DRACULA: PAGES FROM A VIRGIN'S DIARY   Director: Guy Maddin Year: 2002 Runtime: 73 min. Country: Canada Language: English Color: B&W, Color Format: DVD

After garnering widespread acclaim with his mini-masterpiece The Heart of the World, Canadian cult auteur Guy Maddin has concocted his most ravishingly stylized cinematic creation to date. Beautifully transposing the Royal Winnipeg Ballet's interpretation of Bram Stoker's classic vampire yarn from stage to screen, Maddin has forged a sumptuous, erotically charged feast of dance, drama and shadow. The black-and-white, blood-red-punctured Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary is a Gothic grand guignol of the notorious Count and his bodice-ripped victims, fringed with the expressionistic strains of Gustav Mahler. "May be the finest film adaptation of Bram Stoker's novel yet made. It's hard to imagine how this lush, gorgeously expressionistic fantasia could possibly be improved." — Mike D'Angelo, Time Out New York "Both rapturously beautiful and ecstatically odd! A radiant, flaked-out hybrid of disparate art forms that shocks, then seduces, then wows. So many scenes are indelible! Full of unexpected poetry." — Amy Biancolli, indieWIRE     showtime Thursday, September 23 at 7 pm location Nevada Museum of Art - Prim Theater 160 West Liberty Street admission $6 general / $4 GBFS or NMA members

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