4K UHD, Blu-ray release: Brazil (Criterion Collection)

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Laurence
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4K UHD/Blu-ray Release Date: June 3, 2025
Price: 4K UHD/Blu-ray $41.99
Studio: Criterion

In the dystopian masterpiece Brazil, Jonathan Pryce (The Wife) plays a daydreaming everyman who finds himself caught in the soul-crushing gears of a nightmarish bureaucracy. This cautionary tale by Terry Gilliam (Time Bandits), one of the great films of the 1980s, has come to be esteemed alongside antitotalitarian works by the likes of George Orwell, Aldous Huxley, and Kurt Vonnegut. And in terms of set design, cinematography, music, and effects, Brazil is a nonstop dazzler.

Here’s a breakdown of the Gilliam-approved 4K UHD and Blu-ray’s special edition features:

  • New 4K digital restoration of Terry Gilliam’s director’s cut, supervised and approved by Gilliam, with 2.0 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack
  • One 4K UHD disc of the film presented in Dolby Vision HDR and two Blu-rays with the film and special features
  • Audio commentary by Gilliam
  • What Is “Brazil”?, Rob Hedden’s on-set documentary
  • The Production Notebook, a collection of interviews and video essays, featuring a trove of Brazil-iana from Gilliam’s personal collection
  • The Battle of “Brazil,” a documentary about the film’s contentious release, hosted by Jack Mathews and based on his book of the same name
  • “Love Conquers All” version, the studio’s ninety-four-minute, happy-ending cut of Brazil, with commentary by Brazil expert David Morgan
  • Trailer
  • English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
  • An essay by film critic David Sterritt
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About Laurence

Founder and editor Laurence Lerman saw Alfred Hitchcock’s North by Northwest when he was 13 years old and that’s all it took. He has been writing about film and video for more than a quarter of a century for magazines, anthologies, websites and most recently, Video Business magazine, where he served as the Reviews Editor for 15 years.