L'Abbatiale de la
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Hard to be a God
Aleksei German, Russia, 2013, 178 min

 
 

An Earth scientist is sent to a planet that resembles our own during the Middle Ages—and he must not interfere in the planet’s political or historical development. Treated by the planet’s natives as a kind of divinity, he is both godlike and impotent in the face of chaos and brutality.

 

Hard to be a God (2013) by ALEKSEI YURYEVICH GERMAN

Hard to be a God (2013) by ALEKSEI YURYEVICH GERMAN

 

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Marketa Lazarová (1967) by FRANTISEK VLACIL (October 16, 2022)
On the Silver Globe (1988) by ANDRZEJ ŻULAWSKI (September 5, 2021)
Andrei Rublev (1966) by ANDREI TARKOVSKY (February 17, 2013)
The Devils (1971) de KEN RUSSELL (July 20, 2010)

 

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.

 
 

Marketa Lazarová (1967) by FRANTISEK VLACIL

Marketa Lazarová (1967) by FRANTISEK VLACIL

Marketa Lazarová (1967) by FRANTISEK VLACIL


Christus
Giulio Antamoro, 1916, Italie, 90 min


The story of the life of Christ.


Christus (1916) de GIULIO ANTAMORO

 

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.

 

On the Silver Globe (1988) by ANDRZEJ ŻULAWSKI

On the Silver Globe (1988) by ANDRZEJ ŻULAWSKI

Does the French language need to be protected in Canada? CTV The Social

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.

L'Abbatiale de la
Liturgie Apocryphe

"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".