Three By Guy

Back in NYC. Things to do here, but still no real word as to what and when, so I'm in a holding pattern - I want to get back up to Maine again for a little more time, but I need to have things firmed up here first.

I now have a bit of a backlog of things I've wanted to post, so it'll be a lot of videos and photos this week that have been itching to get out of my Flickr and YouTube accounts and onto the blog.

Today I watched Guy Maddin's The Saddest Music in the World again, and liked it even more than I did on my two previous viewings. It's the first feature of his where his amazing style and the content just all come together for me and I can enjoy the film all the way through, rather than just getting tired of it after the first third or so. Not this one - when it was over I just wanted to restart again.

But rather than go that way, I watched the short films by Maddin included on the disk as well, two of which are also wonderful - Sissy Boy Slap Party and Sombra Dolorosa, and it made me look to YouTube to see if his other great short, The Heart of the World, could be found there. Yup. So here are those three wonderful shorts by Guy (which, Canadian though he is, turns out to rhyme with "by" and not "three") Maddin:

The Heart of the World

Sissy Boy Slap Party

Sombra Dolorosa

Enjoy.