Guy maddin the forbidden room

Ever since he first burst upon the scene in with his hypnotic debut feature &#;Tales from the Gimli Hospital,&#; Guy Maddin has been one of those filmmakers whose new work I most eagerly look forward to seeing.

In a time when most movies are little more than filmed deals that can spend millions of dollars on elaborate special effects sequences that fade from the mind almost as soon as they play out, he has created some of the most bizarre, hilarious, haunting and memorable imagery that I have ever seen in a film—who could forget the sight of beer baroness Isabella Rossellini standing upon artificial legs filled with her own product in &#;The Saddest Music in the World,&#; or the horses stuck in the middle of a frozen river in &#;My Winnipeg&#;?

Even if the films themselves do not entirely work as a whole (not that this happens very often), one can always be certain that one or two moments that will go straight into your movie memory bank.

His latest film is &#;The Forbidden Room,&#