TV Guide: Online Video Guide My Winnipeg

'My Winnipeg' Theatrical Trailer

Fri, 04 Sep 2009 12:26:35 -0500

My Winnipeg: Trailer

Thu, 23 Jul 2009 13:29:54 -0500

Anchored throughout his life to the snowbound, sleepy Canadian city of Winnipeg, Maddin travels headlong into his past to forge a new path to freedom. Drawn by the bittersweet pull of family, he returns to his unconventional childhood home a split-level apartment cum beauty parlor and moves right back in. Recruiting actors to spar with his "real" mother (played by '40s noir legend Ann Savage) atop the actual floorboards of his memory, he re-creates hilariously awkward moments from his adolescence. Spiraling out to the surrounding city and its peculiar locations and history, he re-imagines a notorious semi-nude civic pride event, a jazz-age s ance ballet, a macabre frozen horse photo op, and "If Day," when the whole town pretends that the Nazis have invaded. All the while Maddin travels deep into his own nostalgia, searching for an elusive way out of Winnipeg.

My Winnipeg

Mon, 29 Dec 2008 07:30:04 -0500

A personal portrait of filmmaker Guy Maddin's hometown of Winnipeg, Manitoba.

My Winnipeg

Mon, 29 Dec 2008 07:30:04 -0500

A personal portrait of filmmaker Guy Maddin's hometown of Winnipeg, Manitoba.

My Winnipeg

Thu, 22 May 2008 00:53:10 -0500

Have you ever wanted to relive your childhood and do things differently? Guy Maddin (THE SADDEST MUSIC IN THE WORLD) casts B-movie icon Ann Savage as his domineering mother in attempt to answer that question in MY WINNPEG, a hilariously wacky and profoundly touching goodbye letter to his childhood hometown. A documentary (or docu-fantasia as Maddin proclaims) that inventively blends local and personal history with surrealist images and metaphorical myths, the film covers everything from the fire at the local park which lead to a frozen lake of distressed horse heads to pivotal and factually heightened scenes from Maddin s own childhood, all laced with a startling emotional honesty. MY WINNIPEG is Maddin s most personal film and a truly unique cinematic experience, winning the best Canadian film at the Toronto International Film Festival and the opening night selection of the Berlin Film Festival s Forum.