Great Plains Studies, Center for
Date of this Version
Spring 2011
Citation
Great Plains Quarterly 31:2 (Spring 2011).
Abstract
Guy Maddin is Canada's most unusual filmmaker. He also happens to have a global cult following for his retro b&w films. His stature as a cult filmmaker began almost a quarter of a century ago, when his sophomore film, Tales from the Gimli Hospital (1988), was launched at a midnight screening in New York that drew audiences for a year. A Winnipegger by birth, he has become that city's most famous filmmaker and one of the few Canadian film directors with an international following. His New York debut led to a regular stint in the 1990s as a film commentator in The Village Voice, which in turn led to a literary career of sorts. He went on to publish From the Atelier Tovar: Selected Writings (2003), a combination of his "journals" and assorted other pieces, and Cowards Bend the Knee (2003), which combined the "script" from the film of the same name with essays on him and an interview with him. He repeated the Cowards format with My WinniPeg (the book) in 2009.
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