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Guy Maddin is like Stereolab.  If you've seen/heard one then you have seen/heard them all because their style is their style and their style is their own.  You get it or you don't and if you get it you want to see/hear them all.  Repetition is OK if you are OK with repetition.  The same thing again is a good thing if the first thing you see or hear you like.  Some jokes are only funny the first time but some are good the second time and funnier the third time and the fourth time makes you wince but the fifth time is the funniest yet.

Guy Maddin is like Stereolab.  Some works are harder to find and some are short and some are long and if you want one you eventually want them all.

Robert Hull was so dismayed that the Virginia Film Festival showing of Brand Upon the Brain appeared online to be sold out that he offered a princely sum for a ticket.  I was grateful I could tell him about the OffScreen connection to the Sunday night show.  Turns out there were plenty of seats available, but if there was only one, I would have given it to him.  Thanks Robert for all of your ESH.

Rating: 6 out of 10
Recommended also: Any Guy Maddin will work, but The Saddest Music in the World is a good portal to Maddinland.