Movies: Michael Rubbo

  • 1985
    The Peanut Butter Solution

    The Peanut Butter Solution (1985)

    The Peanut Butter Solution

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    Peanut butter is the secret ingredient for magic potions made by two friendly ghosts. Eleven-year-old Michael loses all of his hair when he gets a fright and uses the potion to get his hair back, but too much peanut butter causes things to get a bit ...

    The Peanut Butter Solution
  • 1988
    Tommy Tricker and the Stamp Traveller

    Tommy Tricker and the Stamp Traveller (1988)

    Tommy Tricker and the Stamp Traveller

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    When the joker Tommy Tricker plays some practical jokes on some of his friends, his best friend Ralph, a stamp collector, discovers the secret of "stamp travel" to make him travel around the world on a stamp to bring back the mysterious Charles Merri...

    Tommy Tricker and the Stamp Traveller
  • 1990
    Vincent and me

    Vincent and me (1990)

    Vincent and me

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    While sketching one day, 13 year old Jo encounters a mysterious art dealer who buys a few of her drawings and commissions her to do some more. Some time thereafter she reads a news story about a million dollar sale of some drawings of a young Vincent...

    Vincent and me
  • 2001
    Much Ado About Something

    Much Ado About Something (2001)

    Much Ado About Something

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    Did Christopher Marlowe write the works of Shakespeare?...

    Much Ado About Something
  • 1970
    Sad Song of Yellow Skin

    Sad Song of Yellow Skin (1970)

    Sad Song of Yellow Skin

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    A film about the people of Saigon told through the experiences of three young American journalists who, in 1970, explored the consequences of war and of the American presence in Vietnam. It is not a film about the Vietnam War, but about the people wh...

    Sad Song of Yellow Skin
  • 2012
    Murder on the Shanghai

    Murder on the Shanghai (2012)

    Murder on the Shanghai

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    A murder mystery improvised by strangers on a ship traveling from Shanghai to Hong Kong....

    Murder on the Shanghai
  • 1980
    Challenger: An Industrial Romance

    Challenger: An Industrial Romance (1980)

    Challenger: An Industrial Romance

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    Follows the development of Canadair's super-executive jet. A totally new type of aircraft, it is faster, cheaper to fly, and more comfortable than any other business jet. Would it make it off the drawing board and into the air? The film captures the ...

    Challenger: An Industrial Romance
  • 1975
    Waiting for Fidel

    Waiting for Fidel (1975)

    Waiting for Fidel

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    This feature-length documentary from 1974 takes viewers inside Fidel Castro's Cuba. A movie-making threesome hope that Fidel himself will star in their film. The unusual crew consists of former Newfoundland premier Joseph Smallwood, radio and TV owne...

    Waiting for Fidel
  • 1994
    The Return of Tommy Tricker

    The Return of Tommy Tricker (1994)

    The Return of Tommy Tricker

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    Welcome to the world of stamps with Tommy Tricker and friends as they learn the magic of travelling through time and space for the mere price of the postage. Though of course, nothing is as easy as it seems as they soon learn when they try to rescue ...

    The Return of Tommy Tricker
  • 1972
    Cold Pizza

    Cold Pizza (1972)

    Cold Pizza

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    An engaging story of young enterprise, pitfalls, and eventual success that all young viewers will enjoy. It is about two young Greek boys in Montréal who try to earn some extra money for a trip to their sunny homeland by delivering pizzas. The misadv...

    Cold Pizza
  • 1971
    Wet Earth and Warm People

    Wet Earth and Warm People (1971)

    Wet Earth and Warm People

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    This documentary by Michael Rubbo (Waiting for Fidel) offers candid glimpses of Indonesia and its people. Filming in and around the capital of Jakarta, the cameras follow where chance leads, capturing the flavour of life in this fertile crescent of t...

    Wet Earth and Warm People
  • 1968
    Adventures

    Adventures (1968)

    Adventures

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    This short live-action film tells the story of a little raccoon who encounters many adventures when he strays from home to explore the world....

    Adventures
  • 1984
    Margaret Atwood: Once in August

    Margaret Atwood: Once in August (1984)

    Margaret Atwood: Once in August

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    In Margaret Atwood: Once in August, filmmaker Michael Rubbo attempts to discover what shapes the celebrated writer's fiction and what motivates her characters. As one of Canada's most distinguished poets and novelists, Atwood is also one of this coun...

    Margaret Atwood: Once in August
  • 1982
    Unfinished Diary

    Unfinished Diary (1982)

    Unfinished Diary

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    In this heartwarming docudrama, Chilean immigrant Marilú Mallet strives to make a film about her experience of deep isolation. Her English-speaking husband, a prominent film director, criticizes her subjective approach to filmmaking; her young son, r...

    Unfinished Diary
  • 1982
    Daisy: The Story of a Facelift

    Daisy: The Story of a Facelift (1982)

    Daisy: The Story of a Facelift

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    Middle-aged NFB producer Daisy Bellefeuille is about to get a facelift. Rubbo follows the process through her discussions with her friends, consultations with physicians, observation of other facelift patients, and finally the operation and its afte...

    Daisy: The Story of a Facelift
  • 1986
    Courage to Change

    Courage to Change (1986)

    Courage to Change

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    This feature documentary is a sequel to the 1966 documentary The Things I Cannot Change, which, by focusing on the Bailey family of Montreal, provided an anatomy of poverty in North America. Courage to Change explores what has happened to the Baileys...

    Courage to Change
  • 1968
    Sir! Sir!

    Sir! Sir! (1968)

    Sir! Sir!

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    Here is what happened in a Toronto classroom when teachers occupied the children's desks and children became the teachers. The film grew out of another, Mrs. Ryan's Drama Class, where young children found their way into creative drama. There is food ...

    Sir! Sir!
  • 1969
    Log House

    Log House (1969)

    Log House

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    This film is about the building of a traditional log cabin in Québec. It starts with the tree and finishes with the housewarming. While it is not a realistic housing option for many Canadians, it does provide encouragement for all of us to re-examine...

    Log House
  • 1969
    OK ... Camera

    OK ... Camera (1969)

    OK ... Camera

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    This documentary film is an exploration of Québec’s feature film industry. The film takes a look at the people who have succeeded in this unique milieu (Geneviève Bujold is one) or failed; at its movies, which run the gamut from hard-core skinflicks ...

    OK ... Camera
  • 1969
    Bate's Car: Sweet as a Nut

    Bate's Car: Sweet as a Nut (1969)

    Bate's Car: Sweet as a Nut

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    This short film presents Mr. Bate, an inventor who discovers a substitute for gasoline in barnyard manure. Even though he fits the classic mould of single-minded know-how and practical dreamer, his discovery is tried and tested. He demonstrates how h...

    Bate's Car: Sweet as a Nut