Brazil: Special Edition - The Criterion Collection  /  DVD-Video
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Select Product View: General Info 2 Empire Reviews 12 Customer Comments Suggestions Used Product Box Cover Screen Shots Email a Friend Overall Rating: 4.75 out of 5, including 14 reviews Add your comments on this Title. Synopsis Gathering footage from both the European and American versions, Director Terry Gilliam has assembled the ultimate 142-minute cut of his most celebrated film. Criterion is proud to present its landmark special edition of Brazil in an exclusive three-disc set. DISC ONE: The restored windscreen transfer of the film with a remastered Dolby Surround soundtrack and Gilliam's shot-by-shot commentary. DISC TWO: A treasure-trove of Braziliana: the 30-minute on-set documentary What is Brazil?, Criterions original expose The Battle of Brazil: A video History reassembles the players in the battle over the film's U.S. release; plus, hundreds of storyboards, drawings, and publicity and production stills; rare raw and behind-the-scenes footage; exclusive video interviews with the production team; and the original theatrical trailer. DISC THREE: The 94-minute "Love Conquers All" version of Brazil, with all the changes Gilliam refused to make and an audio essay by journalist David Morgan. Cast & Crew Actors:  • Ian Holm  • Michael Palin  • Katherine Helmond  • Kim Greist  • Robert De Niro  • Bob Hoskins  • Jonathan Pryce Producers:  • Arnold Milchan Directors:  • Terry Gilliam Product Information Features: Disc 1: Surround Audio Commentary By Terry Gilliam English Subtitles For The Deaf And Hearing Impaired Disc 2: Stereo 30 Minute On Set Documentary 60 Minute Criterion Documentary By Jack Matthews Screenwriters Tom Stoppard & Charles McKeown On The Script Production Designer Norman Garwood On The Look Of Brazil Costume Designer James Acheson On The Couture Of Fantasy & Fascism Storyboards Fro Gilliam's Original Dream Sequences, Many Of Which Didn't Make It Into The Film Composer Michael Kamen Unveils The Sources Of His Score A Study Of The Special Effects Includes Raw Footage Of Unfinished Effects Theatrical Trailer, Plus Publicity & Production Stills Disc 3: Surround 94 Minute Cut Of Brazil Includes All The Changes That Gilliam Refused To Make, From The Alternate Opening To The Controversial Happy Ending Audio Commentary By Gilliam Expert David Morgan Video: Widescreen 1.85:1 Color Audio: (more info) ENGLISH: Dolby Digital Surround ENGLISH: Dolby Digital Stereo Studio: Criterion Production Year: 1985 Release Date: 7/13/1999 Length: 326 mins Rating: NR Chapters: 72 Includes: Audio Commentary Packaging: Custom Case Number of Discs: 3 Disc: SS-SL Item Code: BRA100 UPC Code: 037429138526 Browsei Category: Movies Genre: Science Fiction, Special Editions, Art House, Boxed Sets, Classics, Criterion Collection, Cult Film / TV Studios: Criterion Customers who bought this Title also bought Time Bandits: The Criterion Collection  DVD-Video Monty Python's Life Of Brian: The Criterion Collection  DVD-Video Reviews Overall Rating: 4.75 out of 5, including 14 reviews Add your comments on this Title. Empire Review BRAZIL (CRITERION) - 4 out of 5  (7/18/2001) The Criterion Collection triple DVD set of BRAZIL is an upgraded edition of the LaserDisc editions that finally made the complete Terry Gilliam masterwork available for the first time ever the way it was really intended. As many of you know, the film was at the center of one of the biggest fights ever over artistic censorship of a director's vision the cinema has ever seen. The film stars Jonathan Pryce as Sam Lowry, an office worker in a heavily systematic bureaucracy of a company hell that   more >> Empire Review Gilliam at his best! - 4.75 out of 5  (5/1/2001) BRAZIL In the making of documentary for Brazil, the director, actors, and writers are asked to describe what the film is about. Each of them have their own view of what the film is supposed to be, none of them can quite put their finger on what it is exactly. Writing this review, I feel the same way. To me Brazil is part black comedy, part romance, part action film, part art film, part superhero fantasy, part tragedy and part satire. It's set in a not so futuristic world controlled by a fasci   more >> Customer Review A 'must have' for Terry Gilliam fans - 5 out of 5  (6/6/2003) Criterion has produced an absolutely superb DVD set, the best I have ever seen, packed to the eyeballs with excellent features. This is a 'must-buy' for fans of Brazil and other Terry Gilliam films. Without question, the story behind the making of the film is as gripping as the movie itself.   more >> Customer Review "Fantastic edition of Terry Gilliam's masterpiece, including the far better Director's Cut" - 4.75 out of 5  (1/8/2003) Absolutely amazing.   more >> Customer Review One bizarre love story. - 4.75 out of 5  (9/5/2001) The future? The past? Both? It doesn't seem to matter. After all, "we're all in this together".   more >>