Guy Maddin focus
Retrospective program 2003
Overview of films
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Archangel
Guy Maddin | 83' | Canada | -
This ecstatic and moving melo-noir-drama is inhabited by amnesiacs, who are plagued by obsessions, mustard-gas attacks or both. Maddin also treats the -
Careful
Guy Maddin | 100' | Canada | -
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 co -
Cowards Bend the Knee
Guy Maddin | Canada | World premiere
One long peep is enough to to see this unique and naughty installation. Each of the ten peepholes is filled with action and heated moments… -
The Dead Father
Guy Maddin | 25' | Canada | -
The short visits that a deceased patriarch pays to his family are especially hard to bear for the eldest son. -
DRACULA – Pages from a Virgin’s Diary
Guy Maddin | 75' | Canada | -
Maddin’s dizzying – but true to life – ballet version of Bram Stoker’s book is a strange mix of Michael Jackson’s Thriller and Carl Dreyer’s… -
Fancy, Fancy Being Rich
Guy Maddin | 5' | Canada | International premiere
Silent, surreal film about drunken sailors hunting women, based on a kitsch opera aria. -
Guy Maddin: Waiting for Twilight
Noam Gonick | 60' | Canada | -
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… -
The Heart of the World
Guy Maddin | 6' | Canada | -
A riveting ‘montage of attractions’ of the styles of silent cinema; two clans fighting for a throbbing heart. Produced for the Toronto Film Festival 1 -
Hospital Fragment
Guy Maddin | 3' | Canada | -
An impressionist series of images, inspired by Tales From the Gimli Hospital. -
It’s a Wonderful Life
Guy Maddin | 3' | Canada | -
Music video, made for the American band Sparklehorse. -
Tales from the Gimli Hospital
Guy Maddin | 72' | Canada | -
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… -
The Eye Like a Strange Balloon Mounts Towards Infinity
Guy Maddin | 5' | Canada | -
Two steam-train drivers, father and son, are after a girl; she leaves with a Zeppelin pilot.