The Heart of the World
Brilliant! The finale got me laughing out loud, which doesn't ALWAYS happen during avant-garde short films.
Guy Maddin
Filmography
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Keyhole
In a house haunted with memories, gangster and father Ulysses Pick (Jason Patric) arrives home after a long absence, towing the body of a teenaged girl and a bound-and-gagged young man. His gang waits inside his house, having shot their way past police. There is friction in the ranks. Ulysses,...Watch Movie
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Night Mayor
Winnipeg, 1939. A Bosnian immigrant to Canada, 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. From his tenement apartment-cum-laboratory, with the help of his large and...Watch Movie
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Manuelle Labor
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...Watch Movie
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Cowards Bend the Knee
"Cowardice!! The New Sexy!!!" squeals Guy Maddin about his shot-on-Super-8, expanded-to-35mm silent "autobiography" involving beauty salons, cowardice, femmes fatale, a father's severed hands (and the daughter who wants them sewn onto her lover's arms), orgies and the Soviet...Watch Movie
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Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary
After garnering widespread acclaim with his mini-masterpiece THE HEART OF THE WORLD, Canadian cult auteur Guy Maddin concocted his most ravishingly stylized cinematic creation to date. Beautifully transposing the Royal Winnipeg Ballet's interpretation of Bram Stoker's classic...Watch Movie
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Careful
Guy Maddin's early masterpiece takes place in a 19th-century Alpine village where the wary residents (adult, child and animal!) must speak softly and tread lightly lest they cause an avalanche. CAREFUL resembles a vintage melodrama from another planet, something that could only emerge from the...Watch Movie
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Archangel
Literally a film like no other, this weird, wild and extraordinary photoplay is both melodrama and deadpan parody. With striking black and white cinematography and stylized set design, Guy Maddin tells a tale of obsessive love in the arctic Russian town of Archangel, where Bolsheviks, White...Watch Movie
Genres
- Action/Adventure / Wilderness
- Adaptation / Literary / Prose
- Avant-garde / Surrealistic
- Comedy / Parody
- Comedy / Romantic Comedy
- Crime / Criminal / Gangster
- Cult / Psychotronic
- Drama
- Drama / Costume Drama
- Drama / Dysfunctional Family
- Drama / Melodrama
- Drama / Political
- Drama / Romantic Drama
- Fantasy / Dream
- Horror / Creature Feature / Vampire
- Horror / Old Dark House
- International / Americas / North American / American
- International / Americas / North American / Canadian
- International / European / French
- Science Fiction
- Short / Narrative
- Silent / Silent Drama
- Silent / Silent Horror
- Sport / Hockey
- Suspense / Psychological / Compulsion
- War
Recent Reviews
Careful
Look at this, Grigorss, my mountain hideaway. The two of us can be outcasts here together. We need never see anyone but each other. We can live on berries and...
The Heart of the World
The greatest of Guy Maddin's short-form efforts. There's more fully realized ambition in 7 minutes than most directors (including himself) typically realize in ten times the duration.
Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary
I don't know what it is about being stuck inside because of a blizzard and watching some great Goth, but this did it for me visually as Phantasmagoria from The...
The Heart of the World
An amazing tour de force of Guy, compressed into a mind bending 6 minutes of 4th dimensional subtext.