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- Essential film genius: Gilliam's Brazil.
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- Another prediction of the future proven wrong
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Christmas In Dystopia.......2007-08-11
Terry Gilliam's "Brazil" is an extremely ambitious effort brimming with socio-political criticism. It is filled with intense, chaotic images of a highly centralized, technological, authoritarian society gone horribly sour. It is 1984 brought to flesh, and done with the Gilliam touch where dreams are the only way to escape a reality that is completely insane. What is disturbing is that this world looks so familiar...the endless paperwork to do the simplest things...the failure of gadgetry to make life easier...bureaucracy failing to take into account people...nepotism, vanity, the constant threat of "terrorists" to unite people in fear...mindless consumerism as religion...yes, Gilliam's kinetic visuals are indeed center stage, but much of the world in this film is a prophecy and funhouse refraction of our own world. Welcome to fascism: welcome to Brazil.
I would have loved to see the look on face of the studio execs who had to confront this mindfreak when perhaps expecting something more along the lines of "Time Bandits".
Essential film genius: Gilliam's Brazil........2007-08-06
Inspired by Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, Terry Gilliam's (1940) black comedy, Brazil (1985), sets the human imagination at odds against the totalitarian bureaucray of the Ministry of Information. Set in a dystopian society "Somewhere in the 20th Century," Brazil tells the story of Sam Lowry (Jonathan Pryce), a lonely government employee in a dead-end job, who habitually escapes into his fantasy world of romantic adventures (accompanied by the 1939 Brazilian song, "Aquarela do Brasil"), and his quest to find happiness in that impersonal, industrial, oppressive society. Unlike Sam, most of the film's other characters seem oblivious to the labyrinth of bureaucracy in which they live, and seem content merely doing their meaningless jobs in order to avoid a bad credit rating. Katherine Helmond plays Sam's vain mother, Robert Deniro plays a rebel heating engineer, and Kim Greist plays the woman of Sam's dreams, Jill.
Brazil is among my all-time personal film favorites. Criterion has remastered Gilliam's work of genius in both single and three-disc versions. Both include a 142-minute director's cut of the film drawn from both the European and American footage (supervised and approved by Terry Gilliam), with a remastered Dolby stereo surround soundtrack and an audio commentary by Gilliam. The three-disc edition also includes a 30-minute on-set documentary, "What Is Brazil?;" rare behind-the-scenes footage; video interviews; and a 94-minute "Love Conquers All" version of Brazil. Sure to appeal to the Sam Lowry in all of us, this film is highly recommended.
G. Merritt
Dancing Between Dream States: A Dark, Disburbing, and Still Controversial Beauty.......2007-07-22
Swirling together ideas from such writers as Kalfa and Orwell and artists like Escher, Terry Gilliam's 1985 BRAZIL is visually stunning--and so disorienting, disturbing, and disconcerting that Universal refused to release it. A very public battle eventually forced the studio to recant, but by the time the film reached theatres public interest in the film was past the crest. The film did not really come into its own until it began to reach the home market, and this remarkably fine DVD from Criterion is the result.
Some people describe BRAZIL as science-fiction; some describe as future prophecy; in actual fact it is a bit of both and lots of other things as well. Although the film has an odd Anglo-Latin quality, it might be set at any time and in any place. Whatever the case, it presents us with a society collapsing under the weight of its own technology, a world in which beaurocracy has run amuck, terrorists challenge the status quo, and the general public is largely indifferent to the whole thing as long as it doesn't affect them personally.
When a bug is splattered inside a computer, it results in the wrongful arrest of an innocent man--and through a series of odd circumstances plunges a low level and unassuming government employee into a series of romantic but ultimately nightmarish adventures expose the truly sinister nature of the ruling government, adventures that range from bombings to hideous torture, from beautiful surfaces to grotesque underpinnings.
The film has a unique look, dancing between dream states and the stark world against which they occur; it is often beautiful, but it is all a bit off-kilter, and as the film progresses that off-kilter edge grows and grows into a profound paranoia all the more unnerving due to the visual beauty of the film. The script is interesting, the story is intelligent and ultimately frightening, and the performances are very sound indeed.
BRAZIL is one of those "either-or" films that you love or hate, that you get or don't get. I find that I tend to admire the film more than I actually like it--but no matter your reaction, there's no escaping the fact that this is one of the "must see" films of the 1980s. Criterion's DVD is excellent. Hardcore fans will likely want the three disk edition, but this will do the trick for most viewers. Recommended.
