Directed by Guy Maddin • 2002 • Canada
Starring Wei-Qiang Zhang, Tara Birtwhistle, David Moroni
Beautifully transposing the Royal Winnipeg Ballet’s interpretation of Bram Stoker’s classic vampire yarn from stage to screen, Guy Maddin forges a sumptuous, erotically charged feast of dance, drama, and shadow. The black-and-white, blood-red-punctured DRACULA: PAGES FROM A VIRGIN’S DIARY is one of Maddin’s most ravishingly stylized creations: a gothic dreamscape in which the story of the notorious Count and his bodice-ripped victims is laced with a feverish sexuality and set to the expressionistic strains of Gustav Mahler.
Directed by Guy Maddin • 2003 • Canada
Starring Darcy Fehr, Melissa Dionisio, Amy Stewart
Adapted from a ten-part peephole installation, COWARDS BEND THE KNEE is jam-packed with enough kinetically photographed action to seem like a never-ending cliff-hanger. In this twisted and poisoned tale of ...
Directed by Guy Maddin • 2003 • Canada
Starring Isabella Rossellini, Mark McKinney, Maria de Medeiros
In 1933, as the Great Depression rages on, legless beer baroness Lady Helen Port-Huntley (Isabella Rossellini) engineers a most unusual publicity stunt: a competition to discover the saddest mus...
Directed by Guy Maddin • 2005 • Canada
Starring Isabella Rossellini
Guy Maddin’s centenary tribute to Roberto Rossellini stars the great neorealist filmmaker’s daughter, Isabella Rossellini.
