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"Though I've got this reputation for being out of control, it's not true, it just happens to be a more interesting story than the truth. " -- terry gilliam
Terry Gilliam is a film director who first came to public attention with the British comedy troupe Monty Python's Flying Circus, where he first became known for his cut-out animations. With the expansion of the Pythons into feature films, he began screen-writing and directing. His strongest efforts straddle the realm of fantasy films with a strong dose of comedy. Some of Gilliam's more popular films include TIME BANDITS, BRAZIL, 12 MONKEYS and FEAR AND LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS.
The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus
Actor Heath Ledger, who starred in Gilliam's BROTHERS GRIMM was in the midst of filming a role in THE IMAGINARIUM OF DR. PARNASSUS (Gilliam's current project) when he passed away in NYC. Word on the project changes from day to day.
- Doctor Parnassus Lives
- Quick Stop was contacted by a source within the production of Terry Gilliam's upcoming The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus and they wanted to clarify the status of the film.
- The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
- Official Movie Site
- Dreams: The Imaginarium of Dr Parnassus, a Terry Gilliam film
- here's a preview of Terry Gilliam's forthcoming feature, now in preproduction - including cast details, a synopsis and a detailed concept drawing.
- First Look: Heath Ledger In The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus. on Product Reviews Net
- The first pictures of Heath Ledger in Terry Gilliam's The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus have been posted online.
- Here's an interesting rumor about what Gilliam might do with THE IMAGINARIUM OF DOCTOR PARNASSUS!
- With Heath Ledger's surprising and tragic death (a heart attack they're saying now) came talk of Terry Gilliam's curse. Ledger had shot a good amount of his work on Gilliam's new movie, THE IMAGINARIUM OF DOCTOR PARNASSUS.
- First Look at Gilliam's DOCTOR PARNASSUS
- The first look at Terry Gilliam's upcoming fantasy The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus has made its way online courtesy of their official website. This film will feature Heath Ledger in his last starring role alongside co-stars Christopher Plummer, Tom Waits, Lily Cole, Andrew Garfield and Verne Troyer. Gilliam is directing, based on a screenplay he penned with Charles McKeown.
- Depp, Law and Ferrell in the Same Film?
- Does Terry Gilliam have a fantastic plan to get his film back on track or is this just a massive internet rumor that is circulating around the blogger geeks?
- Depp, Farrell and Law step in to finish Ledger film - Yahoo! News
- LONDON (Reuters) - Work on Heath Ledger's last film, suspended due to his death by accidental overdose in January, has resumed after three Hollywood stars agreed to play his character, director Terry Gilliam said on Monday.
Terry Gilliam Mini-Bio
Terence Vance Gilliam was born November 22, 1940 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He went to college at Occidental College in Los Angeles. After school, he was briefly employed by MAD magazine, but in 1967, he moved to England.He began working doing animations for a children's television show called DO NOT ADJUST YOUR SET, a show which also employed Eric Idle, Terry Jones and Michael Palin. In 1969, Gilliam was invited to join the newly forming MONTY PYTHON'S FLYING CIRCUS.
Following the Python's first film, MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL, Gilliam moved into directing on his own with JABBERWOCKY (1976). His second film TIME BANDITS (1979) caught the public's eye and his directing career has continued ever since.
Gilliam's work is often cited for having strong fantasy elements and a wonderfully-detailed settings. He's also got a bit of a reputation in Hollywood for standing by his vision, even facing off with the studios backing his productions when they try and curtail things. Debate continues over whether he is a "difficult" director or if it's just a sign of someone willing to stand up for their art.
Gilliam-esque
A fantastic interview with Gilliam cartooning live and life-size!
Also, here are a pair of commercials that Terry Gilliam did for Nike in 2002. They coincided with the World Cup that year.
Also, here are a pair of commercials that Terry Gilliam did for Nike in 2002. They coincided with the World Cup that year.
About Terry Gilliam
Here is material that focuses on Terry Gilliam and his performing, screen-writing and directing career.
Gilliam Takes to the Streets for TIDELAND
Gilliam's TIDELAND went into wide release in the fall of 2006 after being screened at several film festivals. This movie reunites Gillam with his lead from THE FISHER KING, actor Jeff Bridges. It follows the story of young Jeliza-Rose, whose father moves her to a house into the middle of nowhere after the death of her mother. Advanced word is that this movie is one of Gilliam's darker offerings, as the story involves a little girl who uses fantasy to escape from her heroin-addict parent's reality and whose companions are a series of decapitated doll heads.
TIDELAND - official movie site
Tideland - from Wikipedia, talking both about the book and movie
DREAMS: Tideland - about the movie from the Terry Gilliam fanzine
Tideland - from the Toronto Film Festival site
If you like a bit of pre-release reviews and spoilers, check out what AICN has to say about Tideland!
