Guy Maddin’s new film with Evan and Galen Johnson, Rumours, starring Cate Blanchett, Charles Dance and Alicia Vikander, is out now through Bleecker Street. He has directed 13 feature-length movies in a career spanning more than 30 years. For the past decade, he has worked exclusively in directorial partnership with Evan and Galen Johnson, creating The Forbidden Room (2015), The Green Fog (2017), and the internet interactive Seances (2016). During his solo helming years, Maddin mounted around the world over seventy performances of his films, Cowards Bend the Knee (2002), Brand Upon the Brain (2006) and My Winnipeg (2007) in productions featuring live elements – orchestra, sound effects, song and narration. His screenplay and film-story collaborators include Nobel Laureate Kazuo Ishiguro and poet John Ashbery. In America, his movies Archangel (1990) and The Heart of the World (2000) won National Society of Film Critics Awards for Best Experimental Film.
