Brazil

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The Orwellian world of Sam Lowry, a man seeking escape through fabulous dreams from grey, soul-destroying bureaucracy, begins to fragment when he meets the very real, and very rebellious, woman of his fantasies. With freedom fighting engineers, direct debit state torture, and a woman who melts from too much plastic surgery, this is Gilliam's finest hour, perfectly complemented by a script co-written with Tom Stoppard. Compassionate lunacy, with images of startling power and perhaps most incredibly, a thoroughly evil Michael Palin.

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30 min featurette - 'What is Brazil?'; Trailer; 2.0 Surround

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Article - "Cinema and Surrealism" by Geoffrey Nowell-Smith
Tuesday 29th May 2007

Surrealism is now thought of mainly as an art movement, one of the many styles that succeeded each other with bewildering rapidity in the early 20th century. There was Cubism, and Fauvism, and Suprematism, and Futurism, and Dada, and near the end there was Surrealism...  View article in full

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Best of British

Including: A Fish Called Wanda, A Matter of Life and Death , A Room With A View, Blow-up, Brazil, Brief Encounter (Lean, 1945), Brighton Rock, Caravaggio, Dont Look Now, Get Carter.

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Including: 2001: A Space Odyssey, A.I., Alien Quadrilogy (Box Set), Back to the Future Trilogy, Barbarella, Brazil, Capricorn One, Close Encounters Of The Third Kind, Dark Star, Destination Moon.

Black Comedies

Including: American Psycho, Arsenic and Old Lace, Brazil, Buffet Froid, Charlie Chaplin - Monsieur Verdoux, Dr Strangelove, Drop Dead Gorgeous, Eating Raoul, Fargo, Gremlins.

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Including: 11/09/01 - September 11, 9/11, Arlington Road, Brazil, Die Hard (6 Disc Collectors Edition) (DVD), Europa, Exodus (Preminger, 1960), Fahrenheit 9/11, Guerilla: The Taking Of Patty Hearst, Heaven.

Surrealism on Film

Including: A Hard Days Night, A Snake Of June, Brazil, Celine And Julie Go Boating, Cinema Dada, Dreams That Money Can Buy, Fantômas, Inland Empire, Jan Svankmajer: The Complete Short Films 1964-1992, L'Age dOr / Un Chien Andalou.

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