- Country: USA
- Genres: Fantasy
- Release: 2008-06-06
- Director: Benjamin Meade
- Writers: Bill Pryor
- Language: English
- Stars: Lydia Lunch , Kevin Wohler , Jessica Fahey , Shelly Jennings , Blaise Mank , Jordy Altman , Justin Bauer , Jonathan Dalbe
- Runtime: min
- Awards: N/A
- AKA: Death of the Reel , Death of the Reel (United States of America)
- Plot:
Guy Maddin flies to Kansas City, Missouri, in a vain attempt to save cinema as it continues to die from contempt and neglect. The tongue-in-cheek project begins in a Winnipeg bar where filmmaker Guy Maddin (played by, yes, Guy Maddin) reads a newspaper article declaring the death of cinema in the United States. He decides to ride - or fly - to the rescue. The idea is that the young people have been zombified by their iPhones and iPods and have become celluloid illiterates who watch postage stamp-sized movies on tiny screens. Maddin comes to Kansas to save cinema.
- IMDB:tt1133522
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