#15 - Guy Maddin's Funny Sadness
The Important Cinema Club
Justin Decloux and Will Sloan
4.7 • 577 Ratings
🗓️ 7 March 2016
⏱️ 34 minutes
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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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