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My Winnipeg (2008)

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Karina’s Favorite Films of 2008
by Karina in Karina on SpoutBlog

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"As I hinted at a bit yesterday when I posted about some of the best undistributed films of the year, I have a love/hate relationship with the idea of movie ranking. The idea that any of us––critic, blogger, professional, amateur…to the extent that any of those words mean anything anymore––could be indisputably “correct” in our individual execution of such an activity is insane; and of course, any attempt to draw each of our subjective takes on The Year in Movies into a consensus waters down everything that makes an individual list idiosyncratic and thus interesting. But in the end, I do believe that what’s valuable about these activities is valuable enough to outweigh what’s annoying: if you read this blog regularly and have come to draw a bead on my tastes in relation to your own, maybe seeing a list of my favorite New York theatrical releases of 2008 will help jog your memory about films you meant to see (or avoid), and now that many of these are available on DVD, maybe you’ll ma ... " [More]

Karina’s Favorite Films of 2008
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"As I hinted at a bit yesterday when I posted about some of the best undistributed films of the year, I have a love/hate relationship with the idea of movie ranking. The idea that any of us––critic, blogger, professional, amateur…to the extent that any of those words mean anything anymore––could be indisputably “correct” in our individual execution of such an activity is insane; and of course, any attempt to draw each of our subjective takes on The Year in Movies into a consensus waters down everything that makes an individual list idiosyncratic and thus interesting. But in the end, I do believe that what’s valuable about these activities is valuable enough to outweigh what’s annoying: if you read this blog regularly and have come to draw a bead on my tastes in relation to your own, maybe seeing a list of my favorite New York theatrical releases of 2008 will help jog your memory about films you meant to see (or avoid), and now that many of these are available on DVD, maybe you’ll ma ... " [More]

Review: My Winnipeg
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"Guy Maddin’s Winnipeg is a dreamland patchwork of half truths and exaggerations, a standard-issue suburban incubator carved into blank screen fields of snow so blinding white they seem almost hot, on which Maddin has projected a secret life. He was commissioned to make My Winnipeg, an ostensible non-fiction portrait of his hometown commissioned by The Documentary Channel, but the city itself is only of concern to him insofar as it’s an extension of and metaphor for his psyche. He casts the project as his attempt to come to terms, once and for all, with his fever stream of memories (real and fabricated) inextricably intertwined with the places and spaces where he grew up. The question of “real” doesn’t matter. While Darcy Fehr, the actor hired to be his (younger, improbably attractive) stand-in, nods off next to a bottle on a moving train, the real Maddin, our narrator, informs us of his designs on Winnipeg: “I must leave it! I’ll film my way out!” “Sleepwalking, sleepchugging.” Th ... " [More]

Tribeca Film Festival Preview
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"The Tribeca Film Festival opens tomorrow (with Baby Mama, a film I haven’t seen but am rooting for via sheer love for Miss Liz Lemon), and there are a number of films on the schedule that we’ve covered at other festivals and can reccommend, including Baghead, Bigger, Stronger, Faster* and especially Mister Lonely. After the jump, you’ll find a look at some of the films and events that I’m looking forward to covering over the next couple of weeks. The festival concludes on May 4. 2001: A Space Odyssey: A gem of a special event. First, a 40th anniversary screening of Stanley Kubrick’s sci-fi masterpiece. Then, a panel discussion, featuring astronaut Buzz Aldrin, actor Matthew Modine, science w " [More]

Tribeca Film Festival Preview
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Review-My Winnipeg
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"After various failed attempts at catching a showing of this at local independent film theaters, I finally found the DVD on sale on Candian Amazon.com (whoda thought?). Being a huge Guy Maddin fan, I cannot explain my anticipation for this film. It is a difficult one to get into--you plunge instantly into Maddin's wonderful and bizarre psyche, and you do not leave until the snow stops blowing on the soundtrack and the credits roll to the film's haunting instrumental music. His trademark patchwork, kaleidoscopic style of editing and plotting is evident from this point, although it is slightly more restrained; only in select sequences does he harken to the silent film, frenzied montage style of his previous work. This is a more focused Maddin, albeit a more reflective and meditative one. His power of observation and his peculiar outlook and comparisons are demonstrated mostly through his poetic, longing narration (which he records himself, a very personal touch). In a library of a ... " [More]

Review: My Winnipeg
by Karina in Karina on SpoutBlog

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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful. [What do you think?]
"Guy Maddin’s Winnipeg is a dreamland patchwork of half truths and exaggerations, a standard-issue suburban incubator carved into blank screen fields of snow so blinding white they seem almost hot, on which Maddin has projected a secret life. He was commissioned to make My Winnipeg, an ostensible non-fiction portrait of his hometown commissioned by The Documentary Channel, but the city itself is only of concern to him insofar as it’s an extension of and metaphor for his psyche. He casts the project as his attempt to come to terms, once and for all, with his fever stream of memories (real and fabricated) inextricably intertwined with the places and spaces where he grew up. The question of “real” doesn’t matter. While Darcy Fehr, the actor hired to be his (younger, improbably attractive) stand-in, nods off next to a bottle on a moving train, the real Maddin, our narrator, informs us of his designs on Winnipeg: “I must leave it! I’ll film my way out!” “Sleepwalking, sleepchugging.” Th ... " [More]

Blogging Berlin 02/14/08
by Karina in Karina on SpoutBlog

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"Jurgen Fauth has nothing but praise for Heavy Metal in Baghdad (we felt pretty much the same when we saw it in Toronto), the screening of which, Jurgen says, “was so oversold that I ended up in the front row, effectively watching a distorted fun house mirror version of Suroosh Alvi and Eddy Moretti’s documentary.” “Most of the European critics came down pretty hard on Petri Kotwica’s Black Ice, a film in competition from Finland,” notes Filmbrain, “But I found this deliciously dark drama about dangerous deceptions to be a good bit of trashy fun.” Mr. Grant is far less enthusiastic about In Love We Trust and Just Anybody. Daniel Kasman is not entirely sold on Guy Maddin’s My Winnipeg, but he concedes “Maddi " [More]

Blogging Berlin 02/14/08
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Karina’s Best of 2007
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"This list has already appeared on indieWIRE, but I’m cross-posting it here as an excuse to do some last-day-of-the-year lazy linkage back to some of our past coverage. In the name of keeping this short and sweet, where there was no past coverage to link to (as is the case with the several films that I saw before becoming a SpoutBlogger), licking the title will take you to the film’s Spout page. Feel free to post your own lists, or links to them, in the comments. We’ll be back on Wednesday. 1. Silent Light 2. There Will Be Blood 3. My Winnipeg 4. Control 5. The Assassination of Jesse James By the Coward Robert Ford< " [More]

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