Laserdisc Review

Laserdisc Review: 'Brazil' (1998)

Details Release Date: Mar 31, 1998; DVD Release Date: Mar 31, 1998; Movie Rated: R; Genre: Sci-fi and Fantasy; With: Robert De Niro and Jonathan Pryce; Distributor: Universal

No wonder it took three years to complete the five-disc boxed laser set of Terry Gilliam's landmark retro-future tragicomedy Brazil: Much of the supplementary material recounts the director's war with Universal over the American edit — and said studio still controls the rights to the film. Given that, there's considerable candor from both sides in the hour-long docu ''The Battle of Brazil'' (put together by film critic Jack Mathews for this collection). But while Hollywood politics make for nearly as absorbing a tale as the movie's anarchic story of bureaucracy gone mad, the best reason to pick this up is a dazzling new edit of one of the landmark films of the '80s. A+

Originally posted Nov 15, 1996 Published in issue #353 Nov 15, 1996 Order article reprints
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