Guy Maddin
Biography: Guy Maddin CM OM is a Canadian screenwriter, director, author, cinematographer and film editor of both features and short films, as well as an installation artist, 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. Since completing his first film in 1985, Maddin has become one of Canada's most well-known and celebrated film-makers. Maddin has directed eleven feature films and numerous short films, in addition to publishing three books and creating a host of installation art projects. A number of Maddin's recent films began as or developed from installation art projects, and his books also relate to his film work. Maddin has been the subject of much critical praise and academic attention, including two books of interviews with Maddin and two book-length academic studies of his work. Maddin was appointed to the Order of Canada, the country's highest civilian honour, in 2012.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: February 28, 1956
Deathday: N/A
Popularity:
Known For
Oak, Ivy, and Other Dead Elms
1982-01-01
Oak, Ivy, and Other Dead Elms
Overview: The further adventure of Nick, Paizs' silent hero sets off to college where he meets Brock West (Winnipeg journalist and rocker Peter Jordon, aka Rocky Roletti). Unwittingly, Nick becomes involved in attempts to restore old campus hangout and the dirty political tricks swirling a hard fought student election. The film successfully weaves the tone of 40s college hijinx movies through the clever spoof of current electoral trends, suggesting how easily old fashioned ethics can turn into fashion.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-01-01
Popularity:
The International Style
1983-01-01
The International Style
Overview: An amusing melange of '60s spy thrillers and other classics. Super secret agent Nick attempts to liberate a top secret microchip from the clutches of multimillionaire Quinton Frost. Paizs pokes fun at the jet set, the Cold War and Jean-Paul Sartre.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-01-01
Popularity:
Horse Brothers
2022-03-13
Horse Brothers
Overview: Two paranoid brothers are consumed with murderous fantasies after a horse convinces them that they are each others’ enemies. Starring Guy Maddin (My Winnipeg, Forbidden Room) and Milos Mitrovic (Tapeworm, Stump the Guesser).
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-03-13
Popularity:
Louis Riel for Dinner
2014-09-16
Louis Riel for Dinner
Overview: Guy Maddin narrates a surreal animated ode to the Métis freedom fighter and founder of the province of Manitoba.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-09-16
Popularity:
The 1000 Eyes of Dr Maddin
2015-09-08
The 1000 Eyes of Dr Maddin
Overview: Guy Maddin, who has been nicknamed the Canadian David Lynch, is undoubtedly one of the last remaining Magi of cinema. Despite living in the middle of the digital age, this heretical director hailing from the snowy plains of Canada has spent 25 years transposing the uncommon and the uncanny onto screens over-saturated with naturalistic imagery. A lover of primitive cinema, he has cunningly summoned the light-and-shadow techniques and experimentations of the Golden Age of film to resuscitate a unique cinematographic language which plays with the spectator’s unconscious by means of visual trickery as disturbing as it is absurd. In an attitude as playful at that Maddin’s films this documentary follows the mediumistic experiments of this master of illusion, filmed during the ‘’spirit’’ shootings he presented in Europe.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-09-08
Popularity:
My Winnipeg
2008-06-13
My Winnipeg
Overview: The geographical dead center of North America and the beloved birthplace of Guy Maddin, Winnipeg, is the frosty and mysterious star of Maddin’s film. Fact, fantasy and memory are woven seamlessly together in this work, conjuring a city as delightful as it is fearsome.
Genres: Documentary Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-06-13
Popularity:
Manuelle Labor
2007-02-02
Manuelle Labor
Overview: A woman with an oddly hairy belly gives birth to a pair of hands in Marie Losier’s giddily inventive "portrait" of filmmaker Guy Maddin, done as a collaboration between the two iconoclasts. A longtime fan of Maddin, Losier (best known for other inventive portraits of underground film icons like Tony Conrad and George Kuchar) hoped to document him as well; "I hate my voice and face," Maddin replied, and sent her Super-8 footage of his hands instead. Losier interwove the footage into her own distinct tale, shot like a surrealist 1920s silent film. A must for fans of Losier, Maddin and ingenious cinema in general, MANUELLE LABOR was completed for the Berlin Film Festival (where Maddin was the guest of honor). - Jason Sanders A collaboration film by Marie Losier and Guy Maddin. Two sisters, five brothers, a doctor and two nurses and the miraculous birth of a pair of hands, but whose hands?
