Does this build-up of Brazil posts mean that Criterion is yet again making me buy a Blu-ray when I've already got the DVD?
*grumbles as he gets out his credit card*
Anyway: to my mind Brazil is still the best Terry Gilliam film, mainly because the style fits the content so well. In most of Gilliam's films there are moments when I think that a somewhat more disciplined, less "everything including the six-legged kitchen sink played by a troupe of midgets" approach would have served the material better. I very quickly get Gilliam fatigue - but either he's more in control of his palette in Brazil or the film carries the weight of the (over-)exuberant formal inventiveness.
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By Gary
December 03, 2012
05:41 PM
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December 07, 2012
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December 17, 2012
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