NFS Archives
Films shown by NFS since our Premiere late 2003.
| Name | Short Synopsis |
Film Number
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| The Last Station April 25, 2010 |
The story of Tolstoy and his love for his wife and for his country. Tolstoy is at odds with his wife because he believes the proceeds from his novels belong to the Russian people. | 95 |
| Invictus April 11, 2010 |
In his first term as President of South Africa, Nelson Mandela faces the tensions and divisions of a post apartheid nation. Mandela makes it his mission, through the captain, Francois Pienaar to inspire and encourage the struggling Springboks to lift their game as they head for the 1995 Rugby World Cup. | 94 |
| A Single Man March 28, 2010 |
Surprising, heart-warming, depressing, thought-provoking and above all interesting. It's a story about a gay teacher in the 60's who loses his lover in an accident and is left in a world that he no longer wishes to be a part of. | 93 |
| Me and Orson Welles March 7, 2010 |
Teenage student Richard Samuels lucks his way into a minor role in the legendary 1937 Mercury Theatre production of Julius Caesar, directed by a youthful Orson Welles. | 92 |
| A Serious Man February 14, 2010 |
A Serious Man is directors Joel and Ethan Coen’s contemporary, black comedy re-telling of The Book of Job. Larry Gopnik is their Job. | 91 |
| 2010 Film Festival Cooking with Stella January 31, 2010 |
A warmhearted social satire about a Canadian diplomat and her chef husband Michael who are posted to New Delhi. Upon arrival they inherit a household of Indian servants headed by the charming but wily cook, Stella. | 90 |
| 2010 Film Festival Broken Embraces January 31, 2010 |
A story about filmmaking that celebrates the triumphs and tragedies of storytelling: multi-stranded narratives unfold within other stories; seemingly unrelated characters are slowly revealed to be linked by deep secrets. | 89 |
| 2010 Film Festival The Young Victoria January 30, 2010 |
Emily Blunt makes an impressive leading role debut with a portrayal of the young Victoria, a troubled teenage monarch cursed by opportunist hangers-on but blessed with the love of her German cousin Prince Albert . | 88 |
| 2010 Film Festival Cairo Time January 30, 2010 |
Cairo Time stars Patricia Clarkson as a magazine editor who travels to Cairo to meet her husband, (Tom McCamus), a UN official working in Gaza, for a three week vacation. | 87 |
| 2010 Film Festival Creation January 29, 2010 |
How evolutionist Charles Darwin came to terms with the death of his beloved daughter to publish the groundbreaking On The Origin Of Species is the subject of director Jon Amiel's biopic. | 86 |
| The Boys are Back January 10, 2010 |
Inspired by a true story, THE BOYS ARE BACK is a deeply moving, wryly confessional tale of fatherhood | 85 |
| Coco before Chanel December 5, 2009 |
The story of Coco Chanel from her upbringing in an orphanage to her later success. | 84 |
| Bright Star November 29, 2009 |
The Bio pic about Poet John Keats. Set in London 1818, he has a secret love affair with the girl next door, Fanny Brawne, and the sparks fly. | 83 |
| An Education November 15, 2009 |
Jenny is a bright young girl on the cusp of her 17th birthday who finds herself in a whirlwind romance with a much older David. But she has a lot to learn! | 82 |
| Sin Nombre November 1, 2009 |
A very realistic portrayal of the gang violence, poverty, and dangerous train trips taken by hundreds of Central Americans every day, yet beautifully cast, directed, and shot. | 81 |
| Goodbye Solo October 18, 2009 |
William offers a nice chunk of change for taxi driver Solo to drive him in two weeks to the remote mountaintop Blowing Rock, a place known because when a stick is thrown down it returns to you because of the wind. | 80 |
| Departures October 4, 2009 |
A gentle film about a quiet man in conflict with his world, his father, himself. It is also about death and its rituals. Yet the film manages to be anything but dark; whimsy and sweet irony are laced throughout. | 79 |
| Milk April 19, 2009 |
The first openly gay Mayor of San Francisco, or anywhere for that matter was Harvey Milk. This is his story. | 78 |
| The Stone of Destiny March 29, 2009 |
Based on the true story of how some Scots reclaim their Stone of Scone from Westminster Abbey. It was originally taken by England in 1296 and became a symbol of their dominance. | 77 |
| Fifty Dead Men Walking March 8, 2009 |
In the 1980s, a 22-year-old from West Belfast was recruited by the British police to infiltrate the IRA and spy on them from the inside. |
76
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| Rachel Getting Married February 22, 2009 |
The return of an estranged daughter to the family home for her sister's wedding throws a wrench into the family dynamics, forcing long-simmering tensions to surface in ways both hilarious and heartbreaking. |
75
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| I've Loved You So Long February 8, 2009 |
This powerful story of familial struggles and redemption follows a shell-shocked Juliette, who returns to live with her young sister Lea after being banished from the family for 15 years. |
74
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| 2009 Film Festival Thirty Two Short Films about Glenn Gould January 25, 2009 |
A dramatised documentary about the eccentric Canadian pianist Glenn Gould broken up into thirty-two short films, each giving us an insight into some aspect of Gould's life and career. |
73
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| 2009 Film Festival Real Time January 25, 2009 |
Andy Hayes, a nervous, hyperactive gambler, gets a one hour reprieve from Reuben (Randy Quaid), the hitman sent to kill him. This gives Andy a chance to make up for past regrets and missed opportunities. |
72
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| 2009 Film Festival One Week January 24, 2009 |
