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Accidentally Funny: HOLIDAY IN THE SUN
Pack up your swim trunks and dust off your fedora. This year's installment of giddy archival shorts makes a bee-line for the beach in a celebration of recreation. Watch for two early gems by Denys Arcand and Claude Jutra.
ROM | WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17 | 7:00 PM | 70 MINUTES
| Leader News, Volume 3, No. 2 |
| Deep sea fishing, police horses, golf tricks, athletic kittens, and domestic automobiles go together like... um, do they go together at all? Who cares?! Nothing says fun in the sun like automobile-centric newsreels! |
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| Atlantic Parks (Parcs Atlantiques) |
| Beautiful, enigmatic, and featuring nearly as many wardrobe changes as it does trees, Denys Arcand's early masterpiece is the FROM HERE TO ETERNITY of Canadian park promotional films. |
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| A Desperate Case |
| A beautiful seaside vacation is nearly ruined when a family mistreats their loyal travelling companion - a talking suitcase. |
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| The Devil's Toy |
| Quebec cinema legend Claude Jutra spins a tale of crime and redemption among reckless youth on four wheels, underscored at times by Genevieve Bujold's haunting vocals. Darn skateboarding kids. |
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| Broken Dolls Get New Lease of Life |
| Doll surgery is not for the faint-of-stuffed-heart! But don't worry: in the hands of these gifted repair artists your dolly will soon be fit as a fiddle... a fiddle with new eyes, arms, hair, and a spray-on-tan. |
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| Will the Great Barrier Reef Cure Claude Clough? |
| Ah the relaxing joys of sweet, sweet hypnotherapy, Australian style. Stressed out city dweller Claude Clough gets a psychic journey to natural beauty in this way-too-stylish destination promotion from down under. |
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