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Guy Maddin CM OM (born February 28, 1956) [1] is a Canadian screenwriter, director, author, cinematographer, and film editor of both features and short films, as well as an installation artist, from Winnipeg, Manitoba. Since completing his first film in 1985, Maddin has become one of Canada's most well-known and celebrated filmmakers.
Guy Maddin. Director: The Heart of the World. Guy Maddin was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, to Herdis Maddin (a hair-dresser) and Charles "Chas" Maddin (grain clerk and general manager of the Maroons, a Winnipeg hockey team).
Nov 21, 2008 · Guy Maddin’s Top 10. 10. Canadian filmmaker and writer Guy Maddin’s Brand upon the Brain!, featuring Isabella Rossellini as the narrator, was released on DVD from the Criterion Collection in 2008. Maddin also contributed essays on Kirk Douglas for our release of Billy Wilder’s Ace in the Hole and Josef von Sternberg’s silents.
Aug 29, 2024 · Guy Maddin has built a career helming bewildering, dreamlike, avant-garde films, but the Winnipeg auteur's new dark political comedy Rumours may be his most accessible work yet.
Sep 18, 2011 · Guy Maddin is of Icelandic extraction - named, he claims, after 1950s B-movie leading man Guy Madison - and is one of English Canada's most eccentric and gifted filmmakers. Guy Maddin began his career as a student of economics at the University of Manitoba, where he made two key acquaintances.
Jun 17, 2024 · A mix of surrealist diary, silent era techniques, romantic delirium, expressionist horror, camp comedy, and avant-garde kink, Maddin has always been a self-proclaimed “primitive” filmmaker with deep psychological roots in his hometown, Winnipeg, Manitoba.
