Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

Cowards bend the knee [videorecording] / Zeitgeist Films and the Power Plant present ; written and directed by Guy Maddin ; produced by Philip Monk.

Edition:

Standard format.

Publisher, Date:

New York : Zeitgeist Films, 2005, c2003.

Description:

1 videodisc : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Summary:

Guy Maddin, hockey player for the Winnipeg Maroons, takes his pregnant girlfriend to a beauty salon that moonlights as an abortion clinic and leaves her (mid-procedure) for the salon owner's daughter. He then discovers that his new girlfriend can't be with a man until she avenges her father's murder.

Target Audience Note:

Not rated Zeitgeist Films.

Subjects:

Man-woman relationships -- Drama.

Murder -- Drama.

Abortion services -- Drama.

Beauty operators -- Drama.

Hockey players -- Drama.

Film noir.

Other Author:

Fehr, Darcy, 1974-

Dionisio, Melissa.

Birtwhistle, Tara.

Mogatas, Henry.

Maddin, Guy. 1956-

Monk, Philip, 1950-

Gurdebeke, John.

Zeitgeist Films.

Power Plant (Art gallery)

Other Title:

Also known as: Blue hands.

Notes:

Adapted from a ten-part peephole installation released in 2003.

Special features: audio commentary by Guy Maddin ; Love-Chaunt workbooks ; behind-the-scenes for The brand upon the brain ; photo archive ; artistic statement ; chracter sketches ; missing script excerpt ; essay "A note on hands".

Photographer, Guy Maddin ; editor, John Gurdebeke.

Darcy Fehr, Melissa Dionisio, Tara Birtwhistle, Henry Mogatas.

DVD; region 1.

Silent with English intertitles.

Contents:

ch. 1. Sperm players -- ch. 2. A squeeze of the hand -- ch. 3. Upon a pile of hockey gloves -- ch. 3. Meta's bedroom -- ch. 5. Fisty -- ch. 6. Wax Tryst -- ch. 7. The blue hands of vengeance -- ch. 8. Another wax tryst -- ch. 9. Hands off! -- ch. 10. The furies.

Publisher Number:

Z1068

Other Number:

61680178

System Availability:

1

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

1

Control Number:

256278

# Local items in:

1

# System items in:

1

Call Number:

DVD MOVIE Cowards

Medium:

[videorecording]