Filmmaker Guy Maddin says that watching a movie has more in common with a paranormal séance than meets the eye; he remembers the first time he realized that the French word for a movie screening is ...
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The director's latest project with the National Film Board of Canada shuffles scenes into a one-time viewing experience. Upon accessing the Seances page, you’re asked to “touch and hold to conjure” as ...
And we’ve seen nothing yet: Maddin and Johnson, who co-directed the film, are reconfiguring it with other story strands for their Internet extravaganza Séances, which they’ll launch in 2016. Did you ...
Watching Guy Maddin and Evan Johnson’s latest work Seances feels both familiar and utterly strange. Born from the knowledge that over 80% of silent movies have been lost, Maddin and his collaborators ...
No film in recent memory leaps off the screen like The Forbidden Room, Guy Maddin and Evan Johnson‘s omnibus-like homage to numerous forms of cinematic storytelling. From the first splotchy, ...
For nearly three decades Canadian filmmaker Guy Maddin has demonstrated an obsession with film at its most tangible. His black-and-white features, often silent, use the techniques of the silent medium ...
Where to even start with The Forbidden Room? The latest film from cinematic maniac Guy Maddin (My Winnipeg) is his most colorful, most insane visual orgy yet, marking what is possibly the Canadian ...
In a cramped rehearsal space at the Film Society of Lincoln Center on Wednesday afternoon, Canadian filmmaker Guy Maddin’s 1988 directorial debut “Tales from the Gimli Hospital” suddenly came alive ...
Director Guy Maddin’s films are beautiful to behold and as entertaining to watch as any storyteller working today. From Winnipeg, Manitoba, with its thriving art, music and filmmaking scene, Maddin ...
The director's found footage project wasn't originally intended as a Hitchcock homage, but with time, it transformed into just that. It’s usually unwise to remake a masterpiece, but Guy Maddin has ...