A smash hit for Warner Bros in 1933, 42nd Street revitalized the popularity of the backstage musical just as the entire movie business seemed to be flagging. Mixing hardboiled Depression cynicism and Broadway glamour, the film introduced tap dancer Ruby Keeler (Mrs Al Jolson) as a lowly chorine promoted to the lead role on opening night, giving rise to the legendary line, "Sawyer, you're going out a youngster, but you've got to come back a star." More...

It is 1960. CBC TV has been broadcasting in the Lower Mainland since December 1953 under the name CBUT (Channel 2), originally flying in kinescopes from Toronto, but increasingly producing locally-made shows. Turning the dial back 50 years, CBC's Vancouver archivist Colin Preston will introduce a typical day's programming from that era, compressed into about an hour and a half. More...

Xavier Dolan's debut feature may be the Canadian film success story of the year. It received a triumvirate of prizes at the Cannes Festival's Quinzaine and has proved a box office smash in Quebec. At just 17, Dolan penned the script for this semi-autobiographical story of a stormy relationship between a mother and her son. Call it therapy. More...

"This Italian gem, ideally watched with a group of gently sozzled but discerning friends and relatives, gives family entertainment a good name. Gianni Di Gregorio, the picture's writer-director, plays Gianni, an amiable, undemonstrative man in his fifties who still lives with his 90-year-old mother. During Rome's midsummer Ferragosto celebrations, he finds himself saddled with caring for two other men's elderly mothers (plus an aunt) and presiding over a feast to keep them all sated and smiling. It squeezes more insights, compassion and gently bubbling gags into its 75 minutes than most films could manage in double that time, and leaves you feeling like you've been simultaneously hugged and tickled. Weirdly, Di Gregorio also wrote the violent and incisive crime drama Gomorrah, which I suppose you could call another family film, in the Corleone sense at least..." - Ryan Gilbey, theartsdesk.com More...

Trunk Show: a traveling display of unique goods, packed and unpacked along the way. Neil Young Trunk Show: Jonathan Demme's follow up and reaction to the acclaimed concert film Heart of Gold, drawn from two December 2007 shows at the Tower Theatre, Pennsylvania. More...

How much of what we think of as "myself" is pre-determined by genetic inheritance? To what extent are we able to re-invent or even recreate ourselves - and if we can pull it off, how does that affect those who love and know us best: our family? More...

On bass, Derek "Meatman" Scully. On piano, Steven "Soul Surgeon" Clifford. Dean "Mr Nipple" Fay on sax. Joey "The Lips" Fagan on trumpet. Our gorgeous chanteuses are Bernie, Imelda, and Natalie. Deco "Deep Throat" Cuffe on vocals. On lead guitar, Outspan "Fender bender" Foster. Finally, on drums, Mickah "Don't F*** With Me" Wallace. Ladies and gentlemen... The Commitments. More...