Guy Maddin: C/D

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.