Guy MaddinFilmography

Born:: February 28, 1956
Occupation:: Director, Cinematographer, Screenwriter
Biography:: Frequently referred to as "the Canadian David Lynch," Winnipeg-born filmmaker Guy Maddin's surreal, dreamlike works are often cited for their striking visuals and obscure sensibilities. Whether he is recreating the look and feel of a frantic silent film in the acclaimed short The Heart of the World...Read More

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It Came From Kuchar

Actors: Atom Egoyan, B. Ruby Rich, Buck Henry, Cory McAbee, George Kuchar

2009
My Winnipeg

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Darcy Fehr, Ann Savage, Amy Stewart, Brendan Cade, Wesley Cade, Louis Negin

Synopsis: Visionary Canadian filmmaker Guy Maddin pays tribute to his beloved hometown with this goodbye letter and self-described "docu-fantasia" that is equal parts transcendental rumination, historical chronicle, and personal portrait. In the first segment, Maddin's camera drifts dreamlike through Read More

6/13/08
It Came From Kuchar

2008
Brand Upon the Brain!

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Erik Steffen Maahs, Gretchen Lee Krich, Sullivan Brown, Maya Lawson, Katherine E. Scharhon

Synopsis: Guy Maddin wrote and directed this wildly idiosyncratic look at one man revisiting his dysfunctional childhood. Guy (Erik Steffan Maahs) is a house painter who at the urging of his aging mother (Gretchen Krich) returns to the tiny Canadian island where he grew up to put a fresh coat of paint on Read More

5/9/07
Odin's Shield Maiden

Crew: Cinematographer, Director, Producer, Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: Darcy Fehr, Ana Cabral, Ekaterina Chtchelkanova, Natalia Fioroni, Kate Yacula

2007
Nude Caboose

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Maverick Canadian director Guy Madden trades his film camera for a mobile phone camera to tell the fleeting story of a man stricken with inspiration to form a spontaneous conga line. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide Read More

2006
My Dad is 100 Years Old

Crew: Director

Actors: Isabella Rossellini

Synopsis: On the eve of the release of actress Isabella Rossellini's book In the Name of the Father, the Daughter, and the Holy Spirits: Remembering Roberto Rossellini, the famous daughter of the acclaimed filmmaker teams with Canadian director Guy Maddin to pay loving homage to the man who crafted such Read More

2005
Cowards Bend the Knee

Crew: Cinematographer, Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Darcy Fehr, Melissa Dionisio, Amy Stewart, Tara Birtwhistle, Louis Negin

Synopsis: The wildly idiosyncratic Canadian auteur Guy Maddin created this exercise in semi-autobiographical impressionism. Guy Maddin (Darcy Fehr) is a gifted but weak-willed hockey player who has helped drive the Winnipeg Maroons to a championship season. However, Maddin's sense of triumph is dashed when Read More

8/11/04
The Saddest Music in the World

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Mark McKinney, Isabella Rossellini, Maria de Medeiros, David Fox, Ross McMillan

Synopsis: Canadian filmmaker Guy Maddin directs The Saddest Music in the World, reworked from an original screenplay by Kazuo Ishiguro. Set in Winnipeg during the Great Depression, the film involves a contest announced by the legless and glamorous Lady Port-Huntly (Isabella Rossellini) to find the saddest Read More

4/30/04
Sissy Boy Slap Party

Crew: Director

2004
Dracula, Pages From a Virgin's Diary

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Zhang Wei-Qiang, Tara Birtwhistle, David Moroni, Cindy Marie Small, Johnny Wright

Synopsis: Idiosyncratic Canadian filmmaker Guy Maddin resurrects the style and visual grammar of the silent cinema in this ambitious screen adaptation of the Royal Winnepeg Ballet's acclaimed dance production, which incorporates elements of Bram Stoker's novel Dracula and F.W. Murnau's film Nosferatu. In Read More

5/14/03
Sombra Dolorosa

Crew: Director

2003
The Heart of the World

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Synopsis: This six-minute short from Canadian filmmaker Guy Maddin is an ingenious pastiche of silent-film tropes in the service of what Maddin calls a "subliminal melodrama." Set in a dystopian future as imagined by a 1920s Soviet filmmaker, the movie is of a venerable genre -- a love story (in this case Read More

2000
Tales from the Gimli Hospital

Crew: Cinematographer, Director, Editor, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Kyle McCulloch, Michael Gottli, Angela Heck, Margaret Anne McLeod, Caroline Bonner

Synopsis: Set in a makeshift hospital that seems to exist somewhere between Scandinavia and what could be a parallel universe, Tales From the Gimli Hospital is Canadian filmmaker Guy Maddin's surreal, black & white first feature. The film cleverly uses its own low-budget origin as a strength by re-visioning Read More

3/12/97
Waiting for Twilight

Actors: Guy Maddin, Tom Waits, Paul Cox, Pascale Bussières, Frank Gorshin, Alice Krige, Shelley Duvall

Synopsis: Tom Waits narrates this documentary about Manitoba filmmaker Guy Maddin (Tales from the Gimli Hospital, Careful, Archangel), seen directing Twilight of the Ice Nymphs. Stills, clips, and home movies are combined with talking-head interviews with friends, actors, and co-workers, tracing the Read More

1997
Twilight of the Ice Nymphs

Crew: Director

Actors: Pascale Bussières, Nigel Whitmey, Shelley Duvall, Frank Gorshin, Alice Krige

Synopsis: Set in a blazing land where the sun ceaselessly shines, this dramatic fantasy examines love's darker aspects. After years of incarceration as a political prisoner, Peter Glahn (Nigel Whitney, who had his name removed from the credits because another actor redubbed his lines) finally returns to Read More

1997
Eye Like a Strange Balloon

Crew: Director

Synopsis: A short, surreal film from visionary Canadian director Guy Maddin set aboard a steam-driven train as it barrels loudly through a snowy, black-and-white netherworld. What dramatic action there is centers around three figures dressed like characters from a Prussian fairy tale: a young boy in a dark Read More

1995
Careful

Crew: Cinematographer, Director, Editor, Production Designer, Screenwriter

Actors: Kyle McCulloch, Gosia Dobrowolska, Sarah Neville, Paul Cox

Synopsis: Careful takes place in the remote Alpine village of Tolzbad, where everyone speaks in whispers for fear of starting an avalanche. This self-inflicted noise control to the overall suppression of emotions and impulses. Entering this rarefied atmosphere is aspiring butler Brent Neale. Remaining as Read More

1993
Archangel

Crew: Cinematographer, Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Kyle McCulloch, Kathy Marykuca, Sarah Neville, Michael Gottli

Synopsis: Archangel is a courageous if not altogether successful attempt to emulate the styles and techniques of silent films within a talking-picture framework. Kyle McCulloch plays a crippled British officer, who during World War 1 takes up residence in the Russian town of Archangel. Here he falls in love Read More

1990
Hospital Fragment

Crew: Director

1988
The Dead Father

Crew: Director

1986
Send Me to the 'Lectric Chair

Crew: Cinematographer, Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Isabella Rossellini