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	Brazil film looks at dark past through young eyes - Boston.com
		Brazilian Cao Hamburger, whose film looks at his country's dark past, is the latest director to describe the brutality of South America's military dictatorships through the eyes of a child.
		The movie, in the main competition at the Berlin film festival this year, is set in 1970 during Brazil's military dictatorship, and uses the country's victorious soccer World Cup campaign as a backdrop.
		It follows films "Machuca," about how two boys' lives are changed by the military coup of Augusto Pinochet in Chile in 1973, and "Kamchatka," about a boy who sees the effects of Argentina's dictatorship on his family in the 1970s.
	www.boston.com /ae/movies/articles/2007/02/09/brazil_film_looks_at_dark_past_through_young_eyes (712 words)

	Brazil (film)
		Brazil would be an opus of visual metaphors, bleak slapstick, and unconventional narrative awash in elaborate special effects, apocalyptic scenes of destruction, and a general lack of discipline.The plot would sprawl and wander through corporate conspiracies, office politics, oedipal nightmares, and the operatic love-struck daydreams of Sam Lowry, the story's central protagonist.
		The film was was hastily inserted as a festival film surprise at eleven o'clock at night, and became the world premiere.
		Brazil is regarded by many critics, historians, filmmakers, and film buffs as one of the most original and influential movies of the past fifty years.
	www.rotten.com /library/culture/brazil (2322 words)

	Slant Magazine - City of Gods: An Interview With Director Fernando Meirelles
		Meirelles's competency as a storyteller is remarkable, as is the jittery lyricism with which he connects the film's many narratives, exposing an epic battlefield of urban corruption at the center of one of the world's most populous cities.
		Since the film's world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival, Meirelles has used the film's unprecedented success as a platform to focus the world's attention on the darkness of Rio's slums, one of the most violent and dangerous places in South America.
		The film was such a hit in Brazil because of all the debates it provoked.
	www.slantmagazine.com /film/features/fernandomeirelles.asp (1536 words)

	BRAZIL
		However, the film's longer European cut raised issues as to which version Gilliam truly preferred; after a seemingly infinite period of tinkering and research, the final "director's cut" (approximately 11 minutes longer than the 131 minute U.S. print) was assembled and released by Criterion.
		Of equal significance, Brazil also marks the frenzied pinnacle of a strange and wonderful wave of science fiction and horror films beginning in the early 1980s which flowed against the enforced stream of feel-good, viewer friendly aliens and spaceships forced on audiences during the Reagan era.
		Not surprisingly, all of these films look far more chilling and modern now than when they were released, and in many respects Gilliam's work is the equivalent of the modern Jonathan Swift portion of this world, jabbing and chortling in defiance of a inhuman government gone catastrophically wrong.
	www.mondo-digital.com /brazildvd.html (907 words)

	Brazil (1985)
		The film's chain of events is set in motion by a clerical error, which condemns an innocent man, and causes Sam to meet his dream girl - a suspected terrorist.
		The film, a merging of fantasy and reality, was considered part of a "dreamer" trilogy, of sorts, an Age of Reason trilogy reflecting the different ages of man's reason (and of Gilliam himself) in which reason is the opposite of fantasy and dreaming:
		The film was already in distribution in Europe by 20th Century Fox, but because of the film's length, complexity, and slightly overdone second half, MCA-Universal Pictures (and studio head Sidney Sheinberg), the domestic distributor, forced Gilliam to cut about twelve minutes from the 144 minute European theatrical version before its general US release in 1986.
	www.filmsite.org /braz.html (2555 words)

	Brazil - The Film Guide (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Brazil has become so hopelessly overcomplicated that entropy has taken over and the world appears to be on the perpetual verge of complete mechanical failure from all fronts.
		Gilliam's original cut of the film ended on a dark note: the protagonist's improbable defeat of the Ministry of Information, followed by his escape to the countryside with his lover, is abruptly revealed to be nothing more than a hallucination.
		The film was originally called Brazil because the bug that leads to the typo central to the plot was originally seen in Brazil in an opening sequence that was later cut.
	filmguide.wikia.com /wiki/Brazil (1484 words)

