Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

Brazil / Universal, an MCA company ; Embassy International Pictures ; produced by Arnon Milchan ; directed by Terry Gilliam ; screenplay by Terry Gilliam, Tom Stoppard, Charles McKeown.

Publisher, Date:

[Irvington, N.Y.] : Criterion Collection, 2006.

Description:

1 videodisc (142 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

plastic

4 3/4 in.

digital optical

Widescreen

video file DVD video region 1

Summary:

In this surrealistic nightmare vision of a "perfect" future where technology reigns supreme, a daydreaming bureaucrat who is involved with an underground superhero and a beautiful mysterious woman becomes the tragic victim of his own romantic illusions. This is the original 142 minute director's cut edition of the film assembled from both the European and American versions.

Series:

Criterion collection ; 51

Criterion collection ; 51.

Subjects:

Bureaucracy -- Drama.

Computers -- Drama.

Heroes -- Drama.

Man-woman relationships -- Drama.

Genre:

Science fiction films.

Feature films.

Films for hard of hearing people

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Other Author:

Gilliam, Terry.

Milchan, Arnon, 1944-

Stoppard, Tom.

McKeown, Charles.

Pratt, Roger.

Kamen, Michael.

Pryce, Jonathan.

De Niro, Robert.

Palin, Michael.

Helmond, Katherine.

Holm, Ian, 1931-2020.

Hoskins, Bob.

Universal Pictures (Firm)

Embassy International Pictures.

Criterion Collection (Firm)

Other Title:

Alternate title on disc and verso of container: Brazil, the final cut

Notes:

1.78:1 aspect ratio.

Originally released as a motion picture in 1985.

Special features include: all-new, restored high-definition digital transfer, supervised and approved by director Terry Gilliam, with a remastered Dolby stereo surround soundtrack; audio commentary by Gilliam; essay by Jack Mathews.

Director of photography, Roger Pratt ; film editor, Julian Doyle ; original music, Michael Kamen.

Jonathan Pryce, Robert De Niro, Michael Palin, Katherine Helmond, Ian Holm, Bob Hoskins.

For private home use only.

Closed-captioned.

ISBN:

1559409797

9781559409797

Publisher Number:

CC1631D

Other Number:

71315434

System Availability:

3

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

3

Control Number:

956244

# Local items in:

1

# System items in:

1

Call Number:

DVD MOVIE Brazil