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- The film is not a realistic or literally accurate depiction of Canadian history, instead mixing and matching elements of real history with invented fantasia in a stylized manner reminiscent of the films of Guy Maddin, and taking place largely on deliberately unrealistic sets influenced by German Expressionism, 1940s melodrama and wartime propaganda films.
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Dec 8, 2020 · Writer-director Matthew Rankin works the Guy Maddin (“The Saddest Music in the World”) side of the cinematic street in this furiously strange riff on the rise of Canada’s dominant political figure of the last century, William Lyon Mackenzie King, or as the syrup-slurping classes to the North sometimes call him, WLMK. No, I’m not making that up.
Nov 18, 2020 · Maddin’s influence is clear from the opening moments of “The Twentieth Century,” which trip us into a hallucinogenic vision of the past that marries silent film set design with a vaporwave...
Nov 21, 2008 · 10. Canadian filmmaker and writer Guy Maddin’s Brand upon the Brain!, featuring Isabella Rossellini as the narrator, was released on DVD from the Criterion Collection in 2008. Maddin also contributed essays on Kirk Douglas for our release of Billy Wilder’s Ace in the Hole and Josef von Sternberg’s silents. Nov 21, 2008.
The film is not a realistic or literally accurate depiction of Canadian history, [3] instead mixing and matching elements of real history with invented fantasia in a stylized manner reminiscent of the films of Guy Maddin, and taking place largely on deliberately unrealistic sets influenced by German Expressionism, 1940s melodrama and wartime ...
- Christophe Lamarche-Ledoux, Peter Venne
- Voyelles Films
Mar 7, 2020 · Mar 6, 2020 4:01pm PT. ‘The Twentieth Century’: Film Review. Multi-hyphenate Matthew Rankin's low-budget, high-concept recounting of political life in the Dominion of Canada circa the turn of...
Nov 19, 2020 · Matthew Rankin’s loony debut feature, “The Twentieth Century,” presents a feverish reimagining of turn-of-the-20th-century Canada. An exuberant feat of visual design, it’s...
Oct 13, 2022 · Nicolas Pedrero-Setzer, Arts Editor. October 13, 2022. After 34 years of virtual invisibility, Canadian iconoclast Guy Maddin’s first feature film, “Tales from the Gimli Hospital,” has been restored in 4K and will receive a limited release at the IFC Center beginning on Friday, Oct. 14.
