{"id":10124,"date":"2015-10-09T20:00:01","date_gmt":"2015-10-10T01:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=10124"},"modified":"2016-09-23T10:01:11","modified_gmt":"2016-09-23T15:01:11","slug":"my-winnipeg-redux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/10124","title":{"rendered":"My Winnipeg Redux"},"content":{"rendered":"

I rewatched My Winnipeg<\/a><\/em> in glorious (glorious!) high definition. Great extras on the blu-ray: shorts and an hour-long interview with Maddin. “I liked the idea of leaping from one subject to another with that paranoiac certainty that the two are connected.”<\/p>\n

Spanky to the Pier and Back<\/em> (2008)<\/strong><\/p>\n

In which Spanky walks to the pier and back. I’ve watched this one before<\/a>. Inspired by From Munich to Berlin<\/a><\/em> by Oskar Fischinger, edited in-camera. “Spanky was my best friend at the time.”<\/p>\n

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Sinclair<\/em> (2010)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Camera slowly spins around a plain white room with wide angle lens, Sinclair passed out in a wheelchair to one side, tuneless doom music on the soundtrack. The second half (at least) is a single take, unusual for fast-cut freak Maddin. Guy says it’s a protest film about the death of a native paraplegic in an emergency room, shot in the style of La Region Centrale<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n

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Only Dream Things<\/em> (2012)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mesmerising. Low-framerate, Begotten<\/em>-processed home movie footage overlaid with dream images, pop songs and swimmy sound effects. The home movies were shot by his older brothers, from “the summers of our lives before anything went wrong.”<\/p>\n

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The Hall Runner<\/em> (2014)<\/strong><\/p>\n

“When you’re gone I have no memory.”
\nExtension on the My Winnipeg<\/em> bit about rugs that can never be adequately straightened.<\/p>\n

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Louis Riel for Dinner<\/em> (2014, Drew Christie)<\/strong><\/p>\n

A girl is alarmed that the duck her dad has cooked for dinner has the head of Winnipeg hero Louis Riel. Animated!<\/p>\n

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Winnipegiana<\/em> (2014, Evan Johnson)<\/strong><\/p>\n

“The city blighted by these sickly trees is a city that dreams too much and lives too little.”<\/p>\n

A series of wonderful “educational” shorts with a verbose narrator whose scripts only barely make sense. Johnson is Maddin’s codirector of The Forbidden Room<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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Since that still wasn’t enough Maddin-on-Winnipeg, I also read the book of the film, with the script, another interview, deleted scenes, rough drafts, photos, scans, collaborator essays and more.<\/p>\n

Now, back to worrying over the eleven minutes supposedly cut from The Forbidden Room<\/em> since its Sundance premiere, and whether they’ll be on the Kino blu-ray out in March.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I rewatched My Winnipeg in glorious (glorious!) high definition. Great extras on the blu-ray: shorts and an hour-long interview with Maddin. “I liked the idea of leaping from one subject to another with that paranoiac certainty that the two are connected.” Spanky to the Pier and Back (2008) In which Spanky walks to the pier […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[391,2000,84,21],"class_list":["post-10124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-canada","tag-evan-johnson","tag-guy-maddin","tag-shorts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10124"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11423,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10124\/revisions\/11423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}