I Had This Haunted Childhood

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[b] Guy Maddin: "I Had This Haunted Childhood"[/b]


[color=#333333][font=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][size=3][color=#898989][size=1]August 6, 2008 - 9:06am — dwhudson[/size][/color]

[size=1][b]By Brian Darr[/b][/size]
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A loyal GreenCine reader hardly needs to be introduced toGuy Maddin, the director of The Heart of the World, The Saddest Music in The World and dozens of other shorts and features. The Canadian's curious conversations withShannon Gee and with Jonathan Marlow have been collected here over the past few years. Now, following up on his neo-silent films Cowards Bend the Knee and Brand Upon the Brain!, Maddin has completed his so-called "Me Trilogy" of autobiographically pitched features with My Winnipeg. Funded by the Documentary Channel, but described by Maddin as a "docu-fantasia" so as to ward off the wrath of purists, My Winnipeg records a personal and a mythic history of Manitoba's provincial capital. It also takes on the the form of a confessional for this hometown son. He re-enacts episodes from his childhood with a cast featuring Darcy Fehr reprising his role as Guy from Cowards Bend the Knee, and none other than Ann Savage playing his mother. To top it all off, Maddin himself performs the film's fevered narration, as if a James A. FitzPatrick or Lowell Thomas for our own warped age.


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