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Another prediction of the future proven wrong.......2007-06-22
Every century has spawned its own genre of art and literature. The 20th century saw the rise of many genres; the most notable being works about the future. Many of these have become respectable mainstays of popular culture and include the likes of The Time Machine, 1984, Blade Runner, I Robot, and this cult classic by Terry Gilliam; Brazil. Based in the early 21st century, it is a paean to the common man's fight against bureaucracy, red tape, and an intrusive government whose powers have no limits. Overall, this movie is a more tragic and more comedic version of 1984.
This movie can be viewed in two ways. If one approaches it as pure entertainment, it is a very good movie. The acting is good and the plot line is interesting and very original. The comedy is funny and unique; not quite British in style, but more of a synthesis of many forms. The action scenes and special effects look real enough, and the ending is unexpected.
If one views the movie as social commentary, as a prediction of what the future might be, then this movie fails on many accounts. First of, the primal point of this movie; the rise of an overarching and all-powerful government, is totally misplaced. If anything, government agencies in modern industrial societies are often weak and serve the whims of the private market. The US provides many great examples. The US Department of Agriculture is nothing more than a communal office for multinational food product corporations. Likewise, most national legislatures are run by corporate lobbyists.
Second, the movie portrays government as highly responsive to any threat real or imagined; one phone call and government agents are at your door in 5 minutes. Ask anyone who has filed a complaint to their city about a water main leak, or an open manhole, or a downed electricity line; and chances are they waited for hours or days, not minutes. Even the 9/11 attackers left tons of clues that were reported to authorities, but nothing ever happened. So the image portrayed by this movie of a lightning fast government that can disappear its citizens at will is utterly false. Third, the character played by Robert DeNiro is totally unreal. His character is a plumber - janitor, and leads an underground resistance to the government. Political revolutionaries have historically been either close to the power base or are academic thinkers; not blue-collar workers. Last, this movie is presumably commenting on the future of Western society. A visit to any Western city will reveal a melting pot of races, ethnicities and languages. If anything, cities are only going to become more heterogenous with time. Yet somehow everyone in this society is white; Western European white most likely.
The point is that the social commentary provided by this movie is all wrong. Overall, an entertaining movie, but not too accurate in its portrayal of the future.
Rating for the DVD, not the movie........2007-05-30
Let's be clear on one thing: The movie Brazil gets SIX stars out of FIVE in my book. This review is not about the movie, but the DVD.
I already owned the standard Brazil DVD but wanted the Criterion Edition because I'd heard good things about their releases. I am very disappointed because there isn't a dime's difference between the Criterion and the regular DVD. All I can see from the box cover is a slightly different widescreen aspect ratio and the time is a bit longer (perhaps some added scenes?). The sound is still in lame 2.1 stereo, not 5.1 Dolby Digital or DTS . I see no excuse for this; Even the H.G. Wells' "First Men In The Moon" DVD, a movie filmed in 1964, is in 4.0 discrete surround.
Brazil, excellent movie, but buy the regular release and a couple of other movies instead of the Criterion version.
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Marcel Camus's 1959 update of the Greek myth features an all-black cast and a story set in the frenetic energy of Carnival in Rio de Janeiro. Orpheus, a trolley car conductor and superb samba dancer, is engaged to Mira but in love with Eurydice. For his change of heart, Orpheus and his new doomed lover are pursued by a vengeful Mira and a determined Death through the feverish Carnival night. Camus at once demystifies and remystifies the old story, shifting not only its location but its tone and context, forcing a reevaluation of the legend as a more passionate, pulsing, sensual experience. The film is really one-of-a-kind, an absolute whirl that barely needs words. --Tom Keogh
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1960 Academy Award Winner and winner of the Palme d'Or at the 1959 Cannes Film Festival, Marcel Camus' Black Orpheus retells the Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice against the madness of Carnival in Rio de Janeiro. With its magnificent color photography and lively soundtrack, this film brought the infectious bossa nova beat to the United States. Criterion is proud to present the extended international version of Black Orpheus in a gorgeous new transfer.
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Best foreign film 1960.......2007-06-27
This is one of the most beautiful romantic movies I have ever seen.
The cinematography is very poetic and the culture is rich and people are gorgeous!
Black Orpheus.......2007-06-25
Marcel Camus's rich, vibrant film takes your breath away. The dazzling ritual of Carnival is captured in a swirl of breathtaking color and kinetic energy. The actors are uniformly excellent, with Dawn's Eurydice a particular stand-out, and Camus manages to build considerable suspense as the tragic tale plays out. A.C. Jobim and Luis Bonfa's pulsating soundtrack helped launch the Bossa Nova craze at the dawn of the sixties.
