Features
Friday, January 16 2009
Best Complexities in 2008
The most remarkable films of 2008 were small, smart, and complicated. While they're surely worth seeking out for their own pleasures, they also represent the sort of movies that will find theatrical releases even harder to manage in the shrinking economy.
Tuesday, January 13 2009
Off the Radar - The Top 30 DVDs of 2008
Oddly enough, while the major studios continue scratching their heads over how to sell yet another new format (Blu-ray) to disinterested consumers, several outside distributors made sure that this would be a digital year to remember.
Thursday, August 14 2008
A Fairy Tale Childhood: An Interview with Guy Maddin
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.
Thursday, January 10 2008
All Around the World: The Best International/Indie Films of 2007
Beginning and ending with the superlative filmmaking of Jia Zhang-ke, traversing the nooks and crannies of the globe, PopMatters presents the 20 best international and indie films of 2007.
Reviews
Friday, February 18 2011
Surreal, Perverse, Snow-Deranged & Essential: 'The Quintessential Guy Maddin!'
Guy Maddin knows how the flaws of poor movie making – narrative lapses, grotesque melodrama, shoddy-looking production design -- can reveal subconscious desires in vulnerable, endearing, and creepy ways.
Friday, October 10 2008
Brain Upon the Brain!
However we choose to brand it -- post-apocalyptic, postmodern, post-historical -- the fashion of outrageous mash-ups is intimately linked with the movies.
Friday, June 13 2008
My Winnipeg
Snow and ice fill the frame in My Winnipeg, Guy Maddin's ookily brilliant evocation of his childhood.
Wednesday, June 6 2007
Brand Upon the Brain! (2006)
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.
Monday, November 15 2004
The Saddest Music in the World (2003)
'There are tears for things, there are tears of things, there are tears from things,' says Guy Maddin.
Blogs
Sunday, August 24 2008
Brand Upon the Brain!: Criterion Collection
One imagines that if you gave Canadian auteur Guy Maddin a mainstream movie script and a cast of well known celebrities, he would still wind…
