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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780783225906
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0783225903
Label: Universal Studios
Manufacturer: Universal Studios
Number Of Items: 1
Picture Format: Letterbox
Publisher: Universal Studios
Region Code: 1
Release Date: March 31, 1998
Running Time: 132 minutes
Sales Rank: 1591
Studio: Universal Studios
Theatrical Release Date: December 18, 1985
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If Franz Kafka had been an animator and film director--oh, and a member of Monty Python's Flying Circus--this is the sort of outrageously dystopian satire one could easily imagine him making. However, Brazil was made by Terry Gilliam, who is all of the above except, of course, Franz Kafka. Be that as it may, Gilliam sure captures the paranoid-subversive spirit of Kafka's The Trial (along with his own Python animation) in this bureaucratic nightmare-comedy about a meek governmental clerk named Sam Lowry (Jonathan Pryce) whose life is destroyed by a simple bug. Not a software bug, a real bug (no doubt related to Kafka's famous Metamorphosis insect) that gets smooshed in a printer and causes a typographical error unjustly identifying an innocent citizen, one Mr. Buttle, as suspected terrorist Harry Tuttle (Robert De Niro). When Sam becomes enmeshed in unraveling this bureaucratic glitch, he himself winds up labeled as a miscreant.
The movie presents such an unrelentingly imaginative and savage vision of 20th-century bureaucracy that it almost became a victim of small-minded studio management itself--until Gilliam surreptitiously screened his cut for the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, who named it the best movie of 1985 and virtually embarrassed Universal into releasing it. This DVD version of Brazil is the special director's cut that first appeared in Criterion's comprehensive (and expensive) six-disc laser package in 1996. Although the DVD (at a fraction of the price) doesn't include that set's many extras, it's still a bargain. --Jim Emerson
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Brazil is by far in my opinion director Terry Gilliam's best film to date. To receive this kind of treatment by Criterion is great for anyone who loves this film. The addition of the "Love Conquers All" version of the film is great touch and really puts Gilliam's battle with the studios into perspective. This set is a bit pricey for the casual movie fan, Criterion offers a way cheaper one disc version of the film for those, but if you love cinema and love to collect then get this set.
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well heres a film that ill never get tired of seeing. when i was fourteen i liked it but didnt really get it. at 18 i found it amusing and nutty. at 21 its resonates to the core of my soul. really good movie to see every few years.
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Brazil is a flawed masterpiece of a film; though it has many problems, most specifically Kim Griest's uneven performance as the inconsistently-written Jill, Brazil is an audacious movie that few will regret watching.
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Where else could you see Robert De-Niro as a revolutionary/heating repair technician in a Monty-Python member's masterwork. The theme is 1984 meets The Wall meets Doctor Who meets the muppets, and it is well worth the watch.
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I typically like the more abstract and intellectually masturbatory films of this nature and I'm rather fond of dark satire so this should be a huge winner for me. I'm afraid it wasn't.
Certainly there were some very cool elements technologically, I rather enjoyed the somewhat steampunk design of what the world might look like now if everything had gone a different direction.
That's really where my enjoyment ended, I think the narrative was too scattered and I never felt ... Read More
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