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-02-02
Popularity:
The Triangular Door
The Triangular Door
Overview: The last survivors of an obliterated culture search for spiritual bondage in a reality show from hell. A salesman, a triangular door, a demon in the window with three faces. A miracle occurs. Shot on Super 8 film and narrated by Guy Maddin. Featuring Adam Green as the Earth's Salesman.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date:
Popularity:
The Amazed Spectator
2016-01-29
The Amazed Spectator
Overview: A kino-investigation about spectatorship, a continuous conversation between different kinds of spectators: which one is more cinema: Citizen Kane on a mobile phone or a football game projected in a cinema theatre? What is the cinema of uncertainty? How many kinds of amazement exist? Does fear and belief precede amazement? What are the rights and duties of the spectator? Is the essay film a manifesto against voyeurism? Should spectators be paid? What amazes the spectator of this day and age?
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-01-29
Popularity:
It Came from Kuchar
2009-09-22
It Came from Kuchar
Overview: It Came from Kuchar is the definitive, feature documentary about the legendary, underground filmmaking twins, the Kuchar brothers. George and Mike Kuchar have inspired two generations of filmmakers, actors, musicians, and artists with their zany, "no budget" films and with their uniquely enchanting spirits.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-09-22
Popularity:
Vinyl
2000-08-01
Vinyl
Overview: Toronto filmmaker Alan Zweig analyzes the phenomenon of record collecting.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-08-01
Popularity:
Trump Dreams
2017-11-06
Trump Dreams
Overview: A dream-inspired stream-of-consciousness download charting the trace infection lines Trump’s presence provokes in the minds of many.
Genres: Animation Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-11-06
Popularity:
Tales from the Winnipeg Film Group
2017-11-01
Tales from the Winnipeg Film Group
Overview: The explosive story of how a stubborn band of independent filmmakers started a film co-operative that became the most highly respected and mythologized film centre in Canada. Tales outlines the tremendous importance and impact of Winnipeg on the national filmmaking scene. Packed with rare archival footage, dynamic film excerpts, and hilarious interviews, this documentary traces the history of the legendary Winnipeg Film Group. We hear candid behind the scenes stories that illuminate the storied rise of acclaimed filmmakers like John Paizs (Crime Wave), Guy Maddin (Tales From The Gimli Hospital, My Winnipeg) Shawna Dempsey and Lorri Millan (We’re Talking Vulva, Good Citizen, Betty Baker) and Caroline Monnet (Ikwe). Often mired in controversy, the Film Group has been acclaimed at film festivals around the world – attested to by several Toronto film luminaries in the film – for subversive, original filmmaking. This documentary continues that tradition of bold, exuberant work.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-11-01
Popularity:
Death of the Reel
2008-06-06
Death of the Reel
Overview: Guy Maddin flies to Kansas City, Missouri, in a vain attempt to save cinema as it continues to die from contempt and neglect.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-06-06
Popularity:
Nostradamus
2000-04-27
Nostradamus
Overview: A medieval cult travels to the 20th century and kills people in an attempt to bring about the end of the world. The policeman must stop them by summoning the spirit of Nostradamus.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-04-27
Popularity:
97 Percent True
2008-08-12
97 Percent True
Overview: Documentary featuring interviews with director Guy Madden and his collaborators
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-08-12
Popularity:
Guy Maddin: Waiting for Twilight
1997-09-07
Guy Maddin: Waiting for Twilight
Overview: Interviews with Guy Maddin and his pals are included in this documentary about the Canadian film-maker's life and movies. Features clips from most of Maddin's films up to Twilight of the Ice Nymphs, including Careful and Archangel.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-09-07
Popularity:
J.T. LeRoy
2019-04-26
J.T. LeRoy
Overview: A young woman named Savannah Knoop spends six years pretending to be a transgender writer named JT Leroy, the made-up literary persona of her sister-in-law.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-04-26
Popularity:
Cliff: A Portrait of an Artist
2021-06-26
Cliff: A Portrait of an Artist
Overview: Acclaimed Canadian artist Cliff Eyland looks back on his life after a successful double lung transplant.
Genres: Documentary Animation Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-06-26
Popularity: