My Winnipeg / IFC Films ; the Documentary Channel presents ; produced by Jody Shapiro, Phyllis Laing ; conceived and directed by Guy Maddin ; written and narrated by Guy Maddin ; produced with the participation of The Canadian Television Fund and Manitoba Film and Sound ; executive producer, Michael Burns ; dialogue by George Toles ; produced by Everyday Pictures/Buffalo Gal Pictures ; a Documentary Channel original production ; Paddlewheel Productions Inc. and February Pictures Inc.
Edition:
Director approved Blu-ray special edition.
Publisher:
Publisher not identified,
Copyright Date:
2015
Description:
1 videodisc (80 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded-out insert.
Container of (work): Spanky, to the pier and back. Container of (work): Sinclair. Container of (work): Only dream things. Container of (work): Hall runner. Container of (work): Louis Riel for dinner.
Notes:
Ann Savage, Louis Negin, Amy Stewart, Darcy Fehr, Brendan Cade, Wesley Cade, Lou Profeta, Fred Dunsmore. Originally released as a motion picture in 2007. Special features: Cine-essays (created by filmmaker Evan Johnson and director Guy Maddin): About, Puberty, Colours, Elms, Cold; Guy Maddin and Robert Enright (in conversation about the film); "My Winnipeg" live in Toronto (featurette documents a 2008 screening of My Winnipeg at the Royal Cinema in Toronto, for which director Guy Maddin provided live narration); Spanky: to the pier and back (2008) (four-minute film, director Guy Maddin pays homage to a pug named Spanky); Sinclair (2010) (four-minutre short by Maddin is excerpted from a film he created in 2010 for the opening of the Toronto International Film Festival's Bell Lightbox building); Only dream things (2012) (twenty-minute short as part of an installation at the Winnipeg Art Gallery for its centennial in 2012); The hall runner (2014) (four-minute improv sketch); Louis Riel for dinner (2014) (three-minute animated short); Trailer. Insert features an essay by critic Wayne Koestenbaum.
Summary:
"The geographical dead center of North America and the beloved birthplace of Guy Maddin, Winnipeg is the frosty and mysterious star of Maddin's "docu-fantasia." A work of memory and imagination, Maddin's film burrows into what the filmmaker calls "the heart of the heart" of the continent, conjuring a city as delightful as it is fearsome, populated by sleepwalkers and hockey aficionados. Take part in Winnipeg's annual epic scavenger hunt! Pay your respects to the racehorses forever frozen in the river! Help judge the yearly homoerotic Golden Boy pageant! What is real and what is fantasy is left up to the viewer to sort out in Maddin's hypnotic, expertly conceived paean to that wonderful and terrifying place known as My Hometown."--Container.
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