The Criterion Collection: Brand Upon The Brain!

Synopsis

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.

Special Features:

• New, restored high-definition digital transfer
• Optional narration tracks by Isabella Rossellini, Laurie Anderson, John Ashbery, Crispin Glover, Guy Maddin, Louis Negin, and Eli Wallach
• The Making of Brand upon the Brain! - A new documentary featuring interviews with the director and crew members
• Two new short films directed by Maddin: It's My Mother’s Birthday Today and Footsteps
• Deleted scene
• Trailer
• PLUS: A new essay by film critic Dennis Lim

Release Audio

• Dolby Digital Stereo (English)

Additional Info

• Release Languages: English
• Length: 99 mins
• Certificate: NR
• Encoding: NTSC
• No. of Discs: 1
• Aspect Ratio: 1.85
• Format: DVD - Custom
• Interactive Menus: Yes
• Scene Selection: Yes