Brent Carver

A retrospective of Chita Rivera's film, television and stage career, including interviews with Dick Van Dyke, Ben Vereen, Carol Lawrence and others. Originally aired as Episode 2 of Season 43 of the PBS series Great Performances.

Actor/singer Brent Carver sings and performs Shakespeare.

A short BravoFACT adaptation of the 2010 Stratford Shakespeare Festival play 'As You Like It'.

Broadway royalty and Tony-winners Tommy Tune, Carol Channing, Robert Goulet, and Harvey Fierstein are your hosts for this third compilation of great musical performances from the archives of the Tony Award® broadcasts. Legendary stars from legendary shows strut their stuff in 23 performances that have become part of Broadway history.

This filmed treatment of the original Stratford Festival production of Timothy Findley's Governor General Award-winning play is a lavish treat for the eyes and the ears. William Shakespeare and his company of actors are brought together with the formidable Queen Elizabeth I in a remarkable encounter on the night of April 22, 1616, hours before the execution of Elizabeth's former lover Essex. Through the course of the evening, actor Ned Lowenscroft, famous for his female roles in Shakespeares' plays, very touchingly teaches the Queen to be more of a woman, while the Queen helps Ned be more of a man. Part history lesson, part theatrical insight, the play is a beautifully crafted Shakespeare-like work with poignant reflections on grief, love, friendship, and art. Compelling performances are delivered by Diane D'Aquila as Queen Elizabeth, Peter Hutt as Shakespeare and Brent Carver as Ned Lowenscroft.

An intense relationship drama that takes the form of a mystery, The Event centers around a series of unexplained deaths that occur among the gay community in New York's fashionable Chelsea district. Nick, a district attorney investigating the most recent case, a suspicious apparent suicide, and her interviews with friends and family of the deceased trigger extensive and intricately interwoven flashbacks that reveal surprising facts about the man's life and death.

Durante un control aduanero en la frontera canadiense, Raffi (David Alpay) declara que sólo lleva material para una película que se está rodando en Toronto. Sin embargo, un funcionario llamado David (Christopher Plummer) sospecha que miente y lo somete a un interrogatorio que se convierte en un examen psicológico que revela episodios conflictivos de sus respectivas vidas. Raffi, de origen armenio, vive obsesionado con el recuerdo de su padre y con los sentimientos que dicho recuerdo suscitan en su madre Ani (Arsinée Khanjian) y en su hermanastra Celia (Marie-Josée Croze). Por su parte, David intenta entender y aceptar la relación de su hijo Philip (Brent Carter) con un actor de origen turco Alí (Elias Koteas), al tiempo que trata de establecer una sólida relación con su nieto Tony, el hijo de Philip.

Los terribles recuerdos de un accidente traumático obligan a Claire a escapar a una isla remota de donde proceden sus antepasados. La que había sido una importante comunidad pesquera es ahora un árido, solitario y melancólico lugar que no hace más que aumentar la tristeza que Claire lleva dentro. Pero todo cambia el día que se encuentra con Celia, una excéntrica escritora que la introduce en su última novela... una historia todavía inacabada, con la que Claire se siente muy identificada y que tendrá el poder de cicatrizar las heridas de su alma. (FILMAFFINITY)

La versión más cercana a la novela de Washington Irving. (FILMAFFINITY)

Returning to the now abandoned family farm, a man’s memories of his past resurface. Seen through the eyes of his younger self, Maurice’s most vivid memory is of his friendship with Teeka, his pet goose, and the sole refuge this provides from a violent relationship with his parents. As Maurice and Teeka escape deeper into a fantasy world inspired by Tarzan comics, the goose realizes that beneath all the play lies a dark universe from which neither he nor Maurice will be able to escape. Based on the book by Michel Marc Bouchard.

A friendless youngster (Michael Caloz) asks a cat goddess to help his feline friend.

Historia que se mueve hacia atrás y adelante en el tiempo sobre dos homosexuales, desde que ambos eran unos jóvenes estudiantes amigos que se enamoraron del mismo chico. Años después, en 1952, uno de ellos está moribundo en la cárcel y el otro es un obispo en Quebec.

