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No Sob Story: Director Guy Maddin and Screenwriter George Toles on Collaboration The Saddest Music in the World. Filmmaking is about collaboration.
With the help of longtime writing collaborator George Toles, Maddin makes the sort of pictures that he wishes (or literally dreams) had been made by directors both great and forgotten, but in doing so, he creates something distinctly his own—and paradoxically, something strikingly original and new in modern cinema.
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Feature Films: Tales from the Gimli Hospital(1988) 72 min Archangel(1990) 90 min Careful(1992) 100 min Twilight of the Ice Nymphs(1997) 91 min Dracula: Pages from a Virgin’s Diary(2001) 73 min The Saddest Music in the World(2003) 99 min Short Films: The Dead Father(1986) 26 min Mauve Decade (1989) 7 min BBB(1989) 12 min Tyro(1990) 4 min Indigo High...
George Toles, A House Made of Light: Essays on the Art of Film, Wayne State University Press, Detroit, 2001 Caelum Vatnsdal, Kino Delirium: the Films of Guy Maddin, Arbeiter Ring Publishing, Winnipeg, 2000
Particles of Illusion: Guy Maddin and His Precursorsby Darragh O’Donohue The Private Guy Maddinby Adam Hart Phantoms Came to Meet: Guy Maddin’s Seances as Surrealist History of Cinemaby Andrei Kartashov Into the Past: The Cinema of Guy Maddin by William Beard; and Playing with Memories: Essays on Guy Maddin edited by David Churchby Cerise Howard
Images – The Cinema of Guy Maddin DVD reviews and images from Tales From the Gimli Hospital and Careful. Guy Maddin A selection of news articles on Maddin. Interview with Guy Maddin Zeitgeist Films | Guy Maddin Brief profile of his work with several links. Maddin’s films can also be bought here.
Maddin also met film professor George Toles, who became Maddin's cowriter on many of his future films. Maddin's core group of friends from this period, who played various roles in the production of his early film projects, were known as "the Drones" and included Harvie, Ian Handford, and Kyle McCulloch (now a writer for South Park ).
Sep 10, 2003 · Canadian experimentalist Guy Maddin’s fascination for the aesthetics of silent film is again in evidence in “The Saddest Music in the World,” this time hitching that lovingly...
Feb 17, 2004 · Maddin: When my co-writer George [Toles] and I were writing it we were thinking of Billy Wilder‘s “Ace in the Hole” with a little bit of Jimmy Cagney in “Yankee Doodle Dandy.”
Maddin met one of his future producers Greg Klymkiw at the University of Manitoba, where they both took a film class taught by George Toles, who in turn would become Maddin’s screenwriting collaborator (Toles has written, always in a collaborative fashion with Maddin, the screenplay for Tales From the Gimli Hospital (as script consultant ...
