In the dazzling third season finale of Penny Dreadful, Dracula went pale (well, paler) at the thought of a confrontation with his “singular enemy,” the hound of God. But Vanessa wasn’t concerned in the slightest. Let Ethan come for her, she said. “He and I shall write the ending in blood, as it was always going to be.” What did she mean by that? Read on and find out!
‘The Very Air Will Be Pestilence To Mankind’ | As we began “Perpetual Night,” the first episode of the two-parter, Dr. Seward caught Renfield listening to recordings of her sessions with...
‘The Very Air Will Be Pestilence To Mankind’ | As we began “Perpetual Night,” the first episode of the two-parter, Dr. Seward caught Renfield listening to recordings of her sessions with...
- 6/20/2016
- TVLine.com
Going UNDERGROUNDEverybody and their dog, it seems, feels this off imperative to try to identify common themes in the handful of festival films they (we) (I) see in a given year. It's the Ghost of Hegel, I suppose, demanding that we make sense of our times by referring to some Zeitgeist. (Zeitgeist? Isn't this just as likely to Strand the FilmsWeLike in some oh-so-precious Music Box, to be unearthed years later by members of some as-yet-unassembled Cinema Guild? But I digress.) There may or may not be tendencies running through this year's feature selections, and if there are, that could have as much to do with the people who selected them than with any global mood. But there does seem to be a generalized turning-inward, with filmmakers making works about themselves and their immediate lives, the cinematic process, and the very complexities of communicating with other human beings. There are...
- 9/17/2015
- by Michael Sicinski
- MUBI
Read More: Woodstock Film Festival Celebrates 16 Years in Official Poster Art The Woodstock Film Festival has announced that Canadian filmmakers Atom Egoyan ("Exotica," "The Sweet Hereafter") and Guy Maddin ("Archangel," "The Heart of the World") will receive the Honorary Maverick Award and the second annual Fiercely Independent Award, respectively. The awards will be presented to the filmmakers on October 3 during the annual Maverick Awards Gala at Bsp Kingston, NY. Additionally, Egoyan's "Remember" will open the festival on October 1, while Maddin's "The Forbidden Room" will close the event on October 4. "Remember" stars Christopher Plummer as a 90-year-old Auschwitz survivor struggling with memory loss. After he receives a letter from his friend containing a stack of money, a gun and a letter detailing a shocking plan, he embarks on a cross-country journey to bring justice to the man who...
- 8/31/2015
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
The Forbidden Room director Guy Maddin and co-director Evan Johnson
After its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival, Guy Maddin and co-director Evan Johnson's The Forbidden Room had its international debut in the Forum section of the Berlin International Film Festival. Together, they've made made a feverish collage of false extracts from old movies, a half forgotten, groggily recalled, dreamily regained experience of cinematic potential.
Originating from the Seances project, these self-described fragments are more like truncated (or over-extended) skits riffing from the conventions, memories and suggestions of Maddin's most beloved of periods in film history, the end of silence and beginning of sound: the queasy, delirious, awkward, voluptuous late 1920s and early 30s. The skits, some starring recognizable actors as grotesques (Udo Kier and Mathieu Amalric) or as Golden Era gods and goddesses (Maria de Medeiros as a woman "born to be a widow," Roy Dupuis as...
After its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival, Guy Maddin and co-director Evan Johnson's The Forbidden Room had its international debut in the Forum section of the Berlin International Film Festival. Together, they've made made a feverish collage of false extracts from old movies, a half forgotten, groggily recalled, dreamily regained experience of cinematic potential.
Originating from the Seances project, these self-described fragments are more like truncated (or over-extended) skits riffing from the conventions, memories and suggestions of Maddin's most beloved of periods in film history, the end of silence and beginning of sound: the queasy, delirious, awkward, voluptuous late 1920s and early 30s. The skits, some starring recognizable actors as grotesques (Udo Kier and Mathieu Amalric) or as Golden Era gods and goddesses (Maria de Medeiros as a woman "born to be a widow," Roy Dupuis as...
