So if you like experimental film, manipulation of past cinematic forms, and in this case, a minimalist dreamlike story replete with uncannybizarre images seek it out. I wouldve done differently if id been the veteran of 10 feature films that i am. With its hissing soundtrack and hallucinatory blackandwhite, one can almost imagine the film as a recently excavated sample from a forgotten genre. Dada kubins rating of the film tales from the gimli hospital dada kubin youd expect maddin to start his feature film career with something like this. There isnt much talk as the film lets the visuals do the talking. Guy maddins first film is a bizarre trip to a hospital i hope i never find myself in. Wisely, maddin took his time while making tales from the gimli hospital.
For specific added features see container or interactive features menu while viewing disc. The story of the gimli glider, a plane without fuel that dramatically landed on a former air base runway in gimli, man. Johnston memorial hospital gimli 120 6th avenue, gimli, mb. And we follow the bizarre and creepy imageries through which these characters fight paranoia. Tales from the gimli hospital 1988 release info imdb. The hospital is a better movie than you may have been led to believe. The hospital 2014 after a serious accident requiring surgery, two teens are brought into a hospital. Among the films released by circle were yoshimitsu moritas the family game, guy maddins first feature tales from the gimli hospital, vincent wards the navigator, john woos the killer, catherine breillats 36 fillette, dewitt sages first feature pavorotti in china, alain cavaliers therese, and blood simple, the first film by. Certainly the most iyrical of war films, archangel is the story of amnesiac lovers. Scott, the chief of medicine in a new york city teaching hospital, is contemplating suicide. Mit out sound, mit out solution the current the criterion. For this dvd, guy maddin has supervised the digital transfer of the film and provided scenespecific audio commentary. Tales from the gimli hospital 1988 directed by guy maddin. His feature film debut, it was his second film after the short the dead father.
Turning up here at the film center in barbara scharress films from the. It has been criticized for switching tone in midstream, but maybe its only heading for deeper, swifter waters. Disjointed, dreamy, cold and gritty, tales from the gimli hospital offers a provocative experience. Aug, 2010 guy maddin is a filmmaker who has made ten features, including tales from the gimli hospital 1989, brand upon the brain. Rent tales from the gimli hospital 1988 starring kyle mcculloch and michael gottli on dvd and bluray. Gimli glider landing getting the hollywood treatment. Watching a guy maddins film is always an adventure. Hospital is a black comedy about a bitter, suicidal doctor george c.
Paddy chayevsky has worked around this neatly by keeping his farcical elements as a. Kino international corporation extra large productions set during a smallpox epidemic in the village of gimli, mantiboba near the turn of the century, this film explores the jealousy and madness instilled in two men who share a hospital room. Reframed pairs acclaimed filmmaker guy maddins classic first feature film with a live performance of a newly. Staring angela heck, michael gotti and kyle mcculloch. Jul 29, 2018 internationallyrenown winnipeg filmmaker guy maddin was honored saturday night at the gimli film festival. Winnipeg director guy maddin make a featured film titled tales of gimli hospital. Behind the scenes of tales from the gimli hospital. Mar 19, 2016 tales from the gimli hospital is a 1988 film directed by guy maddin. Tales from the gimli hospital, which took 18 months to complete, is his first feature film. Johnston memorial hospital gimli interlakeeastern regional health authority. The 2008 film that introduced him to international audiences, gomorrah, was a remarkable adaptation of a nonfiction book, depicting ironic and harrowing tales of italian organized crime with a kind of electrified realism. The two spin tales of love, loss and necrophilia, and mortal combat ensues, to the sound of ghostly bagpipes. Set during a smallpox epidemic in the village of gimli, manitoba, near the turn of the century, tales from the gimli hospital is a dreamlike film that explores the.
Tales from the gimli hospital 1988 rotten tomatoes. The score will be performed by a remarkable cast of icelandic string musicians and. Even at its 72minute clip, tales from the gimli hospital might strike some viewers as overlong and laborious. Tales from the gimli hospital 1988, directed by guy maddin. Guy maddin honored at gimli film festival winnipeg sun.