Beautiful is an understatement...I can't put it in words.......2007-06-11
Very touching and unforgettable film! I am so thankful it is now available on DVD. This is truly a love story beyond Romeo and Juliet...It is not just about death but about life, love and the rebirth of life. It encompasses so many emotions and feeling and the physical beauty in the film by the actors is breathtaking! :) I fell in love with Orpheus. True love is never ending. If you have never been in love this film with make you believe and if you have ever loved and lost this film will make you remember and if you are currently in love this film with make you appreciate your love so much more!!!
Truly Amazing Film!!!
SHORT ON STORY; LONG ON STYLE AND PERCUSSION.......2007-04-23
I had seen BLACK ORPHEUS (1959) in the late 1980s, and remembered being underwhelmed, but I procured a copy from my library to see it again as I've just discovered that I've been in love with Bossa Nova music most of my life. (A long story and not worth retelling.) But my impression of the film remains mostly unchanged.
BLACK ORPHEUS is of course based upon the Greek myth in which Orpheus - the offspring of the god Apollo and Calliope - is able to tame beasts and alter nature with his music, but is unable to save his true love. In this movie, the "beasts" are represented by roosters, goats, kittens, song birds, and puppy dogs (they ALL taste like chicken), and the manipulation of nature is the belief amongst the poor children residing in the hills above Rio de Janeiro that the sound of Orpheus' guitar and songs cause the rising of the sun.
The story takes place in the days leading up to Rio's famous Carnival, and thus, the sights and sounds of that festive event just explode on the screen. The cinematography is a delight, featuring imaginative camera angles, compositions, and movements, and gorgeous panoramic shots above and around Rio de Janeiro. I have very little desire to travel outside of the U.S. (Egypt and The Holy Land being my dream destinations), and other than a couple of misadventures South-Of-The-Border, I've stayed "home." (The accommodations in a Mexican calaboose leave EVERYTHING to be desired - another long story not worth retelling ... or reliving.) But my second viewing of BLACK ORPHEUS has convinced me that an all-expenses-paid trip to Rio offered by a wealthy Brazilian woman desiring a (tired & old) kept man/love slave isn't something I would automatically reject. ; ) Additionally, this is one of the most colorful movies I've ever seen; there's enough color on the screen to turn Walt Disney from blue to green with envy in his cryogenic tube!
Most of the acting is of the amateur variety and it's apparent (in ANY language). BLACK ORPHEUS sports two of the more annoying female film characters in my recent memory: Mira (played by Lourdes de Oliveira) and Serafina (played by Lea Garcia). But despite the non-professional status of their performances, Breno Mello (as Orpheus) and Marpessa Dawn (as Eurydice) are watchable: Mello for his charisma and handsome looks, and Dawn for her innocent charm and exotic attractiveness (pretty features and dark skin dressed in a crisp, virginal white dress. Yikes! Put me on her dance card!)
Orpheus' true love, Eurydice, is pursued by a mysterious man (the personification of Death) throughout the picture, but nobody - including Eurydice - bothers to inquire why. (Ah, them Greek myths - never overburdened by genuine character motivations.) And there are a few other problems: during the Carnival, it goes abruptly from morning light to the black of night while we're in the midst of a single dance (man, the days are short in Rio, and when its sun falls, it falls FAST!), and the story (what there is of it) periodically bogs down in excessive lingering over some sequences. (Say what you will about what a moral cesspool the U.S.A. has become, but when we tell stories well on the silver screen - an increasingly uncommon occurrence in recent decades - no country tells `em better.)
The truth (according to Stephen T.) is that, really, unless the viewer is paying their admission fee to vicariously experience Rio's Carnival and/or to enjoy the complex rhythms of the Bossa Nova beat and the simple beauty of composer ANTONIO CARLOS JOBIM's melodic lines, there isn't a great deal of reason to spend 107 minutes with BLACK ORPHEUS. The score, however, is the main attraction here, and the payoff is rewarding if you're a fan of Brazil's great music. (I myself would be willing to view this movie yet again someday.)
I'll add that the final scene wherein three small children begin to reprise the Orpheus/Eurydice story theme while the sun rises to illuminate them gave me a wistful, inarticulate joy - a kind of Saudade. Their enthusiasm was infectious, making a lovely ending to a so-so movie. But of course, we know that ultimately Enduring True Love, the "Happily Ever After", will slip through their hands like a ... well, like a myth ... as it does to us all. (But I suppose that for me, living in Rio and listening to Bossa Nova daily as a wealthy Brazilian woman's kept man/love slave would be the next best thing.)
