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Canadian Film Top Fifteen

	The Sweet Hereafter [DVD] [1997] Buy new: £3.98 / Used from: £2.96 A lawsuit movie with a difference. Ian Holm is superb as a city lawyer arriving in a small town after a terrible school bus crash.
	Last Night [DVD] [1999] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC] Buy used from: £11.54 My favourite Canajun movie - it's the end of the world. What are you going to do with your last night?
	Atanarjuat - The Fast Runner [DVD] [2002] Buy used from: £26.00 A three and a half hour epic made by and starring Inuit / Eskimos. More gripping than it has any right to be, beautiful and full of the sound of crunching snow...
	Exotica [DVD] [1995] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC] Buy used from: £13.49 A film about a stripjoint that is utterly unexpected in every way. No tarts with heart here.
	When Night Is Falling [VHS] [1995] Buy used from: £5.99 A moody, moving film about a lecturer at a Christian college in a lesbian relationship. Erotic but not cheap, and dungaree-free.
	Crash [DVD] [1997] Buy used from: £3.97 'Crash' has some porny moments, but works out surprisingly sympathetically for a film about crash fetishism.Yes Cronenberg is Canadian!
	The Red Violin [DVD] [1999] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC] Buy used from: £5.08 A big budget job with Samuel L Jackson and multinational scope. A finely crafted but rather fragmented film.
	Cube [DVD] [1998] Buy used from: £7.50 Canadian film often does Hollywood - otherwise. 'Cube' is a really intense low-budget action horror movie with a clever plot and silly script.
	Jesus Of Montreal [DVD] [1989] Buy used from: £3.79 Amazon UK don't sell French-Canadian classic 'Octobre', but this is a close second. An actor playing Jesus starts to find uncanny parallels in his own life.
	Black Robe [DVD] [1991] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC] Buy used from: £9.87 Bin 'Dances with Wolves' - this is far superior. A deeply ambivalent exploration of a Christian missionary's encounter with the Canadian wilderness.
	The Saddest Music In The World [DVD] Buy new: £15.38 / Used from: £11.50 Manitoban Guy Madden has a reputation for avant garde weirdness, and this is his best film. Steals a whole array of techniques from early cinema to create a truly strange, funny, touching film.
	A Man in Uniform [DVD] [1995] [US Import] Buy used from: £82.00 Canada's answer to 'Taxi Driver'! Tom McCamus is superbly creepy as a struggling actor who gets a job playing a cop on TV - and starts to take the role far too seriously.
	Thirty-Two Short Films About Glenn Gould [DVD] [1994] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC] Buy used from: £153.86 This quirky mixture of dramatisation and documentary about the legendary Canadian pianist is strangely involving and memorable.
	Dead Ringers [DVD] [1989] Buy new: £2.98 / Used from: £2.69 Surely the most horrible film you will ever see? Jeremy Irons is utterly compelling as (both) twin brothers who become gynaecologists, then spiral down together into total self-destruction.
	Juno [DVD] [2007] Buy new: £2.98 / Used from: £1.89 Yup - this super-cute, brilliantly acted film was shot in Canada, with a Canadian director, actors and crew. Result!