Tag: guymaddin
Karlovy Vary 2024 Review: Political Satire RUMOURS Takes Surreal Turn
Guy Maddin teams up with Evan Johnson and Galen Johnson on a trippy political comedy in a dystopian predicament led by Cate Blanchett.
Eric Ortiz's Favorite Movies Of 2018
After watching 133 new releases over the past 12 months, it’s certainly time to chime in, for what it’s worth, with my list of personal favorites. I live in Mexico City, therefore several 2017 titles are here. On the other...
Astron 6 Team With Guy Maddin And Rachel Talalay For DIVORCED DAD
It's a collision of seemingly disparate but each compellingly odd and wonderful forces of the Canadian film scene with word that the madmen at Astron 6 (Father's Day, The Editor) have teamed up with Guy Maddin (The Saddest Music In...
"I'd Have To Decribe It As A Quilt Of Dreams." Guy Maddin Talks THE FORBIDDEN ROOM
In a career stretching some thirty years, Guy Maddin has become one of Canada's most respected filmmakers and visual artists. His latest feature project, The Forbidden Room, certainly suggests he shows no sign of slowing down either, and the final...
THE FORBIDDEN ROOM Trailer: What Do Baths, Flapjacks And Volcanoes Have In Common? Guy Maddin!
To dream the volcanic dream... to flap jack the un-flap-jackable air...Canadian avant-garde darling Guy Maddin has teamed up with Evan Johnson to co-direct the phantasmagoric menagerie The Forbidden Room, a pulp adventure infused layer cake of cinematic WTFs and pure...
Sundance 2015 Review: THE FORBIDDEN ROOM, Weird And Wonderful
There are few things as futile (or daunting) as trying to make sense on paper of a Guy Maddin film. Save for My Winnipeg, which given its relative specificity and coherent narration serving almost as commentary for the flood...
THE FORBIDDEN ROOM: Guy Maddin's Latest Looks Even Stranger Than Hoped In This Quintet Of Teasers!
Strap yourself in for something strange, boys and girls, for Canada's favorite cinematic madman Guy Maddin is back with The Forbidden Room. Maddin's latest - codirected with Evan Johnson - is about to premiere at Sundance before heading on to...
Check Out This Living Poster For Guy Maddin's THE FORBIDDEN ROOM
Canadian director Guy Maddin has a new film coming. Or is films? The director has been working on a multimedia project known as Seances, or Spiritismes in some circles, which sees his cast and crew holding a seance to invite...
Guy Maddin's SEANCES Is Under Way, Watch A Recap Of Day One
Guy Maddin is ... well, he's kind of being Guy Maddin with his latest project, Seances. A perpetual experimenter, Maddin's latest project is a series of twelve films shot over thirteen days with a live audience at the Phi Centre...
Guy Maddin Invites You To Take Part In His SEANCES
Guy Maddin has never been one to bow before convention and so when word arrives that he has teamed with Montreal's Phi Centre to shoot twelve films in thirteen days with the public invited to participate ... well, coming from...
Watch Guy Maddin's NIGHT MAYOR!
Anything new from Canada's Guy Maddin is cause for celebration and his recent effort Night Mayor is no exception. The story of an immigrant who harnesses the power of the northern lights to broadcast images from Canada's own subconscious back...
Cinema Slap Party! 5 Short Films from Guy Maddin
It has been online since January, tucked in the relatively hidden confines of Vimeo, but what better way to have a coming out party for Guy Maddin's most recent short, The Little White Cloud That Cried, a tribute to American...
TIFF 09: NIGHT MAYOR Review
One would think that after three features in a row that mine personal history and biographical idiosyncratic fantasies, Guy Maddin would be through with this. Immersion down in the Nation Film Board (NFB) archives for someone like Maddin would probably...
TIFF 09: First Clip From Guy Maddin's NIGHT MAYOR!
Audiences won't be able to get a look at the complete Night Mayor - the latest short from the iconic Guy Maddin - until it screens at the Toronto International Film Festival, but thanks to the fine people at the...
