Watch My Winnipeg. It's beautifully directed, nostalgic, funny, sad, clever and little bit mad. I absolutely loved it. I liked the use of puppets and the blending of past and present footage. It doesn't really have a story line as such as it's a kind of pseudo documentary about Maddin's Winnipeg. The film centres around Maddins desire to leave sleepwalking Winnipeg but how it's magnetic attraction keeps him from leaving. He decides that maybe he can film his way out, and thus escape Winnipeg. So Maddin sub lets his old house in Winnipeg for 1 month and re-enacts scenes from his childhood hiring actors to play his brothers, sister and dog. In terms of directorial style I would say that it's most similar to early David Lynch and some parts are a bit Michael Gondry-esk, only better than both, well in my opinion anyway. It's easily the best film I've seen for ages :)
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You can watch the trailer here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aY9BtROpNQ4
I also recommend going through old family photo albums. Looking through all the photos reminded me of how much I love my family and miss living in Holland loads. They inspired me to create a mobile using some old film slides that my parents took when were my age
I used a photo of Mum, a rose, another flower that I can't classify and a photo of Mum and Dad :) I then made a small hole in the top and bottom of the slides and then attached them together using cotton and hung them up in the window, lovely :)
I am looking forward to going over to Richs later to play scrabble and left 4 dead. I am less enthusiastic about latter, I'm terrible at xbox. But I'm up for killing things, which I guess the game will involve.
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