WATCH PARTY: Brazil (1985) directed by Terry Gilliam @ Richard Tucker Library

I've never seen a Terry Gilliam movie before, but I've heard this is some of the more twisted science fiction out there.

RUNTIME: 143 minutes

SYNOPSIS (via Criterion): In the dystopian masterpiece Brazil, Jonathan Pryce plays a daydreaming everyman who finds himself caught in the soul-crushing gears of a nightmarish bureaucracy. This cautionary tale by Terry Gilliam, one of the great films of the 1980s, has come to be esteemed alongside antitotalitarian works by the likes of George Orwell, Aldous Huxley, and Kurt Vonnegut. And in terms of set design, cinematography, music, and effects, Brazil is a nonstop dazzler.

BLURBS:

"It's like a stoned, slapstick 1984: a nightmare comedy in which the comedy is just an aspect of the nightmarishness." - Pauline Kael, The New Yorker

“Terry Gilliam's ferociously creative black comedy is filled with wild tonal contrasts, swarming details, and unfettered visual invention — every shot carries a charge of surprise and delight.” – Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader

“[A] darkly funny and truly visionary retro-futurist fantasy.” – Joe Morgenstern, The Wall Street Journal