The nightmarish futuristic satire brazil effectively blurs all lines between illusion and reality. Jonathan pryce plays a government statistician who chooses to blind himself to the decaying world around him. Studio: Uni Dist Corp. (mca) Release Date: 01/09/2007 Starring: Jonathan Pryce Katherine Helmond Run time: 131 minutes Rating: R Director: Terry Gilliam

Manufacturer: Universal Studios
Starring: Jonathan Pryce, Kim Greist, Robert De Niro, Katherine Helmond, Ian Holm
Directed By: Terry Gilliam

Hurt plays a scientist obsessed with discovering the realities of other states of consciousness.Genre: Feature Film-DramaRating: RRelease Date: 1-JUN-2004Media Type: DVD

Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Starring: William Hurt, Blair Brown, Bob Balaban, Charles Haid, Thaao Penghlis
Directed By: Ken Russell

In celebration of the quarter-century anniversary, Columbia Records is releasing a special limited edition DVD of this landmark film. Packaged in a deluxe DVD digi-pak designed to look like The Wall with debossed brick work and a clear O-card, this stunning release features a photo montage of film shots and a fold-out reproduction of the original film promotional poster. All the artwork and design ...

Manufacturer: Sony
Starring: Bob Geldof, Christine Hargreaves, James Laurenson, Eleanor David, Kevin McKeon

A hard days night on acid best describes this outrageous movie within a movie. Songs include: porpoise song: ditty diego-war chant: circle sky: can you dig it: as we go along: daddys song: long title: do i have to do this all over again: and happy birthday to you. Studio: Wea-des Moines Video Release Date: 06/20/2000 Starring: Victor Mature Frank Zappa Run time: 99 minutes Rating: Nr

Manufacturer: Rhino Theatrical
Starring: Micky Dolenz, Annette Funicello, Davy Jones, Michael Nesmith, Peter Tork
Directed By: Bob Rafelson

If Franz Kafka had been an animator and film director--oh, and a member of Monty Python's Flying Circus--this is the sort of outrageously dystopian satire one could easily imagine him making. However, Brazil was made by Terry Gilliam, who is all of the above except, of course, Franz Kafka. Be that as it may, Gilliam sure captures the paranoid-subversive spirit of Kafka's The Trial ...

Manufacturer: Criterion
Starring: Jonathan Pryce, Robert De Niro, Katherine Helmond, Ian Holm, Bob Hoskins

This 1983 science fiction oddity, set in the subterranean world of heroin addicts, performance artists, and androgynous models in New York's East Village, became a staple of the midnight movie circuit and college campus film societies. A tiny UFO lands o

Manufacturer: Telavista
Starring: Anne Carlisle, Paula E. Sheppard, Susan Doukas, Otto von Wernherr, Bob Brady
Directed By: Slava Tsukerman

This 1968 oddity is probably a film only a total Beatlemaniac could love, but it carries both musical and historical resonance. It also gives intimations of what would happen in the next 30 years as artists gained more and more power over how they were presented. The roots of virtually any rock star's vanity project (including Prince's Under the Cherry Moon) can be traced to this ...

Manufacturer: Mpi Home Video
Starring: Alexis (XI), Jan Carson, George Claydon, Ivor Cutler, Mal Evans
Directed By: Stephen Sanders

Look out, it's Lila! A sweet-faced topless go-go dancer, Lila loves mixing S-E-X with L-S-D. Trouble is, when she starts hallucinating, she sees flashing lights and swirling colors. The freaked-out Lila then grabs a handy meat cleaver and promptly hacks up her lovers in an acid-fueled frenzy. A mesmerizing mix of murder and madness from producer Harry Novak (Please Don't Eat My Mother), this ...

Manufacturer: Image Entertainment
Starring: Susan Stewart, Steve Vincent, M.K. Evans, Vic Lance, Pat Barrington
Directed By: William Rotsler

Although it was made in 1936, Reefer Madness didn't become a cult hit until 1972 when the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML) rescued it from the Library of Congress film archive. Thereafter, it was a mainstay on the midnight movie circuit. And it's easy to see why. The ostensible story involves a group of upstanding young high school students who succumb to the ...

Manufacturer: Motion Picture Ventures
Starring: Dorothy Short, Kenneth Craig, Lillian Miles, Dave O'Brien, Thelma White
Directed By: Louis J. Gasnier