The Green Fog

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    The Green Fog
    2018

    Synopsis

    A tribute to a fascinating film shot by Alfred Hitchcock in 1958, starring James Stewart and Kim Novak, and to the city of San Francisco, California, where the magic was created; but also a challenge: how to pay homage to a masterpiece without using its footage; how to do it simply by gathering images from various sources, all of them haunted by the curse of a mysterious green fog that seems to cause irrepressible vertigo…

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      Screen Daily

      A dazzling, studious exercise in found footage excavation and reconfiguration, laced with tongue in cheek.
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      The Playlist

      Vacillating between a playful comedy and a brooding melodrama, it’s a wonderful example of how one can work within the confines of homage yet emerge with a unique work in its own right.
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      Village Voice

      It’s not so much an assemblage as it is a conjuring. You don’t just watch these clips — you see through and between them. The juxtapositions create vital, cosmic connections.
    • 80

      Time Out

      They get at the essence of Vertigo, haunting us via ghostly transmissions.
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      The Hollywood Reporter

      Even working with some of the most mainstream ingredients one could possibly find (including, in a funny moment, an NSYNC video) and one of the most familiar settings on earth, Guy Maddin knows how to make things strange.
    • 80

      Variety

      If this hour-long collage might fairly be summed up as little more than an inspired goof, of primary interest to cineastes, it’s nonetheless one whose giddy fun will hold up for such an audience through repeat viewings.
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      CineVue

      The Green Fog is part city symphony, part playful tribute; but primarily an example of pure, unadulterated cinematic delirium.
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      Los Angeles Times

      It is, in effect, a scrambled history of San Francisco told through moving pictures, a record of the social and architectural changes the city has endured over more than a century.

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