Welcome to the very first episode of the Errata podcast, an audio program of movie chit-chat. This first episode features a conversation with filmmaker Guy Maddin about his new silent film, Brand Upon the Brain!, which is being presented in various cities this summer as a live extravaganza, with an orchestra, foley artists, a soloing castrato, and a different celebrity interlocutor at each stop.
In case you'd like to read more about the films and figures mentioned in this episode, we've assembled a convenient list of...
Films and Figures Mentioned in This Episode
Maddin's Feature Films
• Brand Upon the Brain! (2006)
• Cowards Bend the Knee (2003)
• The Saddest Music in the World (2003)
• Dracula: Pages From a Virgin's Diary (2002)
• Tales From Gimli Hospital (1988)
Maddin's Shorts, Incomplete Projects, and Writings
• My Dad is 100 Years Old (2005)
• Sombra Dolorosa (2004)
• Sparklehorse It's a Wonderful Life (2002) [via Sparklehorse]
• The Heart of the World (2000)
• BBB: Banning Barbara and Beauty (incomplete)
• From the Atelier Tovar: Selected Writings of Guy Maddin
Other People and Other Movies
• Footlight Parade (with Jimmy Cagney)
• My Last Sigh (Luis Bunuel's autobiography)
• Joan Chen
• Isabella Rossellini
• Geraldine Chaplin
• Lou Reed
• P.T. Barnum
• Baz Luhrman
• Gustav Mahler
• Sparklehorse
• The Hoax (with Richard Gere)
• Scott Rudin
• The Queen
• Wes Anderson
• P.T. Anderson
• Dumbo
• Nacho Libre
• Santo
• Blood Money (with Frances Dee)
• Day of Wrath (Carl Dreyer)
• Flowers of St. Francis (Roberto Rossellini)
• Jackson Pollack
• The Hairy Ape (with William Bendix, based on Eugene O'Neill)
• Douglas Sirk
• The Patsy (Jerry Lewis, with Peter Lorre)
• The Bellboy (Jerry Lewis)
• Tarnation (Jonathan Caouette)
• The Brothers Quay
• Vertigo (with Kim Novak)
• Citidel (Atom Egoyan)
• Maddin on Blue Velvet (David Lynch)
• The Elephant Man (David Lynch)
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