La vida del notable polímata del Renacimiento italiano Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519), quien fue un destacado pintor, arquitecto, artista, anatomista, botánico, científico, escritor, escultor, filósofo humanista, ingeniero, inventor, músico, poeta y urbanista. Probablemente, es la persona con el mayor número de talentos en múltiples disciplinas que jamás haya existido. Sus primeros trabajos de importancia fueron creados en Milan al servicio del duque Ludovico Sforza. Trabajó a continuación en Roma, Bolonia y Venecia, y pasó sus últimos años en Francia, por invitación del rey Francisco

A feminine take on a Cassavetes drama, the film focuses on a group of women who have gathered for a surprise baby shower. However, as the female guests arrive (the household males having adjourned to an afternoon football game), the off-screen mother-to-be goes into premature labour, leaving the bored invitees to sip spiked punch and discuss the dearth of available men until the drunken boys return home, thus setting the stage for male/female confrontations, confessions and clumsy acts of copulation-notably while standing under a shower. An exploration of the contemporary trappings of male/female sexual politics.

Narcissistic Saskatchewan Tory politician Colin Thatcher is engaged in a bitter divorce from his wife Jo-Ann. When a series of court rulings over the divorce go against him, Thatcher decides a more drastic solution is needed - murder! A series of attempts on Jo-Ann's life follow, most of which don't succeed. Finally one does, and the arrogant Thatcher believes he is above the law and immune to prosecution. But his arrogance proves to be his undoing, as Crown Counsel Serge Kujawa builds a case against this psychopathic monster for 1st-degree murder - charging that Thatcher hired someone to kill his wife. The true story of one of the most disturbing stories of murder-for-hire in Canada. - IMDb

Dos aviones de pasajeros colisionan poco antes de tomar tierra en el aeropuerto de Minneapolis. Pero antes del choque se produce una explosión, y uno de los copilotos descubre que antes de esa explosión todos los pasajeros ya estaban muertos.

Jess, a struggling dancer, is trying out for a part in a musical about Medusa. As she practices, the director notices how much she resembles his former lover, a ballerina who died in a bizarre on-stage accident while performing the exact same dance that Jess is doing. As more unexplainable coincidences surround the production, someone or something must be behind them all. But who? Or what?

In this spoof of spy films, Alan, a U.N. translator, and his kindergarten teacher wife, Beverly, get roped into helping foil a presidential assassination plot by an unlikely G-man-who just so happens to look like Alan's old college buddy, Freddie. But before "Freddie" can finger the real hired-gun-a cold-hearted killer with a penchant for using kitchen tools to do the deed-he, Alan, and Beverly must first rule out some strange and unusual suspects.

Brent Carver stars as the swashbuckling Pirate King in the famous Stratford Festival's rollicking production of the Gilbert & Sullivan classic that pits British bobbles against unlikely pirates on the Cornish coast. Sullivan regarded this operetta - a hit ever since its first production in New York in 1879 - as the best comedy he composed. He even said of his collaborator, "The libretto is ingenious, clever, wonderfully fun in parts and sometimes brilliant in dialogue - beautifully written for music, as is all Gilbert does." Indeed, audiences will find the music every bit a match for the lyrics, with the genius of the score lying in its parody of grand opera. Filmed in 1985 at the world-famous Stratford Shakespeare Festival in Stratford, Ontario.

Robert Ross (Brent Carver) lives a protected adolescence in a well-off Toronto suburb. Secretive and withdrawn, he shares his thoughts only with his sister Rowena (Anne-Marie MacDonald) who is mentally disabled. He feels compassion for his weak and conventional father. He avoids any confrontation with his mother (Martha Henry), a dominating woman whose despondency at having given birth to a handicapped child has turned to bitterness. Rowena occupies a central position in Robert's existence of daydreams and make-believe. When she dies, Robert clashes openly with his family, and decides to take himself in hand. It's 1914. He enrolls in the Canadian army, and, after training in Alberta and Montreal, he finds himself in England and France. The war becomes another way for him to resolve his conflicts, his dramas, his passions--his wars.

Despues de encontrar a una mujer descuartizada en su apartamento de Nueva York, las sospechas recaen sobre su marido desaparecido. Un ejecutivo que de forma repentina ha dejado la ciudad para embarcarse en un viaje a traves del pais.

The story of an Olympic high jumper, played by Brent Carver, who loses his leg and yet doggedly persists in his pursuit of athletic glory. Released a year before Terry Fox's Marathon of Hope, this made-for-Canadian-TV movie, which also stars Sex and the City's Kim Cattrall, has been described as a tear-jerker.

Carol Bolt's adaptation of her stage play locks its audience in a claustrophobic bachelor flat for a night of black comedy, lust and terror. Jilted on her birthday by her boyfriend, Daisy picks up night club singer Rafe and takes him home. Is he a lover, liar or psychotic serial killer?