Guy Maddin on L’âge d’or:

Guy Maddin on L’âge d’or: “I stumbled across it up here in Canada. The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the French network, used to run silent movies on Sunday night. For some reason, I was in the habit of tuning into the French channel because they also ran a lot of nudity. It was something you kept trying to dial on your TV like a slot machine, just to see what kind of jackpot you could hit on the French channel. Every now and then, it was remarkable what you could come across. This is what I came across one night. Yeah, it literally is like a slot machine sitting in the corner of your living room, and when you were alone, you would just go over there and spin the channel selector and hope it comes up cherries or whatever. It was a tradition that I’d forgotten about until just now.”