VIDEO REVIEW: Brand Upon the Brain!

4 comments August 18th, 2008

Here’s a video look at Guy Maddin’s wonderfully strange bit of surreal black-and-white autobiography, BRAND UPON THE BRAIN! Maybe it’s not for everyone, but it’s great stuff nevertheless…

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And, if you want to read a textual take on the movie, my written review can be found here.

‘A life misunderestimated’

Add comment August 18th, 2008

That’s the tagline for Oliver Stone’s Bush biopic, W, which arrives in theaters Oct. 26. Here are the posters that go with it, featuring Josh Brolin in the big chair. (Images courtesy of Hollywood Elsewhere.)

 

In case you were wondering, “misunderstimated” is a word (or non word) our president has used. More than once.

So what do you think of this ad campaign — and, more generally, this movie? Obviously Stone is no Bush fan, but I thought his underrated 1995 biopic NIXON was surprisingly sympathetic. NIXON, by the way, arrives on DVD tomorrow in a new edition, and is worth another look. I’ll probably review it in the next few weeks.