Aug 17, 2015

Brothers Quay to screen Christopher Nolan's documentary "Quay" on tour

Identical twins Timothy Quay and Stephen Quay, the stop-motion brothers, will present a retrospective by the brainy filmmakers. [curated by Christopher Nolan ("Inception," "Memento"), "The Quay Brothers in 35mm" opens Wednesday, August 19 in Manhattan. The 70-minute program will run for a week at the New York Film Forum and will feature new 35mm prints of the Quay Brothers' "In Absentia," "The Comb," and "Street of Crocodiles." On Wednesday, Nolan himself will have a heart-to-heart with the Brothers Quay, who will also appear on the New York stands on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday.

Other touring cities include Dallas (Alamo Drafthouse Richardson, 9/3-7), LA (Cinefamily, 9/4-10, with Nolan), Houston (Museum of Fine Arts, 9/12-13), Austin (Alamo Drafthouse Ritz, 9/17), Cleveland (Cleveland Cinematheque, 9/24-27), Boston (Brattle Theatre, 9/25-10/1), Detroit (Detroit Institute of Art, 10/9-11), Seattle (SIFF Film Center, 10/9-15), Chicago (The Music Box Theatre, 10/16-22), Toronto (TIFF Bell Lightbox Theater, 10/27).

Throughout more than three decades of critically acclaimed work, Quays' short and feature films feature an uncanny imagination, often assembled from discarded parts and materials, with little or no contemporary analog. From features like "The Benjamenta Institute" and "The Earthquake Piano Tuner" to shorts like "Jan Švankmajer's Cabinet" and "Streets of Crocodiles," the Quay brothers, whom Terry Gilliam has called one of the ten best animated films of all time, are rebellious and Yet, they have garnered a dazzling amount of trust.

Those who want to take home a thorough retrospective can check out the Blu-ray debut of The Quay Brothers: unlike the DVD, it includes a documentary by Nolan. This dark extra arrives on October 20, the final week of The Quay Brothers in 35mm in the U.S., followed by a screening in Toronto on October 27.