GOT BOSSA NOVA?
Bossa Nova for Lovers
Nova Bossa: Red Hot on Verve
Colorful.......2007-04-10
Colorful and joyous, this movie is a pure pleasure to watch. Not only is it beautiful, but the mythical story and characters are excellent as well.
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Simply Amazing.......2007-09-03
I had heard about "Brazil" and was familiar with Terry Gilliam of Monty Python fame. I figured that there were a lot of possibilities with this movie but I never expected what I watched last night. I am still trying to sort it out but I know enough to know that I watched a great movie.
Frankly, I had toyed with getting this movie several years ago but I held off due to the steep prices I kept finding. I bought a used copy at a more reasonable price and found that I got the three CD set. I generally just watch the movie with little or no regard for the extras. "Brazil" is unique enough that I may make an exception with this set.
My first impression is that "Brazil" is a film that looks like what the movie version of "1984" might have looked like if it were made with the film technology of its' title (1984) but with all other technology limited to the year it was copyrighted (1949). I hope that makes sense because I was bewildered by the amazing sets and, to a lesser extent, the special effects. Yet I kept seeing the technology of my parent's era (and I'm 55). As the movie went on I began to enjoy this retro-science fiction movie that shows the real and imagined dangers of the world Orwell tried to warn us about. The over-welming bureaucracy, the signs of Big Brother everywhere, the paranoia of the opressed as well as the opressors, etc... The story swims around in a variety of directions in a world where to think, say or do anything out of the ordinary becomes dangerous. However, it may not be quite so bad given what passes for "ordinary" in this world.
I admit to sensing a time or two that "Brazil" may be too long. If so, I will likely prefer the Producer's cut rather than the 142 minute Director's cut I watched last night. I had started by stating that I had heard of "Brazil" before. After watching it, I can't believe that I haven't heard MORE about it.
Brazil DVD, 3-disc boxed set.......2007-08-09
This was a gift. I have not viewed the contents, but the recipient was very pleased with the movie and information on the other DVDs. He rated it 5 stars.
Essential film genius: Gilliam's Brazil........2007-08-06
Inspired by Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, Terry Gilliam's (1940) black comedy, Brazil (1985), sets the human imagination at odds against the totalitarian bureaucray of the Ministry of Information. Set in a dystopian society "Somewhere in the 20th Century," Brazil tells the story of Sam Lowry (Jonathan Pryce), a lonely government employee in a dead-end job, who habitually escapes into his fantasy world of romantic adventures (accompanied by the 1939 Brazilian song, "Aquarela do Brasil"), and his quest to find happiness in that impersonal, industrial, oppressive society. Unlike Sam, most of the film's other characters seem oblivious to the labyrinth of bureaucracy in which they live, and seem content merely doing their meaningless jobs in order to avoid a bad credit rating. Katherine Helmond plays Sam's vain mother, Robert Deniro plays a rebel heating engineer, and Kim Greist plays the woman of Sam's dreams, Jill.
Brazil is among my all-time personal film favorites. Criterion has remastered Gilliam's work of genius in both single and three-disc versions. Both include a 142-minute director's cut of the film drawn from both the European and American footage (supervised and approved by Terry Gilliam), with a remastered Dolby stereo surround soundtrack and an audio commentary by Gilliam. The three-disc edition also includes a 30-minute on-set documentary, "What Is Brazil?;" rare behind-the-scenes footage; video interviews; and a 94-minute "Love Conquers All" version of Brazil. Sure to appeal to the Sam Lowry in all of us, this film is highly recommended.
G. Merritt
excessive to say the least.......2007-04-18
first off, the movie Brazil..aka the first disc or disc 1 is an easy 5 stars. i saw this movie when we rented it and immediately fell in love with its quirky weirdness.
now i would recommend this set to 4 types of people. 1.) completist criterion collectors 2.) someone doing a research essay on this 3.) people who can throw around 50 dollars like it is 20...or 4.) someone who lives, breathes, and worships brazil and/or Gilliam movies.
otherwise, in my honest opinion, the single disc is all you need...it has commentary, a nice booklet, and the superb transfer. disc 2 is excessive to the max...aka more than i want, care, or need to know...and the "love conquers all" ending thing could have been added as a deleted scene on disc 1 or something.
anyways, brazil is a great movie and worthy to be in any collection, but the single disc, in my opinion is all you really need.
One Line Review of "The Love Conquers All" version.......2007-03-01
Whoever thought that this beautifully dark movie could ever be glossed over is delusional to the point of madness.
