Guy Maddin

TIFF Top Ten Film Festival Onstage Discussions

TIFF Top Ten Film Festival Onstage Discussions

Onstage discussions with Tatiana Maslany and Kiefer Sutherland Cross-country guest appearances by Patricia Rozema, Philippe Falardeau, Patrick Huard, Connor Jessup, Andrew Cividino, Mina Shum, Guy Maddin and more TORONTO — The Canada’s Top Ten Film Festival kicks off on January 8, presenting public screenings of 2015’s 10 best features, shorts and student shorts. Running through […]

TFCA Name THE FORBIDDEN ROOM Top Canadian Film of the Year

TFCA Name THE FORBIDDEN ROOM Top Canadian Film of the Year

Guy Maddin and Evan Johnson share $100,000 ROGERS BEST CANADIAN FILM AWARD TORONTO – The Forbidden Room, Guy Maddin and Evan Johnson’s giddy mash-up of Golden Age adventure serials, has won the Toronto Film Critics Association’s 2015 Rogers Best Canadian Film Award. The award was presented to the filmmakers by fellow director Don McKellar – […]

2015 Canada’s Top Ten Film Festival Films

2015 Canada’s Top Ten Film Festival Films

TORONTO — TIFF® salutes the country’s cinematic superstars tonight, revealing the Canada’s Top Ten Film Festival™ lineup of the top 10 features, shorts and student shorts for 2015. Established in 2001, the festival celebrates and promotes contemporary Canadian cinema and raises awareness of Canadian achievements in film. Running January 8 to 17, 2016 at TIFF […]

TFCA Announces 2015 Awards

TFCA Announces 2015 Awards

The Forbidden Room, My Internship in Canada and Sleeping Giant compete for Rogers $100,000 Best Canadian Film Award TORONTO — Carol, the swooning tale of a life-changing love affair, won two top prizes at the 2015 awards of the Toronto Film Critics Association. Todd Haynes’ 1950s melodrama was named Best Picture, and Haynes named Best […]

Woodstock 15 – THE FORBIDDEN ROOM – Closing Night Film

Festival Screening – October 4, 2015 @ 7:30 PM at The Woodstock Playhouse The Forbidden Room is Guy Maddin’s ultimate epic phantasmagoria. Honoring classic cinema while electrocuting it with energy, this Russian nesting doll of a film begins with the crew of a doomed submarine chewing flapjacks in a desperate attempt to breathe the oxygen […]

7 NFB Films To Screen at TIFF 15

7 NFB Films To Screen at TIFF 15

An eclectic mix of Canadian talent shines on the big screen The National Film Board of Canada (NFB) returns to the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) (September 10–20, 2015) with a stellar line up of feature films from Mina Shum, Mark Lewis and Guy Maddin, as well as short films from award-winning animator Howie Shia, […]

Technicolor Master Class: Guy Maddin on MAGNIFICENT OBSESSION

1954 Magnificent Obsession Trailer. Film Screening and Discussion – July 18, 2015 @ 6:00 PM, The TIFF Bell Lightbox, Toronto, ON Rush tickets are available 10 minutes prior to show time. Contemporary cinema artist Guy Maddin — director of such delirious classics as The Heart of the World, Dracula – Pages from a Virgin’s Diary […]

FREE ADMISSION – Canadian Open Vault – MY WINNIPEG

MY WINNIPEG will be introduced by Guy Maddin on Sunday, July 19, 2015 @ 1:00 PM, TIFF Bell Lightbox, Toronto, ON FREE ADMISSION Tickets are distributed at the venue two hours before the start of the event (1 ticket per person). This season’s special edition of Canadian Open Vault presents free screenings of the works […]

TIFF Announces 4th Edition of Canada’s All-Time Top Ten Canadian Films

TIFF Announces 4th Edition of Canada’s All-Time Top Ten Canadian Films

TORONTO – TIFF today announces the results of its fourth Canada’s All-Time Top Ten List, an international poll of industry and academics‎ on the most memorable Canadian films. This is the fourth edition of TIFF’s All-Time Top Ten List; previous lists were released in 1984, 1993 and 2004. “In our 40th year we are celebrating […]