I see a new world. Do you see it? If you listened to the city back in 1984, here's what it told you: there are dark days coming, and the only way to survive them is by being rich. Made during the re-election year of Ronald Reagan, the election year of Prime Minister Brian Mulroney and the very beginnings of the shattering saving and loan scandal that would come to look like candy store shoplifting a generation on, Ron Mann's rare early non-documentary movie is like a downtown artist's poster collage of DIY urgency: from the opening sequence, in which the poet/punk Jim Carroll rises like Lazarus from his hospital bed and takes to the streets with a vertical IV drip and a message about better days, to the ensuing satirical depiction of a corporation coldly deciding to cut the unprofitable heart out of the city it calls home, the movie plays as fearless, street-art inspired pastiche: part experimental polemic, part political cartoon, part video art installation, part performance prank. Just as Jim Carroll passes through its ominous depiction of a ruined Toronto, so does bp nichol, P.J. Soles, the late Jack Layton, Barry Callaghan, the Spoons' Sandy Horne and fellow activist-documentarist Peter Wintonick. All kinds of people urging us to listen. And all these years later and it's still pissed off. Just as it should be.

Old Steve Lucas (Joss McWilliam) is living in the shadow of his successful brother Adam (AFI Award winner Colin Friels). Burdened by his father's overpowering desire for sporting glory, Adam is pushed into one of the toughest training regimes of his life to win the coveted Coolangatta Gold Tri-Aquathon at any cost..

The US President is about to be assassinated in a dream where there is no morning after. Only one man can save him -- a man who must plunge himself into the President's horrendous nightmare. Alex Gardner is a psychically gifted young man recruited to help Dr Paul Novotny and the beautiful Dr Jane DeVries in an experiment to help patients disturbed by menacing nocturnal illusions.. But corrupt high ranking government official Bob Blair has darker plans for Alex's unusual powers. Soon Alex is propelled inside the President's nightmare, a frightening nuclear wasteland, and locked in a fantastic battle that could only happen in a dream..

Vigil is the first ever film from New Zealand to compete in Cannes (1984). Winner of the Best Film award at the Madrid Film Festival it is the first feature film of 30 year-old Vincent Ward. Vigil is a powerful atmospheric drama set in a primeval valley where four characters live and farm in an uneasy coexistence. The story unfolds through the eyes of the central character Toss, an 11 year-old girl caught up in the tragedy of her father's death and the arrival of a stranger, Ethan. Ward spent five years making this mystical testimony to the beauty and immutability of nature's laws and the circle of life and death.

The story of actress and leftist iconoclast Frances Farmer. In 1935, Farmer became an overnight Hollywood sensation; within ten years she was in a state mental hospital. Highly stylized and moodily provocative, COMMITTED offers a multi-layered look at this culturally defiant woman, going beyond the personal to explore the political and social attitudes of the time. Now digitally restored.

The sexually charged tale of a woman's journey of self-discovery, Variety is a fascinating film that challenges familiar stereotypes surrounding feminism and pornography. Christine (Sandy McLeod) takes a job selling tickets at a porno theater near Times Square. Instead of distancing herself from the dark and erotic nature of this milieu, Christine develops an obsession that begins to consume her life. Few films deal honestly with a female sexual point-of-view, controversial and highly personal, Variety does just this, and in doing so announces itself as the major film of a director who embodies the essence of independent cinema.

This classic Dutch animated film tells the story of two sisters who spent their entire lives together looking back at their cherished memories.. Winner of an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film.

THE KILLING FLOOR tells the struggle to build an interracial labor union in the Chicago Stockyards. The screenplay by Obie Award winner Leslie Lee is from an original story by producer Elsa Rassbach and is based on actual characters and events, tracing ethnic and class conflicts seething in the city's giant slaughterhouses, when management efforts to divide the workforce fuel racial tensions that erupt in the deadly Chicago Race Riot of 1919.

Lovingly restored and digitally remastered, HOCKEY NIGHT features Canadian icon Megan Follows (Anne of Green Gables) as Cathy Yarrow, a confident and talented young athlete. Having moved to a small town, the bored and under-challenged Cathy straps on goalie pads and joins the boys' all-star hockey team-facing substantial criticism from the town, including local broadcaster Bum Johnson (Maury Chaykin) and the team's sponsor, lumber magnate Bill Moss (Henry Ramer)-both think girls have no place on the ice. Under pressure, Cathy stands firm between the pipes, helping the team win games while winning herself loyal allies in star player Spear Kozak (Yannick Bisson) and coach Willie Liepert (Rick Moranis).. Ahead of its time when it was first released, HOCKEY NIGHT is a story of adolescent relationships, the struggles of small-town politics, and triumphing over the pressures of the adult world, It's a perfect film for families, sports enthusiasts and cinephiles, as well as those studying women in sports and changing norms. HOCKEY NIGHT is an inspiration for a new generation of aspiring athletes of all genders.

Set in the lead up to WWI, Szabó's Cannes Grand Jury-winning Colonel Redl charts the rise of Alfred Redl to head of counter-intelligence of the Austro-Hungarian Army. His hidden homosexuality, however, is used against him by enemies of the state, putting both his professional standing and his country's security in dire straits. The film was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film in 1985, the third of four such **Academy Award** nominations Szabó's films earned. **Cannes Film Festival** winner.