you're unfunny and untalented -- that's why you're perfect for drama!

[bossymarmalade]

I need to keep away from the Kino website, because there are so! many! moovies! that all look so good. Like:

Fallen Angels -- includes a storyline about a boy who stopped speaking after eating a tin of pineapple that was past its expiry date

Sebastiane -- by the same director as Caravaggio, homoerotic and with a score by Brian Eno

Tales from the Gimli Hospital -- it's Canadian and therefore explores the themes dear to our hearts; isolation, aborted passion, secrets, and necrophilia

The Brothers Quay Collection -- freaky stop-motion done by identical twins about the dreamscapes of repressed childhood memories

And there's a new one that's not up on the website but is in the catalogue they sent me, called Junk Food: "In the course of twenty-four hours, a cross-section of today's Tokyo -- including a white-collar junkie, a homesick Mexican wrestler, and a murderous Pakistani -- is followed in a calorie rush of vignettes spooned down with a blend of Japanese techno, Latin hip-hop, and Iranian disco." Have you ever heard anything more wonderful?!? I need to be rich so I can buy all this stuff.

Comments

[pirateyes.livejournal.com]

Guy Maddin! I worship him. You have to see Saddest Music in the World when it comes to video. It's quintessential.

And the Brothers Quay are amazing as well. They even have a commercial for weed killer that's just beautiful.

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[bossymarmalade.livejournal.com]

I wish it was easier to get my hands on films like this, man. As it is I have to go visit knobbly little out-of-the-way video stores, and they're almost always out. Arrgh!

That's the first time I've heard of the Brothers Quay; they and the Gimli Hospital sound fascinating.

[cjmarlowe.livejournal.com]

Whoot! I never thought I'd see the day when my friends list was talking about Guy Maddin. It warms the heart.

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[bossymarmalade.livejournal.com]

Hee! I've been feeling particularly patriotic as of late. Do you think we're all genetically encoded for it to kick in at some point in life?

[cjmarlowe.livejournal.com]

I think it's definitely hardcoded, man. Plus, I am in Winnipeg, and GUY MADDIN. *ahem* (We're such a big small town sometimes, and I was a film minor, so I know about a billion people who work with him regularly, including a number of my professors and my best friend's dentist.)

[callsigns.livejournal.com]

Brother Quay gave me horrific nightmares my freshman year of college! *shudders* Creepy as sin. But interesting, for sure.

Your subject line. They said that in the Futurama episode that I watched last night!! Caught my eye, uh huh.

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[bossymarmalade.livejournal.com]

"Creepy as sin" sounds like just the sort of thing I like. Nightmares will follow, to be sure, since I am a total chickenshit, but -- that's half the fun, innit? *g*

And, hooray for Futurama! That episode's so good, what with Uncle Zoid and Calculon's acting and the Oscars. Hee!

[d-benway.livejournal.com]

The Brothers Quay rule.
Guy Maddin rules more.
Guy Maddin is a God.
Anything that Guy Maddin makes is worth seeing, and then worth seeing again.
Favorite Guy Maddin film: Careful (set in a school for butlers in the highest Alps; possibly includes twincest, I can't exactly recall, but certain includes twins and some Cronenberg-level squickiness, although it's actually a screamingly funny comedy)

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[bossymarmalade.livejournal.com]

Oooh! I read about Careful in weird sex and snowshoes (http://www.raintaxi.com/online/2002winter/monk.shtml); they have to be very quiet so as not to set off any avalanches, right? It sounds fascinating and odd and wonderful and now I really do have to start scouting Vancouver's more esoteric video stores to see if I can find some of these. It seems that the mainstream video stores won't carry Canadian-made films if they don't somehow involve Molly Parker or Callum Keith Rennie. *g*