Brand Upon The Brain! - The Criterion Collection (DVD)
APPROX. 99 MINS. - PROD. YEAR: 2006 - MPA RATING: NR
DVD Specifications
| Release date: | Aug 12, 2008 |
|---|---|
| Studio: | Criterion |
| Year: | 2006 |
| Video: |
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1 Anamorphic - Enhanced for Widescreen TVs. |
| Audio: |
English: Dolby Digital 2.0 |
| Genre: | Drama, Fantasy |
| Subtitles: | English |
Special Features
- New high-definition digital transfer (film features both B&W and Color content)
- Narration tracks by Isabella Rossellini, Laurie Anderson, John Ashbery, Guy Maddin, Louis Negin, and Eli Wallach
- 97 Percent True, a new documentary featuring interviews with the director and his collaborators
- Two new short films directed by Maddin exclusively for this release: It's My Mother’s Birthday Today and Footsteps
- Deleted scene
- Trailer
- PLUS: A new essay by film critic Dennis Lim
Synopsis
"Nutterly Wonderful! One of the 10 Best Films of the year. Delirious, ingenious, often very funny, and strangely touching." - The New York Times
"Uproariously funny, and surprisingly touching. A Magical Experience." - Irish Times
In the weird and wonderful supercinematic world of Canadian cult filmmaker Guy Maddin, personal memory collides with movie lore for a radical sensory overload. This eerie excursion into the Gothic recesses of Maddin’s mad, imaginary childhood is a silent, black-and-white comic science-fiction nightmare set in a lighthouse on grim Black Notch Island, where fictional protagonist Guy Maddin was raised by an ironfisted, puritanical mother.
Originally mounted as a theatrical event (accompanied by live orchestra, Foley artists, and assorted narrators), Brand upon the Brain! is an irreverent, delirious trip into the mind of one of current cinema’s true eccentrics.
Cast & Crew
Criterion
presents
Susan CorzatteMegan MurphyAnnette ToutonghiIsabella RosselliniClara Grace SvensonMaya LawsonKatherine E. ScharhonErik Steffen MaahsClayton CorzatteGretchen KrichSullivan BrownTodd MooreAndrew Loviska
"Brand Upon The Brain! - The Criterion Collection"
Written byGuy MaddinWritten byGeorge Tolesproduced byAmy Jacobson
produced byGregg Lachow
produced byJody Shapiro
directed byGuy Maddin
Production Year: 2006
"Brand Upon The Brain! - The Criterion Collection"
Written byGuy MaddinWritten byGeorge Tolesproduced byAmy Jacobson
produced byGregg Lachow
produced byJody Shapiro
directed byGuy Maddin
Production Year: 2006
