US openings in April
http://www.keyholemovie.com/
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Friday, 2 March 2012 22:34 (twelve years ago) link
I'm glad I have 10 days and a screener to figure this one out.
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 21 March 2012 04:43 (twelve years ago) link
Did not know he was married to Kim Morgan.
― stay in school if you want to kiw (Gukbe), Wednesday, 21 March 2012 04:48 (twelve years ago) link
yeah, saw her with him at post-screening reception tonight.
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 21 March 2012 04:49 (twelve years ago) link
oh, so you saw it tonight? initial thoughts beyond "need to figure it out"?
― stay in school if you want to kiw (Gukbe), Wednesday, 21 March 2012 04:50 (twelve years ago) link
definitely he tried to change the tone up -- more "serious" in a way, fewer "joy buzzers" as he calls them (tho I don't know what else you'd call a dildo coming outta the baseboard or a bike-powered electric chair). Cinematherapy still; his fastest montages ever.
He also taked about this project:
http://sunsetgun.typepad.com/sunsetgun/2012/02/over-eighty-percent-of-silent-films-are-lost-ive-always-considered-a-lost-film-as-a-narrative-with-no-known-resting-fi.html
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 21 March 2012 05:02 (twelve years ago) link
thats rad
― A Little Princess btw (s1ocki), Wednesday, 21 March 2012 05:08 (twelve years ago) link
so happy he exists
switched off 'keyhole' a half hour in.
i appreciate what GM's doing on some level but i don't actually like watching his films that much
― misandry rublev (donna rouge), Friday, 7 June 2013 05:56 (eleven years ago) link
watched keyhole on netflix last night. understand the reservations, cuz much of it is very bad (or "bad" perhaps, hard to tell), but i wound up rather enjoying it. the wacky tone and bad jokes that loom so large at the outset eventually give way to something creepier and more interesting. i'd made the decision in advance to watch it all the way through without checking the passage of time, and that definitely helped get me through the rough spots.
― Me and my pool noodle (contenderizer), Tuesday, 25 June 2013 21:31 (ten years ago) link
went and hung out on the set of this today. it was really great. will be coming to nyc next year, morbs, you have to go check it out.
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/366364/Screenshots/8u93.png
― we're up all night to get (s1ocki), Thursday, 18 July 2013 22:50 (ten years ago) link
well sure
― playwright Greg Marlowe, secretly in love with Mary (Dr Morbius), Friday, 19 July 2013 03:41 (ten years ago) link
cool!
― maven with rockabilly glasses (Matt P), Friday, 19 July 2013 03:42 (ten years ago) link
another interview, eh
http://ca.blouinartinfo.com/node/929217/home/performing-arts/Guy-Maddin-Channels-the-Spirit-of-the-Silent-Film-Era
― playwright Greg Marlowe, secretly in love with Mary (Dr Morbius), Friday, 19 July 2013 20:24 (ten years ago) link
Really like his essay for I Married a Witch: http://www.criterion.com/current/posts/2924-i-married-a-witch-it-s-such-an-ancient-pitch
― Insane Prince of False Binaries (Gukbe), Monday, 14 October 2013 17:43 (ten years ago) link
new one looks amazing! title change from Seances, per s1ocki above?
https://www.fandor.com/keyframe/daily-sundance-berlin-2015-guy-maddins-the-forbidden-room
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 21:09 (nine years ago) link
sounds great
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 21:14 (nine years ago) link
wow! cool!
― Mistah FAAB (sarahell), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 21:15 (nine years ago) link
no wait, Seances is a diff film, missed that in first graf
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 29 January 2015 02:55 (nine years ago) link
there are vampire bananas in this
http://grantland.com/hollywood-prospectus/dreaming-bigger-cracking-the-forbidden-room-guy-maddins-inception-like-genre-explosion/
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 3 February 2015 17:31 (nine years ago) link
Kino Lorber to release in the fall
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 5 February 2015 23:47 (nine years ago) link
Sparks! excited
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 5 February 2015 23:53 (nine years ago) link
fuck fall! want it now >:[
― A Severus of Snapes (contenderizer), Friday, 6 February 2015 00:05 (nine years ago) link
Interview with GM and co-director Evan Johnson:
Fragoso: Have you both seen The Grand Budapest Hotel?
Johnson: Yep.
Maddin: When I first heard of ‘The Grand Budapest,’ I was worried.
Johnson: When we first saw it we were worried and a little horrified, because it begins nested. Right off the bat.
Maddin: (Laughs.) And I thought holy shit, ‘That fucker! That fucker Wes Anderson!’ We had been working on this for years and this fucker who already has a fan-base of hundreds of millions of people—and a coffee table book that’s through the roof….
But I only said ‘fuck Wes Anderson’ because I was scared he made the movie that we just finished ruining our lives making. When I went to see it, obviously, we were sloppy and all over the god damn place and he’s so formally pure.
Fragoso: Your lives are ruined?
Johnson: No, no. Not at all. We’re fine.
Maddin: No, not at all. I’m just used to taking regular rests, and I had to work hard to make this movie. So my routine was destroyed.
Johnson: It was financially difficult.
Maddin: Yeah and we went into overtime making this thing, so the money ran out a long time ago. So we’re struggling financially, but we’ll be okay.
Fragoso: It’s good to know you two won’t be homeless.
Maddin: It’s a grand tradition of filmmakers to go broke. Douglas Sirk was a bean farmer halfway through his career for awhile.
Fragoso: So that’s your next move.
Johnson: We’re doing it.
