Guy Maddin
Date of Birth: 28 Feb 1956
Country: Canada
Biography: Guy Maddin, OM (born February 28, 1956) is a Canadian screenwriter, director, cinematographer and film editor of both features and short films from Winnipeg, Manitoba. His most distinctive quality is his penchant for recreating the look and style of silent or early sound era films which has solidified his popularity and acclaim in alternative film circles...(wikipedia)
Total Credits at Criticker: 9 (Actor), 45 (Director), 23 (Writer)
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A 10-part penny dreadful, a peepshow melodrama, loosely conceived around the filmmaker's autobiography, with an aesthetic that is one part "Vampire" serial, one part psycho fever-dream. (Film Forum)
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Beautifully transposing the Royal Winnipeg Ballet's interpretation of Bram Stoker's classic vampire yarn from stage to screen, Guy Maddin has forged a sumptuous, erotically charged feast of dance, drama and shadow. (Zeitgeist Films)
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It's 1933 in Winnipeg and the Great Depression is in full bloom. Beer Baroness Lady Port-Huntly (Rossellini) announces a global competition to determine the saddest music in the world, and musicians from across the globe pour into town to vie for the whopping $25,000 prize. Part musical melodrama, part tongue-in-cheek social satire, Guy Maddin's expressionistic film achieves a level of lunacy rarely seen since the Marx Brothers. (IFC Films)
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The Dead Father (1986) - Short Film
The patriarch of a troubled clan dies, but the resentment and yearning of the eldest son conspire to bring the errant father back for periodic visits in an only partially living state (imdb)
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Sissy Boy Slap Party (1995) - Short Film
Musical mantra derived from machine-gun micro-montage. (imdb)
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The Heart of the World (2000) - Short Film
References/parodies soviet montage cinema of the 1920s, German Expressionism of the 1920s, and silent melodrama film.
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A political prisoner is returning to his Mandragoran home when he embarks on a passionate affair with a young woman.
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In the remote Alpine village of Tolzbad at the turn of the century, people talk quietly and restrain their movements lest avalanches come and kill them (imdb)
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A surrealistic film in which a strangely assorted group of people come together in the Russian Arctic at the height of the revolution and World War One. (imdb)
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While their mother is dying in the modern Gimli, Manitoba hospital, two young children are told an important tale by their Icelandic grandmother about Ainar the lonely, his friend Gunnar, and the angelic Snjofrieder in a Gimli of old. (imdb)
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A father and son ride the rails in their powerful locomotive. Witnessing a crash between two other engines, they rescue the lone survivor, Berenice, and meke her a part of their family. All is well until the father and son become rivals for the girl's affections and perform a series of daredevil feats to win her heart. (imdb)
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Sombra dolorosa (2004) - Short Film
In this Maxi-Mexi-Melancolour short, the widow Paramo attempts to prevent further familial tragedy - her daughter Dolores wants to join her father, the recently deceased Don Paramo, in death - by taking on El Muerto, Death himself, in the wrestling ring. (zunior.com)
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A Trip to the Orphanage (2004) - Short Film
While an opera singers sings in a snowy and cold street, we are allowed to witness a meeting between a man and a woman through blowing net curtains. The music is touched by sadness and the emotions of the characters are no different. Nearer they become while the singer sinks deeper into the melancholy.
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My Dad Is 100 Years Old (2005) - Short Film
My Dad Is 100 Years Old was made to celebrate the one hundredth anniversary of my father's birth in 1906. I know that during his centennial year there will be occasions to celebrate and remember my father's work and I will be asked to present his films at screenings and give interviews. I wanted to say more than what I usually can say during those occasions (Isabella Rossellini)
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Equal parts childhood reminiscence, Expressionist horror film, teen detectived serial, and Grand Guignol reverie, Brand upon the Brain! is a new cinematic spectacle from the unique mind of Canada's own Guy Maddin. (thefilmcompany.org)
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A personal portrait of filmmaker Guy Maddin's hometown of Winnipeg, Manitoba. (imdb)
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Nude Caboose (2006) - Short Film
A jovial shirtless man attempts to rouse a contingent of lethargic dancers to life in NUDE CABOOSE. His highjinks really get the deadbeats bustin' out until something unusual catches his eye. Dance floor seduction distilled into a fateful moment! (imdb)
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Fancy, Fancy Being Rich (2002) - Short Film
About a lonely housemaid who can never find lasting love. (imdb comments)
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Odin's Shield Maiden (2007) - Short Film
The shield maiden of Gimli yearns for the drowned fisherman Mundi. This poetic short from Guy Maddin (Tales From Gimli Hospital, The Saddest Music in the World) mixes fact and myth-making in glorious black and white. (atlantic.bside.com)
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Hospital Fragment (1999) - Short Film
An impressionistic series of images inspired by "Tales From the Gimli Hospital". (imdb)
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Night Mayor (2009) - Short Film
Winnipeg, 1939: Bosnian immigrant Nihad Ademi conceives of a way to harness the power of the Aurora Borealis in order to broadcast imagery of his vast and beloved adopted land from coast to coast to coast. (imdb)
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Footsteps (2008) - Short Film
Footsteps juxtaposes scenes from Brand Upon The Brain! with the sound crew in their lab doing foley effects, including some questionable techniques of bare-butt-slapping and horse's-ass-kissing. (deeperintomovies.net)
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Gangster and deadbeat dad, Ulysses Pick, embarks on an unusual journey through his home. (imdb)
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The Little White Cloud That Cried (2009) - Short Film
The Little White Cloud That Cried, made in tribute to underground filmmaker Jack Smith, and described as: "Goddesses unharnessing the power of the sea and putting it into a whole new element as they engaged in orgiastic battles and whoopla." (cinematical.com)
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97 Percent True (2008) - Direct-to-Video
Documentary featuring interviews with director Guy Madden and his collaborators
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It's My Mother's Birthday Today (2008) - Short Film
Guy Maddin directed this short biopic on the castrato known as the Manitoba Meadowlark, Dov Houle, who performed on tour with the film "Brand Upon the Brain!" (mubi.com)
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Send Me to the 'Lectric Chair (2009) - Short Film
A woman sent is sent to an electric chair that reads the images of her mind.
