Twilight of the ice nymphs: a political prisoner returns to his home after several years of incarceration, falling desperately in love with a woman named Juliana on the boat trip home.
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A genre-hopping political-satire-cum-horror-comedy starring Cate Blanchett, Rumours follows leaders of the world's wealthiest democracies at the annual G7 summit as they attempt to draft a provisional statement regarding a global crisis and are suddenly beset by a host of absurd ...
A genre-hopping political-satire-cum-horror-comedy starring Cate Blanchett, Rumours follows leaders of the world's wealthiest democracies at the annual G7 summit as they attempt to draft a provisional statement regarding a global crisis and are suddenly beset by a host of absurd ...
A "docu-fantasia" about the city of Winnipeg and director Guy Maddin's relationship to the city.
In a house haunted with memories, gangster and father Ulysses Pick arrives home after a long absence towing the body of a teenage 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, ho...
The geographical dead center of North America and the beloved birthplace of Guy Maddin, Winnipeg is the frosty and mysterious star of Maddin's "docu-fantasia." A work of memory and imagination, Maddin's film burrows into what the filmmaker calls "the heart of the heart" of the co...
Chuck Tatum, an amoral newspaper reporter caught in dead-end Albuquerque, happens upon the story of a lifetime-and will do anything to ensure he gets the scoop.
A hockey player for the Winnipeg Maroons, takes his pregnant girlfriend to a beauty salon that moonlights as an abortion clinic and leaves her (mid-procedure) for the salon owner's daughter. He then discovers that his new girlfriend can't be with a man until she avenges her fathe...
Set in Winnipeg during the Great Depression, where a beer baroness organizes a contest to find the saddest music in the world.
A never-before-seen woodsman mysteriously appears aboard a submarine that's been trapped deep under water for months with an unstable cargo. As the terrified crew make their way through the corridors of the doomed vessel, they find themselves on a voyage into the origins of their...
Set during a smallpox epidemic in the village of Gimli, Manitoba near the turn of the century, this film explores the jealousy and madness instilled in two men who share a hospital room. The two men are friends at first, until they reveal their darkest secrets to each other.
The 19th century. In the remote Alpine village of Tolzbad, people talk quietly and restrain their movements lest avalanches come and kill them. This atmosphere lends itself to repressed emotions. Johann is a student lusting after his mother. She is an old flame of the mysterious ...
One of the most scathing indictments of American culture ever produced by a Hollywood filmmaker. An amoral newspaper reporter washes up in dead-end Albuquerque, happens upon the scoop of a lifetime, and will do anything to keep getting the lurid headlines.
This eerie excursion into the Gothic recesses of Maddin's mad, imaginary childhood is a nightmare set in a lighthouse on grim Notch Island, where fictional protagonist Maddin was raised by an ironfisted, puritanical mother.
"A poetic collage of art in the modern world: from Rilkean elegies for an iPhone to a meditation on Melville's classic. Jonathan Ball's fourth poetry book, the first in seven years, swirls chaos and confession together. At the book's heart is a question: Why create art? A series ...
Most Canadians are city dwellers, a fact often unacknowledged by twentieth-century Canadian films, with their preference for themes of wilderness survival or rural life. Modernist Canadian films tend to support what film scholar Jim Leach calls “the nationalist-realist project,” ...