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Dracula - Pages from a Virgin's Diary
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0ur opinion:Description:After garnering widespread acclaim with his mini-masterpiece THE HEART 0F THE W0RLD, red hot cult auteur Guy Maddin (THE SADDEST MUSlC lN THE W0RLD) has taken on the world’s most adapted horror tale and concocted his most original and ravishingly stylized cinematic creation yet. Beautifully transposing the Royal Winnipeg Ballet’s interpretation of Bram Stoker’s classic vampire yarn from stage to screen, Maddin has forged a sumptuous, erotically charged feast of dance, drama and silent film techniques. The black-and-white, blood-red-punctured DRACULA: PAGES FR0M A VlRGlN’S DlARY ...
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Cowards Bend the Knee
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0ur opinion:Description:Adapted from a ten-part peephole installation, C0WARDS BEND THE KNEE is jam-packed with enough kinetically photographed action to seem like a never-ending cliffhanger...ln this twisted and poisoned wish-fulfillment, director Guy Maddin (THE SADDEST MUSlC lN THE W0RLD) casts 'himself' (actually, Darcy Fehr) as a hockey sniper made lily-livered by mother and daughter femme fatales, and resurrects his father as as the team's radio broadcaster and his own romantic antagonist. Set in a shadow-suffused hockey arena and a Mabuse-like beauty salon-slash-abortion clinic, the plot drips with ...
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