Terry Gilliam recently appeared in New York "crashing" the line for The Daily Show, appealing for funding for independant filmmakers and promoting his new movie TIDELAND.
You can watch the video below, and read more about the Street Mixer on AICN.
TIDELAND - official movie site
Tideland - from Wikipedia, talking both about the book and movie
DREAMS: Tideland - about the movie from the Terry Gilliam fanzine
Tideland - from the Toronto Film Festival site
If you like a bit of pre-release reviews and spoilers, check out what AICN has to say about Tideland!
Terry Gilliam recently appeared in New York "crashing" the line for The Daily Show, appealing for funding for independant filmmakers and promoting his new movie TIDELAND.
You can watch the video below, and read more about the Street Mixer on AICN.
Terry Gilliam Facts and Fictions
- The Terry Gilliam Files
- Eye-opening conversations with the visionary director, as well as behind-the-scenes stories documenting the production of some of the most imaginative films of the '80s and '90s.
- Terry Gilliam
- by Rumsey Taylor - profile of film director Terry Gilliam
A capsule description of Gilliam's work obligates a variety: his films depict over three millennia of history, approach birth and death, youth and old age. There are also unifying qualities between his films: an idealistic, childish perception of history; uncharacteristic humour in carefully rendered time periods; and protagonists hindered by corporate dominance and consumerist vices. In whole, Gilliam's films concern freedom, specifically the varied forms in which it is manifested. Aptly, freedom in a Terry Gilliam film is often an imagined liberty. - God of Filmmaking Terry Gilliam
- One of original the Monty Python cast and responsible for their strange brand of cut out animation sequences, Terry Gilliam is lately showing impressive diversity from off hand comedy. While still making bizarre films with over the top characters, his more recent projects have been darker and more dramatic. Even an anti-Python activist can enjoy his new projects.
- Dreams: The Terry Gilliam Fanzine
- A fanzine dedicated to the writer, animator and film director Terry Gilliam
- TIDELAND And Gilliam Were In Brussels; Simon Says Was There!!
- Terry Gilliam was recently in Brussels for a presentation of his new film TIDELAND, based on Mitch Cullin's startling book about a young girl grappling with (and escaping from) the realities of her parent's drug addictions. Gilliam took questions beforehand as well.
Simon Says was there, and sent in a detailed report about not only the Q&A, but his impressions of the film itself. - CARTE BLANCHE TERRY GILLIAM
- CARTE BLANCHE TERRY GILLIAM
As part of a retrospective on director Gilliam, the Film Museum let him show a selection of films of his own choice. The list is a fantastic and eclectic line-up, and I'd LOVE to stage the entire list at my house as an event with friends.... - Catching Up with Terry Gilliam - ComingSoon.net
- Is the world ready for another Terry Gilliam movie?
- Gilliam out to disturb with film about childhood
- Terry Gilliam tends not to make life easy for audiences, and his new film about a 10-year-old girl
who prepares heroin for her father to inject and seeks to seduce an older simpleton is out to make them squirm some more. - Images - Terry Gilliam and Brazil
- f there is one aspect of filmmaking for which Terry Gilliam has won widespread acclaim from scholars and journalistic film reviewers, it is his extraordinary mise-en-scene - that particular manner in which he arranges his cinematic elements in order to achieve a unique style.
- TerryGilliam.com...Welcome!
- Some basics about Gilliam
- Neil Gaiman charges Terry Gilliam a groat for book option
- "Terry and I put our heads together and thought, well, we really want Terry Gilliam to make it -- we want this to be a Terry Gilliam film. We've said no to lots of people who want to make it into a cool, big commercial film... We decided that it should cost him a groat."
- TERRY GILLIAM'S TIDELAND COMES IN AS MURKY AS EVER
- Tideland is a fitting metaphor for the career of Terry Gilliam, who's braved the choppy waters of movie-making ever since he sailed on to the big screen from those quirky animation sketches he created with England's Monty Python.
- Art Directors Honor Terry Gilliam - Cinematical
- Gilliam will receive the award at the Art Director's Guild Awards on February 17, when the guild also names the winners of its prizes for excellence in production design for 2006. Like other guild awards, the ADG's honors recognize distinct categories for its field. Nominated films are separated into three groups: period piece; contemporary; and fantasy
- film ick: Script Review: The Imaginarium Of Dr Parnassus By Terry Gilliam And Charles McKeown
- Don't ask me how, because I'm not entirely sure myself but through a confusing series of clandestine exchanges, film ick have managed to get ahold of Terry Gilliam and Charles McKeown's script, The Imaginarium of Dr Parnassus. I don't even know when the script wound up here, but here it is, in the virtual pile. Keep reading - because you'll want to know all about this one. There will be spoilers ahead, but nothing from the latter parts of the story.
- film ick: ThinkFilm Think They Know Better Than Terry Gilliam
- Gilliam has spoken. His preferred ratio for Tideland on DVD is...
drumroll please...
