Guy Maddin
Publisher
Zeitgeist Films
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
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 formula, as sordid family secrets spawn unintentional murder most foul. Winner of the FIRPRESCI Prize at the **Rotterdam International Film Festival.** Nominated...
Series
Criterion collection volume 396
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
The Ace in the Hole, in this case, is Leo Minosa, trapped in a cliff dwelling near Albuquerque, N.M. The publicity from his situation could build a winning hand for several people: Chuck Tatum, manipulative veteran newsman; Lorraine, his bored wife who dreams of city lights; Sheriff Gus Kretzer, boosting his re-election campaign; and young Herbie, a reporter who wants to make the big leagues. In 1951, there was no 24-hour cable news, and the Albuquerque...
Publisher
Kino International Corp
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
Set during a smallpox epidemic in the village of Gimli, Mantiboba near the turn of the century, this film explores the jealousy and madness instilled in two men who share a hospital room. The two men are friends at first, until they reveal their darkest secrets to each other.
4) Keyhole
Publisher
Monterey Media, Inc
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
In a house haunted with memories, gangster and father Ulysses Pick arrives home after a long absence towing the body of a teenage girl and a bound and gagged young man. His gang waits inside his house, having shot their way past police. There is friction in the ranks. Ulysses, however, is focused on one thing: journeying through the house, room by room, and reaching his wife Hyacinth in her bedroom upstairs. His odyssey becomes an emotional tour as...
Series
Criterion collection volume 676
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"Many centuries after cursing the male descendants of the Salem puritan who sent her to the stake, a charmingly vengeful blonde bombshell sorceress with a broomstick finds herself drawn to one of them -- a prospective governor about to marry a spoiled socialite"--Container.
Series
Criterion collection volume 440
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
This eerie excursion into the Gothic recesses of Maddin's mad, imaginary childhood is a nightmare set in a lighthouse on grim Notch Island, where fictional protagonist Maddin was raised by an ironfisted, puritanical mother.
Publisher
Zeitgeist Films
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Literally a film like no other, ARCHANGEL is a weird, wild, and extraordinary photoplay that is both a melodrama and a deadpan parody of silent film style. With striking black and white cinematography and stylized set design, Guy Maddin's second feature (following his startling debut TALES FROM THE GIMLI HOSPITAL) is a tale of obsessive love from one of Canada's, and the world's, most original filmmakers, presented in a beautiful 4K restoration.
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
A never-before-seen woodsman mysteriously appears aboard a submarine that's been trapped deep under water for months with an unstable cargo. As the terrified crew make their way through the corridors of the doomed vessel, they find themselves on a voyage into the origins of their darkest fears.
Publisher
Severin Films
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"WOODLANDS DARK AND DAYS BEWITCHED explores the folk horror phenomenon from its beginnings in a trilogy of films - Michael Reeves' Witchfinder General (1968), Piers Haggard's Blood on Satan's Claw (1971) and Robin Hardy's The Wicker Man (1973) - through its proliferation on British television in the 1970s and its culturally specific manifestations in American, Asian, Australian and European horror, to the genre's revival over the last decade. Touching...
11) My Winnipeg
Series
Criterion collection volume 741
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"The geographical dead center of North America and the beloved birthplace of Guy Maddin, Winnipeg is the frosty and mysterious star of Maddin's "docu-fantasia." A work of memory and imagination, Maddin's film burrows into what the filmmaker calls "the heart of the heart" of the continent, conjuring a city as delightful as it is fearsome, populated by sleepwalkers and hockey aficionados. Take part in Winnipeg's annual epic scavenger hunt! Pay your...
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
A never-before-seen woodsman mysteriously appears aboard a submarine that's been trapped deep under water for months with an unstable cargo. As the terrified crew make their way through the corridors of the doomed vessel, they find themselves on a voyage into the origins of their darkest fears.