Brand Upon the Brain!

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Wonderfully weird filmmaker Guy Maddin's Brand Upon the Brain will enjoy a series of showings in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago and New York over the next month. Brand Upon the Brain! In which the shocking truth is finally revealed about young Guy Maddin and his hellish childhood on a remote island, under the hyper-watchful eye of a crazed mother hellbent on restoring her youth and a diabolically distant scientist-father, proprietors of a mom-and-pop orphanage they surreptitiously operate within the dank confines of the family lighthouse. Watch! as the sex instinct grabs hold of young Maddin and his sister! Thrill! as the Mysteries of the Light House are divined by teen detectives! Reel! at the headstrong invention and heart-stopping rhythms of the elder Maddinıs heroic silent moviemaking!!As if the chaotic and silently surreal landscape of Brand Upon the Brain isn't enough, Maddin has enlisted a gang of rotating, live narrators including Crispin Glover, Lou Reed, John Ashbery, and Isabella Rosellini. To top it all off, audiences will be treated to the enlivening sounds of a castrato, an orchestra, and several foley artists.

The first showing kicks off in San Francisco tonight. A list of showings through June 10 follows below the trailer.



Narrators by city:

San Francisco screening (at Castro Theater):

05-07 Joan Chen (8 p.m.)

New York screenings (at Village East Cinemas):

05-09 Crispin Glover (7 p.m. and 9:30 p.m.)
05-10 Anne Jackson (7 p.m.)
05-10 Eli Wallach (9:30 p.m.)
05-11 Joie Lee (7 p.m.)
05-11 Crispin Glover (9:30 p.m.)
05-12 Laurie Anderson (7 p.m.)
05-12 Lou Reed (9:30 p.m.)
05-13 Justin Bond (3 p.m.)
05-13 John Ashbery (7 p.m.)
05-13 Tunde Adebimpe (9:30 p.m.)
05-14 Edward Hibbert (7 p.m.)
05-14 Peter Scarlet (9:30 p.m.)
05-15 Isabella Rossellini (7 p.m. and 9:30 p.m.)

Chicago screenings (at Music Box Theatre):

05-18 Crispin Glover (7:30 p.m.)
05-19 Crispin Glover (2:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.)
05-20 Crispin Glover (2:30 p.m.)

Los Angeles screenings (at Egyptian Theatre):

06-08 TBA (7:30 p.m.)
06-09 TBA (7 p.m. and 9:30 p.m.)
06-10 TBA (7:30 p.m.)

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