2.25:1 - which, I'm sure you know isn't a standard aspect ratio. He opened the matte up a little from the 2.35:1 cinema release, and this is the master he provided to both ThinkFilm in the US and Revolver in the UK. Revolver issued it, ThinkFilm thought they knew better... - TERRY GILLIAM - GOOD OMENS FOR GILLIAM
- Terry Gilliam has given new hopes to fans eager to see his long-mooted adaptation of Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman's novel Good Omens.
Glimpses of Gilliam
What Flickr has to offer of Terry Gilliam
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Terry Gilliam at the World Premiere of Tideland at the Elgin Theatre. Friday Se...
terry gilliam reading alice in wonderland without glasses
BRAZIL
It's Only A State Of Mind
Gilliam intended for his dystopian film BRAZIL to open in 1984, but battles with the movie studio over it's "unhappy" ending wound up delaying the film until 1985. Edited to be "less dark" for it's US release, the film didn't catch with the movie public, was praised and awarded by critics and is now considered a cult classic.
The movie follows Sam Lowry (Jonathan Pryce) a corporate drone who has dreams about a mysterious redhead, who constantly covers for the incompetence of his boss (Ian Holm) and who is always being badgered by his mother (Katherine Helmond) about his lack of promotion at his work. One day when he literally sees the girl of his dreams, he decides to take sudden action, which not only breaks up the boredom but threatens to destroy his world.
There are a variety of fantastic supporting roles in this film, including Robert DeNiro as a commando heating engineer, Bob Hoskins as a hysterically-nasty repairman and Michael Palin in what might be called the villian's role. The production design is retro-futuristic, with many 1940s elements incorporated in the look of things.
The movie follows Sam Lowry (Jonathan Pryce) a corporate drone who has dreams about a mysterious redhead, who constantly covers for the incompetence of his boss (Ian Holm) and who is always being badgered by his mother (Katherine Helmond) about his lack of promotion at his work. One day when he literally sees the girl of his dreams, he decides to take sudden action, which not only breaks up the boredom but threatens to destroy his world.
There are a variety of fantastic supporting roles in this film, including Robert DeNiro as a commando heating engineer, Bob Hoskins as a hysterically-nasty repairman and Michael Palin in what might be called the villian's role. The production design is retro-futuristic, with many 1940s elements incorporated in the look of things.
Official Web Sites
Here are some sites which "officially" talk about Terry Gilliam and his films.
- Pythonline
- Hello. I'm Daphne, the all-nude Tour Operator for the new Monty Python Web site. I used to work at The International House of Lap Dancing, where I was a Lap Operative for many months before Mr. Monty asked me to come and act as a Tour Guide and Factotum at their exciting new web site.
- Tideland
- Welcome to the world of TIDELAND, as Terry Gilliam takes us on a wild and surreal adventure with his adaptation of Mitch Cullin's cult classic novel , which follows the young Jeliza-Rose as she drifts from the harsh reality of her childhood and escapes into the fantasies of her own active imagination.
- The Brothers Grimm - The Official Web Site
- The Official Web Site for THE BROTHERS GRIMM on DVD from Dimension Home Video. Terry Gilliam (Brazil) depicts the classic world of Grimms' Fairy Tales, with Matt Damon, Heath Ledger, as hapless con artists who wander into an enchanted forest.
- Pythonline > Biographies > Terry Gilliam
- Terry Gilliam Biography by John Cleese.
The truly exceptional animated sequences in "Life of Brian" spring from the fertile brain of London, England-based U.C.L.A. graduate TERRY VANCE GILLIAM. Gilliam came to England just 12 years ago for a bet. He's still there, ensconced in his Hampstead, London, England, Europe studio home. A painter, a sculptor, a near-professional-standard opera singer, a photo-journalist and a former swimming champion all live nearby.
THE ADVENTURES OF BARON MUNSCHAUSEN
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
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Clips and Trailers
Select Films From Terry Gilliam
LOST IN LA MANCHA
The Gilliam Film that Never Was, but Still Might Be
I had the good fortune to see this documentary during its brief theatrical release. If you've ever wondered just what it is that can make a film production implode, you will find this a fascinating film.
Arriving on set to film the making of Gilliam's adaptation of Don Quixote starring Johnny Depp, the filmmakers instead got to watch as the production costs soared, disaster after disaster happened and the entire production was shut down after mere weeks. Wondrous and strange.
One of Gilliam's current wishes is to reclaim the rights to this movie and make the picture.
Arriving on set to film the making of Gilliam's adaptation of Don Quixote starring Johnny Depp, the filmmakers instead got to watch as the production costs soared, disaster after disaster happened and the entire production was shut down after mere weeks. Wondrous and strange.
One of Gilliam's current wishes is to reclaim the rights to this movie and make the picture.
Lost in La Mancha
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