From the New York Times, news of the upcoming Guy Maddin film, Brand Upon the Brain!, a quasi silent film about vampiric parents who feed off orphan’s blood.

Brand Upon the Brain! is his most nakedly personal film, chronicling a flurry of traumas that befall a youngster named Guy Maddin. Conceived as a live spectacle without a pre-recorded soundtrack, it is also the closest he has come to a pure silent feature. For the New York run, a lineup of celebrity narrators has been assembled: the actress Isabella Rossellini, the poet John Ashbery, the character actor Eli Wallach, the cabaret performer Justin Bond (of Kiki and Herb), the performance artist Laurie Anderson and the singers Lou Reed and Tunde Adebimpe (of the band TV on the Radio). Following the New York engagement it will play as a conventional film, with a soundtrack featuring Ms. Rossellini’s narration.

And get this… Joan Chen is set to do the narration for the San Francisco showing.

Last seen in a Twin Peaks doorknob.