Canadian Heritage Film Festival Screening - The Saddest Music in the World, Guy Maddin, 2003/title>   <meta name="author" content="Sunshine Coast Film Society" /> <meta name="Keywords" content="Maddin, experimental, avante garde, manitoba, Isabella Rossellini" /> <meta name="Description" content="A glamourous beer baroness organizes a contest to find the saddest music in the world; this film is drenched in the delights of the early days of cinema." /> <meta name="robots" content="all" /> <link href="../../main.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />  </head> <body> <div id="container"> <div id="banner"> <div id="nav-meta"> <ul title="Top Level Navigation bar"> <li><a href="#contentstart" title="Skip to content" class="skip">skip to content</a></li> <li><a href="../../contact.html">contact us</a></li> <li><a href="../../volunteer.html">volunteer</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.scfs.ca">SCFS</a></li> </ul> </div> </div>  <div id="nav-main"> <ul title="main navigation"> <!== class current for here page --> <li><a href="../../../chff">HOME</a></li> <li class="current"><a href="../../program">PROGRAMME</a></li> <li><a href="../../ticket">TICKETS / ADMISSION</a></li> <li><a href="../../sc">ABOUT THE COAST</a></li> <li><a href="../../res">FILM RESOURCES</a></li> <li><a href="../../media/index.shtml">MEDIA ROOM</a></li> </ul> </div>   <div id="nav-section"> <ul> <li title="schedule"><a href="../index.html">schedule</a></li> <li title="list of films"><a href="../filmlist.html">film list</a></li> </ul> </div> <br />  <a name="contentstart" id="contentstart"></a> <div id="filmhed"> <h1>The Saddest Music in the World</h1> </div> <div id="filmdes"> <p>Guy Maddin, 2003, English, 100min, bw / colour</p> <p><img src="img/saddestcomposite.jpg" width="180" height="422" hspace="10" align="right" />Set in cold, dark, Depression-era Winnipeg, where a glamourous beer baroness organizes a contest to find the saddest music in the world, this film is drenched in the delights of the early days of cinema. Maddin’s hilariously infectious fever dream is peopled by an assortment of weird and wonderful characters with secrets in their pasts. Winnipeg’s winter wonderland emerges in tantalizing Super 8 and 16 mm black and white, punctuated by scenes of saturated colour. Rossellini simmers on screen; McKinney exudes a droll urbane charm. From an original screenplay by Booker prize-winning Kazuo Ishiguro, this amnesia-driven melodrama is an absolutely unforgettable tour-de-force of wit, style, and musical mayhem. (Adapted from Diane Burgess, VIFF, 2003)</p> <h2>Reviews</h2> <p><em>"This feature from the antiquarian avant-gardist Guy Maddin is a sublime, hallucinatory musical, full of surprising humor and genuine sorrow."</em><br /> — <strong>The New York Times</strong></p> <h3>Awards</h3> <p> Screened as a Special Presentation at the Toronto International Film Festival and an Anniversary Gala at the Vancouver International Film Festival. Nominated for four Genie Awards and named one of Canada’s Top Ten of 2003 by an independent, national, industry panel.<br /> </p> <p> </p> </div> <div id="filmsidebar"> <h3>Screening</h3> <p>Monday, February 21, 1pm</p> <p>Part of a double bill with</p> <p> <a href="taleegimil.html" class="film">Tales from the Gimli Hospital</a> <strong>»</strong> </p> <p>Total screening time: 2.5hrs, with a 15 min intermisssion.</p> <h3>About the Director</h3> <p><strong>Guy Maddin</strong></p> <p> b February 28, 1956; Winnipeg, Manitoba</p> <p>FILMOGRAPHY<br /> (as director, features)</p> <p> Tales from the Gimli Hospital (1988)<br /> Archangel (1990)<br /> Careful (1992)<br /> Twilight of the Ice Nymphs (1997)<br /> Dracula: Pages from a Virgin’s Diary (2002)<br /> Cowards Bend the Knee (2003)<br /> The Saddest Music in the World (2003)</p> <h3>Cast and crew</h3> <p> Producers<br /> Atom Egoyan, Daniel Iron (executive producers); Niv Fichman, Jody Shapiro</p> <p>Writer<br /> Kazuo Ishiguro (original screenplay); Guy Maddin, George Toles</p> <p>Cinematographer<br /> Luc Montpellier</p> <p>Editor<br /> David Wharnsby</p> <p>Music<br /> Christopher Dedrick</p> <p>Principal Cast<br /> Mark McKinney – Chester Kent<br /> Isabella Rossellini – Lady Port-Huntley<br /> Maria de Medeiros – Narcissa<br /> David Fox – Fyodor<br /> Ross McMillan – Roderick/Gravillo<br /> Louis Negin – Blind Seer<br /> Darcy Fehr – Teddy<br /> Claude Dorge – Duncan<br /> Talia Pura – Mary<br /> Jeff Sutton – Young Chester<br /> Graeme Valentin – Young Roderick<br /> Maggie Nagle – Chester’s Mother<br /> Victor Cowie – Man in Bar<br /> Jessica Burleson – Lady’s Secretary<br /> Wayne Nicklas – Boardmember</p> <h3>Links</h3> <p> <a href="http://www.indiewire.com/people/people_040503maddin.html">Interview with Guy Maddin and Isabella Rossellini</a><br /> </p> <p><a href="http://www.filmreferencelibrary.ca/index.asp?layid=44&csid1=416&navid=46"> The Film Reference Library entry</a><br /> </p> <p><a href="http://www.movie-gazette.com/cinereviews/779">Humourous review</a> at Movie-Gazette.com<br /> </p> <p><a href="http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/review/2004/05/21/saddest_music/">Salon review</a>.<br /> </p> <p><a href="http://movies2.nytimes.com/gst/movies/movie.html?v_id=293229">New York Times movie review</a>.<br /> </p> <div id="sidebarstrong"> <a href="../filmlist.html"><img src="../../img/filmlist.gif" alt="List of films in the festival" width="140" height="25" border="0" /></a> <br /> <a href="../index.html"><img src="../../img/programme.gif" alt="screening and event schedule" width="140" height="25" border="0" /></a> </div> </div>  <div id="footernav"> <p id="bnav"><a href="http://www.scfs.ca">Sunshine Coast Film Society</a> | <a href="#">privacy</a></p> <p id="info-standards"><a href="http://www.designbybillie.com">[design by Billie Carroll]</a> <a href="http://validator.w3.org/check/referer">[XHTML 1.0]</a> <a href="http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/">[CSS]</a></p> </div> <div id="scfsfoot"> </div> </div> </body></html>