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Article: In the hour of the twilight: Guy Maddin gets melodramatic with Twilight of the nymphs.
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- Take One
- Article date:
- September 22, 1997
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As a result of our commitment to provide our readers with the most accurate, informed picture of contemporary Canadian cinema, Take One has uncovered new evidence about Guy Maddin's life and work, hitherto suppressed by the reclusive Winnipeg filmmaker, from a forthcoming special encyclopedia of Manitoban cultural history. Finally, the real Guy Maddin has been identified. So, before the hype and legends blur the truth once more, we want to set the record straight. Remember, you read it here first: Guy Maddin, a Winnipeg film director of Icelandic parentage, was born Guy Pierre Menard Madinsdottir, in exile, in Riga, Latvia (birthplace of Sergei Eisenstein), in November ...