	MoMA.org \| Exhibitions Schedule \| Film and Media \| 2006 \| Premiere Brazil! 2006 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The film experiments with the relationship between indigenous language and cinematic language while reflecting on the culture’s image from the point of view of both mainstream society and the Indians themselves.
		An international hit, it won the Caméra d’Or in Cannes and the 1960 Academy Award for Best Foreign-Language Film for France; yet it is as Brazilian as its infectious bossa nova soundtrack and the exuberant spectacle of the samba schools dancing in joyful abandon during the parade.
		Moving through time, the film connects scenes of exploitation and social development in a visceral indictment of the significance of economic value.
	www.moma.org /exhibitions/film_media/2006/brazil_2006.html (752 words)

	Brazil: Criterion Collection (1985)
		As with the best films, Brazil offers a fluid piece that leaves itself open to differing sorts of interpretation; your view of it may not much resemble that of mine, but neither is necessarily correct.
		Brazil is the sort of movie that you tout to all your friends, and which you then scream at them if they didn't also think it was brilliant.
		Picture quality is generally comparable with the long cut of the film, though more print flaws are visible and it seems a bit flatter; it's clear that the same level of care was not given to mastering it.
	www.dvdmg.com /brazil.shtml (3002 words)

	Centre Daily Times \| 10/09/2006 \| Director instills hope in Brazil's film industry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Now the film's Brazilian director is harnessing his fame to jump-start his country's struggling movie industry.
		Local films had a 10 percent market share, and just one Brazilian movie -- the romantic comedy "If I Were You" -- was among the year's top 10 box-office hits.
		Box-office hits such as Bruno Barreto's 1976 film "Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands" -- which drew almost 11 million moviegoers, a Brazilian record -- and Caca Diegues' 1979 "Bye Bye Brazil" were the industry's high-water marks.
	www.centredaily.com /mld/centredaily/15706911.htm (455 words)

	Brazil - A Movie Vault Selection (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Brazil is set in a backwards information-crazy society, that in many ways resembles a world in which the Nazis did not lose World War II.
		Brazil caused possibly the biggest Hollywood feuds (director VS studio); it was definately the most publicized.
		However, the film ran over the allowed time, and when Gilliam refused to cut the film down, he too was breaching contract.
	www.deadrabbit.org /movievault/brazil.htm (1939 words)

	Brazil Tourism Office (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The cinema novo films dealt with themes related to acute national problems, from conflicts in rural areas to human problems in the large cities, as well as film versions of important Brazilian novels.
		The most representative film of the Tropicalist movement is Macunaíma, by Joaquim Pedro de Andrade, a metaphorical analysis of the Brazilian character as expressed in the tale of a native Indian who leaves the Amazon jungle and goes to the big city.
		The other outstanding films of the 1980's were Bye Bye Brasil about a circus caravan dealing with the inescapable fact that its audience is declining, directed by Carlos Diegues and Pixote, the realistic and disturbing tale of juvenile delinquents in São Paulo, performed by non-professionals, directed by Hector Babenco.
	www.braziltourism.org /cinema.html (1062 words)

	Brazil and Bush’s War on Terror by Robert Blumen
		As the audience of the film, we know that the Tuttle/Buttle confusion was caused by a computer error within the department, and that "the girl" (Jill Layton) became involved as a concerned citizen trying to investigate a wrongful arrest.
		There are two heroes in the film: Tuttle, the renegade heating repair engineer, and Jill Layton, a woman who takes it upon herself to fight the wrongful arrest of her neighbor’s husband.
		The plot of Brazil is driven by a series of accounting errors that are initiated when the Ministry of Information arrests and tortures the wrong man. The arrest scene is a terrifying exhibition of police state tactics: several fl-garbed troopers simultaneously burst through the walls and doors of the Buttle’s apartment.
	www.lewrockwell.com /orig3/blumen3.html (2069 words)

	Brazil Culture
		The Parnassian school of poetry was, in Brazil as in France, a reaction to the excesses of the Romantics.
		Brazil's popular music developed parallel to its classical music and it also united traditional European instruments - guitar, piano, and flute - with a whole rhythm section of sounds produced by frying pans, small barrels with a membrane and a stick inside (cuícas) that make wheezing sounds, and tambourines.
		The other outstanding films of the 1980's were Bye Bye Brasil about a circus caravan dealing with the inescapable fact that its audience is declining, directed by Carlos Diegues and Pixote, the realistic and disturbing tale of juvenile delinquents in São Paulo, performed by non-professionals, directed by Hector Babenco.
	www.southtravels.com /america/brazil/culture.html (5602 words)

