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(Coach House)
When the emerging avant-garde filmmaker Guy Maddin published his journals, the connection between his life and his wacky operatic visionary movies was bound to come out....Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Funds for Bookworm are provided in part by Lannin Foundation. |
| 0:07.0 | You are a human animal. |
| 0:11.3 | You are a very special breed. |
| 0:15.1 | Or you are the only animal. |
| 0:18.6 | Who can think, who can reason, who can read. |
| 0:22.6 | From KCRW, Santa Monica, I'm Michael Silverblatt, and welcome to Bookworm. |
| 0:28.0 | Today I'm very happy a set of unusual events have made it possible for me to have Guy Madden |
| 0:35.0 | on the show. |
| 0:35.8 | Guy Madden is principally known as a film director, |
| 0:40.0 | sometimes a feature director, |
| 0:41.8 | sometimes an experimental film director, |
| 0:44.8 | but his experimental films are very much like Hollywood features, |
| 0:48.8 | and his feature films are very much like experimental shorts, |
| 0:52.3 | and the line is skewed. |
| 0:54.2 | The books, though, that have come out recently and that allow me to have him on the show, |
| 1:00.4 | are from the Atelier Tovar. |
| 1:03.7 | This is a selection of diaries and essays on film by Guy Madden. |
| 1:09.7 | My guest, it was edited by Jason McBride |
| 1:12.4 | and published by Coach House Press. |
| 1:15.1 | It's a small press in America here. |
| 1:17.2 | You would want to get the book from small press distribution |
| 1:20.5 | and nonprofit that distributes a lot of the best books |
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