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(0)Guy Maddin
Publisher
Zeitgeist Films
Pub. Date
2003.
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...
3) Archangel
Publisher
Zeitgeist Films
Pub. Date
1990.
Language
English
Description
Literally a film like no other, this weird, wild and extraordinary photoplay is both melodrama and deadpan parody. With striking black and white cinematography and stylized set design, Guy Maddin tells a tale of obsessive love in the arctic Russian town of Archangel, where Bolsheviks, White Russians and German Huns converge during World War I. Official Selection at the **Toronto International Film Festival.** Winner of the Best Experimental Film Award...
4) Careful
Publisher
Zeitgeist Films
Pub. Date
1992.
Language
English
Description
Guy Maddin's early masterpiece takes place in a 19th-century Alpine village where the wary residents -adult, child and animal!-must speak softly and tread lightly lest they cause an avalanche. But sexual frenzies teem in this world of repression, setting off incestuous love triangles and quadrangles with deadly consequences. Bathed in lurid, luminescent tints, CAREFUL resembles a vintage melodrama from another planet-something that could only emerge...
Series
Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) volume 676
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
Comedy about a witch who was burned at the stake 300 years ago. She plans to take revenge by marrying the descendent of her persecutors and ruining his political aspirations, but doesn't count on falling in love!
