Culture / Cinema -- Candian films which are worth watching

The Sweet Hereafter, Atom Egoyan (1997)

Last Night, Don McKellar (1998)

The Corporation, Mark Achbar and Jennifer Abbot (2003)

The Hanging Garden, Thom Fitzgerald (1997)

Project Grizzly, Peter Lynch (1996)

Thirty-Two Short Films About Glenn Ghould, Francois Girard (1993)

Water, Deepa Mehta (2005)

The Decline of the American Empire, Denys Arcand (1986)

The Barbarian Invasions, Denys Arcand (2003)

Videodrome, David Cronenberg (1983)

M. Butterfly, David Cronenberg (1993)

I've Heard the Mermaids Singing, Patricia Rozema (1987)

Mon Oncle Antoine, Claude Jutra (1971)

Tales From the Gimli Hospital, Guy Maddin (1988)

My Winnipeg, Guy Maddin (2007)

Atanarjuat - The Fast Runner, Zacharias Kunuk (2001)

Heavy Metal, Gerald Potterton (1981)

Black Christmas, Bob Clarke (1974)

Manufactured Landscapes, Jennifer Baichwal (2006)

Cube, Vincenzo Natali (1997)

Hard Core Logo, Bruce McDonald (1996)

My Big Fat Greek Wedding, Joel Zwick (2002)

Nô, Robert Lepage (1998)

Ryan, Chris Landreth (2004)

Interview - Jan Wong [History / Politics / Journalism]

Jan Wong is one of the best known journalists in Canada. Some people love her, some people hate her. But no matter which side you're on it's hard not to have an opinion on her.

Her career has sent her from newspapers like 'The Boston Globe' to 'The Wall Street Journal' before finally landing with 'The Globe and Mail.' Wong is possibly best known for her column 'Lunch With Jan Wong' in which she garnered a reputation for being a bit nasty.

Broadcaster Pamela Wallin compared her to Hannibal Lecter, while Fashion magnate Peter Nygard threatened to sue her.

Wong as a new book, 'Beijing Confidential' which is bound to turn heads.

You can watch an interview between Jan Wong and the CBC here.

Furthermore, her work was recently profiled by the American public broadcasting station PBS; this interview can be found here.

University of Berkeley - online lectures

The University of Berkeley has allowed many of its first-year courses to be broadcast over the internet. Topics include physics, biology, computer science, chemistry, peace studies, and more.

Here is the first lecture in a physics course:



You can find hundreds of other lectures at this web location.

Literature / Society - Arts & Letters website

The following website is a catalogue of well-written and thought-provoking articles, dealing with the arts, literature, politics, and society. The site is very text-heavy, as are most of the articles listed. Perseverance brings many rewards, however.

The Arts & Letters Daily site is available here.

Literature - Project Gutenberg (complete books stored online)

Project Gutenberg is a fantastic resource for books in the English language. Project Gutenberg is the first and largest single collection of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and continues to inspire the creation of eBooks and related technologies today.

You can visit this site by clicking here.

On the left side of the website is a search area where you can type in the name of an author or book. You can also browse the collection if you do not know what to look for. Books are primarily in the English language, although you can also receive access to several thousand books from other languages (including Chinese).

http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page

Business / Society - The Corporation

The Corporation is today's dominant institution, creating great wealth but also great harm. This award-winning Canadian documentary examines the nature, evolution, impacts, and future of the modern business corporation and the increasing role it plays in society and our everyday lives.



To watch the rest of this film, click here.

History / Geography - The Northwest (Arctic) Passage

In this narrated slide show, see artifacts recovered from British explorer Sir John Franklin's ill-fated expedition to pioneer a passage through the Arctic Ocean. Narrator Russell Potter is an English professor at Rhode Island College whose research interests include Arctic exploration and Inuit culture. He is the editor of the Arctic Book Review, a biannual survey of books on subjects related to the Arctic.