Synopsis -- Presented at LACMA by Terry Gilliam and Jonathan Pryce and preceded by The Crimson Permanent Assurance.  The director’s cut has a running time of 142 minutes, and includes much of the darkness that was cut out by Universal brass on the original release in 1985.  Terry Gilliam introduced it as being “hopefully the film we shot,” after the legendary fight over the first released version.  This film was an extremely dark comedy taking place in a future world overcome by fear of terrorism and resorting to 17^th century witch hunt practices.

Ryan's review:

This film is not funny, but very witty.  Gilliam and company bring to life very scary visions that do closely resemble his animation on Monty Python.  I was constantly thinking this movie was a cross between Fritz Lang, Kubric, and Pink Floyd’s The Wall.  All in all, I have to say the director’s cut wore me out, as most do.  The story goes that the brass at Universal was so pissed at Gilliam for whatever reason, that the cut the dark side out of the film.  Gilliam crammed it all back in, and yes, it may be closer to his vision, but fuck-off.  I liked it, but I was exhausted and in a hurry to get to a big Hollywood party.  Jonathan Pryce was excellent, in the film and in person.  He won a Tony, you know.

Rating: 6 out of 10 best movies ever that have assured my love of the editor.

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