FILMS WE LIKE PRESENTS
Guy Maddin’s
ARCHANGEL
BRAND NEW 4K DIGITAL RESTORATION!
World Premiere
JIO MAMI MUMBAI FILM FESTIVAL
Opens November 14, 2023
TIFF BELL LIGHTBOX
Photo by Jeff Solylo
For immediate release – Films We Like is thrilled to announce the world premiere of Archangel by iconoclastic filmmaker Guy Maddin, at the Jio Mami Mumbai Film Festival, India. The new digital 4K digital remaster was supervised by Guy Maddin and was made possible by the generous financial support of Telefilm Canada’s Canadian Cinema Re-Ignited digitization initiative.
Following its world premiere, Archangel will be theatrically released across Canada, beginning November 14, 2023 at the TIFF Bell Lightbox, Toronto, with director Guy Maddin in attendance.
Literally a film like no other, this weird, wild and extraordinary photoplay is both melodrama and deadpan parody. With striking black and white cinematography and stylized set design, Guy Maddin tells a tale of obsessive love in the arctic Russian town of Archangel, where Bolsheviks, White Russians and German Huns converge during World War I.
Canada, 1990, English
90 minutes | Black & White / DCP 4K
Press Kit, Trailer: https://www.filmswelike.com/films/archangel
Press Contact: Mercy Lam <mercy@filmswelike.com>
About Guy Maddin
Guy Maddin is a Canadian filmmaker with numerous shorts and 11 feature films to his credit, including the Emmy Award-winning ballet film Dracula — Pages From A Virgin’s Diary (2002); The Saddest Music in the World (2003); My Winnipeg (2007); and US National Society of Film Critics Best Experimental Film Prize-winners Archangel (1990) and The Heart of the World (2000). Guy Maddin is a member of The Order of Canada and The Order of Manitoba.
About Films We Like
Founded by award-winning documentary filmmaker Ron Mann (Grass, Comic Book Confidential, Carmine Street Guitars), Films We Like is a boutique distributor of documentary, independent, and international films in Canada. Films We Like is committed to restoring neglected Canadian films, most recently Tales from the Gimli Hospital Redux by Guy Maddin, and P4W: Prison for Women, Hookers on Davie, and Calling the Shots by Holly Dale and Janis Cole.