Brazil

“The first thing that I come to is a man that I've worked with called Terry Gilliam and this is one of his all-time great films Brazil and I adore it. It's so inventive, it's 1984-esque, it's dystopian, it's anti-capitalist, it's anti-commercialism. It is a masterpiece of rebellion and of insanity and Jonathan Pryce has never been so incredible and Terry has never been so let off the leash. I'm going to start there.”

“Wait a second, Brazil is a must. God bless Terry Gilliam. Terry's imagination is so vast and of course this is like one of the many examples of oh it's a science fiction dystopic satire set in the future. You have to watch this because just the plastic surgery scene alone, Katherine Helmond is so fantastic and it's just so outrageous. This will be always one of my all-time favorite movies.”

“I saw Brazil which is amazing. Brazil, and each time I see it, you know, it's kind of different. The first time I saw it in theater when it was released and it was like total magic, it was really total magic.”

“Brazil is a real favorite of mine. Everything about it. The art direction is so lush. It’s obviously influenced so many things that you see, so many modern meditations on bureaucracy and Orwellian themes. The latest edition is a beautiful 4K restoration, which I just got and watched, and it’s… real chef’s kiss stuff. The extra features disc has this awesome documentary from the ’90s on the whole epic fight over this movie. The studio wanted to gut it and recut it and give it a happy ending.”

“Oh wow yeah we have to do this one. Brazil. Or look, you think it's all that but it's so much more. Oh my goodness, there's a connection between 1984 and this film but I think they use a different tone to talk about it like humor is used in this, how it's shot, the zoom-in shots, the color palette, everything about Brazil to me just represents creativity at its finest and it has something to say and you're rooting for the protagonist the whole time.”

“I don't know if I had Brazil on Criterion oh yeah Brazil yeah this is great I love this movie I'm stealing this...”

“Brazil, 1985. It’s kind of known in the lore that he had a cut of this that he wanted to release but Universal didn’t, and that he took the film hostage. I was already a Monty Python fan, already a Time Bandits fan, but this film has just... And I think you can see it in WALL•E, just the influence this had. I can’t say enough about this film. I love this film. Love, love, love, love, love, love.”