Local Arts

THERE'S nary a petticoat nor a pretty face to be found on this guy-centric list of the top 10 films of 2011, whose only females include an emotionally damaged cult escapee and an underage assassin.

The Bride Wore Black. France, 1968. Director: Françis Truffaut Cast: Jeanne Moreau, Claude Rich, Jean-Claude Brialy, Michel Bouquet, Michel Lonsdale. New 35mm print screening at Pacific Cinémathèque with Jean-Luc Godard's Weekend Dec.

- Happy People: A Year in the Taiga. New documentary film directed by Dmitry Vasyukov, produced and narrated by Werner Herzog. Screening at Vancity Theatre Dec. 9-15.

Goh Ballet invite Marian and Don Adair to perform in the Christmas classic

The thing about local Whistler kids is that they are quintessentially Whistler in miniature form.

Here's how it happens: the helicopter pulls away from the ridge, wrapping you in an envelope of swirling crystals. As the cloud dissipates and sound drifts off into the atmosphere like a wind dying in the tree-tops, a weight is lifted from your life.

- Dead Last by James W. Hall Minotaur Books, 326 pages, $29.99. A struggling television series is paid a terrifying compliment when a string of murders mimics the plot.

Charlie Winston - Running Still (Real World Records) Rating: 8 (out of 10) On this follow-up to his successful second album, Hobo, Charlie Winston has produced an outstanding 12song collection.

ANGELS WE HAVE HEARD ON HIGH Angels we have heard on high, Sweetly singing o'er the plains. And the mountains in reply, Echoing their joyous strains. Gloria in excelsis Deo, Gloria in excelsis Deo.