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- 1999 release Not anamorphic - 2006 release is corrected
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- Don't drink with this one.....3 1/2 * really
- An Absolutely Terrific Film: Nightmarish And Surreal!
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Release Date: 1999-07-13 |
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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. --Jim Emerson
Description
Pitting the imagination of a common man against the oppressive storm troopers of the Ministry of Information, this bitter parable for the Information Age is more relevant than ever. Gathering footage from both the European and American versions, Terry Gilliam has assembled the ultimate 142-minute director's cut of his most celebrated film, then annotated it with a shot-by-shot commentary on an alternate audio channel.
Customer Reviews:
1999 release Not anamorphic - 2006 release is corrected.......2007-08-04
The 1999 release is Not anamorphic, and is not really 16:9.
The "September, 2006" release, however, is anamorphic.
I would advise getting the corrected 2006 release.
Either the 2006 single disc, or the 2006 3-Disc Boxed Set.
The cover of the 1999 DVD says 1.85:1, but the content of the movie is 4:3 with black bars padding the wide content. The result on a 1:85:1/16:9 TV, black bars that should not be there and a squished movie.
This is a good movie, and you can almost imagine Bush in the film describing how we are winning the "war or terrorism" against the undefined enemy.
But get the 2006 release.
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A fairly decent collection.......2007-04-09
I bought this as a gift for my boyfriend's birthday/Christmas (they're pretty close together, so I can't recall which). He's a huge Gilliam fan, and he loved it so much, he actually told other people what I had got him (which he doesn't often do). He seemed to really like this particular collection; the only issue he had with it is that it included a DVD of the Hollywood "Love Conquers All" version of the movie, which he esteemed good enough to be used as a coaster.
Don't drink with this one.....3 1/2 * really.......2007-03-01
Alright, I watched this in great great great anticipation. So I decided to have a couple before and while I watched it. Big mistake. Drinking wasn't smart because I couldn't keep my eyes open after awhile. This is not your typical slap-stick humor type movie. It's a very intellectual flick that a lot of people may not like or even get. And that's ok. I can see why this movie wouldn't click with people because it barely clicked with me and I think I have good movie smarts. The disappointing part was how terms like "important film" or "best film of the 80's" was used. I expected to see one heck of a movie. And it was in some ways, but very slow in others to the point where you don't have a clue what's going on.
It is very very original and you can appreciate it if you like "Time Bandits" and "The Adventures of Baron Munchausen". In that sense I can see how it is good and how it ties in with the movies mentioned above. "The Dream Trilogy" as it's called. On the plus side. DeNiro's character was perfect and Pryce played the perfect Sam Lowry. Another thing is a lot of people can really relate to the Bureaucratic "b.s." we have to put up within our jobs a lot of times. It also has several really funny/quirky characters in this one.
Also on the upside, they say to watch this one only once is a mistake because it gets better with each viewing, which I need to try. If I do, then I'll revise this whole review. Hopefully for the better.
An Absolutely Terrific Film: Nightmarish And Surreal!.......2006-11-12
After reading many of the reviews of "Brazil" here on amazon, I decided to take out the film and give it another viewing. As I know from my own experiences, that many films I once liked no longer appeal to me. Maybe it's my age? Therefore, I decided to have another look at the film. Maybe time had lessened the film's greatness to me? No, "Brazil" is still as great as when I first viewed the film. I have noticed that there is to be another release of the film, due to the poor quality of the original DVD. Those who have the original CRITERION will know what I am writing about. One of my major gripes with the original Criterion release have been given full vent by other reviewers, and with good reason. I could not believe the transfer of the DVD, especially at the cost!
I will purchase the newer DVD, that CRITERION has recently released, as this film is too great not to be issued in anamorphic. Moreover, for the price I orignially bought the DVD for, I was astonished at the so-called globs [for want of a better term] that were in the film. This film has been discussed here at length on Amazon, however, for those of you who did not purchase the earlier DVD, good for you, as I have it and it is not what one would expect from CRITERION. As for the film itself, it has stood the test of time for me at least, and I find it just as great as I did when I first viewed it many years ago. The film is for acquired tastes, and may not appeal to all audiences, but it appeals to me. Highly recommended. [Stars: 5+]
One Of The Greatest Movies Ever.......2006-10-17
Terry Gilliam is my favorite director and here he is at his best. At first the movie just seems like a dark comedy but as you watch later on you realize the absolute genius and how close this is to reality. Even if you don't really understand Brazil(and I don't quite understand it either) you can still admire the amazing art in the film and just some of the amazing visuals.
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