The Forbidden Room Is Like Guy Maddin’s Greatest Hits

The Forbidden Room Is Like Guy Maddin’s Greatest HitsRelatedby Kathy FennessyGuy Maddin's The Forbidden Room plays like a super cut of films from different countries, genres, and eras (but mostly the late 1920s and early 1930s). Using title cards, on-screen text in varying fonts, German Expressionist lighting, Soviet-style montage, and artificially aged digital imagery, he constructs a labyrinthine narrative that doubles as a sort of miniature film festival.Maddin begins and ends the proce