	Brazil
		Terry Gilliam's 1985 fl comedy Brazil is set at "8:49 p.m., somewhere in the 20th century." Brazil is full of the trappings of a culture that never exactly existed but is still familiar, a ravaged, flened environment, packed with clunky typewriter/computer consoles, strange cars, and the neon-lit streets of a futuristic film noir.
		Brazil 's protagonist also falls hard for the woman who inhabits his dreams (Jill Layton, played by Kim Greist), a fragile, astonishing beauty, who, when he meets her in reality, turns out to be a truck-driving, self-sufficient and not at all fragile woman.
		In the film, Harry Tuttle's free-lance repairs were considered by Central Services as sabotage, just as in Brazil it is illegal for a private citizen, but not the state petroleum monopoly, to change a car from gasoline to gasohol, or to change the electrical currency on a VCR.
	www.oilempire.us /brazil.html (7774 words)

	Gringoes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Brazil does have a relatively busy film industry itself, but it‘s rare for a title to make it to the international scene, perhaps once or twice a year on average.
		The pass allows you to see any of the films on show, and despite its relatively high cost of R$340, it‘s value for money for film buffs considering there are 420 films on offer (plus my understanding is that it lets you bypass the queue).
		Although international films are the flavour of the festival, with 44 countries involved, the Brazilian aspect has not been forgotten.
	www.gringoes.com /articles.asp?ID_Noticia=1521 (1116 words)

	Amazon.ca: Brazil (The Criterion Collection): DVD: Terry Gilliam,Jonathan Pryce,Robert De Niro,Katherine Helmond,Ian ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		I say this because the film presents such disturbing imagery, has such a byzantine and convoluted plot requiring repeated viewings to understand fully, and the denouement ends so tragically that the film leaves audiences polarized between those who love and those who hate it, with few left in between.
		Brazil has a brilliant, mind-bending conclusion which throws everything before it as ambiguous and which is a clear parallel to Orwell's "1984" which it has been claimed it is very loosely based upon.
		Brazil truly is a masterpiece - a jewel in the well-worn crown of stories examining the dehumanising effect of the modern world.
	www.amazon.ca /Brazil-Criterion-Collection-Terry-Gilliam/dp/0780022181 (3125 words)

	Brazil (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Brazil (first released on February 20, 1985 in France) is a dystopic fl comedy feature film directed by Monty Python member Terry Gilliam.
		The film opens with an advertisement on a household television for different styles of ducting available for homes, which is then blown up in a terrorist bombing.
		A slightly modified version of the original European cut is currently available on DVD (referred to in the director's commentary as the "fifth and final cut", it uses the American cloud opening instead of a stark blank screen setting the time and place).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Brazil_(film) (1498 words)

	BRAZIL (Movie, 1985) Frequently Asked Questions v1.3
		BRAZIL is a film which rolls up many of the problems of the century into one big plot: industrialization, terrorism, government control and bureaucracy (from both capitalist and socialized countries), technology gone wrong, inept repair people, plastic surgery, love, and even modern filmmaking.
		BRAZIL was part two, the fantasist as a young man, and BARON MUNCHAUSEN closes the series with its story about an old man who, through the innocence and open mindedness of a small girl, regains his belief in magic.
		Both BRAZIL and MUNCHAUSEN's plots and themes echo the events surrounding the making of those films, so at the very least the films can be viewed as a loose cinematic interpretation of however Terry Gilliam was feeling at the stage in his life when he wrote those films.
	www.faqs.org /faqs/movies/brazil-faq (7009 words)

	The Boys from Brazil (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Boys from Brazil is a 1978 thriller made by Incorporated Television Company (ITC) and Lew Grade and distributed by 20th Century Fox.
		The film stars Laurence Olivier, Gregory Peck and James Mason, with Lilli Palmer, Uta Hagen, Steve Guttenberg, Denholm Elliott, Rosemary Harris, John Dehner, John Rubinstein, Anne Meara, Jeremy Black, Bruno Ganz, Walter Gotell, Michael Gough, Linda Hayden and Prunella Scales.
		In the film, Josef Mengele (Gregory Peck) clones 94 copies of Adolf Hitler and attempts to have each of the boys undergo the same childhood experiences and rearing that Hitler had, in order to re-create his psyche and breed a new "Hitler for the times" so as to re-establish the Nazi regime.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Boys_from_Brazil_(film) (645 words)

