Charles Officer: Poet of the Screen
There are some artists whose untimely death we find particularly upsetting. We reflect on what’s been lost. How many other projects might they have completed? Charles Officer was one such artist.
Posts Tagged “poetry”
Window Horses | Discover the NFB’s First Feature-Length Animation to Screen at Annecy in Almost 20 Years
“Window Horses hits all the things that are important to me: it’s pro-girl, pro-tolerance, pro-diversity and PRO-ART!! My nieces are mixed race and it’s very important to me that they...
Celebrate World Book Day with 10 Essential Films on Literature
Mark World Book Day with these 10 films about words and those who devote their lives to smithing them for our delight.
Hard Light now available for download
This week, the film Hard Light, based on Michael Crummey’s book of the same name, was released on NFB.ca as a digital download. Michael Crummey, for those who might not...
Irving Layton, Canadian Poet Extraordinaire
March 12, 2012, will mark the 100th anniversary of the birth of the great Canadian poet Irving Layton. To commemorate this occasion, we are adding Donald Winkler’s 1986 documentary Poet:...
Andrea Dorfman on How To Be Alone
Earlier this week, an interesting video called How To Be Alone popped up in my Facebook feed. I loved it instantly and recognized something familiar about the style of animation....
Take part in National Poetry Month
oehttp://www.nfb.ca/film/still_waters/ April is National Poetry Month and the League of Canadian Poets is paying tribute to P.K. Page. If you want to get in on the action, watch our documentary...
Ladies and Gentlemen…Mr. Leonard Cohen, a tribute to a Canadian legend
Today we’re featuring a classic NFB documentary in the online Screening Room, Ladies and Gentlemen…Mr. Leonard Cohen. We’ve timed the launch of this film to coincide with CBC Radio 2’s...