Zoom movie music9/7/2023 ![]() ![]() And then every now and then I’m kind of astonished that I even had the energy to make the damn thing, you know? And so there’s a real melancholic sweetness to watching this. ![]() So many trees that have been sawed down or buildings raised that the film actually becomes, in its end credits especially, a kind of a necrology. So many people that you were once close friends with who’ve grown estranged. There are so many people that have aged into an unrecognizable state or passed away. So I’ve never wanted to.īut when you’re watching something you made 30, 40 years ago, it’s a different thing altogether. After I’ve seen them with an audience I know exactly what I’ve made, where I’ve failed to make a connection, that sort of thing. I certainly have never been able to rewatch my movies after a premiere. But then, once the color grading was all there and I knew it was a job to do, I enjoyed it in a way that was surprising. Well, at first I could only do it in five-minute bites. Like, I had to rewatch this to supervise the color-grading for the 4K transfer. Guy Maddin: No, I’m the kind that does not enjoy it. ![]() ![]() The Film Stage: On the occasion of this film being restored, are you the kind of director who can really go back and watch their old films? Because it seems like there are plenty who say they absolutely cannot because they just see all the mistakes. Maddin, in his typically verbose and upbeat manner, was happy to look back at the circumstances surrounding his film’s protracted, demanding production. Deliberately archaic and fantastical, the film embeds multiple narratives in one-drawing on death, childhood, Icelandic history, and things even more beguiling. On the occasion of his debut feature Tales From the Gimli Hospital being given a new 4K remaster and opening at New York’s IFC Center, Maddin joined me over Zoom to discuss his early work. Canada’s weirdest filmmaker, Guy Maddin has crafted a body of work since the 1980s that first comes off as classical-cinema homage but, looked at deeper, is rather a decades-long interrogation of one man’s troubled psyche. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply.AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |