Guy Maddin

Born in Winnipeg, Guy Maddin is best known as a cult filmmaker of movies that borrow the aesthetic and sound of 1920s and ’30s cinema, including Brand upon the Brain! and The Saddest Music in the World. “To enter the world of Guy Maddin,” Roger Ebert wrote in one review, “is to understand how a film can be created entirely by its style, and how its style can create a world that never existed before, and lure us, at first bemused and then astonished, into it.”