Collections/February 2021

Directed by Guy Maddin

Featuring a new conversation between Maddin and critic Robert Enright The language of cinema’s past lives on in the films of Guy Maddin, the renegade surrealist of Winnipeg, Manitoba, whose sixty-fifth birthday we’re celebrating with this tour through his singular filmography. Meticulously recreating the aesthetics of silent and expressionist cinema in order to stage delirious visions of his own dreams, fantasies, and obsessions, Maddin’s films are by turns hallucinatory, warped, unsettling, and hilarious. This selection of the wildly prolific auteur’s numerous shorts and features—including the demented Alpine melodrama Careful , the autobiographical docu-fantasia My Winnipeg , and the epic “lost film” phantasmagoria The Forbidden Room —is a testament to cinema’s uncanny power to make manifest our deepest and darkest inner worlds. Added on Sunday, 28 February 2021

19 films — 6 on the Channel, 13 unavailable