Metro Cinema: Guy Maddin Retrospective

All screenings @ Zeidler Hall in the Citadel Theatre, 9828 - 101A Ave

Guy Maddin Retrospective

Metro Cinema is proud to complete our Guy Maddin retrospective, begun in March with Archangel and continued in May with Careful. This week (June 27 - July 5, 2007), we present the rest of Maddin's shorts and features, including the Edmonton premiere of his latest film, Brand Upon the Brain! Metro Cinema has also published a booklet of interviews between Prof Beard and Guy Maddin.

Archangel

Director: Guy Maddin

Canada 1990, 90 min, Beta SP

Mar 17 (2007) @ 7pm

William Beard, Director of Film Studies at the University of Alberta, will be giving a series of lectures on Guy Maddin. Metro Cinema is pleased to bring Prof Beard in to the cinema to talk about Maddin, and screen selections... view more

Careful

Director: Guy Maddin

Canada 1992, 100 min, Beta SP

May 10 (2007) @ 7pm

We continue our Guy Maddin series by inviting Prof William Beard to introduce Maddin's Careful, a weird, funny and unforgettable parable of sexual repression set in an Alpine village. "Be careful." "Never hold a baby's face near an open pin."... view more

Tales from the Gimli Hospital

Director: Guy Maddin

Canada 1988, 72 min

Jun 27 (2007) @ 7pm

Maddin's outrageously bizarre debut was one of the big hits of the 1980s midnight movie circuit. Reckless envy, unconsummated passions and necrophilia set the tone for these surreal tales shared by two patients confined during a turn-of-the-century smallpox epidemic. ... view more

Brand Upon the Brain!

Director: Guy Maddin

Canada 2006, 95 min, 35mm

Jun 27, 29, Jul 3 & 5 (2007) @ 9pm
Jun 28, 30 & Jul 4 (2007) @ 7pm

Surreal, satiric and surprisingly touching, Guy Maddin's latest film looks at the secret lives of families in a work that is equal parts childhood reminiscence, Expressionist horror movie, teen detective serial and Grand Guignol reverie. Memories are everywhere on Guy's... view more

Twilight of the Ice Nymphs

Director: Guy Maddin

Canada 1997, 92 min

Jun 28 (2007) @ 9pm

An exceedingly motley crew is drawn into the lusty delirium of Maddin's supremely sensual dream world which pulses with ethereal, vibrating colors and bizarre flourishes of art direction. This Midsummer Night's Dream-on-acid dares us to lay bare our most deeply... view more

The Saddest Music in the World

Director: Guy Maddin

Canada 2003, 100 min, 35mm

Jun 29 (2007) @ 7pm

Set in Winnipeg during the Great Depression, Saddest Music is a comic musical about a competition announced by a beer magnate to find the saddest piece of music in the world. Musicians from across the world come to Winnipeg to... view more

Dracula: Pages From a Virgin's Diary

Director: Guy Maddin

Canada 2002, 75 min, 35mm

Jul 3 (2007) @ 7pm

Beautifully transposing the Royal Winnipeg Ballet's interpretation of Bram Stoker's classic vampire yarn from stage to screen, Maddin has forged a sumptuous, erotically charged feast of dance, drama and shadow. The black-and-white, blood-red-punctured film is a Gothic grand guignol of... view more

Cowards Bend the Knee

Director: Guy Maddin

Canada 2003, 64 min

Jul 4 (2007) @ 9pm

Adapted from a ten-part peephole installation, Cowards Bend the Knee is "jam-packed with enough kinetically photographed action to seem like a never-ending cliffhanger... Set in a shadow-suffused hockey arena and a Mabuse-like beauty salon-slash-abortion clinic, the plot drips with Grecian... view more

Maddin Shorts

Jul 5 (2007) @ 7pm

Guy Maddin Retrospective Metro Cinema is proud to complete our Guy Maddin retrospective, begun in March with [Archangel][1] and continued in May with [Careful][2]. This week (June 27 - July 5, 2007), we present the rest of Maddin's shorts and... view more