The Cinematheque presents major Guy Maddin retrospective
Series features all 12 feature-length films by the Canadian cult icon
Careful, Guy Maddin.
Guy Maddin, legendary Winnipeg auteur and the world’s foremost reanimator of cinema’s dead and buried past, is coming to The Cinematheque to celebrate the re-release of his warped first feature Tales from the Gimli Hospital, that midnight-movie nonpareil that made Maddin a Canadian cult hero.
By way of a ticker-tape parade, The Cinematheque is mounting a major retrospective devoted to the Manitoban’s sublimely strange and defiantly singular oeuvre.
Join The Cinematheque from January 26 to February 20 as it presents all 12 feature-length films by the country’s most distinctive film stylist.
Maddin will join local audiences live for a conversation on opening night (January 26) following a screening of the newly restored (and “Redux”-ed) Gimli.
He’ll then return the next evening to introduce the film he has programmed especially for this series—the suitably deranged Tod Browning 1936 curio The Devil-Doll (screening from a 35mm film print).
From his earliest attention-grabbing excursions into film burlesque to his cheekily self-mythologizing ”Me Trilogy” mock-memoirs to his latest febrile collaborations with fellow Winnipeg weirdos Evan and Galen Johnson, there is a maelstrom of Maddin to get euphorically lost in.
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Post sponsored by The Cinematheque.