Fall Film Series: Surrealism in Film

Brazil
Friday, September 23 | 8 pm
East Building, Museum Auditorium

Brazil

Our series of surrealist-influenced films continues with Terry Gilliam's Brazil. An original member of the Monty Python comedy ensemble, Gilliam occasionally appeared in sketches but primarily crafted the show's darkly humorous animations. Directing the cult favorite Monty Python and the Holy Grail was just a steppingstone for his roiling imagination. Although Time Bandits, The Fisher King, Twelve Monkeys, and Heath Ledger's last film, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, are excellent, Brazil remains his masterpiece.

“A stunning achievement” (Village Voice) and “a superb example of the power of comedy to underscore serious ideas” (New York Times).

Brazil
(1985) Written and directed by Terry Gilliam. Jonathan Pryce, Robert De Niro, Katherine Helmond. (132 min.) R

A meek bureaucrat’s crusade jolts us into a convoluted retro-futuristic nightmare. Gilliam’s dark post-Python comedy looks more modern every year (unfortunately).
Introduced by Devin Orgeron, film studies professor at N.C. State University.

Tickets
$3.50 Museum members, students, Cinema Inc. and Galaxy Cinema members
$5 All others

Fall Film Series Pass
Valid for 9 admissions
$35 ($25 Museum members, students, Cinema Inc. and Galaxy Cinema members)
Please note that film series passes must be exchanged for individual film tickets at the Box Office.

Tickets are available online, by phone at (919) 715-5923, and in person at the Museum Box Office.

Upcoming:
Friday, September 30: Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dali's scandalous 1930 film L'âge d'or (The Golden Age)

See you at the movies!

Upcoming Special Exhibition

Rembrandt in America
Tickets on sale now

More than five years in the making, this groundbreaking special exhibition premiering at the NCMA brings together more authentic Rembrandt paintings than ever before assembled in America. The exhibition opens October 30—visit the Rembrandt page and plan your visit now!

Art in the Evening

Friday, September 23 | 5:30 pm
West Building

Relax with a glass of wine and live music by ELM collective. Our lobby-turned-lounge in the new West Building is a great place to kick off the weekend!

Small plates and beverages, including wine, beer, and nonalcoholic options, are available for purchase.

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Image Credit

Rembrandt van Rijn, Flora, circa 1654, oil on canvas, 39 3/8 x 36 1/8 in., Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of Archer M. Huntington, in memory of his father, Collis Potter Huntington, 1926 (26.101.10), © 2010 The Metropolitan Museum of Art/Art Resource, New York