Careful (1992)
Filmmaker(s): Guy Maddin
The mountain-village passions of a German widow and her sons unfold in the style of a 1920s movie.
Brand Upon the Brain! (2006)
Filmmaker(s): Guy Maddin
Guy and his sister grow up on an island. His domineering mother keeps watch over everything from the tip of a lighthouse, his eccentric father experiments in the basement laboratory. Then there are the orphans, on whose heads the adoptive parents later find puzzling wounds. Another brother and sister pair is sent to the island: the Lightball Kids, two detectives that are meant to bring light into the darkness. The brothers and sisters are all yanked into the emotional roller coaster of first love, while something cryptic comes to light in the parents' house.
16 Feb Brand Upon the Brain! (2006)
Jalapeno Water Here’s the problem: Maddin is an impressive filmmaker. He is important and has made at least two films that are important to me. But he is not a very interesting person. So when he applies his mastery to making a personal film –...
Archangel (1990)
A Tragedy of the Great War
Filmmaker(s): Guy Maddin
At the height of the October Revolution during the 1919 allied intervention in Arkhangelsk, the exploits of one-legged Canadian soldier Lt. John Boles are told, after he is taken in from the cold by a dysfunctional Russian family and mistakes a local woman for his presumed dead lover.
