Terry Gilliam’s 1985 masterpiece “Brazil” foretold our drift toward fascism Sam Lowry (Jonathan Pryce) imprisoned within malfunctioning ductwork in Terry Gilliam’s 1985 masterpiece ...

That's a linchpin scene from Terry Gilliam's visionary 1985 masterpiece "Brazil," a prophetic and bleakly satirical depiction of a society entombed in fascism. What's amazing about "Brazil," even ...

40 years later, Brazil is as prescient as ever It isn’t the technology of Terry Gilliam’s sci-fi classic that holds up, but the film’s depiction of cruel bureaucracy.

Released in 1985, in the fading light of the Cold War, Gilliam’s film announced itself as both absurdist vaudeville and bleak prophecy, a comedy choking on its own laughter.