)www.nfb.ca/film/company_of_strangers/ In this feature film, 7 elderly women find themselves stranded when their bus breaks down in the wilderness. With only their wits, memories and some roasted frogs' legs to sustain them, this remarkable group of strangers share their life stories and turn a potential crisis into a magical time of humour, spirit and camaraderie. Featuring non-professional actors and unscripted dialogue, this film dissolves the barrier between fiction and reality, weaving a heart-warming tale of friendship and courage. If your deep, sensitive and have lived life yourself, you will get this movie, the younger generation that have not lived life yet or are bitter won't "get it", and probably won't enjoy it. Tears came to my eyes in the end, wow, such a deep and emotional movie, I recommend it if your older or just miss your grandmother or even mother.
- Blew me away! Totally Amazing!
- Improv Perfection
- Funny, Melancholy, Fascinating, Charming and Totally Genuine
- The most beautiful film I ever saw
- A new semi-documentary genre
- Should be in some sort of top movie hall of fame!
- They will be on my mind for a long time
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Post by ando on Dec 6, 2022 10:11:08 GMT
NATIONAL FILM BOARD OF CANADA
I have looked high and low for a place to post about this wonderful little film but I can't find an appropriate genre. It is a semi-documentary. One reviewer says it is taken from a true story, acted by the same people who lived it but I don't know about that for certain.
The Company of Strangers (1990)![]() I thought a stand alone NFB streaming channel might be the right place. Heaven knows much of the Canadian Content we produce up here in The Great White North is, um, well...Canadian to be polite. But every once and while we produce something like this hauntingly beautiful film. NFB CHANNELSwww.nfb.ca/channels/NFB 10 BEST FILMS BY DECADEwww.youtube.com/user/nfb/playlistsThe Company of Strangers (1990)www.nfb.ca/film/company_of_strangers/ In this feature film, 7 elderly women find themselves stranded when their bus breaks down in the wilderness. With only their wits, memories and some roasted frogs' legs to sustain them, this remarkable group of strangers share their life stories and turn a potential crisis into a magical time of humour, spirit and camaraderie. Featuring non-professional actors and unscripted dialogue, this film dissolves the barrier between fiction and reality, weaving a heart-warming tale of friendship and courage. If your deep, sensitive and have lived life yourself, you will get this movie, the younger generation that have not lived life yet or are bitter won't "get it", and probably won't enjoy it. Tears came to my eyes in the end, wow, such a deep and emotional movie, I recommend it if your older or just miss your grandmother or even mother.
- Blew me away! Totally Amazing!
- Improv Perfection
- Funny, Melancholy, Fascinating, Charming and Totally Genuine
- The most beautiful film I ever saw
- A new semi-documentary genre
- Should be in some sort of top movie hall of fame!
- They will be on my mind for a long time
Nicely done. The NFB channel site has several appetizing offerings, but alas, not for Americans.  I’d need to watch with a VPN. At any rate, I’ll keep my eye out for a Company of Strangers streamer elsewhere on the web. Thanks. |
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Post by galacticgirrrl on Dec 7, 2022 2:51:19 GMT
Nicely done. The NFB channel site has several appetizing offerings, but alas, not for Americans. I’d need to watch with a VPN. At any rate, I’ll keep my eye out for The Company of Strangers streamer elsewhere on the web. Thanks.T Oh yes. I should have thought of that, especially considering I can barely access Canadian content and I live here. What a waste of great material. Our national broadcaster, the CBC, can't even afford to access much of it. I know this article is from 20 years ago but I still haven't seen anything become available. From The Globe and Mail: Buried treasure
RAY CONLOGUE PUBLISHED MARCH 27, 2001 www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/buried-treasure/article25436003/The CBC's decades' worth of classic Canadian shows sit safely stowed in the archives, rarely if ever brought out and shown on the nation's public broadcaster. For people relatively new to the situation, such as Jennifer Stewart, who arrived at CBC 2½-years ago, it's a saddening experience. "When I came here I'd 'ooh' and 'aah' over what's in the archives. But then I'd learn why we couldn't actually broadcast it. I'm hopeful we can work this out and resolve the situation." But given the interests at stake, and the long history of intransigence on both sides, that may be wishful thinking.
