BRAZIL

Friday, August 8th and Saturday, August 9th at 10:00 p.m.
Admission: $5.00

LATE NIGHT CULT CLASSIC PRESENTED BY BOOKMANS
http://www.bookmans.com

"BRAZIL is Terry Gilliam's surrealist manifesto: Art deco swirls in concrete, fetishistic military gear and top hats, it’s a pop culture cartoon explosion wrapped over an epic tale of the everyman ... funny, scary and sublime." - FILM CRITIC.COM

Weird, wild and endlessly original, the surrealistic sci-fi headtrip BRAZIL is eccentric director Terry Gilliam's masterpiece. Cowritten by Gilliam, playwright Tom Stoppard, and Charles McKeown, the film is set in a futuristic society laden with red tape and bureaucracy. When a bug (literally) gets in the system, an innocent man is killed, leading mild-mannered Sam Lowry (Jonathan Pryce) to reexamine what he wants out of life. He decides to fight the totalitarian system in his search for freedom--and the woman he loves.
The terrific, offbeat cast features Robert De Niro as a renegade heating engineer; Katherine Helmond as Sam's ever-younger mother; Michael Palin as a government-sanctioned torturer with a distaste for upsetting the status quo; Bob Hoskins as a vengeful Central Services employee; Jim Broadbent as a wacko plastic surgeon; Ian Holm as Sam's nerve-ridden, pitiful boss, afraid of his own signature; and Kim Greist as the rebel Sam falls for.
The visual style of BRAZIL is relentless, overwhelming, and outrageously spectacular. Giant monoliths rise from the street; government offices are a network of computers, pneumatic tubes, and narrow hallways built with Nazi-like precision; and apartment complexes are a maze of washed-out grays and numbers, all frighteningly uniform. The terrorist explosions actually bring color into this dull, monochramatic world. BRAZIL may be a nightmare vision of the future, yet it's also hysterically funny and incisive, one of the most inventive, influential, and important films of the 1980s.