Guy Maddin

Known for: Directing
Born: February 28, 1956, Winnipeg, Canada
Movies: 84

Guy Maddin CM OM is a Canadian screenwriter, director, author, cinematographer and film editor of both features and short films, as well as an installation artist, from Winnipeg, Manitoba. His most distinctive quality is his penchant for recreating the look and style of silent or early sound era films which has solidified his popularity and acclaim in alternative film circles. Since completing his first film in 1985, Maddin has become one of Canada's most well-known and celebrated film-makers. Maddin has directed eleven feature films and numerous short films, in addition to publishing three books and creating a host of installation art projects. A number of Maddin's recent films began as or developed from installation art projects, and his books also relate to his film work. Maddin has been the subject of much critical praise and academic attention, including two books of interviews with Maddin and two book-length academic studies of his work. Maddin was appointed to the Order of Canada, the country's highest civilian honour, in 2012.

Upcoming Guy Maddin Movies

The Triangular Door

Release date TBA

Best-Known Movies

4.8

Rumours

2024

6.9

My Winnipeg

2008

7.1

The Heart of the World

2000

5.6

The Forbidden Room

2015

5.5

J.T. LeRoy

2019

6.9

The Saddest Music in the World

2003

6.6

Brand Upon the Brain!

2007

5.5

Archangel

1990

6.7

Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary

2002

5.3

Sissy-Boy Slap-Party

2004

Filmography

2022	Horse Brothers	Anton the Horse (voice)
2021	Cliff: A Portrait of an Artist	Self
2019	J.T. LeRoy	Reader
2017	Trump Dreams
2017	Tales from the Winnipeg Film Group
2016	The Amazed Spectator	Himself
2015	The 1000 Eyes of Dr Maddin
2014	Louis Riel for Dinner	Narrator
2009	It Came from Kuchar	Self
2008	My Winnipeg: Live in Toronto	Himself
2008	97 Percent True
2008	My Winnipeg	Narrator (voice)
2008	Death of the Reel	Himself
2007	Manuelle Labor
2000	Vinyl	Himself
2000	Nostradamus	Waiter Joe
1997	Guy Maddin: Waiting for Twilight	Self - filmmaker
1983	The International Style	Nurse
1982	Oak, Ivy, and Other Dead Elms	Student

Directing, Writing & Producing

2024	Rumours	Director
2022	Haunted Hotel: A Melodrama in Augmented Reality	Director
2020	The Rabbit Hunters	Screenplay, Director
2020	Stump the Guesser	Writer, Director
2018	Accidence	Writer, Director
2018	The Green Fog	Director
2015	The Forbidden Room	Director, Writer, Producer
2015	Bring Me the Head of Tim Horton	Director
2015	Once a Chicken	Director
2015	Lines of the Hand	Director
2014	The Hall Runner	Director
2014	Colours	Director
2014	Puberty	Director
2014	Elms	Director
2014	Cold	Director
2013	Invisible World	Director
2012	Only Dream Things	Director
2011	Keyhole	Screenplay, Director, Producer
2010	Sinclair	Director
2009	How to Take a Bath	Director
2009	The Little White Cloud That Cried	Director
2009	Night Mayor	Director, Screenplay
2009	Experiments in Terror 3	Director
2009	Send Me to the 'Lectric Chair	Director, Writer
2008	Glorious	Director, Writer
2008	Spanky: To the Pier and Back	Director
2008	My Winnipeg: Live in Toronto	Director, Producer
2008	It's My Mother's Birthday Today	Director
2008	Footsteps	Director
2008	My Winnipeg	Director, Writer, Producer
2007	Berlin	Director
2007	Brand Upon the Brain!	Director, Writer
2007	Odin's Shield Maiden	Director, Screenplay
2007	Lullaby	Director
2006	My Dad Is 100 Years Old	Director
2006	Nude Caboose	Director, Writer
2006	Workbook	Director, Writer
2005	Audition One	Director
2005	Audition Two	Director
2005	Chimney Workbook	Director
2005	FuseBoy	Director
2004	Sorrowful Shadow	Director, Writer
2004	Sissy-Boy Slap-Party	Director, Writer
2004	A Trip to the Orphanage	Director, Writer
2003	The Saddest Music in the World	Director, Writer
2003	Cowards Bend the Knee	Director, Writer
2002	Fancy, Fancy Being Rich	Director
2002	Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary	Director
2001	Sonic Cinema: Sparklehorse	Director
2001	It's a Wonderful Life	Director
2000	Preludes	Director
2000	The Heart of the World	Writer, Director
1999	Hospital Fragment	Director, Writer, Producer
1998	The Cock Crew	Writer, Director
1998	Maldoror: Tygers	Director
1997	Twilight of the Ice Nymphs	Director
1997	Rooster Workbook	Producer, Writer, Director
1997	Zookeeper Workbook	Writer, Director
1995	Odilon Redon or The Eye Like a Strange Balloon Mounts Toward Infinity	Director, Screenplay
1995	The Hands of Ida	Director
1992	Careful	Director, Screenplay
1991	Indigo High-Hatters	Director, Writer
1990	Archangel	Director, Screenplay
1988	Tales from the Gimli Hospital	Director, Writer
1985	The Dead Father	Director, Writer

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