Brand upon the brain! : a remembrance in 12 chapters
Title:
Brand upon the brain! : a remembrance in 12 chapters
ISBN:
9781604650556
Publication Information:
South Burlington, V.T. : Criterion Collection, 2008
Physical Description:
1 videodisc (99 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet ([12] pages ; illustrations ; 19 cm.)
Series:
General Note:
Originally produced as motion picture in 2006.
Special features: narration tracks by Isabella Rossellini, Laurie Anderson, John Ashberry, Crispin Glover, Guy Maddin, Louis Negin, and Eli Wallach ; "97 percent true" documentary featuring interviews with the director and his collaborators; "Footsteps" short film; "It's my mother's birthday today" short film; Deleted scene; Original theatrical trailer; essay "Out of the past" by film critic Dennis Lim.
Contents:
Going home -- Black notch memories -- Interlude : the aerophone -- Dark schedule -- Wendy's chance -- To find another Wendy! -- The undressing gloves -- Butter on the wall -- A moaning heap of flesh -- An un-funeral -- A secret grove -- New regime -- The return of his spring!
More Information:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0443455
Summary:
This eerie excursion into the Gothic recesses of Maddin's mad, imaginary childhood is a nightmare set in a lighthouse on grim Notch Island, where fictional protagonist Maddin was raised by an ironfisted, puritanical mother.
System Details:
DVD; REGION 1, ANAMORPHIC WIDESCREEN (1.85:1) ASPECT RATIO, DOLBY 2.0 STEREO SOUND (MUSIC), DUAL LAYER, NTSC.
Language Note:
SILENT FILM; ENGLISH SUBTITLES (SDH) AVAILABLE FOR THE DEAF AND HARD OF HEARING.
