I have a friend who is looking for the director's cut of Brazil. It must be a region one and he does not want the CC version. I have no idea why. Does such an edition exist?
Thanks
Austin

Don't think the DC is available alone in R1.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg...v=glance&s=dvd

Universal bare-bones is 131 minutes... the Criterion DC is 142.

He's a cheap bastard...

j/k

I don't own either (I'm holding out for the inevitable anamorphic Criterion re-issue) but I've heard repeatedly that the Universal cover is misprinted, and it in fact has the same 142-minute director's cut as the Criterion edition. dvdcompare.net also says the Universal release is the DC.

Well... there it is. An anamorphic re-release would be nice, especially if we could trade in our old disks for the new ones instead of having to buy the set all over again.

That(non-anamorphic transfer) and the lack of DD 5.1 are the only two real issues with this set. Yes, it would be nice if it did get the treatment it deserved.

The Criterion edition is the only way to go. Cover the rest of his costs for him, and make him buy it

I'm also holding out on the CC set until it's anamorphic.

While I love my CC I would trade it for an anamorphic 1-disk of the DC. I watched the theatrical cut on cable back in the 80's and have no desire to ever see it again. Although the 3rd disk doc is nice, once you've seen it... Now if the 3rd disk extras were in cluded that would be gravy.

i bet they would give us the same deal as charade...meaning no deal at all really

The Criterion DVD AND the Universal DVD are the exact same cut. I promise you.

First, many thanks for the reply and I have passed the information on to him.
He is buying this as a present for another guy and it is this guy who doesn't want the CC version. The guy doing the buying can't figure him out either. Money is not the issue. He just doesn't like CC.
Austin

The only version of Brazil released to home video on any format is the full director's cut.

There's no way to get the original theatrical cut anywhere.

The Criterion dvd contains an early TV cut of the that is basically just a censored theatrical cut, but its technically not (It even has pauses for commercials).

If money's not the issue, what's not to like? I've never heard of a complaint about Criterion that *wasn't* "they're too expensive".

Well, some people complain "They release movies I've never heard of," but I don't see why that would stop somebody from getting a movie they loved...

It's weird that anybody who would know enough about DVD to know what Criterion is would not like them.

Anyway, you can get the same cut from Universal, but Gilliam's commentary on 'Brazil' is one of the best commentaries I've ever heard.

That's not really true. There's quite a lot in the TV cut which is *not* from the theatrical cut. Almost every scene with Kim Greist is extended, there's an alternate take of one Palin scene, and I think there might even be extra De Niro stuff. I would estimate that, of the 90 minutes, about a quarter of it was added back in or alternate scenes.

same

That's not true by a long shot. The final final director's cut was only released in 1996. Prior to that, the theatrical versions (or slightly modified versions in Europe and Japan) were the versions available on home video. The U.S. theatrical cut, for example, was released here on tape and laserdisc. The European theatrical version is even currently available on DVD in various regions on the world.

DJ

Not true at all, as explained by djtoell. The American theatrical cut was released on VHS and laserdisc.

Not true either. The TV cut is not "basically" the theatrical cut at all. It is a completely different cut of the film, reworked from top to bottom without Terry Gilliam's approval. Listen to the commentary on that cut of the movie for an explanation of how it was created and how it differs from the theatrical cut and the Director's Cut.