Posts Tagged ‘Brazil’
Film Review – The Zero Theorem
Terry Gilliam is a man of big ideas. In his latest film, The Zero Theorem (2013), he tackles arguably the biggest idea out there: the meaning of life. That’s quite a mountain to climb, and while I admire Gilliam for taking on the challenge, I’m…
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Lists – Top 5 Movies That Nobody Talks About…Unless They’re Always Talking About Them
Though cinema is generally experienced in a communal setting, it has a very personal effect on its viewers. Everyone has their favorite movies, and in the wake of the Tarantino generation—led by the Pied Piper of niche film excavation and exaltation—many people are constantly on…
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An Appreciation – Metropolis
In 2008, one of the great discoveries in cinema lore took place in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Hidden in a stack of canisters was a 16mm duplicate copy of Fritz Lang’s science fiction masterpiece, Metropolis (1927). Horribly scratched and weathered through time, it contained possibly the…
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Episode 210 – DVD Rundown 12-4-2012
Spencer and Greg give their DVD rundown for December 4th, 2012. In this episode they discuss The Dark Knight Rises, Beasts of the Southern Wild, The Odd Life of Timothy Green, and Brazil.
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What Makes a Brazilian Movie?
In the gone 1960s and 1970s—hard and military times for any country located in South America—Glauber Rocha was a man with radical ideas, to the point of bothering both the right and left wing. He became the mentor of a group of young artists and…
READ MORESome Thoughts on ‘Brazil’ (1985)
Something’s not right in Brazil (1985). While the quirky characters that fill Terry Gilliam’s oddly backwards future-scape cling to an appearance of efficient normality, these same people repeatedly reveal that they can’t be put in a numbered box and ticked off.
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