The Saddest Music in the World   Film/Video REGIONAL PREMIERE THE SADDEST MUSIC IN THE WORLD WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2004, 8 PM $7 ($5 WALKER MEMBERS) AUDITORIUM   Maddin's newest film is fresh from its premiere at the Sundance Film Festival. Set in 1933, the height of the Great Depression, the story follows beer baroness Lady Port-Huntley (Isabella Rossellini) who, in order to boost sales, announces a global competition to determine the saddest music in the world. Musicians from every corner of the globe, including Siam, Mexico, and Scotland, flock to wintry Winnipeg--the world capital of sorrow--to vie for the colossal $25,000 prize. Adapting an original screenplay by Kazuo Ishiguro, Booker Prize-winning author of The Remains of the Day, Maddin uses tantalizing black-and-white imagery in the style of a Golden Age musical melodrama to create a visually rapturous, appallingly funny tour de force. The Saddest Music in the World, resplendent with battles of passions, fears, all-consuming love, and devastation, is a feast for the senses driven by vintage Maddin rhythms. 2003, Canada, BW/color, 35mm, 99 minutes. PAGES FROM A FILMMAKER'S DIARY: A FILM RETROSPECTIVE AND REGIS DIALOGUE WITH GUY MADDIN IS MADE POSSIBLE BY GENEROUS SUPPORT FROM THE REGIS FOUNDATION. SPECIAL THANKS TO IFC FILMS FOR THE PRINT OF THE SADDEST MUSIC IN THE WORLD.