An elementary school teacher learns that he has stage four cancer and embarks on a cross-country trip across Canada - an effort that ultimately comes off as a moving and tremendously involving piece of work. |
71
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| 2009 Film Festival Heaven on Earth January 24, 2009 |
Deepa Mehta's film about a young Indian bride who marries a Canadian man in the hope of finding a better life, but soon finds herself battered and powerless in a strange landscape. |
70
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2009 Film Festival Necessities of Life January 23, 2009 |
Natar Ungalaaq of "The Fast Runner" stars as a stricken man yanked from his isolated home terrain to a Quebec City hospital, where he experiences both profound culture shock and some barrier-transcending human connections. |
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| The Duchess Jan 11, 2009 |
Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire was beautiful, glamorous and adored by the public but stranded in a loveless marriage. Frustrated, she rebelled, both publicly and privately - but finally discovered true love. |
68
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| Bottleshock December 7, 2008 |
The true story of an upstart band of wine makers and their dream of winning the historical 1976 blind wine tasting in Paris. |
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| Brideshead revisited November 16 |
Charles Ryder becomes entranced with the provocative Sebastian Flyte and then his sophisticated sister, Julia. The rise and fall of Charles' infatuations reflect a decadent era in England between the wars. |
66
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| Amal November 2, 2008 |
Autorickshaw driver Amal is content but his sense of duty is tested by an eccentric, aging billionaire, who, moved by Amal's humility, bequeaths him his entire estate before passing away. |
65
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| The Stone Angel October 19, 2008 |
Hagar Shipley's passionate heart has always ruled her head and with her life nearly behind her, she sets out in search of a way to reconcile herself to her turbulent past. |
64
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| The Visitor October 5, 2008 |
College professor Walter Vale returns to the little-used apartment he owns in Manhatten and discovers that globalization has come to him in the form of Syrian Tarek and Senegalese Zainab. |
63
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| The Band's Visit April 20, 2008 |
Once, not long ago, a small Egyptian Police band arrived in Israel. They came to play at an initiation ceremony but, due to bureaucracy, bad luck, or for whatever reason, they were left stranded at the airport. |
62
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| Atonement March 30, 2008 |
The consequences are huge when a 13-year-old falsely accuses her older sister’s boyfriend of a terrible crime. |
61
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| The Kite Runner March 2, 2008 |
In a divided country on the verge of war, two childhood friends, Amir and Hassan, are about to be torn apart forever. |
60
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| The Diving Bell
and the Butterfly February 10, 2008 |
The highly emotional story of Elle France editor Jean-Dominique Bauby, who, in 1995 at the age of 43, suffered a stroke that paralyzed his entire body, except his left eye. |
59
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| 2008 Film Festival Brick Lane Sunday Jan 27 |
An immigrant family finds a way to cope with their new life in England |
58
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| 2008 Film Festival No Country for Old Men Sunday Jan 27 |
Acclaimed modern western by the Coen brothers Named best film of 2007 by National Board of Review of Motion Pictures. |
57
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| 2008 Film Festival Eastern Promises Saturday Jan 26 |
David Cronenburg's latest (and acclaimed) masterpiece |
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| 2008 Film Festival Lars and the Real Girl Saturday Jan 26 |
A man's unusual attempt to solve his loneliness Named best original screenplay of 2007 (tied with Juno) by National Board of Review of Motion Pictures. |
55
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| 2008 Film Festival Into the Wild Friday Jan 25 |
A spellbinding film adaptation of the book about a man who leaves civilization for Alaska |
54
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| Jane Austen Book
Club January 13, 2008 |
As five women and one enigmatic man meet to discuss the works of Jane Austen, they find their love lives playing out in a 21st century version of her novels. |
53
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| In the Valley
of Elah December 9, 2007 |
The story of a war veteran, his wife and the search for their son, a soldier who recently returned from Iraq but has mysteriously gone missing, |
52
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| La Vie en Rose November 25, 2007 |
From the slums of Paris to the limelight of New York, Edith Piaf's life was a battle to sing and survive, live and love. |
51
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| Waitress November 4, 2007 |
The story of one woman trapped in a life from which she dreams of escape. Jenna's secret ambition is to save enough money from her waitressing job to leave her overbearing and controlling husband. |
50
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| Amazing Grace October 14, 2007 |
William Wilberforce makes it his mission to end slavery in the British Empire and he annually presents a bill for abolition to Parliament. |
49
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| Lives of Others April 22, 2007 |
An historical snapshot of East Germany in 1984. A Stasi agent slowly gets empathy towards the couple he's spying on. |
48
