Brand upon the brain! [videorecording] : a remembrance in 12 chapters / The Film Company ; produced by Amy Jacobson and Gregg Lachow ; written by Guy Maddin and George Toles ; directed by Guy Maddin.
97 percent true. It's my mother's birthday today. Footsteps.
Notes:
Erik Steffen Maahs, Gretchen Krich, Sullivan Brown, Andrew Loviska, Kellan Larson. DVD release of the 2006 motion picture. Director-approved special edition features: narration tracks by Isabella Rossellini, Laurie Anderson, John Ashberry, Crispin Glover, 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 ; a new essay by film critic Dennis Lim.
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.
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