A Little Fellow from Gambo: The Joey Smallwood Story (1970)
Жанр : документальный
Время выполнения : 56М
Директор : Julian Biggs
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This feature-length documentary paints a lively portrait of Father of Confederation and first premier of Newfoundland Joseph Roberts Smallwood, or "Joey," as he is known to most Canadians. Following one of Canada’s most colourful political figures during a two-and-a-half-month period that included a stormy Liberal leadership convention, the film reveals a man misunderstood even by his close associates.
Капитан Нолан никогда не задумывался о том, какой непоправимый вред он наносит живой природе. Он просто отлично выполнял свою работу. Он делал то, что у него получалось лучше всего, — он убивал. Выходил в море и убивал китов. Однажды он вытащил из воды самку-китиху. Она погибла, а вместе с ней погиб и ее не успевший родиться детеныш. Трагедия произошла на глазах кита-самца. А «орки» однолюбы по своей природе, также как и лебеди, также как и многие живые существа…С этой минуты кит начал мстить людям. Людям, близких Нолану, но к капитану Нолану у кита был свой особый счет. Когда от рыбацкого поселка мало что осталось, обоим — и Нолану, и киту, — стало ясно: они должны сойтись в поединке, который для кого-то из них окажется последним
Фильм «Корабельные новости» (The Shipping News) — американская драма режиссера Лассе Халлстрема (мелодрама «Шоколад», комедия «Мистификация», драма «Дорогой Джон»). Хронически невезучий Койл (Кевин Спейси), однажды влюбляется в оборажительную девушку по имени Петел. Связав себя узами брака, жена-красотка сбегает из семьи с неким дружком и погибает в автомобильной катастрофе. Но беда не приходит одна — вскоре родители неудачника Кола тоже умирают, покончив жизнь самоубийством. Раздавленный неприятностями парень, уезжает на родину отца в Ньюфаундленд, чтобы все забыть и начать заново..
Добро пожаловать в рай, где исполняются все желания! Маленький живописный городок у моря. Население: 120 отъявленных лжецов. И им очень нужен хороший доктор.
A creative and driven teenager is desperate to escape his hometown and the haunting memories of his turbulent childhood.
Действие происходит в 2 временных периода: первая половина фильма - середина 1970-х годов: католический приют для сирот, которым руководит брат Питер Лэйвин, который совершенно не заботится о мальчиках, он использует их чтобы удовлетворять свои сексуальные желания. И так поступает не он один, а целая группа священников. Далее действие переносится в 1990 год, когда один из выросших мальчиков -Кевин Рини - возвращается, чтобы обвинить Лэйвина и встретиться с ним в суде. Но Лэйвин теперь женат, отец двух детей - и церковь продолжает отрицать, что факты совращения детей имели место. Рини в первой части был сексуально совращен, несмотря на свои попытки избежать контакта с Лэйвином и даже сбежать из приюта. В отличие от многих фильмов, где педофилы показаны ужасными людьми, Питер Лэйвин - главный герой и главный обвиняемый фильма - симпатичный и харизматичный мужчина, вызывающий даже симпатию. Фактически, фильм дает возможность понять точку зрения Лэйвина, что конечно шокирует.
Это история бывшего хоккейного игрока Рэя и его дочерей Руби и Роуз. Рэй, который раньше был героем города, вернулся из США на Ньюфаундленд из-за проблем с наркотиками, а тут его бросает жена ради другого мужчины и желания добиться славы в Голливуде. Жена ушла и Рэй начинает метаться от одной женщины к другой, пытаясь как-то ее заменить, но в душе просто борется с осознанием собственной гомосексуальности.
A Newfoundland fishingboat comes to the aid of a wrecked Danish sailing ship and tows it to a small village, but eventually the captain of the fishingboat realises that it's a U-boat supply ship in disguise, loaded with torpedoes. So, together with his crew and a group of villagers he sets about a plan to blow the ship as well as any U-boats that approach it. Based on the novel "The Gaunt Woman" by Edmund Gilligan.
Карьера успешной пианистки Мауры Маккензи движется вверх. Однако за обворожительной внешностью и талантом скрываются свои демоны… Вследствие психического заболевания Маура теряет опеку над двумя дочерями. Сможет ли безутешная мать пережить это горе?
