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Brand
Upon the Brain!
Saturday October 13, 7:00 p.m.
CInema 21
Directed by Guy Maddin
Canada, USA, 96 Minutes
www.branduponthebrain.com
Special
Live
Performance featuring Karen Black!
Brand
Upon
the
Brain! is
a
live
event,
featuring
an
orchestra,
a
foley
(sound
effects
performed
onstage)
team,
and
narrator Karen Black,
to
comprise
a
one-of-a
kind
cinematic
spectacle.
Tickets
for
this
event
are
$25.
Platinum
and
Full
pass
holders
must
pick
up
advance
tickets
at
will
call
to
guarantee
admission
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“One of the year’s 10 best films. Mr. Maddin has ransacked film
history and his own delirious imagination to create a work like
none other: a silently shot film about a man who, on revisiting
his childhood home, hurtles unto a past where orphan children,
coy lesbian lovers, and a mad scientist converge. Delightful!”
- Manohla Dargis, New York Times
"A psychosexually inflamed fusion of childhood reminiscence,
Victorian melodrama, Freudian horror film and
gender-bending Nancy Drew adventure…"
- Cliff Doerksen, Time Out Chicag0
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Surreal,
satiric and surprisingly
touching, Brand
Upon the Brain!
looks at the secret
lives of families
in a work that
is equal parts
childhood
reminiscence,
Expressionist
horror movie,
and teen detective
serial.
Brand
Upon the Brain! is a dark fairy
tale of a boy
and his sister
who
live on a
mysterious island
lighthouse/orphange
run by their diabolical
parents. Their
every move is
vigilantly watched
over by their
overbearing
and
tyrannical mother.
When mysterious
markings start
to appear on the
orphans, the children
thrown into the
darkest regions
of revelation
and repression.
Their tale spins
dangerously out
of control as
the terrible secrets
of their family
are laid bare.
Oscar nominee Karen Black is best known for her performances in Five Easy Pieces, The Day of the Locusts, Easy Rider, Nashville and many other Hollywood staples. In addition, Ms. Black has had an illustrious career in cutting-edge films with heralded performances in Burnt Offerings, Can She Bake a Cherry Pie?, Oliver Twisted, House of 1000 Corpses and PLGFF's 2003 audience-award winner for best film, Gypsy 83, to name just a very few! This is a once-in-a-lifetime event, folks!
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