Brand upon the Brain!
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.
Director-Approved Special Edition Features
- New high-definition digital transfer
- 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
- English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
- PLUS: A new essay by film critic Dennis Lim
New cover by Jason Hardy
Director-Approved Special Edition Features
- New high-definition digital transfer
- 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
- English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
- PLUS: A new essay by film critic Dennis Lim
New cover by Jason Hardy
Cast
- Erik Steffen Maahs
- Grown-up Guy Maddin
- Gretchen Krich
- Mother
- Sullivan Brown
- Young Guy Maddin
- Andrew Loviska
- Savage Tom
- Kellan Larson
- Nettie
- Maya Lawson
- Sis
- Todd Jefferson Moore
- Father
- Megan Murphy
- Murderous sisters
- Annette Toutonghi
- Clara Grace Svenson
- Baby mother
- Katherine E. Scharhon
- Chance Hale/Wendy Hale
- Cathleen O’Malley
- Young mother
- Clayton Corzatte
- Old father
- Susan Corzatte
- Old mother
Credits
- Director
- Guy Maddin
- Screenplay
- Guy Maddin
- Screenplay
- George Toles
- Editing
- John Gurdebeke
- Music
- Jason Staczek
- Cinematography
- Benjamin Kasulke
- Narration written by
- Louis Negin
- Production design
- Tania Kupczak
- Additional editing
- Cheryll Hidalgo
- Costume designer
- Nina Moser
- Producer
- Amy E. Jacobson
- Producer
- Gregg Lachow
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