- 2/24/2015
- by Daniel Kasman
- MUBI
Dear Danny,
You describe the Maddin and Panahi well, and we have similar takes on them—but please allow me to digress before I address those films, as I’ve just come out of Jem Cohen’s Counting, and I’d like to take advantage of its freshness in my mind. Organized into 15 chapters, the film more or less documents certain excerpts from the filmmaker’s travels over the past three years. The chapters vary in length and focus, with different headings & descriptions (“New York City, 2012-2014,” “The Millions,” etc.), and taking place in different locations across the globe (Moscow, Porto, Istanbul). Entirely made up of subjective glimpses of these places, the film resembles a diary or travelogue—but in spite of its seeming slightness in its minute pieces, in total it is a perceptive and honest record of the world today. Cohen understands the limitations of the image, of...
You describe the Maddin and Panahi well, and we have similar takes on them—but please allow me to digress before I address those films, as I’ve just come out of Jem Cohen’s Counting, and I’d like to take advantage of its freshness in my mind. Organized into 15 chapters, the film more or less documents certain excerpts from the filmmaker’s travels over the past three years. The chapters vary in length and focus, with different headings & descriptions (“New York City, 2012-2014,” “The Millions,” etc.), and taking place in different locations across the globe (Moscow, Porto, Istanbul). Entirely made up of subjective glimpses of these places, the film resembles a diary or travelogue—but in spite of its seeming slightness in its minute pieces, in total it is a perceptive and honest record of the world today. Cohen understands the limitations of the image, of...
- 2/8/2015
- by Adam Cook
- MUBI
Moment to moment, the relentless cinephilic delirium of The Forbidden Room is every bit as intense as Guy Maddin's 6-minute short The Heart of the World (2000), but the miracle of the new two-hour-plus feature co-directed with Evan Johnson is that it's persistently enthralling, often quite funny and never exhausting. The Forbidden Room seems to be the culmination or perhaps merely the 2015 version of the project Maddin began with Hauntings (2010), a collection of reimagined excerpts from films never realized by the likes of F.W. Murnau, Fritz Lang and Kenji Mizoguchi, and Seances (2012), further fragmentary homages to works made in those volatile years as the silents gave way to sound. » - David Hudson...
- 1/28/2015
- Fandor: Keyframe
Moment to moment, the relentless cinephilic delirium of The Forbidden Room is every bit as intense as Guy Maddin's 6-minute short The Heart of the World (2000), but the miracle of the new two-hour-plus feature co-directed with Evan Johnson is that it's persistently enthralling, often quite funny and never exhausting. The Forbidden Room seems to be the culmination or perhaps merely the 2015 version of the project Maddin began with Hauntings (2010), a collection of reimagined excerpts from films never realized by the likes of F.W. Murnau, Fritz Lang and Kenji Mizoguchi, and Seances (2012), further fragmentary homages to works made in those volatile years as the silents gave way to sound. » - David Hudson...
- 1/28/2015
- Keyframe
Husband-and-wife team Guy Maddin and Kim Morgan will take the hot seats at the 41st annual event, set to run in Colorado from August 29-September 1.
In keeping with the festival’s ethos, the guest directors’ six selections will be made available on opening day.
“Guy and Kim have long been a part of Telluride,” said Telluride Film Festival executive director Julie Huntsinger.
“There was no question that they were the perfect choice for this year’s festival. Their energy, knowledge and enthusiasm is a winning combination – our audience will benefit from that when their selections are unveiled at the festival.”
Maddin has won the National Society Of Film Critics Award for best experimental film twice, for Archangel in 1991 and The Heart Of The World in 2001. He also earned the Telluride Silver Medallion in 1995.
Morgan is a film, music and culture writer who has written for numerous outlets.
“We are honoured and thrilled to be guest directors at Telluride...
In keeping with the festival’s ethos, the guest directors’ six selections will be made available on opening day.
“Guy and Kim have long been a part of Telluride,” said Telluride Film Festival executive director Julie Huntsinger.
