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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.
09 Oct 2008
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A Fairy Tale Childhood: An Interview with Guy Maddin
The Canadian cult director Guy Madden talks with 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.
Robert Loerzel
13 Aug 2008
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My Winnipeg
Snow and ice fill the frame in My Winnipeg, Guy Maddin's ookily brilliant evocation of his childhood.
13 Jun 2008
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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.
05 Jun 2007
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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.
Cynthia Fuchs
14 Nov 2004
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The Saddest Music in the World (2003)
Guy Maddin's film is swirling with scraps of movie and other recent history.
Cynthia Fuchs
12 May 2004
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Dracula: Pages From a Virgin's Diary (2002)
The lasciviously titled Dracula: Pages From a Virgin's Diary is a reliably unhinged exponent of Maddin's antiquarian vision.
Elbert Ventura
14 May 2003
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