Katherine Helmond goes in for a little touch-up in BRAZIL
WAVERLY MIDNIGHTS
IFC Center
323 Sixth Ave. at West Third St.
Weekends at midnight through December 5
212-924-7771
www.ifccenter.com
The IFC Center’s Monty Python Midnights series comes to a sensational close with two of Python animator Terry Gilliam’s best films. BRAZIL, the controversial 1985 drama in which a futuristic society gets buried in red tape, will screen Wednesday through Saturday night (November 25-28) at midnight. The film stars Jonathan Pryce as poor Sam Lowry, Katherine Helmond as his well-to-do mother with a thing for facelifts, the angelic Kim Greist, and a heroic Robert De Niro. And then, at midnight on December 4 & 5, Gilliam’s delightful TIME BANDITS screens, as a group of little people travel through time and space, meeting up with such historical, hysterical characters as Robin Hood (John Cleese), Sean Connery (King Agamemnon), and Napoleon (Ian Holm) while trapped in a battle between the Supreme Being (Sir Ralph Richardson) and the Evil Genius (David Warner). It’s all great fun and should be a blast at these midnight presentations.