Director · Canadian · 1956

Guy Maddin

Guy Maddin is a Winnipeg-born filmmaker whose films — including Tales from the Gimli Hospital, The Saddest Music in the World, and Careful — are instantly recognizable for their obsessive use of archaic film styles, melodramatic excess, and personal mythology.

Films with us

In cinemasCanadian film

Tales from the Gimli Hospital Redux

1988 · Guy Maddin

Guy's picks

Everytime“A film that understands restraint the way most films understand spectacle. What grabs you isn't the plot machinery but the spaces between—the look held a beat too long, the silence that says more than dialogue ever could. It's the kind of movie that sticks around after the credits because it doesn't feel obligated to explain itself. There's real craft in that. The performances sit quiet and true. Recommended for people who think the best films trust their audience.”September Songs: The Music of Kurt Weill“Weill's music lives in that rare space where sophistication and gut feeling meet. These songs carry the weight of exile, the precision of German composition, and something genuinely human underneath—not sentimental, just true. *September Songs* captures what makes his work endure: you can hear the wit, the melancholy, the formal control, all at once. It's for people who know that the best popular music is often the most intelligent music. A document of something that mattered, played by people who understand why it still does.”The Mad Dog of Europe“History doesn't need dramatizing when you look at it straight. This film does that—unflinching, specific, refusing the easy move. It's the kind of work that sits with you because it doesn't perform its gravity; it just states it. The filmmaking serves the subject without competing with it. Essential viewing for anyone who thinks cinema has a responsibility to bear witness clearly, without ornament.”Siri Hustvedt – Dance Around the Self“Hustvedt has always known that the self is not a fixed thing—it moves, contradicts, performs, hides. This film lets that philosophy breathe through movement and language, never settling into easy answers. It's an intellectual work that feels alive, not locked in a lecture. For viewers who think the best documentaries don't explain their subjects so much as inhabit them. A portrait of a mind in motion.”