Directed by Guy Maddin and Evan Johnson • 2015 • Canada
Starring Roy Dupuis, Clara Furey, Louis Negin
THE FORBIDDEN ROOM is Guy Maddin’s ultimate phantasmagoria. Honoring classic cinema while electrocuting it with energy, this Russian nesting doll of a film begins with the crew of a doomed submarine chewing flapjacks in a desperate attempt to breathe the oxygen within them. Suddenly, impossibly, a lost woodsman wanders into their company and tells his tale of escaping from a fearsome clan of cave dwellers. From here, Maddin and codirector Evan Johnson take us high into the air, around the world, and into dreamscapes, spinning tales of amnesia, captivity, deception, and murder, skeleton women and vampire bananas. Created with the help of master poet John Ashbery, this grand ode to lost cinema features Mathieu Amalric, Udo Kier, Charlotte Rampling, Geraldine Chaplin, and Adèle Haenel.
Directed by Guy Maddin • 2015 • Canada
Starring Luce Vigo, Udo Kier
An unrealized Jean Vigo film script flickers to life in a kaleidoscopic swirl featuring his daughter, Luce Vigo; Udo Kier; and dialogue by poet John Ashbery.
Directed by Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson, and Galen Johnson • 2017 • United States
Alfred Hitchcock’s VERTIGO has long exerted a hypnotic pull over viewers entranced by its vision of lost love and voyeuristic obsession. In THE GREEN FOG, Guy Maddin and codirectors Evan Johnson and Galen Johnson off...
Directed by Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson, and Galen Johnson • 2018 • Canada
Starring Adam Brooks, Jon’Nathon Stebbe, William Bond
Can you spot the crime scene? An unbroken nine-minute shot of an apartment-block exterior captures the oddball hive of activity unfolding on the balconies in this innovat...
