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'Brand Upon the Brain!' at Cinerama
Following glorious stints in Toronto and New York, the Seattle-hatched Brand Upon the Brain!, by Winnipeg filmmaker Guy Maddin, is finally being presented here as it was originally conceived: as a lurid live spectacle. Tonight's show—featuring incest, crossdressing, a basement full of orphans, and a dastardly age-defying serum—will be narrated by Karen Black. All Foley sound will be created onstage by the Aono Jikken Ensemble, and the kitschy pinpoint stars of Cinerama's ceiling will twinkle overhead. Magic. (Cinerama, 2100 Fourth Ave, brownpapertickets.com. 8 pm, $25, all ages.)
ANNIE WAGNER
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Oh, I am so frickin' stoked for this.
Annie Wager, I love you. Sensitively, Mr. Poe.
this is going to be the sweetness. but i'm going tomorrow because the man himself is gonna be there.
This is going to be a series of nights to remember. I've said it before, I'll say it again. Seattle is the best cinema city in the country.
Highly recommended. Saw it in nyc and loved it.
"Salt Lake... Salt Lake! This is Columbia 409! It's Nancy Pryor... stewardess. Something hit us! All the flight crew is dead or badly injured! There's no one left to fly the plane! Help us! Oh my God, help us!"
I'm actually going tomorrow too. If anyone goes tonight & wants to dish about Ms. Black's performance, email me (annie@thestranger.com).
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