Tales from the Gimli Hospital
Screening on Film
Directed by Guy Maddin.
With Kyle McCulloch, Margaret Anne McLeod.
Canada, 1988, 35mm, black & white, 72 min.
With Kyle McCulloch, Margaret Anne McLeod.
Canada, 1988, 35mm, black & white, 72 min.
A major hit on the midnight circuit in New York, Guy Maddin’s magnificently hallucinatory comedy, saturated by the excesses of 1920s German expressionism, never played theatrically in sedate Boston. Yes, it’s as indescribable as it is wonderful: unconsummated necrophilia sets the nightmare tone for the surreal Icelandic sagas shared by two patients confined during a smallpox epidemic in turn-of-the-century Manitoba.
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Gentle Giants
Directed by Bruce Weber.
US, 1995, 35mm, color and b&w, 15 min.
Newfoundland dogs, pre-Stonewall days in Greenwich Village, and the narrator’s passion for 1940s "B" movie actor Guy Madison.
