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My Winnipeg
Guy Maddin
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Description for My Winnipeg
Paperback. The Winnipeg of Guy Maddin, the world's foremost cineaste planant, is far from the Winnipeg you'll find in tourist brochures. Num Pages: 192 pages, 20 colour & 50 b/w images. BIC Classification: APF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 203 x 13. Weight in Grams: 557.
A herd of horses frozen in a river. A bargain bridge. Seances. Golden Boy pageants. A demolished hockey arena. St. Mary's Academy for Girls. Spanky the Guide Dog through Time. An epidemic of sleepwalking. This is the Winnipeg of Guy Maddin, the world's foremost cineaste planant, and it's not the Winnipeg you'll find in tourist brochures. When the iconoclastic auteur of The Saddest Music in the World decided to tackle the subject of his hometown, it could only have become a 'docu-fantasia,' a melange of personal history, civic tragedy and mystical hypothesizing. The result is wildly delirious, deeply personal ... Read more
A herd of horses frozen in a river. A bargain bridge. Seances. Golden Boy pageants. A demolished hockey arena. St. Mary's Academy for Girls. Spanky the Guide Dog through Time. An epidemic of sleepwalking. This is the Winnipeg of Guy Maddin, the world's foremost cineaste planant, and it's not the Winnipeg you'll find in tourist brochures. When the iconoclastic auteur of The Saddest Music in the World decided to tackle the subject of his hometown, it could only have become a 'docu-fantasia,' a melange of personal history, civic tragedy and mystical hypothesizing. The result is wildly delirious, deeply personal ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Coach House Books Canada
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
Toronto, Canada
ISBN
9781552452110
SKU
V9781552452110
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Ref
99-15
About Guy Maddin
Guy Maddin is a Winnipeg-based filmmaker and writer. His feature films include Tales from the Gimli Hospital, Archangel, Careful, Twilight of the Ice Nymphs, Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary, Cowards Bend the Knee and The Saddest Music in the World. His films have won numerous prizes, and he is the youngest recipient of the Telluride Film Festival's Lifetime Achievement ... Read more
Reviews for My Winnipeg
'If you love movies in the very sinews of your imagination, you should experience the work of Guy Maddin ... he rewrites history; when that fails, he creates it.'
Roger Ebert '[Maddin is] the most reluctantly radical and humorously tortured maverick working in the movies today.'
John Waters, director of Pink Flamingos and Hairspray. 'For followers of the ... Read more
Roger Ebert '[Maddin is] the most reluctantly radical and humorously tortured maverick working in the movies today.'
John Waters, director of Pink Flamingos and Hairspray. 'For followers of the ... Read more