DVD
Brand upon the brain!
Call Number
- DVD DRAMA (CEN)
Edition
Special ed. ; widescreen version.
Performers
Erik Steffen Maahs, Gretchen Krich, Sullivan Brown, Andrew Loviska, Kellan Larson.
Publication Information
[United States] : Criterion Collection, c2008.
Physical Description
1 videodisc (99 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Audience
Not rated.
Summary
This eerie excursion into the Gothic recesses of Maddin's mad, imaginary childhood is a nightmare set in a lighthouse on grim Black Notch Island, where fictional protagonist Maddin was raised by an ironfisted, puritanical mother.
Notes
Title from container.
Originally released in 2006.
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.