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| Away from Her April 1, 2007 |
The moving story of a couple torn apart by the need for the wife to go into a Retirement home because of Alzheimer's disease. |
47
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| Volver March 18, 2007 |
An entertaining, whimsical and fantastical film about the power of motherhood and friendship. |
46
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| Babel February 25, 2007 |
Babel starts with a tragic incident involving an American couple in Morocco that sparks a chain of events for four families in different countries throughout the world. |
45
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| 2007 Film Festival Catch a Fire January 28, 2007 |
A political thriller that powerfully tells the real-life story of a South African hero's journey to freedom. |
44
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| 2007 Film Festival Kardia January 28, 2007 |
Hope discovers that the experimental heart operation she underwent as a child has mysteriously linked her life with another. |
43
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| 2007 Film Festival For Your Consideration January 27, 2007 |
Ageing actress Marilyn Hack (Catherine O’Hara) gets swept up in the excitement of film awards season after a website kicks off the buzz that she deserves to get nominated for a Best Actress Oscar. |
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| 2007 Film Festival Manufactured Landscapes January 27, 2007 |
The film follows renowned artist Burtynsky to China as he travels the country photographing the evidence and effects of China's massive industrial revolution. |
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| 2007 Film Festival The Journals of Knud Rasmussen January 26, 2007 |
The story of the last great Inuit shaman, Avva, and his beautiful and headstrong daughter, Apak, who lives one foot in her father's world and the other on the verge of the future. |
40
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| Un Dimanche à Kigali January 7, 2007 |
A beautiful love story, touching and tragic, and a moving personal view of what man’s inhumanity had wrought in Rwanda. |
39
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| Bon Cop, Bad Cop December 3, 2006 |
Successful Quebec movie that pits two provincial officers one a reserved Ontario Anglophone, the other more Québécois than poutine against one another to solve a murder. |
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| Merry Christmas November 12, 2006 |
World War 1 story of soldiers putting aside war to celebrate Christmas with "the enemy". |
37
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| Neil Young - Heart of Gold May 7, 2006 |
Chronicles the trip to Ryman Auditorium in Nashville as well as the performances, weaving interviews with meticulously choreographed Steadicam shots from two concerts. |
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| The World's Fastest Indian April 23, 2006 |
The life story of the legendary New Zealand motorcycle biker Burt Munro (Anthony Hopkins). Burt spent years modifying a 1920 Indian motorcycle then set a world record at the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah. |
35
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| Her Majesty April 9, 2006 |
Set in 1953, Her Majesty is a widely appealing coming of age story about a young girl who realizes her lifelong dream when Queen Elizabeth comes to visit her small hometown. |
34
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| Breakfast on Pluto March 12, 2006 |
An Irish orphan tries to find his birth mother is his place in the world and reinvents himself as the glamorous transvestite Kitten. |
33
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| Pride and Prejudice February 26, 2006 |
The classic Jane Austen tale of love and values unfolds in the class-conscious England of the late 18th century. |
32
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| 2006 Film Festival A History of Violence January 29, 2006 |
David Cronenburg's look at the idea that you can't hide from your past violence. |
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| 2006 Film
Festival Capote January 29, 2006 |
Truman Capote's life changed as a result of his research into writing the book "In Cold Blood" |
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| 2006
Film Festival C.R.A.Z.Y January 28, 2006 |
The highly successful Quebec film about one boy's life in Montreal from birth to adulthood |
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| 2006
Film Festival Good Night and Good Luck January 28, 2006 |
The story of Edward R Murrow's fight with McCarthyism in the fifties |
28
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| 2006
Film Festival Water January 27, 2006 |
Deep Mehta's highly acclaimed story about the treatment of widows in India in 1938 |
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| Constant Gardener January 8, 2006 |
Set in northern Kenya, an activist has been found brutally murdered and the evidence points to a crime of passion. The seemingly mild-mannered and unambitious widower investigates. Based on the novel by John Le Carre. |
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| Ladies in Lavender November 20, 2005 |
The lives of two old ladies are turned upside down when a young man is almost literally washed up on their doorstep in 1939 England. |
25
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| Turtles can Fly November 6, 2005 |
A moving story about survival in Iraq’s Kurdish north, where children fix satellite antennas that bring remote villages their only news of the outside world. |
24
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| Darwin's Nightmare October 16, 2005 |
In the 1960's, the Nile Perch was introduced into Lake Victoria as a little scientific experiment. A voracious predator, it extinguished almost the entire stock of the native fish species but now the poor fisherman are totally dependant on it to survive. |
