#302 - Guy's Winnipeg

Michael and Us

Luke Savage and Will Sloan

Tv & Film

4.6 • 668 Ratings

🗓️ 23 January 2022

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

The great Canadian filmmaker Guy Maddin was assigned to make a documentary about his hometown of Winnipeg, Manitoba. He made MY WINNIPEG (2007), a hilarious, surreal dreamscape that combines autobiography, history, and fiction into a free-flowing meditation on a city and a home. We discuss the film's treatment of truth, memory, and the Canadian identity. PLUS: Luke discusses the glamorous life of being a published book author. Preorder Luke's book The Dead Center- https://www.orbooks.com/catalog/the-dead-center/ "Manitoba History - February 19, 1942: If Day" by Michael Newman - http://www.mhs.mb.ca/docs/mb_history/13/ifday.shtml Guy Maddin's "The Heart of the World" - The great Canadian filmmaker Guy Maddin was assigned to make a documentary about his hometown of Winnipeg, Manitoba. He made MY WINNIPEG (2007), a hilarious, surreal dreamscape that combines autobiography, history, and fiction into a free-flowing meditation on a city and a home. We discuss the film's treatment of truth, memory, and the Canadian identity. PLUS: Luke discusses the glamorous life of being a published book author. Preorder Luke's book The Dead Center- https://www.orbooks.com/catalog/the-dead-center/ "Manitoba History - February 19, 1942: If Day" by Michael Newman - http://www.mhs.mb.ca/docs/mb_history/13/ifday.shtml Guy Maddin's "The Heart of the World" - https://vimeo.com/115997353

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0:00.0	Take on to the great white north.
0:03.3	Take on.
0:04.7	It's a beauty way to go.
0:06.5	Take on to the great white north.
0:09.7	Take on.
0:11.1	It's a beauty way to go.
0:12.9	Take on.
0:14.1	Well, I'm going to have a glass of wine with this one.
0:16.5	But, oh, I see you're drinking.
0:17.6	Is that a non-diet soda?
0:22.3	No, it's Coke zero. See? I see. I just, I didn you're drinking. Is that a non-diet soda? No, it's Coke Zero. See?
0:29.0	I see, I just, I didn't recognize it because it's a different kind of Coke Zero. I see that it boasts of newness on the, on the can there. Yeah, it just says new. I think it's just the packaging.
0:33.9	The design is new. You know, Malibu, Stacey's got a new hat. Did you ever watch the show Doug
0:41.0	growing up, the kids cartoon? Oh, sure. I never particularly enjoyed it, but it was on, you know.
0:46.6	I am. If it was on between the hours of three and six o'clock, I watched it. I don't even know if I
0:52.4	enjoyed it either, but I feel like I watched it,
0:54.8	you know, tuned in each week to experience Doug's trials and tribulations trying to win the heart
0:59.5	of the orange patty mayonnaise. I don't remember if he ever did. Doug was just like the poor man's
1:04.8	Charlie Brown, if he asked me. He was like millennial Charlie Brown. And, you know, we we've already got Charlie so who needs it.
1:13.6	Well, I probably haven't seen that show for 20 years, but I bet you I could still whistle the
1:17.1	whole theme song. Anyway, the reason I brought it up is because when I watched it, I don't know if this
1:21.6	was the case for you, but it came with this tag that appeared at the end of every opening credit
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