Shadow of the Wolf

note: this is one of the worst movies ever. also, my introduction to sex.

looks like "spectacular erotic scenery"

Agaguk: This is our land. We should not have the white man to tell us what to do

Kroomak: The white man is here because I want him.

Agaguk: I do not!

imdb keywords:

Female Nudity
Sex Scene
Male Nudity
Breasts
1930s
Chase
Eskimo
Based On Novel
Independent Film

MILAN TO MINSK

trailer at nytimes.com

Toshiro Mifune

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Via Vincent Canby:

The elaborate but not always coherent Canadian-French production might be of interest to children with exotic tastes, but it's pretty lugubrious stuff for impatient adults.

I saw it with the same kid who first showed me The Peanut Butter Solution

Here is the better trailer for Peanut Butter Solution... 'from the people who brought you the box-office smash "The Dog Who Stopped a War'

The Dog Who Stopped A War:

The film involves a huge snowball fight between the children of a village who split into two rival gangs, one defending a snow castle, the other attacking it. The snowball fight turns into a practical war, until an incident occurs and part of the snow castle crumbles, exactly where one of the children's pet dog was resting during their folly, instantly killing it, and ending the war.

haha i remember the peanut butter solution! had to have rerun on the disney channel on a schoolnight in 1993, maybe after "Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris"

the beginning of my love affair with angela lansbury

There's a blog for all this -- 'Canuxploitation' -- and I am dying to see:

Great Land of the Small:

The film begins as precocious American siblings Jenny (Karen Elkin) and David (Michael Blouin) head to rural Quebec with their mom for a weekend stay at their grandparents' house. There, while playing in the woods, they meet of Fritz (Michael J. Anderson, best known as the backwards-talking little person in Twin Peaks), a strange, leprechaun-like creature who is invisible to non-believing adults. Temporarily trapped on Earth after he misses the last rainbow home, Fritz explains he has lost his sack of magic gold dust to Mr. Flannigan (Ken Roberts), a greedy hunter who lives in the area, and convinces the children to help him recover it. On the lookout for more treasures, Flannigan and his goons soon spot the trio, forcing Fritz and his friends to escape by canoe and wish their way into his world, the Great Land of Small. While the teary-eyed adults troll the riverbed for Jenny and David's bodies in reality, the kids are blissfully unaware in a far-off world of wonder, as they see human butterflies, meet the Queen (who looks suspiciously like their mother) and bow down to the dimension's deity, an anthropomorphic ball of rock named Slimo. With the help of Munch (Ken Roberts, again) and his human-like dog Gardien (André Mélançon), Jenny and David have everything they need to head back to their world and get the gold dust back from that pesky Mr. Flannigan once and for all.

l m a o @ trailers

ok, i just remembered my father-in-law rented this like 12-13 years ago and we turned it off after 15 minutes. There was a line of dialogue in faux-eskimo accent - "Why you do dat?" - that became a buzz phrase for a while in our family.
Lou Diamond Phillips was the pan-ethnic utility star of the 80s/90s, like anthony quinn back in the day

the mighty quinn

What the trailer doesn't convey about the peanut butter solution is that it is one of the creepiest, weirdest, borderline kiddy-fiddling movie ever made. it doesn't convey the horror of the scene in which the main character slathers peanut butter all over his crotch so he will grow hair there, or the subsequent scene wherein his new magical pubes start tumbling out of his pant-legs at his ankles; it doesn't convey the ickiness of the kidnapping of an entire class of schoolkids by a demented art-teacher who straps 'em into bed-things and gives them peanut butter head-rubs so he can make magical paintbrushes with their hair.

Theme song 'Listen to the Magic Man' -- the 1985 English language debut of Celine Dion.

Stop it!