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BRAND UPON THE BRAIN!
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This surreal black-white silent film from Canadian cult director Guy Maddin enjoyed a limited tour of art-house theaters in 2006-2007, boasting a live orchestra, Foley artists, and celebrity narrators employed to help tell the imagined story of Maddin's nightmarish childhood at an isolated lighthouse-turned-orphanage. Though the devoted were truly treated to something special in the live run, this wild cinematic-theatric hybrid event works just as well on the small screen as it pays homage to the silent era (especially that of the Soviets) and creates something wholly new. "An astonishing film" (Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times). Co-written by George Guy Maddin---Canada/USA---2006---99 mins.
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CAREFUL (MADDIN)
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From internationally acclaimed cult director Guy Maddin comes this Freudian parody of 1920s German mountain and expressionist films about the repressed people of the Alpine village of Tolzbad, who must never utter a sound lest they cause an avalanche. When one man's incestuous dream triggers an emotional avalanche, the town is revealed as a hotbed of repressed desires, Oedipal angst and sibling rivalry. Stars Gosia Dobrowolska, Kyle McCulloch. Guy Maddin---Canada---1992---100 mins.
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COWARDS BEND AT THE KNEE
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Arguably the best and most representative work from the reigning king of cinematic eccentricity, this ten-part film is a tawdry mix of silent film tropes, avant-garde experimentation, and lurid autobiography. Unfolding in cobwebbed dream time, Maddin's peep show features grotesque surgeries, beauty parlor bordellos, psychosexual longings, and plenty of hockey. "It's bliss, I tell you!" (New York Daily News). Guy Maddin---Canada---2004---64 mins.
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DRACULA: PAGES FROM A VIRGIN'S DIARY
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Guy Maddin (Tales from the Gimli Hospital) brings his unique vision to Bram Stoker's archetypal novel and creates one of the finest cinematic adaptations of the classic vampire tale to date. An ode to silent cinema shot entirely in black and white with injections of red, the film successfully transposes the Royal Winnipeg Ballet's interpretation of Dracula from stage to screen without losing a drop of the dance's eroticism, subtle humor and lush, stylized movement. "Victorian sexuality and melodrama are brought together in a shadow world of expressionistic images and an athletic, almost rabid, choreography" (Bruce Diones, The New Yorker). Guy Maddin---Canada---2003---75 mins.
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GUY MADDIN COLLECTION
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This disc includes two of Guy Maddin's best features, plus one extraordinary short. Twilight of the Ice Nymphs (1997, 92 mins): A political prisoner returns to his homeland of Mandragora, where the sun never sets and ostrich farming is a major occupation. Maddin's first full-color feature is funny, highly imaginative myth-making. Starring Shelley Duvall, Alice Krige and Frank Gorshin. Archangel (1990, 90 mins.): The story takes place in an arctic Russian town and involves a crippled British soldier who finds a woman who bears an uncanny resemblance to his dead wife. "...a fascinating fetishist delirium, where memories of remote war movies get recycled into something that's alternately creepy and beautiful" (Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader). Also included is The Heart of the World (2000, 6 mins.), a dazzling and enigmatic assemblage of imagery and narrative elements that draws Guy Maddin---Canada---1990-2000---187 mins.
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MY DAD IS 100 YEARS OLD MADDIN
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Isabella Rossellini plays Charlie Chaplin, Federico Fellini, Alfred Hitchcock, and other film icons in this inventive short--a tribute to her late father, Roberto Rossellini, and to cinephilia in general. Guy Maddin directs in his uniquely dream-like style, and the film revels in the delightful artificiality of the movies. "...an act of both love and devotion" (Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader). The film accompanies the book In the Name of the Father, the Daughter and the Holy Spirits: Remembering Roberto Rossellini, a beautifully illustrated volume of photographs and remembrances from Ingrid Bergman, Francois Truffaut, Eric Rohmer, and others. 2006, 140 pp. Guy Maddin---Canada---2006---16 mins.
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MY WINNIPEG
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Fantasy, personal documentary, and silent film stylization combine in Guy Maddin's ode to his snowy hometown. The idiosyncratic filmmaker presents supposed facts about the city's history and splices those with fragments of memories into what feels like an extended, episodic dream sequence. Ann Savage, in her final role, is wonderful as Maddin's mother. "...engaged less in historical inquiry than in hallucinatory autobiography, ruminating on the deep and accidental relationship between a specific place and an individual life" (The New York Times). Winner of Best Canadian Feature Film at the Toronto Film Festival.
Guy Maddin---Canada---2007---80 mins.
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QUINTESSENTIAL GUY MADDIN, THE
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A collection of representative works--five features and six shorts--from the reigning king of cinematic eccentricity, Guy Maddin. Includes Careful (1992), Twilight of the Ice Nymphs (1997), Archangel (1990), Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary (2003), and Cowards Bend the Knee (2004).
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SADDEST MUSIC IN THE WORLD, THE
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Guy Maddin again pulls out all of his tricks to replicate the sights and sounds of cinema past, while infusing them with an undeniably unique and personal vision.
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TALES FROM THE GIMLI HOSPITAL
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The surreal first feature from Canadian independent Guy Maddin is set in the isolated village of Gimli, Manitoba, at the beginning of the century. Jealousy and madness overtake two men who share a hospital room. In chilling though mocking vignettes, they exchange wild, inventive tales involving pestilence, reckless envy and necrophilia. With Kyle McCulloch, Michael Gottli and Angela Heck. Also included is the Maddin short Dead Father (1986, 23 mins.). Guy Maddin---Canada---1988---72 mins.
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