Our friends at the National Film Board of Canada have launched a new website. NFB.ca is now the best way to explore the most famous films in the NFB collection that are under an hour long. Films like Lonely Boy, the incredible and almost prescient documentary about Paul Anka's unapologetic clamber to fame. This is probably my favourite NFB film in the entire collection, I never get tired of watching young girls in the sixties react to celebrity. As a matter of fact, if shows like TMZ were about the fans of celebrities, I would probably watch religiously.
and you can wander about like you would any other video site, but the NFB has 65 years of production behind it, so you'll find the strangest gems, like 23 Skidoo, a film made up of shots of empty Montreal streets.
and tons of other stuff too. Enjoy.
Posted by Dan at January 21, 2009 12:38 PMLONELY BOY, oh, I ruv. Saw it dogs' days ago, accidentally, spellbound me, love PA now even if he is a bald-headed industrious million-yrs old. He's no-filler, all-killer, ok, sometimes a bit filler. Whatevs. Hearts, PA.
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Posted by: Orlando at January 25, 2009 1:54 AMHe was music when music was music, I guess. Not that music ever wasn't, but, my God, he was.
Posted by: Orlando at January 25, 2009 1:57 AM