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BRAND UPON THE BRAIN! Series: The 44th New York Film Festival [Sept 29 - Oct 15 2006] Director: Guy Maddin , Country: Canada, Release: 2006, Runtime: 95 In which the shocking truth is finally revealed about young Guy Maddin and his accursed childhood on a remote island, under the assiduously watchful eye of a Crazed Mother hellbent on restoring her youth and a demoniacally 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 older Maddin’s Heroic Black and White Silent Moviemaking, with which he Plumbs the Depths of his own Psyche!! With...A Castrato!! A Foley Artist!!! An Orchestra!!!! And Isabella Rossellini as The Narrator!!!!! An Earth-shaking Live Spectacle! A Views From the Avant-Garde Special Event Screening at Walter Reade Theater, 165 West 65th Street between Broadway & Amsterdam Avenues on the plaza level.

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