A screen adaptation of the Royal Winnepeg Ballet's dance production. Set in London 1897 this is the story of a stranger who is after a girl called Mina...
Eclectic filmmaker Guy Maddin delivers a surreal blend of documentary methods and fantastical storytelling in "My Winnipeg".
A submarine crew, a feared pack of forest bandits, a famous surgeon, and a battalion of child soldiers all get more than they bargained for as they wend their way toward progressive ideas on life and love. In an ode to the lost movies of the silent era, Canadian auteur Guy Maddin and co-director Evan Johnson embark on their ultimate epic phantasmagoria in The Forbidden Room. Honouring classic cinema while electrocuting it with energy, this Russian nesting doll of a film takes viewers high into the air, around the world, and into dreamscapes, spinning tales of amnesia, captivity, deception and murder. Presented in dual-format with special packaging and booklet.
Guy Maddin's new film Keyhole is a film that spins 1930s gangster plot with Homer's Odyssey and stars Jason Patric and Isabella Rossellini. A gangster and deadbeat father, ulysses Pick (Jason Patric) returns home after a long absence. He is toting two teenagers: a drowned girl, Denny, who has mysteriously returned to life; and a bound-and-gagged hostage, who is actually his own teenage son, Manners. Confused, Ulysses doesn't recognise his own son, but he feels with increasing conviction he must make an indoor odyssey from the back door of his home all the way up, one room at a time, to the marriage bedroom where his wife Hyacinth (Isabella Rossellini) awaits, full of cancer, grieving over the deaths of her three children, and wooed by Ulysses arch-rival, Chang (Johnny Chang). The house is haunted by countless dead relatives. Ulysses eventually reaches his goal and vanquishes his enemy, but the equilibrium of the house has been disturbed. Perhaps this has all been a dream that is dreamt every night by Manners himself or by the ghosts he loves so much.
Cinema 16 celebrates the short film by showcasing some of the best classic and award winning shorts on DVD. Aside from providing short films with a much needed platform Cinema 16 gives filmmakers and movie-lovers access to some great films that would otherwise be near impossible to see from the fascinating early works of some of world's greatest directors to award-winning films from its most exciting new filmmakers. With over five hours of films World Cinema 16 is essential viewing for anyone with an interest in the moving image. The majority of the films are accompanied by audio commentaries almost always by the directors themselves. Titles Comprise: 1. Wasp - Andrea Arnold 2. Judgement - Park Chan-wook 3. Sikumi (On the Ice) - Andrew Okpeaha Maclean 4. Dona Lupe - Guillermo Del Torro 5. Old Lady and the Pigeons (La Vielle Dame et Les Pigeons) - Sylvain Chomet 6. Attack on the Bakery - Naoto Yamakawa 7. Two Cars One Night - Taika Waititi 8. Sonata for Hitler - Alexander Sokurov 9. My Dad is 100 Years Old - Guy Maddin 10. Forklift Truck Driver Klaus - First Day on the Job (Stablefahrer Klaus - Der Erste Arbeitstag) - Stefan Pehn and Jorg Wagner 11. Uncle - Adam Elliot 12. Quartet for the End of Time (Cuarteto Para el Fin de Tiempo) - Alfonso Cuaron 13. Madame Tutli-Putli - Chris Lavis and Maciek Szczarbowski 14. A Girls Own Story - Jane Campion 15. Borom Sarret - Ousmane Sembene 16. Soft - Simon Ellis
""If you're sad and like beer I'm your lady..."" Winnipeg 1933. It's the midst of the Great Depression and beer Baroness Lady Port-Huntly (Isabella Rossellini) announces a global competition to find the saddest music in the world. Musicians from across the globe - from Mexican mariachi to Scottish bagpipers to African drummers - travel to Winnipeg to play their tunes in hope of winning the $25 000 grand prize. Failed Broadway producer Chester Kent (Mark McKinney) bings his a
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