Cinema Scope

The Green Fog

That Guy Maddin’s feature-length follow-up to his most monumental work to date—the staggering mise en abyme of (2013)—would be a 63-minute, found-footage video reimagining of Alfred Hitchcock’s (1958), is entirely apropos (and a rather Maddin-esque sleightof- hand) when one considers the fanfare with which was unveiled: as the closing-night event of the San Francisco International Film Festival’s 60th anniversary, with a score composed by Jacob Garchik and performed live by the Kronos Quartet. Certainly, when taken in the context of a decades-long career, the project is less immediately an impressive object. But at the same time, despite preconceptions of what such a project should normally be—a rhapsodic tribute to San Francisco, methodical archival exercise, or staid academic treatise—it’s not one so easily compartmentalized, nor one beholden to any single notion of “quality.”

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