23
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| Sabah October 2, 2005 |
A 40-year-old Muslim, Arab woman falls in love with the wrong man: She’s Muslim, he’s not. Keeping him secret from her family, she goes on a whirlwind affair before both culture and love collide. |
22
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| Crash Sept 18, 2005 |
A group of very different people all live in Los Angeles. And during the next 36 hours, they all collide |
21
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| The Merchant of Venice April 25, 2005 |
The classic Shakespeare story with a more current viewpoint of the Jewish merchant, Shylock. |
20
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| Hotel Rwanda April 17, 2005 |
Ten years ago, some of the worst atrocities in the history of mankind took place in the country of Rwanda. Harrowing and deeply moving, Hotel Rwanda is the story of an ordinary man who saves the lives of over a thousand helpless refugees. |
19
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| Kinsey April 3, 2005 |
An exploration of the life of the pioneer of human sexuality research, Alfred Kinsey. The film turns the microscope on the man whose landmark studies on the sexual behaviors of the common man rocked a nation. |
18
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| The Take March 6, 2005 |
Written and produced by the Canadian husband/wife team of Avi Lewis and Naomi Klein, it is a documentary about workers in Argentina who take over a factory and make it successful when the owners could not. |
17
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| Wilby Wonderful February 13, 2005 |
Paul Gross stars as the island's policeman who must juggle old and new love affairs while trying to untangle the mystery of an attempted suicide and a plot to turn Wilby's pristine shoreline into an exclusive golf club. |
16
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| Stage Beauty January 30, 2005 |
In the 1660's, live theatre women's roles were played by men such as 'Ned' Kynaston but when Charles II allows real women to tread the boards and men may no longer play women's parts, Ned becomes a nobody virtually overnight. |
15
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| Motorcycle Diaries January 16, 2005 |
The true story of Che Guevara's personal odyssey with his friend Alberto Granado across South America on a motorcycle. This would ultimately inspire him to become the revolutionary who had a profound impact on the history of several nations. |
14
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| Being Julia November 28, 2004 |
Based on the play Theatre by W. Somerset Maugham, this film is about the reigning diva of the London stage in 1938 who falls head over heels in love with a young American, is betrayed by him and plots a delicious revenge. |
13
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| Zatoichi November 7, 2004 |
Behind his humble facade of a blind masseur, Zatoichi is a master swordsman who uses his lightning-fast draw and strokes of breathtaking precision to dispose of anyone in his way and help two beautiful geishas avenge their parents' murder. |
12
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| Vanity Fair October 17, 2004 |
Based on the novel by William Thackeray, this film follows a lower-class woman as she uses her wit and guile to make her way through London society in the 1820's. |
11
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| Rivers and Tides October 3, 2004 |
A fascinating chronicle of Scottish artist Andy Goldworthy's hours altering the landscape by working elemental materials into paths and patterns of harmonious grace. |
10
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| The Notebook September 19, 2004 |
A sentimental and passionate love story of a wealthy debutante and a millworker who are driven apart by World War II. |
9
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| Barbarian Invasions May 16, 2004 |
In this sequel to 'Decline of the American Empire,' Remy finds himself hospitalized, dependent on the care of his estranged son, and visited by merry band of old friends, mistresses, and relatives. |
8
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| La Grande Seduction/Seducing
Doctor Lewis April 25, 2004 |
An endearing film in which a desolate island community off Quebec's maritime coast connives to secure a local doctor - with hilarious results. |
7
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| Girl with a Pearl Earring April 4, 2004 |
A gloriously detailed vision of the period inspired by Vermeer's beloved portrait of the same name. |
6
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| Sylvia March 14, 2004 |
Based on the true story of the romance and tumultuous marriage of American poet Sylvia Plath and English poet Ted Hughes. |
5
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| The Station Agent February 22, 2004 |
A big-hearted film in which a reclusive dwarf, a gregarious Cuban food vendor and a middle-aged painter form an unlikely trio. |
4
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| Falling Angels February 1, 2004 |
A wickedly funny and touching story of three sisters' coming of age in a wildly dysfunctional family in the 1960's. |
3
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| Mambo Italiano January 11, 2004 |
A charming film that explores the complexities of the quintessential Italian-Canadian family straddling the cultures, traditions and mores of the old and new worlds. |
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| Lost in Translation November 2003 |
Bob Harris (Bill Murray) may be a big American star, but in Tokyo, his fame's only as good as the whiskey he sells. While in Japan, he finds a kindred spirit in Charlotte, the equally lonely wife of a successful fashion photographer. |
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