Cancelling cable for the summer saves us from reruns, but denies us those late-night guilty pleasures known as Legends of the Fall and Cruel Intentions.

Good thing GlobalTV.com is streaming those and other titles online all summer long. Free and with minimal commercials, there’s always seven films to choose from and they change over every two weeks.

Best part is, unlike cable, if you can’t wait till late to watch Can’t Hardly Wait (on this week’s roster), you don’t have to.

To watch, visit www.globaltv.com/movies

No need to install air-con to beat the heat, just step inside a cinema and watch classic Catherine Deneuve sing, not speak, all her lines in The Umbrellas of Cherbourg while sipping on chilled chardonnay.

The 1964 musical is one of the 23 music-minded films the Vancity Theatre (now 19 and older only thanks to a new permanent liquor license) is screening in its month-long Summer of Sound series starting Friday. Our picks on the program can be categorized from A to D:

A for Almost Famous and Across the Universe.

B for a bit of Bowie, both real life (Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars) and inspired-by (Velvet Goldmine).

C for Canadian icons captured on celluloid—32 Short Films about Glenn Gould, Leonard Cohen: I’m Your Man, Neil Young: Heart of Gold.

D for that doc called Woodstock.

That’s eight flicks—with drinks—to keep you cool. But if you’re real roadie material, there’s an all-access pass that gets you in to all 23 films for just $50. Rock on.

Summer of Sound: Music on Film runs July 24-August 18, 2009 at the Vancity Theatre, 1181 Seymour St., Vancouver, 604-683-3456, www.vifc.org