Director's Cut of Terry Gilliam's BRAZIL to Screen at Film Forum in August

The director's cut of Terry Gilliam’s Orwellian black comedy Brazil will run at Film Forum in a new 4K restoration from Friday, August 1, through Thursday, August 7, with select screenings of Gilliam’s original 35mm director’s cut.

As those endlessly coiling serpentine ducts proliferate – seemingly beyond the power of even Central Services to control - and the omnipresent Information Service-policed towering city of the future, studiously ambitious file clerk Sam Lowery (Tony Award winner Jonathan Pryce) finds a literal flyspeck leading to apocalyptic bureaucratic foul-ups and a desperate search for the girl of his literal dreams.

The movie is Monty Python alumnus Terry Gilliam's take on a decidedly low-tech 1984-ish society, distinguished by creepily film noir ambiance, amid gargantuan fascist modern architecture, sparked by samurai battles within airborne fantasy, all underscored by Python-esque black humor and the endless variations on that hypnotic title tune. Brazil also features fellow Python alum Michael Palin, Bob Hoskins, Ian Holm, Ian Richardson, and Robert De Niro.