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From: riley@theory.TC.Cornell.EDU (Daniel S. Riley)
Subject: Re: Brazil
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Date: Tue, 24 Mar 1992 01:56:59 GMT

Meredith writes:
>I've seen it 27 times now, and I'll never get enough... :)  You'll see what
>I mean, and you might just be as pissed off about the edited version as I
>am.  I really wonder what Gilliam thought of it...

In January I saw a "director's cut" of Brazil at Berkeley.  The story
we were told there was that Brazil originally premiered at Berkeley,
and, in his introductory remarks before the movie (with all the studio
execs and stuff there), Terry said "I hope that someday you will get
to see *my* movie."

Which apparently doesn't come close to expressing how furious he was.
With some justification--the director's cut was a fair bit more
brilliant than what got released in the US (and I don't even want to
talk about what was done to it for television).

Also, it sure sounded to me like the director's cut had KaTe's cover
of Brazil for the closing titles.  I've hesitated to post this, as I
didn't see any confirmation in the credits, and that movie (especially
Terry's version) leaves me in enough of a daze that I could have
imagined it.  But it sure *sounded* like KaTe.

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