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Brazil is a 1985 dystopian science fiction black comedy film [9] [10] directed by Terry Gilliam and written by Gilliam, Charles McKeown, and Tom Stoppard.The film stars Jonathan Pryce and features Robert De Niro, Kim Greist, Michael Palin, Katherine Helmond, Bob Hoskins, and Ian Holm.
January 11: The first edition of the Rock In Rio festival takes place in Cidade do Rock at Barra da Tijuca featuring performances from Queen and Iron Maiden. [1]January 15: Tancredo Neves is elected President of Brazil by 480 votes against 180 for Paulo Maluf in the indirect presidential election, which brings an end to the military regime.
In contrast to the small American reception, "Forever by Your Side" was a big hit in Brazil. In 1985, the song was included on the soundtrack of a Brazilian telenovela A Gata Comeu, [5] produced and shown on television by the broadcaster Rede Globo, the world's second largest television network, between the months of April and October 1985, [5 ...
In 1985, a much-publicized war emerged between director Terry Gilliam and Universal's then-COO Sid Sheinberg over the final cut of Brazil for the film's North American release. Against Gilliam's wishes, Sheinberg wanted to cut the film from Gilliam's preferred 142 minute cut to 93 minutes and modify the dark sci-fi satire into an uplifting ...
Munchausen is the third entry in Gilliam's "Trilogy of Imagination", preceded by Time Bandits (1981) and Brazil (1985). [10] All are about the "craziness of our awkwardly ordered society and the desire to escape it through whatever means possible". [10]
Roger Ebert found 12 Monkeys ' depiction of the future similar to Blade Runner (1982, also scripted by David Peoples) and Brazil (1985, also directed by Terry Gilliam). "The film is a celebration of madness and doom, with a hero who tries to prevail against the chaos of his condition, and is inadequate", Ebert wrote.
What Is Brazil? (1985), his documentary film on the making of Terry Gilliam's acclaimed film Brazil, [7] earned a CINE Eagle Award and a C.I.N.D.Y. Award, and was selected for exhibition at the Smithsonian Institution. [4] Rob Hedden also wrote, directed and co-produced the independent feature Boxboarders!
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