Brazil
Release Date
1985
Film Synopsis
A bureaucrat in a retro-future world tries to correct an administrative error and becomes an enemy of the state.
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 Jr. And in terms of set design, cinematography, music, and effects, Brazil is a nonstop dazzler. (Criterion Collection)
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Past Programs
2018
Blurred lines: Psychosis-like experiences and how they happen
Belcourt Theatre, Nashville, TN