Guy Maddin: C/D

Tales from the Gimli Hospital is fun, too, and not only because I know one of the people who starred in it. (I also had an insane crush on her but that's another story.)

Brand Upon The Brain flew off the rails about 15 minutes in. I really wanted to like it and I dug the live orchestra and sound foley, but it fails as a movie. It would have been great as a half-hour long piece, but it was so obviously padded out with reused footage and gratuitous boobage and wangage that I went through several layers of "hurry up and get to the point where I know what's going to happen is going to happen."

Pluses: the foley people and Barbara Steele as the narrator.

Sorry, I find the boobage and assage essential to contemporary b&w "silents." It might be 15 mins too long, but Cowards Bend the Knee was slighter.

how "reused" footage?

how "reused" footage?

Just a lot a repeated shots. Guy strumming the reeds. Evil mom's eye. I was ready to shout "FUCK. WE GET IT ALREADY"

It's called "montage," you might wanna see it in some '20s films.

It's finally playing near Boston at the end of the month, so I am going to see this.

Barbara Steele as the narrator, colour me JEALOUS

It's called "montage," you might wanna see it in some '20s films.

I know what it is. I just don't like it when it's used to pad a half-hour movie out to 90 minutes.

OK, do I go see the live version narrated by Stephen Malkmus, Calvin Johnson, or Karen Black.

I'm leaning towards Calvin, since I think he would be funniest.

oooh toughie - Cal's probably a safe choice

Calvin seems most Maddinesque of the 3.

splain me??

is this brand?

Any word on this coming to the UK?

(And, out of that three, I'd go for Karen Black. I can't imagine who Maddin would get for a British show. Alan Bennet? Mark E. Smith? Fenella Fielding?)

Yes, Brand is finally coming in live format to Portland.

The Karen Black showing is explicitly part of the Gay Etc. Film Fest. Which makes it a bit less tempting.

As long as the foley artists are performing live, I don't think the Narrator matters all that much.

i would defly go to the karen black.

I am glad no one is pro-Malkmus.

I'll third Black.

I'm seeing My Winnipeg this weekend, followed hours later by the Kids in the Hall tour! Will I be Canadian by Monday morning?

Ann Savage, the femme fatale of Detour, plays 'Mother'!!

http://www.tribecafilmfestival.org/filmguide/16735781.html

my winnipeg is amazing.

favourite maddin for sure. one of the highlights of tiff 07 in a big way. i hope you like it.

Perhaps, when I am in Toronto, I will not have to wait forever to see new Maddin films.

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/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lu45sAc6Jtc

not in my top 5 GM either, but very astonishingly busy.

this guy is so boring :(

Udo!

Maddin's one of those guys where I watch his stuff and am baffled at how it's done

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.

also Jacques Nolot and Geraldine Chaplin (manically cracking a whip) show up

i laughed aloud at least 6-8x, incl at half a joke about a woman in a bathtub.

did you guys see it in 3d/should I? I've hated most 3d films I've seen

i laughed aloud at least 6-8x, incl at half a joke about a woman in a bathtub.

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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.

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

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/

This was fine, but had way more Chuck Norris and "McMillan and Wife" than I anticipated.

how did I miss this last year? ... oh yeah, I'm always working 70+ hour weeks when the SF Film Festival is going on

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

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.

Mark McKinney as Chester Kent in The Saddest Music in the World looks totally like Preston Sturges.

And Isabella Rossellini's performance seems to be channelling both her mom and Humphrey Bogart in Casablanca.

Although "Cast of" video says her character is tribute to Lon Chaney.

And Mark McKinney made own decision to grow a mustache and "sew a merkin on his forehead."

Every one of these instrumentalists was thrilled to be a part of Maddin's delightful jape.

In just the nick of time Maria's scenes are completed, and she is duly whisked away to the aeroporto.

But young Maddin is convinced the colder the actors are, the more piquant their histrionics.

Obviously the Vaseline is a big element, we've used barrels of it on this film.

I don't use standard Vaseline, I use Lip Therapy Vaseline.

Like a rail-riding hobo, another film shoot has come and gone.

Watching this carefully keep seeing things I want to assume are references to other films:
when Roderick/Ross McMillan shows Fyodor/David Fox the photo of his wife reminds me a scene in The Shop Around the Corner, when Felix Bressart recognizes Margaret Sullavan and avoids telling Henry Fonda, or when Fyodor makes his speech before his contest performance he says "raging ocean" just like Jack Benny saying "outrageous fortune" in To Be or Not to Be.

Or Isabella's wig slip being reminiscent of Blue Velvet.

DO U SEE?

new:

Stump the Guesser

(19 minutes)

https://www.instagram.com/p/B7WGvBEAhSt/

Most of these streaming on the Criterion Channel right now.

But not all. Don't see The Heart of the World for one.

So The Green Fog rolled in last night and totally hit the spot.

How can I see some of Maddin’s most recent shorts? I live in the US.

Thought this would be an RIP Louis Negin revive.