| Description |
1 videodisc (64 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.. |
| Series |
Quintessential Guy Maddin!
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| Note |
Originally produced as a motion picture in 2003. |
| System Details |
DVD, region 1, NTSC ; full screen (1.33:1) presentation. |
| Cast |
Darcy Fehr, Melissa Dionisio, Tara Birtwhistle, Henry Mogatas, Amy Stewart, Louis Negin, Mike Bell, David Stuart Evans. |
| Credits |
Editor, John Gurdebeke. |
| Note |
Special features: Audio commentary Guy Maddin ; Love-Chaunt workbooks : four short film blueprints from a lost Maddin feature and audition reels ; Behind-the-scenes look at "Cowards" companion piece "Brand upon the brain!" ; Vintage beauty shop & hockey photos from Maddin's personal collection. |
| Audience |
Not rated. |
| Summary |
Guy Maddin, hockey player for the Winnipeg Maroons, takes his pregnant girlfriend to a beauty salon that moonlights as an abortion clinic and leaves her (mid-procedure) for the salon owner's daughter. He then discovers that his new girlfriend can't be with a man until she avenges her father's murder. |
| Language |
Silent with English intertitles. |
| Note |
GMD: videorecording. |
| Subject |
Man-woman relationships -- Drama.
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Murder -- Drama.
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Abortion services -- Drama.
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Beauty operators -- Drama.
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Hockey players -- Drama.
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| Genre/Form |
Feature films.
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Silent films.
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| Added Author |
Maddin, Guy, 1956-
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Fehr, Darcy, 1974-
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Dionisio, Melissa.
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Birtwhistle, Tara.
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Mogatas, Henry.
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Monk, Philip, 1950-
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Gurdebeke, John.
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Stewart, Amy.
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Negin, Louis.
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Bell, Mike.
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Zeitgeist Films.
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| Standard No. |
795975113236 (set box) |
| Music No. |
Z1132 Zeitgeist Films (set box) |
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Z1068 Zeitgeist Films |
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