Even the blandest, most benighted hamlet, if it happens to be the place where you first met the world, is myth and magic. It's the map of a hidden self, for better or worse. Usually, somehow, worse.

"My Winnipeg" is filmmaker Guy Maddin's touching goodbye letter to his Canadian hometown. As such, you might expect tenderness, nostalgia, tears. You'll get some of those, but you'll also laugh and at ...

Guy Maddin calls his “My Winnipeg” a “docu-fantasia,” and there’s no reason not to take him at his word. This haunting phantasmagoria of a film -- comic, singular, surreal -- is not only something no ...

The Manitoba city of Winnipeg looms large in the imagination of its most famous filmmaking son, Guy Maddin. So it’s only natural that Maddin make a tribute to his hometown. Tribute? Well, something ...

My Winnipeg—Canadian hyper-fabulist Guy Maddin’s time-out-of-mind “docu-fantasia” about his provincial hometown—makes its U.S. premiere at Tribeca before seeing a wider release in June. Maddin spoke ...

[EDITOR’S NOTE: Guy Maddin’s “My Winnipeg” is screening at the 7th Tribeca Film Festival, currently underway. IFC First Take will release the film in theaters beginning in June in the U.S.] “My ...

Guy Maddin's "My Winnipeg" is a wonderfully weird mock documentary with dashes of hallucinatory images and pieces of dreams from the cutting-room floor. Although Maddin's voiceover tells us he is ...

A multilayered journey through the hometown in his head, Guy Maddin's "My Winnipeg" is a vigorous caprice of fact and fiction. A multilayered journey through the hometown in his head, Guy Maddin’s “My ...

Watching Guy Maddin’s My Winnipeg is like experiencing a restless night’s sleep; lingering on the edge of consciousness, barraged by an endless loop of imagery that almost makes sense, all the while ...

TORONTO -- "Docu-fantasia" is too mild a label for Guy Maddin's simultaneously heartfelt and mocking ode to the hometown he describes as the coldest, most soporific city on Earth. By The Associated ...