Word: bested
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Brazil (1985). The movie too good to be seen! That's what Universal Pictures suggested when it hedged on releasing Terry Gilliam's apocalyptic satire about a man caught in the vise of bureaucracy. The studio couldn't see that Brazil does brilliantly what movies do best: create teeming, coherent worlds beyond our imagining...
Broadway Bound (1986). Jokemeister Neil Simon became a poignant and self- critical artist in a trilogy of which this final installment, the tale of his start in show business, was the darkest, most honest and best. The scene / of Simon dancing in the living room with his mother, encouraging her to recall the one glorious moment of a mostly lousy life, lingers and lingers...