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Article: Shots in the dark: you can't get much more out-there than the one-of-a-kind vision of filmmaker Guy Maddin, and his latest is no exception.(The Critics Go At It--Movie Column)
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- May 1, 2004
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Canada's Guy Maddin is a world-class eccentric and conservationist of the dead language of silent cinema who makes uniquely antique movies for knowing modern audiences. Deploying iris shots, Vaselined lenses, pasteboard sets, tints and gorgeous splashes of two-tone color, crackling audio tracks, "missing" frames, and ham acting, Maddin's absurdist melodramas are distressed to look like they have shuddered through ten thousand projectors. But for their contemporary (at times Pythonesque) wit, one might suspect his films had been plucked in the nick of time from among reels of rotting celluloid in some dank dungeon archive.
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