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The Film Company
Directed by: Guy Maddin
Featuring: Erik Steffen Maahs, Gretchen Krich, Sullivan Brown, Andrew Loviska, Kellan Larson, Maya Lawson
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.
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Format:
DVD
Disc:
DVD-9 (1 Disc)
Total: 1 Disc
Regions:
1 (DVD)
Aspect Ratio:
1.85:1
Audio Options:
English Dolby Digital Stereo 2.0
Resolution:
1080p/24
Subtitles:
English
Supplements
Types of Supplements Included: Alternate Soundtrack, Documentary, Short Film, Deleted Scenes, Theatrical Trailer, Booklet
- 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
- Booklet featuring a new essay by film critic Dennis Lim
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Release Credits
Producer: Kate Elmore
Artwork: Jason Hardy
Release Notes on Restoration
Brand Upon the Brain!
Brand Upon the Brain! is presented in its original aspect ratio of 1.85:1. Black bars at the top and bottom of the screen are normal for this format. This new high-definition digital transfer was created on a Spirit 4K from a 35mm duplicate negative. To maintain optimal image quality through the compression process, the picture on this dual-layer DVD-9 was encoded at the highest-possible bit rate for the quantity of material included.
The soundtrack was mastered at 24-bit from the original digital stereo soundtrack.
The soundtrack was mastered at 24-bit from the original digital stereo soundtrack.