It is the time of the Great Depression. In 1933, Winnipeg is declared the saddest city in the world and the local brewmaster, Lady Port-Huntly (Iabella Rossellini), senses an opportunity for profit.

For starters, it's about a contest sponsored by a bleached-blond beer baroness named Lady Port-Huntly (Isabella Rossellini) whose legs have been hacked off and are eventually replaced with leg-shaped, ...

Mannerist film antiquarian Guy Maddin takes a bold step forward with this 2003 feature, a comic/melodramatic musical enhanced by his flair for expressionist studio shooting (in grainy black and white, ...

Lunatic talent is the siren call to many an overmatched filmmaker, as a random sampling of biopics can attest—scrambled brain chemistry is too easily romanticized and lends itself to drab miserablism, ...