Guy Maddin’s 1988 feature directorial debut, Tales from the Gimli Hospital, finds the Canadian auteur’s delightfully perverse sensibilities already fully formed. Given the film’s mix of surreal black-and-white imagery, subversive sexuality, and offbeat comedy, as well as its success on the midnight movie circuit, the comparisons to David Lynch’s Eraserhead were inevitable. And yet, anyone who’s seen even a single one of Maddin’s later work can instantly tell that this film couldn’t have sprung from the subconscious of any other filmmaker.
Maddin’s obsession with obscure Canadian folklore is evident right from the get-go, with a title card informing the audience about the 1865 eruption of Askja, a quiescent volcano, that caused many Icelanders to immigrate to Gimli, a small town in Manitoba, Canada. What follows is, like many of the directors other films, a deliriously playful fusion of fact and fiction, with each “historical...
Maddin’s obsession with obscure Canadian folklore is evident right from the get-go, with a title card informing the audience about the 1865 eruption of Askja, a quiescent volcano, that caused many Icelanders to immigrate to Gimli, a small town in Manitoba, Canada. What follows is, like many of the directors other films, a deliriously playful fusion of fact and fiction, with each “historical...
- 6/27/2023
- by Derek Smith
- Slant Magazine
The Whistler Film Festival is back with a hybrid offering that includes online and in-theater screenings, alongside various talent programs, masterclasses, workshops and its Content Summit. The fest will kick off opening night with the Canadian premiere of Maggie Gyllenhaal’s “The Lost Daughter,” starring Olivia Colman, Ed Harris and Dakota Johnson.
This year, the festival has received more than 1,550 submissions from all over the world.
From Dec. 1-31, national online audiences can enjoy 31 features and 35 shorts. Wff will share net proceeds of its online offerings on a 50/50 basis directly with the filmmakers or Canadian rights holders.
From Dec. 1-5 audiences in Whistler, B.C. will share in the big-screen experience with 31 features, including 15 premieres and six short film programs bowing exclusively in-theater.
Special presentations include Paul Schrader’s “The Card Counter,” about an outsider seeking redemption, starring Oscar Isaac and Tiffany Haddish, as well as Paolo Sorrentino’s coming-of-age story “The Hand of God,...
This year, the festival has received more than 1,550 submissions from all over the world.
From Dec. 1-31, national online audiences can enjoy 31 features and 35 shorts. Wff will share net proceeds of its online offerings on a 50/50 basis directly with the filmmakers or Canadian rights holders.
From Dec. 1-5 audiences in Whistler, B.C. will share in the big-screen experience with 31 features, including 15 premieres and six short film programs bowing exclusively in-theater.
Special presentations include Paul Schrader’s “The Card Counter,” about an outsider seeking redemption, starring Oscar Isaac and Tiffany Haddish, as well as Paolo Sorrentino’s coming-of-age story “The Hand of God,...
- 11/30/2021
- by Katherine Brodsky
- Variety Film + TV
Whistler Film Festival set for December 4-8.
The Whistler Film Festival Society (Wff) has hired Angela Heck as director of industry programming and Garrett Rodman as development manager.
Heck will oversee the industry and talent programmes associated with the annual Whistler Film Festival including the four-day industry Content Summit and Wff’s slate of 11 talent programmes, as well as Wff’s Signature Series honouring contemporary artists.
Rodman will oversee and manage all fundraising, corporate giving, and funding activities associated with the organisation’s annual initiatives, and will open Wff’s new Vancouver office. Both roles will support the Whistler Film...
The Whistler Film Festival Society (Wff) has hired Angela Heck as director of industry programming and Garrett Rodman as development manager.
Heck will oversee the industry and talent programmes associated with the annual Whistler Film Festival including the four-day industry Content Summit and Wff’s slate of 11 talent programmes, as well as Wff’s Signature Series honouring contemporary artists.
Rodman will oversee and manage all fundraising, corporate giving, and funding activities associated with the organisation’s annual initiatives, and will open Wff’s new Vancouver office. Both roles will support the Whistler Film...
- 7/18/2019
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
The Canadian Film Centre (Cfc) has confirmed several filmmaking teams and mentors/guests for the 'Telefilm Canada Features Comedy Lab', a creative/business catalyst for new comedy projects destined for theatrical release, pairing experienced Canadian feature film producers, their writer/or director teams and their scripts, to further develop/package English-language theatrical feature comedies for 2010. Chaired by actor/writer Eugene "Bobby Bittman" Levy, the Telefilm Canada Features Comedy Lab, a Cfc Film program presented in collaboration with "Just For Laughs", is noted as Canada.s first advanced professional program designed to develop/package theatrical feature-length comedies. Chosen projects and teams include: Victory Man Productions. "Servitude" from writer/producer Michael Sparaga, director Warren P. Sonoda, Resonance Films. romantic comedy "That Burning Feeling" from writer Nicolas Citton, producer/director Jason James, "Ramington's: Men Of Steel" from writer Sacha Pavlovic, producer Mark Montefiore and the comedy western "Saddlebags" by writer Christine Lippa and...
- 10/22/2009
- HollywoodNorthReport.com
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