UID:
kobvindex_ZLB15434359
Format:
60 Min.
Content:
Waiting for Twilight ... provides a detailed account of Maddin's artistic formation. It includes numerous interviews with local filmmakers, college professors, and film enthusiast friends, who endlessly watched, discussed and their favorite old movies. Here one can see the general archetypes that would coalesce into Maddin's artistic identity: the Great Plains oddball with the surreal, perverse and campy nostalgic taste of David Lynch; the film geek from the same obsessed generation as Quentin Tarantino, raised on video tape and late night movies; the post modernist film studies academic. But Maddin's primal inspirations came earlier. The most commonly evoked images by Maddin from his childhood, in this documentary and others, are of being raised in the beauty parlor run by his aunt and mother and the Winnipeg hockey arena where his dad worked. It was at these two workplaces that Maddin was exposed to a heightened sense of melodrama and a retro conception of heterosexual roles - showy, rigid, and repressed̶which he would gleefully upend. (Michael Buening, Pop Matters)
Note:
Engl.
In:
The quintessential Guy Maddin : 5 films from the heart of Winnipeg ; [DVD-Video], [NewYork, NY], 2010, (2000)
Language:
English
Keywords:
Maddin, Guy
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Filmarbeit
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Biographie
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DVD-Video
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Biographie
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DVD-Video
Author information:
Waits, Tom
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