A young girl, who struggles with her pilot father's death in a plane crash years before, visits her grandmother in Newfoundland. While there, she encounters the ghosts of two pilots, who are condemned to Earth to constantly re-live their own crash that occurred in 1927. The girl decides to help the pair by helping them re-build their airplane and complete their flight so they may be released and, in turn, deal with her own emotional bondage.
A whisper among the sprawling forests and mill towns of central Newfoundland. A body found on the side of a river brings together a reclusive fur trapper and a heartsick mother-to-be. Scott is lonely and desperate to give himself meaning. Mona is strong-willed, but frustrated by her fragility. As a reluctant dependence blossoms the pair find themselves wading into violence, answering for the debts of a dead man. Stalked by outlaws, they plan an exit.
A conservationst, stranded with his family at a Newfoundland coastal resort, flies in the face of custom and fights an entire community to prevent a trapped whale's slaughter with only the support of his wife and one of the locals.
In 1938 an airfield was built at the northeastern-most end of America, the descent went slowly but incessantly through the Cold War. This is the story of how its inhabitants gradually moved away from the great world stage and had to reinvent themselves as well as their home town.
Originally called White Thunder, American producer Varick Frissell's 1931 film was inspired by his love for the Canadian Arctic Circle. Set in a beautifully black-and-white filmed Newfoundland, it is the story of a rivalry between two seal hunters that plays out on the ice floes during a hunt. Unsatisfied with the first cut, Frissell arranged for the crew to accompany an actual Newfoundland seal hunt on The SS Viking, on which an explosion of dynamite (carried regularly at the time on Arctic ships to combat ice jams) killed many members of the crew, including Frissell. The film was renamed in honor of the dead.
Based on the tale by Dale Jarvis, "Lady at Number 16" tells the story of two sailors in the 1800s that help a young lady back into her mansion. They return a few hours later to realize that their night was not all that it had seemed, and it may have had a more sinister twist than expected.
A small Canadian town is devasted when a local mine--the town's only source of income--is closed. One man incurs the wrath of the townsmen when he stubbornly refuses the small amount of settlement money offered by the government.
Sharon and her ten year old son Bayo live in Tickle Cove on the shores of Bonavista Bay, Newfoundland like generations of their family have before them. Sharon hates her life there. She dreams of moving to Toronto - where her now deceased mother was from - to eke out a better life for her and Bayo. She even leaves her big black packed trunk in the middle of the foyer as a symbolic gesture that that move will soon be happening. She equally hates her fisher father, Phillip Longlan, for subjecting her and her mother to life there. Phillip, who spends most of his time on a commercial fishing boat, only provides Sharon enough money to survive but not to achieve that dream of leaving. Bayo, however, doesn't want to leave, especially leave his grandfather behind. He wants to live and die by the sea, much like his deceased father, who he never knew.
A portrait of Newfoundland that records a way of life that has all but disappeared.
With simple ceremony on Parliament Hill, Ottawa, Newfoundlanders are welcomed as fellow-Canadians. Prime Minister St. Laurent starting off the carving of Newfoundland's coat of arms in the tenth and formerly blank shield over the entrance to the Parliament Buildings, writing in stone another chapter of Confederation. So begins this survey of Canada's tenth province, Newfoundland, its resources and how its people live. The film takes us to St. John's, Corner Brook, Bell Island, and includes a visit to Labrador where we see the giant airport at Gander.
The big whale round-up at Trinity Bay, Newfoundland, is brought to the screen with a realism not often found in fish stories. Cameras are on hand to record the annual sea drama as herds of pothead whales are driven inshore by fishing boats and killed in shallow water. There is tense excitement as, their escape cut off, the marine monsters fight for their lives. Reporter Fred Davis is told about the commercial uses of whale meat and whale products, particularly in mink farming.
This feature-length documentary paints a lively portrait of Father of Confederation and first premier of Newfoundland Joseph Roberts Smallwood, or "Joey," as he is known to most Canadians. Following one of Canada’s most colourful political figures during a two-and-a-half-month period that included a stormy Liberal leadership convention, the film reveals a man misunderstood even by his close associates.