“There was no question that they were the perfect choice for this year’s festival. Their energy, knowledge and enthusiasm is a winning combination – our audience will benefit from that when their selections are unveiled at the festival.”
Maddin has won the National Society Of Film Critics Award for best experimental film twice, for Archangel in 1991 and The Heart Of The World in 2001. He also earned the Telluride Silver Medallion in 1995.
Morgan is a film, music and culture writer who has written for numerous outlets.
“We are honoured and thrilled to be guest directors at Telluride...
- 6/18/2014
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Intrigued by The Artist but don't know where to start exploring the silent film archives? Try these five classics, which lead to plenty more…
It doesn't take long for a novelty to be hailed as a trend. Internet film rental service Lovefilm reports that the buzz around The Artist has sparked a boom in curiosity about early cinema, with a 40% rise in the number of people streaming silent films on its site in the week leading up to the Oscars.
The top 10 most-streamed silents include a clutch of Buster Keaton's ingenious comedies, some heady Hollywood melodrama (A Fool There Was, starring Theda Bara, and The Son of the Sheikh, with Rudolph Valentino) and creepy Swedish horror The Phantom Carriage. There are only two films on the list that seem to bear any relation to Michel Hazanavicius's surprise hit: Frank Borzage's mournful romance Seventh Heaven (which inspired the...
It doesn't take long for a novelty to be hailed as a trend. Internet film rental service Lovefilm reports that the buzz around The Artist has sparked a boom in curiosity about early cinema, with a 40% rise in the number of people streaming silent films on its site in the week leading up to the Oscars.
The top 10 most-streamed silents include a clutch of Buster Keaton's ingenious comedies, some heady Hollywood melodrama (A Fool There Was, starring Theda Bara, and The Son of the Sheikh, with Rudolph Valentino) and creepy Swedish horror The Phantom Carriage. There are only two films on the list that seem to bear any relation to Michel Hazanavicius's surprise hit: Frank Borzage's mournful romance Seventh Heaven (which inspired the...
- 3/2/2012
- by Pamela Hutchinson
- The Guardian - Film News
Director: Michel Hazanavicius Writer: Michel Hazanavicius Starring: Jean Dujardin, Bérénice Bejo, James Cromwell, John Goodman, Malcolm McDowell, Penelope Ann Miller, Missi Pyle, Bitsie Tulloch Most of us remember that video killed the radio star, but how often do we ruminate upon the fact that talkies killed the silent film? For those of you who have not brushed up on your film history in a while: Until the 1920s, films were made with no synchronized recorded sound -- this means there is no spoken dialogue. Instead, the "dialogue" of silent films is communicated via facial expressions, body gestures, and title cards. Attempts to create sync-sound films might go back to the Edison lab (circa 1896), but it was not until the 1920s that sound-on-disc and sound-on-film sound formats such as Photokinema (1921), Phonofilm (1923), Vitaphone (1926), Fox Movietone (1927), and RCA Photophone (1928) came into common practice. The Jazz Singer (1927) is often toted as the first commercially successful sound film; and,...
- 10/29/2011
- by Don Simpson
- SmellsLikeScreenSpirit
#13. Keyhole Director: Guy Maddin Cast: Jason Patric, Isabella Rossellini, Udo Kier, Louis Negin, Brooke Palsson Distributor: Rights Available Buzz: Canada's most idiosyncratic auteur, nobody love schlocky expressionism and silent film bombastics than Guy Maddin. His free-wheeling 5-minute short The Heart of the World informed the cinema world with all they needed to know about the skills that he is capable of, and his hilarious and super-personal My Winnipeg brought him a giant new legion of fans. Fluctuating between camp, hyperbolic autobiographies, and the avant-garde, there is really nothing quite like this Canadian original. The Gist: A gangster named Ulysses weaves his way through an old, ghost-infested house in vintage, Bowery-bros. fashion. A talkie (this is a necessary trait to point out when it comes to Maddin) with enough visual flair to fill a hundred time-lapse montages, it's a singular haunted house movie as only this Canuck can make them. Tiff...