	FILM BRAZIL (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Film Brazil is your key source to filming in Brazil.
		Film Brazil is an independent group faciliated by entertainment consultant Rosimiro Amancio and top advertising agency owner, Paulo Fischer of UNAE Communications.
		Contact Film Brazil directly if you have any immediate questions we are fluent in English and have access to most other languages for translation.
	www.filmbrazil.net (94 words)

	Brazil
		An overwhelmingly powerful film, Brazil shows us in Kafkaesque fashion that true horror is something inflicted by one man on another, inevitably defying reason and logic.
		Brazil succeeds in painting an entertaining and chaotic picture of a nasty world where none of us would want to live.
		Gilliam understood that all futuristic films end up quaintly evoking the naive past in which they were made, and turned the principle into a coherent comic aesthetic.
	www.rottentomatoes.com /m/1003033-brazil (667 words)

	Amazon.com: Brazil - Criterion Collection: DVD: Terry Gilliam,Helmond,Pryce (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The film's handlers and financiers all fretted that they had an arthouse piece that would go nowhere, but Gilliam refused to make the desired cuts or to swerve from the darkness of the ending.
		When the critics lauded the film and lavished their prizes on it, the naysayer's bluff was called and the film was released, albeit to only modest box-office that barely made back its money.
		The film is for acquired tastes, and may not appeal to all audiences, but it appeals to me. Highly recommended.
	www.amazon.com /Brazil-Criterion-Collection-Terry-Gilliam/dp/0780022181 (2516 words)

	Netribution > Features > Essays > Battle For Brazil
		And at the centre of it all was the film "Brazil".
		A former film reporter at the LA Times, Mathews massive amount of research brings up fascinating facts (did you know Tom Cruise was in consideration for the role of Sam Lowry?) and enthralling anecdotes that make this story of man versus studio such a good read.
		This version of "The Battle of Brazil" is an expanded one, giving Mathews greater scope and depth to tell the story and allows the main protaganists to reflect on events some 15 years later.
	www.netribution.co.uk /features/essays/battle_brazil.html (610 words)

	Gringoes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The film is set in a poor backwater in the arid north-east of Brazil, and stars Regina Casé as Darlene.
		Inevitably the film has a gritty feeling to it, typical in Brazilian cinema, in both environment and content, and you feel for Darlene as she bounces from one bad situation to another.
		Darlene starts the film as a victim, and appears to go from one difficult situation to another, but does she have an objective, and will she ever reach it?
	www.gringoes.com /articles.asp?ID_Noticia=1473 (862 words)

	Brazil - Brazzil Magazine - TV Killed the Movies in Brazil
		The film, set in the arid northeastern sertão, documents the journey of a group of young soldiers, interspersed with documentary footage of a group of refugees.
		Both films demonstrate how, whilst the cinema novo movement was popular in as far as it tried to empathize with "the people", it was not popular in the sense of being able to fill Brazilian auditoriums.
		Brazil's disgraced former president Collor had led national cinema through one of its worst periods during the early part of last decade abolishing first Embrafilme (the government's film regulator) and Concine (the legal regulator) and then revoking the "Sarney Law", a tax which had until then helped fund cultural projects.
	www.brazzil.com /index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=780&Itemid=27 (3914 words)

	DVD Reviews - Brazil (Criterion & Universal versions) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The film is not ruined (and those who have the Universal DVD will also note that the Criterion set is leaps and bounds ahead of that edition.
		He's not as passionate about his commentary as Gilliam is, but he does shed a lot of "film school" light on this cut on the film, pointing out which scenes were alternate takes, and illuminating the plot points brought up in the more definitive version (and lost here).
		Once you learn about all of the problems and fights it took to get the film made (or even seen), you will be amazed (you'll probably have an opinion on all the politics as well).
	www.thedigitalbits.com /reviews/brazilcriterion.html (1897 words)

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