Cinema Mon Amour: Guy Maddin

Cinema Mon Amour: Guy Maddin

February 12–14, 2016

Join wildly entertaining filmmaker Guy Maddin as he presents his own work, including 2015's The Forbidden Room, plus some of his favorites from film history.

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  • Sylvester: New Year's Eve

  • Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary

  • Dishonored

  • The Forbidden Room

  • Upcoming
    Films
  • Upcoming
    Events
  • Selected
    Objects
  • Past
    Films
  • Past
    Events

Past Films

  • The Forbidden Room

    Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson
    Canada, 2015

    BAMPFA STUDENT PICK!

    Friday, February 12 8:15 PM

    Guy Maddin in person
    Lost films are “rediscovered,” or at least filtered and re-projected through Maddin’s feverish mind, in this delirious ode to cinema. 

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  • Sylvester: New Year's Eve

    Lupu Pick
    Germany, 1923

    Judith Rosenberg on piano

    Saturday, February 13 6 PM

    Introduced by Guy Maddin. Judith Rosenberg on piano
    A pub owner is caught in the intense rivalry between his possessive mother and his long-suffering wife in this rare treasure written by Carl Mayer (The Last Laugh). With the Quay Brothers’ Street of Crocodiles.

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  • My Winnipeg

    Guy Maddin
    Canada, 2007
    Saturday, February 13 8:15 PM

    Guy Maddin in person
    Maddin melds fact and fantasy, autobiography and mythology in this back-handed tribute to his hometown. With short The Heart of the World.

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  • Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary

    Guy Maddin
    Canada, 2002
    Sunday, February 14 3 PM

    Guy Maddin in person
    Deliriously silly and earnestly beautiful, steeped in the aesthetics of silent cinema, this ballet version of Dracula is thoroughly, deliciously Maddin. With Bill Morrison’s Light Is Calling.

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  • Dishonored

    Josef von Sternberg
    United States, 1931
    Sunday, February 14 5 PM

    Introduced by Guy Maddin
    Marlene Dietrich is a prostitute turned Austrian spy in “Sternberg’s most outrageous examination of the feminine mystique” (Village Voice).

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