https://mrqe.com Mon, 20 Apr 2026 16:32:37 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 https://mrqe.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/MRQE-favicon-1.png https://mrqe.com 32 32 https://mrqe.com/movie/careful-m100014226/ Sat, 23 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/careful-m100014226/ In the remote Alpine village of Tolzbad at the turn of the century, people talk quietly and restrain their movements lest avalanches come and kill them. This atmosphere lends itself to repressed emotions – shown through the parallel stories of butler student Johann lusting after his mother (an old flame of the mysterious Count Knotkers) and Klara’s attraction to her father (who lusts after his other daughter), leading to duels and suicidal plunges galore. All this is shot in the style of an early German sound film, complete with intertitles, deliberately crackly soundtrack and ‘hand-tinted’ colour effects.

]]> https://mrqe.com/movie/keyhole-m100095863/ Sun, 24 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/keyhole-m100095863/ Gangster and deadbeat dad, Ulysses Pick, embarks on an unusual journey through his home.

]]> https://mrqe.com/movie/footsteps-m100059198/ Sat, 30 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/footsteps-m100059198/ Short documentary revealing how the sound effects were created for Maddin’s film “Brand Upon the Brain”.

]]> https://mrqe.com/movie/my-winnipeg-m100037585/ Sat, 30 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/my-winnipeg-m100037585/ The geographical dead center of North America and the beloved birthplace of Guy Maddin, Winnipeg, is the frosty and mysterious star of Maddins film. Fact, fantasy and memory are woven seamlessly together in this work, conjuring a city as delightful as it is fearsome.

]]> https://mrqe.com/movie/brand-upon-the-brain-a-remembrance-in-12-chapters-m100005770/ Sat, 30 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/brand-upon-the-brain-a-remembrance-in-12-chapters-m100005770/ Guy and his sister grow up on an island. His domineering mother keeps watch over everything from the tip of a lighthouse, his eccentric father experiments in the basement laboratory. Then there are the orphans, on whose heads the adoptive parents later find puzzling wounds. Another brother and sister pair is sent to the island: the Lightball Kids, two detectives that are meant to bring light into the darkness. The brothers and sisters are all yanked into the emotional roller coaster of first love, while something cryptic comes to light in the parents’ house.

]]> https://mrqe.com/movie/my-dad-is-100-years-old-m100054291/ Sat, 30 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/my-dad-is-100-years-old-m100054291/ A tribute to Isabella Rossellini’s father

]]> https://mrqe.com/movie/the-saddest-music-in-the-world-m100008929/ Sat, 23 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/the-saddest-music-in-the-world-m100008929/ In Depression-era Winnipeg, a legless beer baroness hosts a contest for the saddest music in the world, offering a grand prize of $25,000.

]]> https://mrqe.com/movie/cowards-bend-the-knee-or-the-blue-hands-m100057965/ Sat, 23 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/cowards-bend-the-knee-or-the-blue-hands-m100057965/ When he takes his girlfriend to a seedy abortion clinic in the back room of a combination hair salon / bordello, Guy Maddin meets the madams daughter and falls in love. But she wont let any man touch her until her fathers murder has been avenged.

]]> https://mrqe.com/movie/dracula-pages-from-a-virgins-diary-m100060517/ Sat, 30 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/dracula-pages-from-a-virgins-diary-m100060517/ A cinematic version of the Royal Winnipeg Ballet’s adaptation of Bram Stoker’s gothic novel Dracula. Filmed in a style reminiscent of silent Expressionist cinema of the early 20th century (complete with intertitles and monochrome photography), it uses dance to tell the story of a sinister but intriguing immigrant who preys upon young English women.

]]> https://mrqe.com/movie/the-heart-of-the-world-m100065482/ Sat, 30 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/the-heart-of-the-world-m100065482/ Pure fantasia, a race to save the world from a fatal heart attack, juxtaposed against a love rivalry between two brothers – a mortician and an actor playing Christ – for the heart of a scientist studying the earth’s core.

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