Marketa Lazarová
František Vláčil, Czechoslovakia, 1967, 165 minutes
The film takes place in an indeterminate time during the Middle Ages, and tells the story of a daughter of a feudal lord who is kidnapped by neighbouring robber knights and becomes a mistress of one of them.
Markéta Lazarová was voted the all-time best Czech movie in a 1998 poll of Czech film critics and publicists.
Christus
Giulio Antamoro, 1916, Italie, 90 min
The story of the life of Christ.
On the Silver Globe
Andrzej Żuławski, Poland, 1988, 166 min
A space researcher Marek goes searching for a civilisation founded by space explorers on an unnamed Earth-like planet many years ago.
Does the French language need to be protected in Canada? – CTV, The Social
“An American woman wrote that she was puzzled why so many francophones were concerned about their language disappearing.”
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A Song for Quebec
Dorothy Todd Henaut, Canada, 1988, 55 min
Produced in 1988, this feature documentary presents a living history of Quebec’s last 40 years as seen through the eyes of one couple. Pauline Julien and Gérald Godin, two Quebec artists, share their perspectives on the events that have marked Quebec’s evolution. Julien, a singer, and Godin, a poet, express their love and passion for the province (and each other) while providing a unique take on the Quebec nationalist movement.
Québec…?
Canada, 1967, 28 min
Ce court métrage documentaire est un fascinant portrait du Québec urbain et rural à la fin des années 1960, alors que la province fait son entrée dans la modernité. L’œuvre collective réalisée pour le ministère de l’Industrie et du Commerce du Québec fait appel à plusieurs figures québécoises majeures, dont Michel Brault, Gilles Groulx et Gérald Godin.
“Ils étaient quarante-quatre” …
"The production of nervous force is directly connected with the diet of an individual, and its refining depends on the very purity of this diet, allied to appropriate breathing exercises.
The diet most calculated to act effectively on the nervous force is that which contains the least quantity of animal matter; therefore the Pythagorean diet, in this connection, is the most suitable.
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The main object was to avoid introducing into the organism what Descartes called 'animal spirits'. Thus, all animals that had to serve for the nourishment of the priests were slaughtered according to special rites, they were not murdered, as is the case nowadays".