Maddin: We are farming beans.
https://www.fandor.com/keyframe/maddin-johnson
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 11 February 2015 16:17 (nine years ago) link
John Ashbery & GM, coming to a NYC gallery this month
http://www.tibordenagy.com/exhibitions/john-ashbery-and-guy-maddin/
― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 7 June 2015 13:45 (nine years ago) link
it's got movie stars
<iframe src='http://www.kinolorber.com/trailer_embed.php?id=2056' height='276' width='455' frameborder='0'></iframe>
http://www.kinolorber.com/film.php?id=2056
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Friday, 18 September 2015 04:05 (eight years ago) link
that is
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwKvz-wA3I0
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Friday, 18 September 2015 04:07 (eight years ago) link
and it's 130 minutes long! Slant rave:
http://www.slantmagazine.com/film/review/the-forbidden-room
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Friday, 25 September 2015 19:14 (eight years ago) link
It definitely feels very very long. Didn't much care for it, but it has some good scenes.
― Frederik B, Friday, 25 September 2015 20:03 (eight years ago) link
he also has this whatzit short (playing on a loop at NYFF, free, the next 2 days)
http://www.filmlinc.org/nyff2015/films/bring-me-the-head-of-tim-horton/
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Monday, 28 September 2015 14:51 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lu45sAc6Jtc
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Friday, 2 October 2015 12:13 (eight years ago) link
not in my top 5 GM either, but very astonishingly busy.
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 20 October 2015 20:20 (eight years ago) link
this guy is so boring :(
― wizzz! (amateurist), Tuesday, 20 October 2015 20:21 (eight years ago) link
Udo!
Maddin's one of those guys where I watch his stuff and am baffled at how it's done
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 20 October 2015 20:24 (eight years ago) link
i guess i just find a lot of his stuff so strenuously "wacky" and totally lacking in actual fun. "heart of the world" is cool, though.
― wizzz! (amateurist), Tuesday, 20 October 2015 20:26 (eight years ago) link
also Jacques Nolot and Geraldine Chaplin (manically cracking a whip) show up
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 20 October 2015 20:27 (eight years ago) link
i laughed aloud at least 6-8x, incl at half a joke about a woman in a bathtub.
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 21 October 2015 19:04 (eight years ago) link
did you guys see it in 3d/should I? I've hated most 3d films I've seen
― BAN ALCOHOL (wins), Sunday, 6 December 2015 20:41 (eight years ago) link
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, October 21, 2015 3:04 PM (6 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I LOLd hard at the woman in a bathtub joke, not gonna lie.
I liked the movie quite a bit, though it has less resonance than My Winnipeg. I feel like complaining about the lack of resolution to the plot is miles away from the point, but damned if I didn't start to care about what was gonna happen to those guys in the sub.
― rhymes with "blondie blast" (cryptosicko), Wednesday, 18 May 2016 22:26 (eight years ago) link
In “The Green Fog — A San Francisco Fantasia,” commissioned by San Francisco Film Society and set to close the San Francisco International Film Festival’s 60th edition on April 16, Maddin and co-directors Evan and Galen Johnson explore what Maddin has called “a rhapsody” on the Hitchcock movie. Set to an original score by composer Jacob Garchik that will be performed live by the San Francisco-based Kronos Quartet, the 63-minute “The Green Fog” reimagines the movie through an assemblage of old studio movies and TV shows.
http://www.indiewire.com/2017/04/vertigo-remake-guy-madden-the-green-fog-interview-1201805968/
https://www.fandor.com/keyframe/guy-maddins-green-fog
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 18 April 2017 18:21 (seven years ago) link
interview w/ Maddin and his 2 collaborators on Green Fog, which has opened in NYC
https://thefilmstage.com/features/guy-maddin-on-reinventing-vertigo-with-the-green-fog-male-gaze-and-the-bressonian-qualities-of-chuck-norris/
http://www.ifccenter.com/films/the-green-fog/
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Monday, 8 January 2018 16:14 (six years ago) link
This was fine, but had way more Chuck Norris and "McMillan and Wife" than I anticipated.
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 16 January 2018 01:59 (six years ago) link
how did I miss this last year? ... oh yeah, I'm always working 70+ hour weeks when the SF Film Festival is going on
― sarahell, Tuesday, 16 January 2018 02:03 (six years ago) link
I'll leave you for the night on an upbeat note! Here's the best scene of 2018: the sequence in Guy Maddin's The Green Fog in which a 'stache-less Chuck Norris sits in for the stretch of Vertigo where Scottie deals with the "death" of "Madeleine" https://t.co/ZkwlpF1tm7— Matt Prigge (@mattprigge) January 28, 2019
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 29 January 2019 15:44 (five years ago) link
Just saw The Green Fog at Glasgow Short Film Festival and absolutely loved it. It's bewildering and completely hilarious - I cried with laughter at a few points. I've never actually seen Vertigo, but that turned out not to hamper my enjoyment at all.
― brain (krakow), Sunday, 17 March 2019 00:46 (five years ago) link
Mark McKinney as Chester Kent in The Saddest Music in the World looks totally like Preston Sturges.
― TS: “8:05” vs. “905” (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 17 August 2019 18:43 (four years ago) link
And Isabella Rossellini's performance seems to be channelling both her mom and Humphrey Bogart in Casablanca.
― TS: “8:05” vs. “905” (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 17 August 2019 18:53 (four years ago) link
Although "Cast of" video says her character is tribute to Lon Chaney.
― TS: “8:05” vs. “905” (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 18 August 2019 13:22 (four years ago) link
And Mark McKinney made own decision to grow a mustache and "sew a merkin on his forehead."
― TS: “8:05” vs. “905” (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 18 August 2019 13:23 (four years ago) link
Every one of these instrumentalists was thrilled to be a part of Maddin's delightful jape.
― TS: “8:05” vs. “905” (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 18 August 2019 13:58 (four years ago) link