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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.
#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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