MY WINNIPEG
(Guy Maddin, 2008, 78 min.)
7:00 pm, The Byrd Theatre
Admission $6
(Also screening Friday, April 17)

From the director of Tales of Gimli Hospital, Archangel, Careful, and The Saddest Music in the World, comes My Winnipeg, a city-symphony film that’s part essay, part diary, and hands down, flat out one of the best films of 2008. Maddin’s “docu-fantasia” (his term) about his hometown is as personal as it is fanciful – tidbits from the Maddin family closet are woven seamlessly with wild yarns of Winnipeg’s frontiering, using archival and staged footage and layered with the filmmaker’s own voice-over in perhaps the most surreal documentary since Luis Buñuel’s Las Hurdes, aka Land Without Bread. My Winnipeg is a brilliant, sad, and funny film, starring the late cult actress Ann Savage (Detour) as the director’s mother.
See New York Times review.