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25 Alternative 2011 TIFF Picks: Guy Maddin’s Keyhole

Canada’s most idiosyncratic auteur, nobody love schlocky expressionism and silent film bombastics than Guy Maddin. His free-wheeling 5-minute short The Heart of the World informed the cinema world with all they needed to know about the skills that he is capable of, and his hilarious and super-personal My Winnipeg brought him a giant new legion of fans.
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#13. Keyhole

Director: Guy Maddin
Cast: Jason Patric, Isabella Rossellini, Udo Kier, Louis Negin, Brooke Palsson
Distributor: Rights Available

Buzz: Canada’s most idiosyncratic auteur, nobody love schlocky expressionism and silent film bombastics than Guy Maddin. His free-wheeling 5-minute short The Heart of the World informed the cinema world with all they needed to know about the skills that he is capable of, and his hilarious and super-personal My Winnipeg brought him a giant new legion of fans. Fluctuating between camp, hyperbolic autobiographies, and the avant-garde, there is really nothing quite like this Canadian original.

The Gist: A gangster named Ulysses weaves his way through an old, ghost-infested house in vintage, Bowery-bros. fashion. A talkie (this is a necessary trait to point out when it comes to Maddin) with enough visual flair to fill a hundred time-lapse montages, it’s a singular haunted house movie as only this Canuck can make them.

TIFF Schedule: Friday September 9 TIFF Bell Lightbox 1 5:30pm
Sunday September 11 AMC 3 12:30pm

 
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Blake Williams is an avant-garde filmmaker born in Houston, currently living and working in Toronto. He recently entered the PhD program at University of Toronto's Cinema Studies Institute, and has screened his video work at TIFF (2011 & '12), Tribeca (2013), Images Festival (2012), Jihlava (2012), and the Pacific Film Archive in Berkeley. Blake has contributed to IONCINEMA.com's coverage for film festivals such as Cannes, TIFF, and Hot Docs. Top Films From Contemporary Film Auteurs: Almodóvar (Talk to Her), Coen Bros. (Fargo), Dardennes (Rosetta), Haneke (Code Unknown), Hsiao-Hsien (Flight of the Red Balloon), Kar-wai (Happy Together), Kiarostami (Where is the Friend's Home?), Lynch (INLAND EMPIRE), Tarantino (Reservoir Dogs), Van Sant (Last Days), Von Trier (The Idiots)

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