In conjunction with the national arts centre the winnipeg film group commissions guy maddin to create a new live soundtrack for his iconic first feature film, tales from the gimli hospital. Pages from a virgins diary, and numerous art shows, he has been consistent in his mannered absurdism. Jan 12, 2008 through seven features including tales from the gimli hospital, archangel, careful, twilight of the ice nymphs, and the saddest music in the world countless shorts, an international emmywinning television production dracula. After maddins mother sold the housestudio, maddin completed the remaining shots of the film at various locations, including his own home, over a. Tales from the gimli hospital was shot in black and white on 16 mm film and stars kyle mcculloch as einar, a lonely fisherman who contracts smallpox and begins to compete with another patient. While their mother is dying in the modern gimli, manitoba hospital, two young children are told a tale by their icelandic grandmother about einar the lonely, his friend gunnar, and the angelic snjofridur in a gimli of old. When not occupied by his pastime of cutting tree bark into fish shapes, mcculloch tells a story which implies he may have perversely sullied the memory of. Two men kyle mcculloch, michael gottli share hospital room in circa1900 smallpox epidemic. Set in the gimli hospital, the lonely einar kyle mcculloch and gunnar michael gottli are smallpox. This brought him the recognition he needed to embark on his second film, the cult hittales from the gimli hospital. It begins as a farce, and one of the tricky things about farce is its tendency to get hysterical while trying to top itself.
A classic sort of frame story devolves positively into a dreamlike. Called hospital fragment, the short blackandwhite film looks like a missing outtake from tales from the gimli hospital with newly filmed scenes with gimli stars angela heck and mike gottli. Tales from the gimli hospital by guy maddin guy maddin, kyle. Maddins tales from the gimli hospital was an immediate underground favorite when released in 1988. Canada english title tales from the gimli hospital. The gimli model fest and rc airshow is an annual rc hobby showcase, the largest in midcanada. Tales from the gimli hospital was shot in black and white on 16 mm film and stars kyle mcculloch as einar, a lonely fisherman who contracts smallpox and begins to compete with another patient, gunnar played by michael gottli for the attention of. Tales from the gimli hospital 1988 guy maddin synopsis. Guy maddin great director profile senses of cinema. Tales from the gimli hospital on dvd 795975116237 from kino video. The film cleverly uses its own lowbudget origin as a strength by revisioning the techniques of the silent film era and early. Maddins later films move more into the controversial realm so tales from the gimli hospital is a good place to begin along with my favorite, my winnipeg.
Guy maddin, a 201516 visiting lecturer at harvard, has created, over the last 30 years, countless shorts and 11 feature films, including the just completed the forbidden room, which premiered at the 2015 sundance film festival, and opened the 2015 berlin film festival forum. Tales from the gimli hospital letterboxd social film. This film played for months as a midnight movie in new york city and paved the way to perhaps his most delirious and insensible picture, archangel. For all its perversity, the movie doesnt quite sustain its oddball singularity. Tales from the gimli hospital kino lorber theatrical. While their mother is dying in the modern gimli, manitoba hospital, two young.
One maddins most successful experiments in untuned cinema. Interlakeeastern regional health authority gimli johnson. When jessica wakes up and notices her friend missing. Toles even convinced maddin that the films original title, gimli saga, was not a very good one, which eventually led to the film being titled what it was. I cant think of any specific text that says so, but in one of the versions of the quest of erebor unpublished in tolkiens lifetime, found in unfinished tales gimli is reported as saying to gandalf. With his latest, tale of tales, garrones assuredness gets the better of him. With kyle mcculloch, michael gottli, angela heck, margaret anne macleod. Tales from the gimli hospital is a 1988 film directed by guy maddin. It premieres in ottawa in june 2011 at prairie scene. Apparent rivalry follows in director guy maddins feature tales from the gimli hospital. Rent tales from the gimli hospital 1988 on dvd and bluray. Guy maddin, the distinguished filmmaker in residence at the university of manitoba, has created, over the last 30 years, countless shorts and 11 feature films, including the just completed the forbidden room, which premiered at the 2015 sundance film festival, and opened the 2015 berlin film festival forum. Was gimli aware of the hobbit name baggins when he joined. The movie begins in the style of a silent film, in sepia tones and complete.