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Wednesday, January 31, 2001

This music wasn’t ready back in 1973, but it’s exactly the right vintage now

"Winnipeg is a Siberia, a skagway, a vast plain of ice. Its only hill is a mountain of garbageŃ50 years' worth of civilian refuseŃwhich in the winter children use for toboggan sliding. But sledding can be dangerous, for from this hill the permafrost pushes up odd items buried by our ancestors; I was once impaled there by the very same stag antlers my father had thrown out two decades earlier."

Village Voice. In Winnipeg, Guy Maddin tells with charm and bite a curious story, centering around how he smuggled a Super-8 camera onto the set of an Osmonds movie to film his own $500 version of the $5 million movie. '

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