Terry Gilliam’ famously fought a public battle against studio meddling over Brazil, particularly regarding an enforced happy ending. Heavily influenced by both Orwell’s 1984 and Kafka, the movie stars Jonathan Pryce as a low level bureaucrat, who becomes lost between his dreams and reality in a hyper-stylised city, somewhere between film noir and Lang’s Metropolis….
Dead Of Night
British film studio Ealing is famous for making many classic comedies (Whisky Galore, Passport To Pimlico etc) in the 40s. They also, strangely, made one of the greatest horror movies of all time. Dead Of Night is a ‘portmanteau’ style horror – later popularised in the 60s by another British studio, Amicus (Tales From The…