The Winnipeg Free Press
Prominent American film critic Roger Ebert has selected Guy Maddin’s documentary My Winnipeg as one of his Top 10 films of the decade.
"This is the story of everyone’s home town," Ebert wrote on Dec. 30.
"Guy Maddin’s films are like a silent movie dreaming it can speak. No frame of his work could be mistaken for anyone else’s."
Commissioned by Canada’s Documentary Channel and commercially released in 2008, My Winnipeg has garnered raves in Canada, the U.S., England and France.
The Associated Press also placed it in its Top 10 list for the decade.
The Winnipeg-born Maddin, 53, has made almost 30 features and short films since 1986. His body of work, noted for its homage to early 20th-century film styes, is highly regarded in the highbrow cinematic world.
Ebert, 67, is probably the best-known U.S. film critic currently working. Syndicated in some 200 newspapers, he has spent his career with the Chicago Sun-Times.
He and his fellow Chicago reviewer, the late Gene Siskel, pushed film criticism in to the mainstream with their long-running TV show, which debuted in 1975.
http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/2009/12/the_best_films_of_the_decade.html
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