Under the Radar

FRED ARMISEN

Sometimes people pick a favorite movie, and just kind of stick to it just because it’s like what they decided, which is fine. When I ask myself, “What movie can I watch over and over?,” it remains Brazil. It still resonates. Especially during the early 2000s when there was so much paranoia about terrorism and stuff.

“It’s funny how our lives really have turned out that way with little devices that are supposed to be really efficient, but really they’re not.”

When it came out, I was in college. People can be pretty impressionable when, and that it was Terry Gilliam, and something about the way it looked already, I was already sold. And I was like, “I have got to see this movie.” I just loved it, I just kept seeing it. It was one of those movies that would play in art-houses for the next 10 years. All of a sudden it would be playing somewhere in some other city and I would go see it.

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