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The Important Cinema Club

#15 - Guy Maddin's Funny Sadness

The Important Cinema Club

Justin Decloux and Will Sloan

Tv & Film

4.7577 Ratings

🗓️ 7 March 2016

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

We take a phantasmagorical trip down the cinematically lathered mind slide of director Guy Maddin in this week's Canadian Content sponsored episode of The Important Cinema Club. Are his films weird enough? Do they move us emotionally? Will he ever direct a Marvel super hero film? All those answers* and more will be answered inside this newfangled example of the audiosonic story machine** *Well, some of them. **A.K.A: A podcast

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0:00.0

Hello, my name is Justin the Clue, and I'm here today with Will Sloan.

0:08.0

And you're listening to The Important Cinema Club.

0:10.5

On this episode, we're finally getting Canadian, and we're talking about Guy Madden.

0:15.2

We want to get this Canadian thing over with quickly, because nobody cares.

0:19.4

I mean, have you seen our film industry? Oh, wow, you're

0:22.6

burning all the bridges right here. Yeah, I'm kidding. There have been lots of great Canadian

0:26.5

movies. Strange Brew, for instance, new on Bluray. Yes. One other Canadian films are really good.

0:33.4

Oh, boy. Ernest Rides again is a Canadian film. Is it? Yeah, it is.

0:38.1

Oh, wow.

0:43.6

So, Guy Madden, when I think of, I love how we didn't say what Canadian film.

0:46.6

No, there's good, I don't know, sweeter after, what do you want?

0:48.1

Yeah, what do you want from us? Whatever, whatever is on the TIF top 10 list every 10 years.

0:52.3

Hardcore logo, you know.

0:56.7

Sure. Yeah. Okay. Guy Madden.

1:02.8

When I think of Canadian cinema and its alienating properties, Guy Madden is the one guy that you go to.

1:12.2

Yeah. Because he makes art films and he has continued to make art films for the longest time without ever trying to mold himself for the mainstream.

1:18.5

It's true. His films, I guess, vary in being accessible. But even at their most accessible,

1:22.6

they're still quite, I don't want to say abrasive because those of us who like his movies find them very pleasurable. Yes. But they're very uncompromising. Like, it's the kind of movie that

1:27.1

if I show to someone who goes to the multiplex

1:29.8

every Friday.

1:30.4

Yeah, just some member of the Hoy-Polloy, some stupid commoner.

1:35.0

Well, I was going to say someone that gets in line and goes, I don't know what movie I'm

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