Robert Fresco

Marijuana is the most controversial drug of the 20th Century. Smoked by generations to little discernible ill effect, it continues to be reviled by many governments on Earth. In this Genie Award-winning documentary veteran Canadian director Ron Mann and narrator Woody Harrelson mix humour and historical footage together to recount how the United States has demonized a relatively harmless drug.

The ghost of a girl who died in 1955 appears to a troubled teen living in her old house.

Wealthy widower Richard Keaton engages young widow Elizabeth 'Liz' Guinness as the 4th consecutive nanny for his pre-teen, equally science-devoted son Andrew, with instructions to disturb neither. She learns of mother Alycia's fatal fall, an official suicide but was probably murder. Dad keeps Andy at a distance, so he draws towards Liz. Real danger starts when Richard's brother, novelist Blain, arrives with his friend Jillian, to sell the ancestral estate against Richard's will.

Combining rare and often hilarious archival footage with engaging interviews, this groovy documentary chronicles the evolution of the titular postwar rock ’n' roll dance craze that took America by storm. Featuring singers and musicians who helped define the phenomenon like Hank Ballard, Chubby Checker, and Joey Dee, as well as clips from TV shows like “American Bandstand,” TWIST tells the overlooked story of how shaking your hips went from being a sign of social degeneracy to the dance form that rocked the world.

スーパーマン、スパイダーマン、バットマン、Xメン・・・。コミックスや映画、フィギュアなどで長年にわたって私たちを楽しませてくれるアメリカン・コミック。19世紀末にコミック・ストリップ（新聞連載のマンガ）としてその歴史をスタートさせたアメリカン・コミックは、1933年頃にコミック・ブック（雑誌形式のマンガ）となって出版される。コミック・ブックの刊行は「スーパーマン」や「バットマン」などのスーパーヒーローを生み出し、子供たちを熱狂させた。60年代後半にはロバート・クラムに代表されるカリフォルニアの作家たちによる、カウンター・カルチャーを反映したアンダーグラウンド・コミックスの波が押し寄せ、大人向けのコミックスも増加。その後、より自由で実験的なインディペンデント・コミックまたはオルタナティヴ・コミックといわれるジャンル、グラフィック・ノヴェルと呼ばれる書き下ろし長編のコミックスなども登場。メイン・ストリームのスーパーヒーローもののコミックスは徐々に売り上げが落ちて停滞するものの、相次ぐハリウッドでの映画化やキャラクターの商品化で世界規模のマーケットが確立されている。またアンダーグラウンド作品もメイン・ストリーム化してより広く知られるようになり、アメリカン・コミックスは今なお進化し続ける。

More than 20 contemporary North American poets recite, sing, and perform their work. Early in the film, Charles Bukowski talks about the energy of poets and of a poem. These poets are the children of Walt Whitman and of Charles Olson, incantatory and oratorical, radical, sometimes incorporating contemporary political imagery. Black Mountain poets, the Beats, minimalists like John Cage, the wordless Four Horsemen, Tom Waits, and others capture aspects of poets as troubadours.

In one of many unpopular and unsupported policy decisions, the US government of the near future outlaws vehicle petrol in an effort to curb the overuse of limited natural resources - except, of course, for official purposes. There are many renegades who oppose the authorities, and will stop at nothing to allow themselves the freedom of burning around the countryside.

An examination, shown through both interviews and performances, of the avant-garde free jazz movement which reigned during the 1960s.

とある廃校で一人の幼い少女が、四人の友達とおにごっこの最中、彼らの度を越した追い込みにより殺害される。それから数年後、そのことを秘密として誓い合った彼らは高校生となりプロムを迎えようとしていた。

At the edge of a grand estate, near a crumbling old mansion lies a strange stone building with just a single room. In the room there lies a bed. Born of demonic power, the bed seeks the flesh, blood and life essence of unwary travelers… Three pretty girls arrive on vacation, searching for a place to spend the night. Instead, they tumble into nightmares – and the cruel, insatiable hunger of the Bed!

This short documentary offers a humorous look at horse-pulling contests in Ontario and the people who prepare for them. We travel from the farm to the contest, where excitement runs high and the quips do not lack in local colour. Which of these magnificent creatures will be able to pull the heaviest load and win the prize?

This short surrealistic film portrays a growing boy and the bizarre world of imposed conditions and contradictions he evolves in. Made by students of Queen's University, A One/Two/Many/World is social commentary expressed in symbolic language.