Offscreen. Maddin.

It was at They Shoot Pictures, Don't They? that I saw that the new issue of MovieMaker is up, and the same goes for Offscreen. Volume 10, Issue 1 is a Canadian special, beginning with David Church's in-depth interview with Guy Maddin in which the filmmaker talks not only about the projects he's currently working on, his audience the his current flirtation with DV but also dips a bit into his childhood. Church also has a piece entitled "Brief Notes on Canadian Identity in Guy Maddin's The Saddest Music in the World."

Editor Donato Totaro: "My Dad is 100 Years Old is an odd choice for Maddin in some respects, even though it has all the stylistic earmarks of a Maddin film."

Ryan Diduck considers what the Canadian television hit comedy Trailer Park Boys, "certainly the most significant in a long line of 'hosers, boozers and losers' to originate from north of the 49th parallel," might have to offer in terms of insight into the nation's character - and film industry.

Ben Dooley: "The genres of both comedy and musical can have the effect of claiming a 'universal' vision of society. While Mervyn LeRoy and Busby Berkeley's Gold Diggers of 1933 uses this effect to promote a socialist collectivism, Chaplin's The Immigrant uses it for a very different purpose." To round things out, Totaro notes on the homepage that Berkeley "happens to be one of Maddin's favorite filmmakers."

Posted by dwhudson at February 27, 2006 4:46 AM