Newly-elected leader of the federal NPD speaks to the party’s enthusiastic Vancouver supporters, in a speech given at The Imperial on Main, Wednesday night, November 1st
Young, energetic, articulate and clearly very bright, self-assured yet humble, charismatic, caring, Canada’s first non-white federal leader, representing generational change, fearless, embraced by NDP party activists across the land, hopeful, thoughtful and decidedly not halting in his speech, necessarily possessed of a clear sense of social-justice goals based on egalitarian principles, a dapper young politician who currently represents an urban, ethnically mixed riding in the Ontario legislature and — maybe, just maybe — Canada’s next Prime Minister, Jagmeet (pronounced Jugmeet) Singh made his way to Vancouver on Wednesday evening, introduced by NDP stalwart Constance Barnes, for a meet-and-greet at The Imperial on Main with a cross-section of party supporters.
Celebration. Good cheer. Singh = much-need change for the better, for all.
More Celebration
My friends, neighbours and NDP compatriots Bill Tieleman and Shirley Ross celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary this week, for which event VanRamblings wishes them a heartfelt congratulations on lives well-lived, and loved, and the respect, admiration and love of your many friends.
Shirley Ross and Bill Tieleman celebrate their 25th wedding anniversary at Bishops
More Cause for Celebration (on a somewhat less salutary note)
What did we do before the advent of streaming video on Netflix? Were we actually truly living life without the ready access Netflix affords to 5600 movies of quality and 3500 TV shows, all for as little as $10 a month?
Dee Rees’ Sundance winner, starring Garrett Hedlund, Jason Mitchell & Carey Mulligan
One of the best reviewed films of the year, a smash hit at the Sundance Film Festival way back in January, and fortuitous for ye, me and thee, as it is set for a day-and-date release — which is to say, Mudbound will be available both at your local multiplex and on Netflix — on Friday, Nov. 17th.
Otherwise, there’s Godless — a 7-episode oater from Oscar winning director Steven Soderbergh, set in 1880s La Belle, New Mexico, a town mysteriously made up entirely of women. Stars Downton Abbey’s Michelle Dockery, Jeff Daniels, Jack O’Connell, Scott McNairy and a cast of hundreds.
Or, how about the fifth and final season of the peerlessly involving Longmire television series. Or, Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance), Alejandro Gonzàlez Iñàrritu’s 2015 multiple Oscar winner. Or, Logan — another in the Marvel Wolverine series, which sees Hugh Jackman reprising his signature role. Or Gold, starring a less than hirsute Matthew McConaughey, which proves to be a surprisingly involving watch.
Then there’s the début of Spike Lee’s update of 1986’s She’s Gotta Have It. Should you watch the New to Netflix in November video above, you’ll find much, much more on offer from Netflix in the month of November.
Final tip: if you haven’t watched Kornél Mundruczó’s 2014 Cannes’ Un Certain Regard award-winning masterpiece, White God (VanRamblings’ favourite film this decade), you oughta. The Los Angeles Times says …
This small, touching fable about a girl and her dog becomes an adrenaline-pumping thriller about animals against humans in Hungarian filmmaker Kornél Mundruczó’s exhilarating radicalization allegory White God. By turns Dickensian, Marxist and dystopian, it’s a movie as deliriously unclassifiable as it is expertly focused in its desire to provoke and entertain.
The films opens with beautifully dreamlike shots of 13-year-old Lili bicycling down the empty streets of Budapest until scores of dogs careen around a corner, their bodies in full, magnificent motion. Are they following her? Or chasing her? By the time Mundruczó returns to that scene as something literal, it’s a powerful, pure-cinema reminder that the iconography of freedom and uprising needn’t only belong to humans.
And, yes, White God is on Netflix — you’ll want to add it to your list now.
