Guy Maddin focus
Retrospective program 2003
Overview of films
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Fancy, Fancy Being Rich
Silent, surreal film about drunken sailors hunting women, based on a kitsch opera aria.
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DRACULA – Pages from a Virgin’s Diary
Maddin’s dizzying – but true to life – ballet version of Bram Stoker’s book is a strange mix of Michael Jackson’s Thr
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The Eye Like a Strange Balloon Mounts Towards Infinity
Two steam-train drivers, father and son, are after a girl; she leaves with a Zeppelin pilot.
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Tales from the Gimli Hospital
As the plague rages through the idyllic toen of Gimli, the patients Einar and Gunnar find out that both of them have made love to Gunnar’s de
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Archangel
This ecstatic and moving melo-noir-drama is inhabited by amnesiacs, who are plagued by obsessions, mustard-gas attacks or both. Maddin also treats
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Guy Maddin: Waiting for Twilight
Film maker Noam Gonick spent fifteen months following the ups and downs in the set of Guy Maddin’s Twilight of the Ice Nymphs and completed a
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The Dead Father
The short visits that a deceased patriarch pays to his family are especially hard to bear for the eldest son.
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Twilight of the Ice Nymphs
In the underground Mandragor, the sun never sets and the population of six focus on obtuse romantic entanglements. This elegant fairytale is Maddin
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The Heart of the World
A riveting ‘montage of attractions’ of the styles of silent cinema; two clans fighting for a throbbing heart. Produced for the Toronto
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Careful
This over-the-top melodrama about two quarrelling families in an Alpine town has many peaks. Two butlers in training hate their mother and a lonely
