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Fw: "Brazil" Screens Sat. Dec. 1 at 3pm

This Saturday December 1 at 3pm, the weekly human
rights and social justice film series at Pannasastra
University resumes with a screening of BRAZIL,
directed by Terry Gilliam.

Pitting the imagination of common man Sam Lowry (the
brilliantly befuddled Jonathan Pryce) against the
oppressive storm troopers of the Ministry of
Information, Terry Gilliam's BRAZIL has come to be
regarded as an anti-totalitarianism cautionary tale
that brings to mind the works of George Orwell, Aldous
Huxley, Franz Kafka, and Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

The movie presents such an unrelentingly imaginative
and savage vision of institutional bureaucracy that it
almost became a victim of small-minded studio
management itself--until Gilliam surreptitiously
screened his cut for the Los Angeles Film Critics
Association, which named it the best movie of 1985 and
virtually embarrassed Universal Pictures into
releasing it, albeit in a shorter version.

The version screened this Saturday is the director's
cut, gathering footage from both the European and
American versions of the film.

Co written by Gilliam, playwright Tom Stoppard and
Charles McKeown, BRAZIL features a top notch cast of
supporting actors, including Robert De Niro, Jim
Broadbent, and Katherine Helmond.

The screen is large (by PP standards) and there is
comfortable seating and air con.

Special thanks to the Open Society Justice Initiative
for their support of this film series.

Hope to see you then, and tell your friends!

posted by Jinja @ 4:21 PM