Guy Maddin's My Winnipeg

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The trailer is up for Guy Maddin's My Winnipeg. Obviously one of the films I'm most excited to see this year. The trailer is playing up Maddin's own tendency for tongue-in-cheek Freudian melodrama (with his mother being played former B-movie starlet Ann Savage, who was the femme fatale in the ultra-low-budget 1946 film noir Detour), but I'm more

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[carignane]

Oh, now I have a mix of that song from the trailer and the "everrryyyy sha-la-la-la-laaa, every woooaahh..." etc. from the Clifford's ads.

Strangely, I had a dream last night that I was at a Guy Maddin screening, but he had just died and was lying, open casket (like one of those cheap plywood caskets), at the side of the stage.

Other strangeties:
-I've met Spanky, the pug that plays his god, many times.
-I've also met his mother. I think his aunt is married to my great uncle (or his uncle is married to my great aunt - can't remember), and his mom lived across from my Amma (who was an extra in Careful, which I noticed they recently restored) in the Icelandic retirement home up on Sargent and Erin.

I often wonder about how younger people think/reminisce about Winnipeg.

[sslounge]

Well in my "rap sessions" with today's youth at their "happenings", the closest they have to local icons of their youth is Buckley & Beav. After that, I have no idea.