Today, in the name of
The Brighton Science Festival, The Duke of York Picturehouse are showing Brazil; Terry Gilliam's surreal masterpiece. You may know it - and it's absolutely fantastic, and one of my favourite 80s Sci Fi films (if it has a twist, I'm easily won over). Here's some blurb if you haven't seen it, and
IMDB makes it sound appealing in every fashion.
Short blurb:
"A bureaucrat in a retro-future world tries to correct an administrative error and himself becomes an enemy of the state."
More interesting blurb:
"Terry Gilliam’s blackly comic futuristic fantasy is set in an Orwellian world of all-pervasive bureaucratic suppression and lumbering 1940s technology, where Jonathan Pryce’s timid, contented underachiever pursues the girl of his dreams and falls murderously foul of the system. BRAZIL is funny, cruel, and relentless, and is filmed with tremendous visual invention and an almost fetishistic attention to the minutiae of its imagined world. Screenplay by Gilliam and Tom Stoppard. Striking cameo roles from De Niro, Bob Hoskins & Michael Palin."
The Duke of York's picturehouse, compared to the dear local Odeon, is a traditional cinema; a lovely yellow, alcohol-providing, building filled with velvety seats. You could watch Avatar and feel art-house in it. Tonight you can pretend film watching is in the name of intellectual science, and the film's brilliant!
It's on at 6pm, it's a 15 so you must be 15 or wear stilts. Adults cost £7.20, and concessions and kids are less. See the
Duke of York's website or Twitter
@DukeofYorks
