Brazil - The Criterion Collection - (Single Disc Editon)
by Terry Gilliam
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Actor: Anthony G. Brown, Jim Broadbent, Patrick Connor, Robert De Niro, Roger Ashton-GriffithsDirector: Terry Gilliam
Brand: Image Entertainment
Cinematographer: Roger Pratt
Composer: Michael Kamen
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.1
Format: Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.78:1
Running Time: 132 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-09-05
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Criterion
DVD Reviews of Brazil - The Criterion Collection - (Single Disc Editon)
DVD Review: THE FUTURE HAS OVERTAKEN US!
Summary: 5 Stars
No matter how many times I re-view this movie, I'm captivated by the it's emotonal realism, its hideous beauty, its magnificent sound and its music, and the wonderful acting of the ensemble. But more than any of that, I'm astonished by the inescapable realization that the most intensely unpleasant aspects of what was intended as a satirical pre-view of the futue, has, in the two and a half decades since its inception, come to mordant life. Our dim suspiscion of a decadent idiocy arising from an inbred society of rich money-changers, ruled by an inexpressibly foul and paracitic bureaucratic class rotten with envy, suspiscion and indifference to human suffering, has grown into an inescapable fact of contemporary life. Alas!
But how was BRAZIL conceived? How executed? The mystery of Terry Gilliam's methods (and funding) remain opaque, but the magic of his mastery over the medium grows in a splendor that is dark and excruciating, but irresistable.
What excuse is there for not having viewed this film at leasst once? I cannot conceive of any.
DVD Review: This Nonsense A Classic?
Summary: 1 Stars
After buying and viewing Brazil upon the recommendation of a friend who usually makes good ones, I came away wondering why on earth Criterion saw fit to issue a three-disc set for a film that didn't deserve to be reissued in the first place! I know I am swimming against the tide here, but this is one of the stupidest films I have ever had the displeasure to watch.
Yeah, I know its a parody of life in an all-encompassing bureaucratic state where citizens chafe under the oppressive heel of The Ministry of Information. But there is no real oppression, only mind-boggling incompetence. The story (and the acting) is so jejune that I didn't know whether to sneer or puke. Brazil not even "funny" in a Three Stooges kind of way! Robert de Niro especially ought to be ashamed of having his name attached to this indulgent silliness.
The movie is so bad, I don't know when I'll have the stomach to watch the other two discs. I suppose since I spent the money, I should steel my nerves and do so sometime. I already sat through some nearly unlistenable and insipid commentary on the film where the speakers tried so very hard to project erudition but instead exuded the acrid stench of pseudo-intellectual pretension.
The three discs came housed in a flimsy plastic dust cover that is already cracking like a piece of cheap plastic left too long in the sun. If you already like this movie, then you will probably not pause to reflect on a thing I wrote. But if you have not yet seen this unbearable nonsense packaged as a "cult classic", then I would recommend that you buy and watch a less expensive package before deciding to go whole-hog as I did.
DVD Review: Different cut 'Brazil'
Summary: 4 Stars
I Love this movie, and the DVD's good and all, but I noticed there's at least one line (a very good, noticeable line) missing, and at least two shots that I've never seen before. Having extra material doesn't bother me at all, but there fact that it was missing stuff made me very angry. I saw this movie at least 10 times before buying the DVD, so I know what I'm talking about. I'm guessing it was just a different cut, but the DVD/its title should be more explanatory and illustrative about that.DVD Review: "Hi there. I want to talk to you about ducts..."
Summary: 4 Stars
How is one supposed to summarize this movie without egregious use of the phrase `Orwellian?' Let me just say this - It's like Life Of Brian, only replace the Christ story with 1984 and remove about half the cheap jokes. There. I can't put it any simpler than that. Anyways, as you may or may not know, this film exists in three different versions-The original European release (132 Min.) the original U.S. release (92 Min.), and the director's cut (142 Min.). If you wish to own all three, go with the Criterion multi disc deluxe set. If you only want the director's cut with the extra 10 min, Criterion has been kind enough to issue it a la carte, So you don't need to waste extra cash and storage space on a multi-disc behemoth. The cheapest and, in my opinion, best option, is the 132-minute Universal single disc release. I'm a bit of a snob when it comes to film, and it is with heavy heart that I reveal this, but I couldn't tell the difference between the Universal and Criterion single disc versions. The Criterion version has an extra 10 minutes in there somewhere, but I'll be darned if I can find them. So, if you're a casual fan of the film, I recommend the Universal version. It's a more or less complete presentation of the film, and it's anywhere from $5-15 cheaper than the Criterion single disc edition.DVD Review: not imaginative
Summary: 2 Stars
despite the fact that this film maybe thinks it's very imaginative, it strikes me as being much more about the "look". i really think it substitutes an aesthetic (which is cool, but only gets you so far) for genuine imagination, and runs out of inventiveness before it comes up with anything interesting in the way of characters, relationships, plot developments, changes in tone, novel cultural critique...
what's good about the movie is simply some of the cool images (black typewriters and magnifying glasses etc.)
Description of Brazil - The Criterion Collection - (Single Disc Editon)
Studio: Image Entertainment Release Date: 09/05/2006If 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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