"My Winnipeg" is filmmaker Guy Maddin's touching goodbye letter to his Canadian hometown. As such, you might expect tenderness, nostalgia, tears. You'll get some of those, but you'll also laugh and at ...
Even the blandest, most benighted hamlet, if it happens to be the place where you first met the world, is myth and magic. It's the map of a hidden self, for better or worse. Usually, somehow, worse.
Pity poor Guy Maddin's mother. The Canadian director's last film, "Brand Upon the Brain," featured a psychotic, domineering mother who spied on her children from atop an isolated lighthouse. In his ...
Guy Maddin calls his “My Winnipeg” a “docu-fantasia,” and there’s no reason not to take him at his word. This haunting phantasmagoria of a film -- comic, singular, surreal -- is not only something no ...
The Manitoba city of Winnipeg looms large in the imagination of its most famous filmmaking son, Guy Maddin. So it’s only natural that Maddin make a tribute to his hometown. Tribute? Well, something ...
“I was going in the direction that all indie directors go,” said filmmaker Guy Maddin, reflecting on his career. “It was fun to do a U-turn and go in the opposite direction. Ironically, if I go to ...
TORONTO -- "Docu-fantasia" is too mild a label for Guy Maddin's simultaneously heartfelt and mocking ode to the hometown he describes as the coldest, most soporific city on Earth. By The Associated ...
[EDITOR’S NOTE: Guy Maddin’s “My Winnipeg” is screening at the 7th Tribeca Film Festival, currently underway. IFC First Take will release the film in theaters beginning in June in the U.S.] “My ...
Watching Guy Maddin’s My Winnipeg is like experiencing a restless night’s sleep; lingering on the edge of consciousness, barraged by an endless loop of imagery that almost makes sense, all the while ...