Michael Ondaatje

The story of Canada's leading poet and the A-Frame cabin he built. Now Canada's leading musicians and artists come together to tell the tale of Al Purdy.

An overview of the life and career of Canadian folk musician Bruce Cockburn.

사라 폴리는 돌아가신 어머니 다이앤에 대해 그들이 알고 있는 모든 걸 얘기해달라며 아버지 마이클 폴리와 가족들을 카메라 앞으로 초대한다. 그들이 기억하는 다이앤은 밝고 생기 넘치는 사람이었으며 자유분방하고 개성강한 배우였다. 몇 번의 결혼 실패 후 운명의 상대 마이클을 만나게 되고, 고요히 침잠하는 물과 타오르는 불처럼 서로 정반대의 성격이던 두 사람은 42살의 늦은 나이에 사라 폴리를 낳는다. 그리고 어느 때부턴가 사라가 아버지를 닮지 않았다는 우스개 소리가 가족의 비밀처럼 자리잡게 된다. 다큐멘터리를 만들고 주변사람들을 인터뷰하면서 탐정처럼 자신이 모으게 된 모든 조각들을 펼쳐 보이던 그녀는 어느덧 자신의 출생의 비밀을 둘러싼 진실에 다다르게 되는데…

Editing is more than just assembling shots in a certain order, it's an art form, and this documentary celebrates the craft and how it has grown and evolved through the history of the cinema. Edge Codes.com: The Art of Motion Picture Editing traces this story from the world of pioneering silent auteurs such as Georges Méliès and D.W. Griffith through the bold stylings of the masters of the French New Wave to the technical and creative innovations of films like The Matrix, Memento, and The Sixth Sense. Edge Codes.com includes interviews with noted directors George Lucas and Norman Jewison, as well as top editors Thelma Schoonmaker, Zach Staenberg, Dody Dorn, Andrew Mondshein, and many more.

"Michael Ondaatje called Gwendolyn MacEwen 'the last of the bardic poets'. In the early 60s, she astonished the nascent beat scene at Toronto's Bohemian Embassy with her exotic looks and her accomplished writing style. During her lifetime MacEwen travelled to Greece and Egpyt, married twice, wrote novels, translated Greek verse, took lovers and wrote radio scripts. Above all, she wrote luminous poetry, some of which is sensitively visualized in this thoughtful, pensive work which features insights from Margaret Atwood, Judith Merrill and Rosemary Sullivan." -- Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival

Ever more bizarre criteria are used to eliminate couples from a secret dance event.

Ever more bizarre criteria are used to eliminate couples from a secret dance event.

2차 세계대전이 종전될 무렵 극심한 화상을 입고 나라도, 신분도, 이름도 잃은 환자 ‘알마시’(랄프 파인즈)는 ‘잉글리쉬 페이션트’로 불리며 야전병원을 전전한다. 더 이상 치료가 불가능할 정도로 몸 상태가 악화되어 가던 그는 헌신적으로 간호해주는 간호사 ‘한나’(줄리엣 비노쉬)에게 지금껏 간직해온 자신의 비밀스러운 사랑 이야기를 들려주는데… 전 세계가 인정한 영원의 러브스토리가 되살아난다!

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.

Michael Ondaatje chronicles a group of actors who, in 1972, went into an Ontario farming community to build a play of what they saw and learned. This famous experimental collaborative 'grassroots' play by Paul Thompson and Theatre Passe Muraille brought to that community a sense of awe, delight, and reflection of their own language and culture.

Ondaajte's whimsical slapstick 'docu-drama' follows a couple of crooked Canadian poets who try to kidnap a dog.

"Canada's convention-shattering voice of poetry" (Globe and Mail). Michael Ondaatje documents the work and spirit of fellow poet bpNichol (1944-1988) Capturing the artist / writer / sound performer in "fantasy documentary", Ondaatje uncovers what made bpNichol an influence to a generation of North American and European writers.