{"id":7431,"date":"2011-08-30T12:54:53","date_gmt":"2011-08-30T19:54:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.candlelightstories.com\/?p=7431"},"modified":"2011-08-30T12:56:28","modified_gmt":"2011-08-30T19:56:28","slug":"send-me-to-the-lectric-chair-short-film-by-guy-maddin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/2011\/08\/30\/send-me-to-the-lectric-chair-short-film-by-guy-maddin\/","title":{"rendered":"Send Me to the &#8216;Lectric Chair: Short Film by Guy Maddin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Canadian filmmaker <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Guy_Maddin\">Guy Maddin<\/a> made this short in 2009 with Isabella Rossellini in the lead role of a woman who finds ecstasy in an electric chair. The film moves beautifully with its music and entertains with its silent film mystery and accelerated movement. However, I will say that Maddin&#8217;s films seem to me overly concerned with silent film technique. This tends to turn the films into curiosities rather than genuine works of art. That&#8217;s a tricky area because the films put so much virtuosity on display. But you can hide enormous failures behind that &#8216;old film look.&#8217; I&#8217;m not sure that&#8217;s what Maddin is doing, but my suspicions are growing. Maddin might be interested at some point in working with less budget.<\/p>\n<div class=\"media\"><object width=\"580\" height=\"465\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/UYZJ09dSSRQ?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed width=\"580\" height=\"465\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/UYZJ09dSSRQ?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" wmode=\"transparent\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/div>\n<p>Thank you to filmmaker <a href=\"http:\/\/fredlepee.posterous.com\/\">Fred. L&#8217;Ep\u00e9e<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canadian filmmaker Guy Maddin made this short in 2009 with Isabella Rossellini in the lead role of a woman who finds ecstasy in an electric chair. The film moves beautifully with its music and entertains with its silent film mystery and accelerated movement. However, I will say that Maddin&#8217;s films seem to me overly concerned [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1081,114,116,1349,1458],"tags":[1822,2028],"class_list":["post-7431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-avant-garde-film","category-film","category-film-comment","category-independent-film","category-short-films","tag-guy-maddin","tag-isabella-rossellini"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7431"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7437,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7431\/revisions\/7437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}