Articles tagged "guy maddin"

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A Fairy Tale Childhood: An Interview with Guy Maddin

by Robert Loerzel

[14.Aug.08] :. The Canadian cult director talks to PopMatters about family, childhood, memory and his cinematic Gesamptkunstwerks that often look like damaged artifacts dredged up from an archive of lost 1920s and '30s film.

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Art-house filmmaker is just a Guy from Winnipeg

by Steven Rea [The Philadelphia Inquirer (MCT)]

[3.Jul.08] :. A self-confessed “part-time surrealist,” Guy Maddin has made weird little art-house gems that include “Careful” (1992), about townsfolk creeping around on tiptoe, speaking in...

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My Winnipeg

by Cynthia Fuchs

[13.Jun.08] :. Snow and ice fill the frame in My Winnipeg, Guy Maddin's ookily brilliant evocation of his childhood.

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Brand Upon the Brain! (2006)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[6.Jun.07] :. Subtitled "Remembrance in 12 Chapters," Maddin's excellent movie tracks something like Guy's search for his youthful memories, though you might just as easily describe his effort as a last-ditch repression.

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The Saddest Music in the World (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[15.Nov.04] :. 'There are tears for things, there are tears of things, there are tears from things,' says Guy Maddin.

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The Saddest Music in the World (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[13.May.04] :. Guy Maddin's film is swirling with scraps of movie and other recent history.

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Dracula: Pages From a Virgin’s Diary (2002)

by Elbert Ventura

[15.May.03] :. The lasciviously titled Dracula: Pages From a Virgin's Diary is a reliably unhinged exponent of Maddin's antiquarian vision.

 
 
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