Short Film: Guy Maddin's NIGHT MAYOR

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Below is the latest short film from Guy Maddin called NIGHT MAYOR.

The film is about Nihad Ademi, an inventor from Bosnia who immigrates to Winnipeg. He builds, with his children, a machine called the "Telemodium" which uses the waves of Aurora Borealis to broadcast footage of "every day life for every day people." The footage is shown in different parts of Canada, coast to coast. Eventually, people begin to take to these images and start broadcasting their own, that is, until the police get involved.

The movie lasts 13 minutes and is shot in glorious black and white like his previous work of My Winnepeg a documentary about Maddin's home city. The whole style I would describe as experimental, original shot in the style of the black & white movies of the early 1900's  and this short movie is online courtesy of NFB -National Film Board of Canada and they describe the auteur as "an imaginative cinematic riff on the significance of a public film producer." Guy Maddin is very new to me and when I watched this short I got the feeling I liked what I was watching but if you asked me why I couldn't say but he is a very proud Canadian and his previous cv contains alot of Canadianesque projects, check it out Night Mayor below;

Trailer For YEAR OF THE CARNIVORE

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When you go to a film festival alot of the movies screened are without film distributors for certain countries and off course showning there movie at a particular festival can help the movie get that elusive distribution rights. Even when you do get it, sometimes you may have to wait a very long time to see the movie on a theatrical release and YEAR OF THE CARNIVORE by Sook-Yin Lee is one example of how long you have to wait.
First screened away back  September 2009 at Toronto Film Festival, the movie has now been picked up by E1 Entertainment and they have posted a full trailer online, check it out below after the break . There's no news on when it actually will be release but do expect a summer release, as for UK & Ireland no word if it'll get a release.

Extended Promo for Idris Elba in LEGACY

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The amount of people who actually thought Idris Elba was American was quite extraordinary, he's cockney London man through and through so the parts in The Wire, upcoming The Losers, 28 Weeks Later are testiment of how authentically American Elba can perceive to be, you could say the same about Eamonn Walker who he acts with in The wire and this LEGACY as he is also a Londoner.
Legacy is the duo's latest movie which had its world premiere at the Glasgow Film Festival back in February, the Scottish City that the studio Black Camel that backed the movie comes from as well as the setting for some of the Manhattan backdrops. The movie is now starting its way around the American & International festival scene and below is an extended promo trailer which gives a little more footage than the teaser and its a cross between a featurette / trailer.
I'm frustrated I couldn't get a press ticket for this movie when its screened in Glasgow as all ive heard & read is positive things. No UK or even American release date has been confirmed but hopefully later in the year the movie will get some sort of running in the cinema.