- 9/3/2011
- IONCINEMA.com
Be Careful, citizens of Tolzbad! Of the big budget and fan-catered product that is going to be shoveled into Walmart for the holiday season, it warms my heart to see that Zeitgeist is preparing the Quintessential Guy Maddin, a box set containing five great films of mad Canuck filmmaker that at the least, starts to approach the magnitude of the 'quintessential' moniker. While My Winnipeg, Tales from the Gimli Hospital and The Saddest Music In The World would be very nice indeed to round out the set, anyone willing to delve into the strange and wild filmography of the Canadian auteur could do worse! Careful might just be Maddin's masterwork, and is a great entry point as well. The 4 Disc set does contain the following:
Disc One: Careful (1992, 100 min, Remastered and Repressed Edition):
Disc Two: Twilight of the Ice Nymphs (1997, 90 min) + Archangel (1990, 83 min):
Disc Three: Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary...
Disc One: Careful (1992, 100 min, Remastered and Repressed Edition):
Disc Two: Twilight of the Ice Nymphs (1997, 90 min) + Archangel (1990, 83 min):
Disc Three: Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary...
- 11/5/2010
- Screen Anarchy
It has been online since January, tucked in the relatively hidden confines of Vimeo, but what better way to have a coming out party for Guy Maddin's most recent short, The Little White Cloud That Cried, a tribute to American filmmaker and pioneer of underground cinema Jack Smith, than with a micro-festival of the unusual short works of Canada's most off-beat and consistently humourous director.
Comedy, satire, whimsy, sex, melodrama, schlock, art, and intense inter-titles, how does one squeeze this all into 8 minutes or less? Guy Maddin is most known for his feature films, The Saddest Music In The World, Tales From The Gimli Hospital, Careful and his biography of Winnipeg slash catalogue of his own anxieties, My Winnipeg, but often packaged with the DVDs of those features, or touring film festivals (and now the internets), you will come across his sharp and eclectic short films. They are marvels...
Comedy, satire, whimsy, sex, melodrama, schlock, art, and intense inter-titles, how does one squeeze this all into 8 minutes or less? Guy Maddin is most known for his feature films, The Saddest Music In The World, Tales From The Gimli Hospital, Careful and his biography of Winnipeg slash catalogue of his own anxieties, My Winnipeg, but often packaged with the DVDs of those features, or touring film festivals (and now the internets), you will come across his sharp and eclectic short films. They are marvels...
- 3/23/2010
- Screen Anarchy
Robert here with the makeover of my Directors of the Decade series, henceforth known as Modern Maestros (because alliteration is always awesome). The mission statement will be simple: an ongoing series celebrating working directors who define the state contemporary cinema. Suggestions are always appreciated. That being said, let's start!
Maestro: Guy Maddin
Known For: Modern purveyor of manic, kinky, autobiographical and sometimes silent films.
Influences: The expressionists… Eisenstein, Dovzhenko, Murnau, etc.
Masterpieces: His two most recent and most autobiographical. My Winnipeg and Brand Upon the Brain.
Disasters: zero
Better than you remember: Maddin has yet to make a bad movie, so if you dislike any of them give it another shot.
Awards: Best Canadian Film at Tiff is the highest award that’s thus-far been bestowed on one of cinema’s most creative directors.
Box Office: The Saddest Music in the World has grossed over 600 thousand dollars to date.
Favorite...
Maestro: Guy Maddin
Known For: Modern purveyor of manic, kinky, autobiographical and sometimes silent films.
Influences: The expressionists… Eisenstein, Dovzhenko, Murnau, etc.
Masterpieces: His two most recent and most autobiographical. My Winnipeg and Brand Upon the Brain.
Disasters: zero
Better than you remember: Maddin has yet to make a bad movie, so if you dislike any of them give it another shot.
Awards: Best Canadian Film at Tiff is the highest award that’s thus-far been bestowed on one of cinema’s most creative directors.
Box Office: The Saddest Music in the World has grossed over 600 thousand dollars to date.
Favorite...
- 1/7/2010
- by Robert
- FilmExperience
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