Dear Sid Sheinberg, When Are You Going To Release My Film Brazil? Terry Gilliam
It’s Terry Gilliam’s 71st birthday today, so Criterion posted the following image to their Facebook page.

That’s a full page ad that Gilliam took out in the otherwise spiderishly dense Variety after Universal refused to release his film Brazil in the United States. Shortly after, Brazil netted all the big gongs at the LA Critics Film Awards and the tide started to turn…
Gilliam’s Brazil, the greatest film ever made, is available on Blu-ray in the US now
, in the UK from December 4th
, and has also received a brilliant Criterion release on DVD
.
The Blu-ray releases feature Gilliam’s original cut of the film as released in Europe, the Criterion DVD restores a few seconds of extra material in a couple of scenes.