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. |
EVERGREEN PLAYLAND
A road trip through British Columbia based on travelogue excerpts from the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s. |
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ANXIOUS ANIMATION
A collection of animation from six contemporary film artists who take us into surreal worlds of delirium and paranioa: Lewis Klahr, Janie Geiser, Jim Trainor, Eric Henry, Syd Garon & Rodney Ascher. |
I CLAUDIUS
This remastered 4-DVD set includes the full 11-hour epic plus "The Epic That Never Was", a documentary on Josef von Sturnberg's unfinished 1937 film of "I, Claudius" starring Charles Laughton. |
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EUROPA
This Criterion edition contains full-length commentary and half a dozen notable bonus features with reams of interviews. |
KEN RUSSELL AT THE BBC
Before he courted controversy with big-screen efforts like "Women In Love" and "The Devils", director Ken Russell developed a signature style with his BBC documentaries |
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MAN ON WIRE
One guy. One wire. 1350 feet off the ground. A unique and magnificent spectacle that became known as "the artistic crime of the century." |
REBIRTH OF A NATION
A "DJ mix applied to cinema" based on D.W. Griffith's seminal 1915 film "Birth of a Nation" |
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FANFAN LA TULIPE
Gallic swashbuckling and derring-do fill the screen in this film. Now available from Criterion. |
WORLD WITHIN, THE: CARL JUNG
This 1990 documentary features rare footage of Carl Jung discussing his work with dreams, memory and archetype. |