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| Written and Directed by Guy Maddin CANADA 2003 60 MINUTES ZEITGEIST FILMS |
Directed
by the Brothers Quay ENGLAND 2003 12 MINUTES ZEITGEIST FILMS |
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Plus two new shorts by Guy Maddin: “Sissy-Boy Slap-Party” and “Sombra Dolorosa”
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From cult director Guy Maddin whose THE SADDEST MUSIC
IN THE WORLD recently opened, and who at 39 was the youngest recipient
of Telluride’s Lifetime Achievement Award: COWARDS BEND THE KNEE,
is a 10-part penny dreadful, a peepshow melodrama, loosely conceived around
the filmmaker’s autobiography, with an aesthetic that is one part “Vampire”
serial, one part psycho fever-dream. Elvis Mitchell (in his introduction to
the filmmaker’s retrospective at Walker Art Center) writes of “Maddin’s
oeuvre…stylized black-and-white tableaux depicted with a teeming, sometimes
overwrought vitality -- Bosch-scapes with the action, and actors, almost spilling
out of the frame.” The Quay Brothers match Maddin’s taste for the
bizarre. THE PHANTOM MUSEUM documents Sir Henry Wellcome’s Medical
Collection, a medical archive of historical curiosities that, if they did not
actually exist, could easily be a figment of the brothers’ extraordinary
imagination.
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| Sombra Dolorosa |
Guy Maddin Films available from Amazon.com:
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COWARDS BEND THE KNEE THE
GUY MADDIN COLLECTION ON DVD |
![COWARDS BEND THE KNEE-[pictured at right]-Guy Maddin’s ‘autobiography’ -Available at concession stand -$15.00 tax included](http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1894212029.01._PE_PI_SCMZZZZZZZ_.jpg) |
 ARCHANGEL and THE HEART OF THE WORLD - VHS |
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 Tales from the Gimli Hospital DVD | VHS The DVD also contains Maddin's short films The Dead Father and Hospital Fragment |
 CAREFUL DVD | VHS The DVD also contains the documentary Waiting for Twilight |
ESSENTIAL READING FOR GUY MADDIN FANS! “KINO DELIRIUM: THE FILMS OF GUY MADDIN” BY CAELUM VATNSDAL Available at AK PRESS |
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