Stump the Guesser
2020 Canadian film
- February 25, 2020 (2020-02-25) (Berlinale)
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Stump the Guesser is a Canadian short film by Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson and Galen Johnson, which was released in 2020.[1] A silent black-and-white film based on early Soviet cinema tropes, it stars Adam Brooks as a man who works as a guesser at the fair, but whose mindreading tricks suddenly begin to fail him; simultaneously, he meets a long-lost sister he never knew he had and falls in love with her, and sets out to disprove the theory of heredity in hopes of being able to marry her.[2]
The film premiered on February 25, 2020 at the 70th Berlin International Film Festival.[3]
The film was named to the Toronto International Film Festival's year-end Canada's Top Ten list for short films in 2020.[4]
References
- ^ Leonard Pearce, "NYFF’s Inaugural Currents Lineup Features Intrepid Filmmaking Voices from Around the World". The Film Stage, August 24, 2020.
- ^ Mindy Bond, "Canadian Auteur Guy Maddin World Premiering New Film at 2020 Berlinale". The Culture Files, February 25, 2020.
- ^ Manon Dumais, "Philippe Falardeau ouvrira la 70e Berlinale". Le Devoir, January 25, 2020.
- ^ Victoria Ahearn, "Toronto International Film Festival releases Top Ten lists for 2020". Squamish Chief, December 9, 2020.
External links
- Stump the Guesser at IMDb
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Guy Maddin
- Tales from the Gimli Hospital (1988)
- Archangel (1990)
- Careful (1992)
- Twilight of the Ice Nymphs (1997)
- Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary (2002)
- Cowards Bend the Knee (2003)
- The Saddest Music in the World (2003)
- Brand upon the Brain! (2006)
- My Winnipeg (2007)
- Keyhole (2011)
- The Forbidden Room (2015)
- The Green Fog (2017)
- Rumours (2024)
- Accidence
- Bring Me the Head of Tim Horton
- The Dead Father
- The Heart of the World
- The Little White Cloud That Cried
- Night Mayor
- Odilon Redon, or The Eye Like a Strange Balloon Mounts Toward Infinity
- Nude Caboose
- Seances
- Sissy Boy Slap Party
- Stump the Guesser
- Evan Johnson
- Galen Johnson
- Louis Negin
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