Canadian filmmaker Guy Maddin's idiosyncratic, surreal, and often very funny works are often cited for their silent film sensibilities. Often compared to David Lynch's early works, Maddin's films are bizarre and post-modern, frequently including themes of unrequited love, murder, homoeroticism, inces

Absurd, Atmospheric, Homoerotic, Monochromatic, Silent film, Surreal, Surrealist film

At first you ask yourself, "Is this MTV?" The jerky camera movements seem strangely familiar, but then, things get funny. Really funny. You settle into your seat, one hand in your popcorn and the other around your sweetie, and enjoy "Mad Cows." This amusing, "family-fun" movie was written and directe

Bright, Funny, Playful, Quirky

When people look at Joan Chen, an irresistible urge to see her as the perfect china doll overcomes them, whether they are Chinese themselves or hail from the West. Chen's lifelong battle has been to act her way out of that porcelain persona, and to wrest the director's chair from the hands of those w

Intense, Pathos, Pioneering, Political, Sexy

Guy Debord was born in Paris. His father died early, and he was raised by his grandmother in a series of Mediterranean towns. He was a headstrong youth, and after graduating high school he dropped out of the University of Paris where he had been studying law. He became a revolutionary poet, writer an

Deconstructive, Political, Social revolution