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An apparently chaotic, yet always significant nightmare with countless fantastic plotlines inspired by real, imaginary and photographic memories of films from the silent era now lost.
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Puberty (2014) - Short Film
Maddin's frequent collaborator Evan Johnson (who is co-director on The Forbidden Room) presents four visuals essays, ranging from one and a half to four minutes in length: Puberty, Colours, Elms, and Cold, each representing a visual exploration of a specific theme.
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Elms (2014) - Short Film
Maddin's frequent collaborator Evan Johnson (who is co-director on The Forbidden Room) presents four visuals essays, ranging from one and a half to four minutes in length: Puberty, Colours, Elms, and Cold, each representing a visual exploration of a specific theme.
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Colours (2014) - Short Film
Maddin's frequent collaborator Evan Johnson (who is co-director on The Forbidden Room) presents four visuals essays, ranging from one and a half to four minutes in length: Puberty, Colours, Elms, and Cold, each representing a visual exploration of a specific theme.
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Cold (2014) - Short Film
Maddin's frequent collaborator Evan Johnson (who is co-director on The Forbidden Room) presents four visuals essays, ranging from one and a half to four minutes in length: Puberty, Colours, Elms, and Cold, each representing a visual exploration of a specific theme
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Bring Me the Head of Tim Horton (2015) - Short Film
Guided by the spirit of "The Cuadecuc Manifesto" (coined by co-director Evan Johnson and inspired by Pere Portabella's 1970 experimental cult documentary, Cuadecuc, vampir), Bring Me the Head of Tim Horton is a strange, stirring behind-the-scenes look at Paul Gross's new feature, Hyena Road. Shot on location at CFB Shilo near Brandon, Manitoba, and in Aqaba, Jordan, the film mixes deep contrast black-and-white expressionism with wry and raw western revisionism reminiscent of Sam Peckinpa
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Glorious (2008) - Short Film
An old criminal is haunted by dreams of death, crime, gangs of unruly criminals invading his home which may erupt in a shoot-out and death. The dream sparkles in firefight and bullet fireworks, morphing into some nonsense about firework shoes and a crackling basement stove before diving into what the guns and six-shooters really represent: A glory-hole orgy of oral sex. (The Worldwide Celluloid Massacre)
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Director Guy Maddin's interpretation of the Alfred Hitchcock classic Vertigo, pieced together using footage from old films and television shows shot in and around the San Francisco area.
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Accidence (2018) - Short Film
Every balcony is a poem, a chant -- a muscle. But whoever lives with that extra blueprint luxury of a balcony lives on the wrong side of a cross-section, on the busy, narrative-addled side of something like an ant-farm window, a brazen architectural arrangement selling cheap peeks into the naked sideshows of the quotidian -- even the grisly. Step right up. Behold. A ten story wall of solid twitching muscle.
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Once a Chicken (2015) - Direct-to-Video
A short film directed by the new collaborative team of Guy Maddin and Evan Johnson.
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Sinclair (2010) - Short Film
A recreation of the death off Brian Sinclair, a Native man who died from a treatable infection while waiting for help in an emergency room for over 30-hours. (imdb)
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Stump the Guesser (2020) - Short Film
He works at the fairground as "Stump the Guesser", who can guess anything for a fee. But suddenly his tricks stop working. And then he unwittingly falls in love with his sister whom he believed to be lost. He sets out to scientifically disprove the theory of heredity and marry his beloved as soon as possible. An absurdist firework of a silent film in black and white. (imdb)
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The Rabbit Hunters (2020) - Short Film
Isabella Rossellini plays Federico Fellini in this extravagant phantasmagoria made in celebration of the Italian master's centenary.
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Zookeeper Workbook (1997) - Short Film
Surrealist images from the world of a moustachioed zookeeper. (imdb)
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