Brand Upon The Brain!
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DVD Details
- Rated: Unrated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 39 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: August 12, 2008
- Originally Released: 2006
- Label: Criterion Collection
Performers, Cast and Crew:
| Starring | Sullivan Brown, Gretchen Krich, Maya Lawson, Erik Steffen Maahs, Katherine E. Scharhon, Eric Maahs, Catherine Scharhon & Jefferson Moore | |
| Directed by | Guy Maddin | |
| Narrated by | Isabella Rossellini & John Ashbery | |
| Screenwriting by | Guy Maddin & George Toles | |
| Composition by | Jason Staczek | |
| Produced by | Amy E. Jacobson & Gregg Lachow | |
| Director of Photography: | Benjamin Kasulke |
Entertainment Reviews:
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Narrated by Isabella Rossellini and enhanced by Jason Staczek's superb score, this is characteristically intense and, unlike most of Maddin's silent-movie models, frenetically edited.
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Chicago Reader
Rating: 3.5/4 --
... a feverishly imaginative Freudian vampire film ...
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Philadelphia Inquirer
Rating: 3/4 --
No matter how much the director disguises the tale in flickery symbolism, the emotions feel painful and personal.
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Boston Globe
It's a bizarre bildungsroman cum scare flick, with Mom as the chief villain -- Angela Lansbury in The Manchurian Candidate by way of Psycho. And like so many of Maddin's films, it's oddly and uniquely affecting.
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Stop Smiling
It's a little spastic, a little dreamy, terribly demented. . .not unlike the director himself. It's also visually and aurally stunning.
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The Tyee (British Columbia)
The Brand Upon the Brain! is a genuine work of art and not an ingenuous and ingenious joke.
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MetroActive
The second instalment of Guy Maddin's loose autobiographical trilogy may well be the maddest....Maddin fans will know what to expect from the deliriously retro staging...
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Product Description:
Guy Maddin (THE SADDEST MUSIC IN THE WORLD, MY WINNIPEG, CAREFUL) directs this moving silent satire about several families and the secrets they possess. Emotional yet thoughtful and infused with surrealist touches, the film offers an original and somewhat horrific view on the experience--the aching delicateness--of growing up. Through his unconventionally autobiographical, transcendently un-gimmicky methods, Maddin once again cuts to the core of emotional truth. The film exists in several presentations, including its original silent format as well as with several voice-over narrations from such talents as Isabella Rosselini and poet John Ashbury.
Description by Image Entertainment:
In the weird and wonderful super-cinematic 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 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.
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