Terry Gilliam’s films used to be an endless source of magic for me. Time Bandits is a film I remember watching countless times as a child on TV and the family’s top-loading VCR, and I always felt special that I shared a first name with the protagonist. When I started watching cinema with a slightly [...]
Terry Gilliam was my childhood hero, mainly due to his films Time Bandits and The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, and slightly later, thanks to the delightfully nonsensical animated sequences I could see when “Monty Python’s Flying Circus” aired on Nick at Nite. It is always a terrible experience when your childhood heroes let you down. [...]
Tideland has the dubious distinction of being Terry Gilliam’s least popular film. However, there are those who love it. Michael Pailin, who has collaborated with Gilliam for decades but had nothing to do with this film, told his former Monty Python partner that Tideland was either the best thing he had ever done, or the [...]
Continuing with my exploration of Terry Gilliam’s film, I watched The Fisher King for the first time in at least 15 years. This is probably Gilliam’s least typical and most accessible movie. This is probably because it is the only Gilliam film for which he was not also involved with writing the script, and it [...]
Brazil has always been Terry Gilliam’s most lauded film, and is certainly the one that cemented his distinctive visual style. But it has never especially been a favorite of mine. I was probably a bit too young when I watched it for the first time, and was put off by it lack of the charm [...]
After watching Terry Gilliam’s Tideland for the second time yesterday, and still feeling somewhat ambivalent about it, I wanted to go back and revisit one of his films which I have always enjoyed. Time Bandits was my favorite film when I was a kid, and I caught it every time it was on TV, which [...]
Once I got into them, I quickly burned through all of the Monty Python films and backtracked to Jabberwocky. This is not a Monty Python film. Although Michael Palin is in the lead role and Terry Jones and Terry Gilliam make a small cameo appearance as the hunter who is eaten alive by the titular [...]
The first Monty Python film, And Now for Something Completely Different… was little more than a collection of their Flying Circus skits, only slightly adapted for the big screen. With their second film, they created an autonomous script that works on its own, although they did carry over some of the trappings of their TV [...]
Director: Terry Gilliam
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (2009)
Terry Gilliam’s films used to be an endless source of magic for me. Time Bandits is a film I remember watching countless times as a child on TV and the family’s top-loading VCR, and I always felt special that I shared a first name with the protagonist. When I started watching cinema with a slightly [...]
The Brothers Grimm (2005)
Terry Gilliam was my childhood hero, mainly due to his films Time Bandits and The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, and slightly later, thanks to the delightfully nonsensical animated sequences I could see when “Monty Python’s Flying Circus” aired on Nick at Nite. It is always a terrible experience when your childhood heroes let you down. [...]
Tideland (2005)
Tideland has the dubious distinction of being Terry Gilliam’s least popular film. However, there are those who love it. Michael Pailin, who has collaborated with Gilliam for decades but had nothing to do with this film, told his former Monty Python partner that Tideland was either the best thing he had ever done, or the [...]
The Fisher King (1991)
Continuing with my exploration of Terry Gilliam’s film, I watched The Fisher King for the first time in at least 15 years. This is probably Gilliam’s least typical and most accessible movie. This is probably because it is the only Gilliam film for which he was not also involved with writing the script, and it [...]
Brazil (1985)
Brazil has always been Terry Gilliam’s most lauded film, and is certainly the one that cemented his distinctive visual style. But it has never especially been a favorite of mine. I was probably a bit too young when I watched it for the first time, and was put off by it lack of the charm [...]
Time Bandits (1981)
After watching Terry Gilliam’s Tideland for the second time yesterday, and still feeling somewhat ambivalent about it, I wanted to go back and revisit one of his films which I have always enjoyed. Time Bandits was my favorite film when I was a kid, and I caught it every time it was on TV, which [...]
Jabberwocky (1977)
Once I got into them, I quickly burned through all of the Monty Python films and backtracked to Jabberwocky. This is not a Monty Python film. Although Michael Palin is in the lead role and Terry Jones and Terry Gilliam make a small cameo appearance as the hunter who is eaten alive by the titular [...]
Monty Python And The Holy Grail (1975)
The first Monty Python film, And Now for Something Completely Different… was little more than a collection of their Flying Circus skits, only slightly adapted for the big screen. With their second film, they created an autonomous script that works on its own, although they did carry over some of the trappings of their TV [...]