I need to change the name of this NFB thread to: Only in Canada eh, Pity? (after a memorable advertising campaign for our Red Rose tea) |
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Post by galacticgirrrl on Jan 11, 2023 17:11:49 GMT
 Ando, does this Vimeo link work for you? I am curious to see if I can find work arounds for some of the great material of the NFB. vimeo.com/40184263Pas de deux Directed by Norman McLaren - 1968 | 13 min Enter a hypnotic world of movement and light in this entrancing film that harnesses the power of cinema to trace the movements of ballet. Dancers Margaret Mercier and Vincent Warren create a dream-like effect in this award-winning Norman McLaren film, complete with the revolutionary visual effects one expects from this master filmmaker. Norman McLaren takes a look at the choreography of ballet, with cinema effects that are all that you would expect from this master of improvisation in music and illustration. By exposing the same frames as many as ten times, the artist creates a multiple image of the ballerina and her partner (Margaret Mercier and Vincent Warren). The music was done by pan-pipe player Gheorghe Zamfir (before he got world famous in the 70s & 80s) backed by the Balcescu Craiova Romanian Symphony Orchestra. - This is possibly the most beautiful thing I've ever seen on film.
- It still strikes me as the most beautiful ballet film I have ever seen.
- Most impressive. Norman McLaren was a genius.
- Way ahead of its time.
- For some reason this just takes my breath away
- The best Pas de 2 I've seen in my life
- The only 16 mm film of someone else's I ever chose to buy. And the only reason I still keep a 16 mm projector.
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Post by ando on Jan 12, 2023 5:36:31 GMT
Ando, does this Vimeo link work for you... Yes, and a welcome post at that! Glad to see a fellow ballet lover on the board. I was going to post a doc on the late, great Nureyev but wasn't sure if anyone here would be interested. Thanks.  |
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Post by galacticgirrrl on Jan 12, 2023 14:25:06 GMT
Ando, does this Vimeo link work for you... Yes, and a welcome post at that! Glad to see a fellow ballet lover on the board. I was going to post a doc on the late, great Nureyev but wasn't sure if anyone here would be interested. Thanks. Please post it - maybe a Dance thread in the arts section? I don't know...but I can't be the only one interested. And thanks for letting me know the Vimeo link works. |
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Post by galacticgirrrl on Jan 29, 2023 6:20:12 GMT
Trying another roundabout url for NFB geo-blocked items...hope it works. I know there is a fair bit available on Alice Guy-Blaché now but The Lost Garden was one of the first, from 1995.  Alice Guy-Blaché was a filmmaker before the word even existed. She made her first film at the end of the last century, when cinema was still a newborn. After directing, producing and/or writing more than 700 films, she slipped into oblivion. The Lost Garden rescues the story of one of cinema's most fearless pioneers. By 1910, married and with her first baby, she founded her own production company in America. Solax became the biggest pre-Hollywood studio on the continent. But at 49, she lost her husband, her company and her illusions. The Lost Garden looks at the life and times of a woman who, with two words, changed the art of screen acting forever. "Be natural," she used to tell her actors. Television interviews from the sixties reveal Guy-Blaché to be witty, articulate and elegant. Her films are cleverly edited to illustrate the events occurring in her personal life. Granddaughter Adrienne and daughter-in-law Roberta offer photographs and press clippings from her private albums, while film historians point out the artistry and innovativeness of her work. The Lost Garden eulogizes a woman whom history tried hard to forget. Alice Guy-Blaché makes it back to the screen in time for cinema's one hundredth anniversary. The Lost Garden: The Life and Cinema of Alice Guy-Blaché (1995)1995, 52 min 50 s www.youtube.com/watch?v=zli0mysaUeUDirected by Marquise Lepage Produced by Josée Beaudet Production Agency National Film Board of Canada
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I’d need to watch with a VPN. At any rate, I’ll keep my eye out for a Company of Strangers streamer elsewhere on the web. Thanks.