Mort Ransen

Margaret's Museum (1995)

Cast: Kate Nelligan Helena Bonham Carter Clive Russell   

Tags: Romantic Drama Rural Drama Drama 

Length: 114min

The often tragic lives of the residents of a Nova Scotia coal mining town are viewed through the eyes of a depressed young woman in this grim period drama. Set in the 1940s, the film begins with a brief, intentionally puzzling interlude before...

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Falling Over Backwards (1990)

Cast: Saul Rubinek Vlasta Vrana Helen Hughes Paul Soles Carolyn Scott   

Tags: Comedy 

Length: 104min

Falling Over Backwards was filmed in Quebec through the good graces of the National Film Board of Canada. Saul Rubinek plays a high school teacher, currently in the doldrums over his divorce. Ignoring advice of Thomas Wolfe, Rubinek decides to "go...

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Sincerely, Violet (1987)

Cast: Simon MacCorkindale   

Tags: Drama Romance 

Length: 80min

In this romantic drama, a clever professor will do anything to prove to a handsome fellow that his distant relative who signed the Declaration of Independence was a female. In order to prove her claim, the academic dons a disguise and poses as Violet,...

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Bayo (1985)

Length: 100min

In this family drama from Canada, Bayo (Stephen McGrath) is a ten-year-old boy who lives with his mother Sharon (Patricia Phillips) in Tickle Cove, a small fishing village near Newfoundland's Bonavista Bay. Bayo's grandfather Philip (Ed McNamara) is...

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The Masculine Mystique (1984)

Tags: Gender Issues Culture & Society 

Length: 87min

For those seeking a break from all those feminist documentaries in which women sit around discussing the iniquities of a male-dominated world, we submit for your approval the Canadian The Masculine Mystique. Veteran Scottish-born filmmaker Giles...

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Street (1976)

Cast: John Hood Sarah Dwight Mort Ransen   

Tags: Art Film 

Length: 10min

Caroline Leaf draws and animates the 1976 short film Street using broad ink strokes and monochromatic watercolor wash, which lend the work a deliberately coarse and crude feel. An adaptation of a short story by noted Canadian humorist Mordecai Richler...

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Christopher's Movie Matinee (1969)

Cast: Tom Evans   

Length: 90min

This Nation Film Board of Canada appears to be an improvised feature that deals with the backlash of criticism young people experience from their older, less-tolerant fellow citizens. A heckling businessman warns all the young people on a bus that...

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The Circle (1967)

Tags: Biography Illnesses & Disabilities Psychology Culture & Society 

Length: 80min

Recovering addicts at the Day Top Village on Staten Island go through group therapy in an effort to overcome their affliction. The addicts go "cold turkey" to get off drugs and give brutally honest feedback to each other as they discuss the problems...

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