"My first musical."

"Remembering that her famous father, Roberto, used to direct inexperienced actors by tying string to their toes and tugging whenever it was their turn to speak, I had Larry and Speedy tie a little fishing line to Isabella's glass toe. I felt this filament somehow tethered me across time and through his daughter to the father of neorealism. I was instantly pebbled with goose bumps."

Shooting Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary

Guy Maddin is directing his biggest film yet ("$3.5 million budget, a 24-day schedule, and real movie stars") and keeping a production diary in the Village Voice. More on Maddin and The Saddest Music in the World: The Independent, the Globe and Mail and the Manitoban. Cowards Bend the Knee: the Voice and eye Weekly.



Posted by dwhudson at May 8, 2003 6:03 AM