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Lights, camera, inaction!

carsonb — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 21:57:34 -0800

Tilting at Windmills: The Outrageous Fortune of Terry Gilliam As mentioned straightaway in the comments, one glaring omission in this article is Gilliam's conflagaration over writing credits for Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas.

Dreams: The Terry Gilliam Fanzine

psmealey — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 07:58:54 -0800

Dreams: The Terry Gilliam Fanzine Or, if you prefer, here is his Official Site

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blendor — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 08:15:02 -0800

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Poolio — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 01:07:14 -0800

Storytime is a 1968 animated short film which marks the directorial debut of Terry Gilliam. It is not to be confused with Storytime, a famous sketch from Monty Python's Flying Circus (aka Monty Python's Fliegender Zirkus) — the British TV show for which Gilliam created surreal animations that segued between sketches (or not). In 1974, he followed that up with another animated short film called The Miracle of Flight. The next year, he set off in a different direction, leading Monty Python's quest for The Holy Grail [LEGO]. That path eventually led to Brazil, which brings us to where we are today.

Brazil and torture

languagehat — Sun, 25 Feb 2007 06:45:50 -0800

What Brazil tells us about torture today. A thoughtful discussion by Clive James of torture in the context of the movies in general and Terry Gilliam's Brazil in particular. Warning: occasional descriptions of awful behavior, and the reader may have his opinion of humanity lowered. "The historical evidence suggests that on the rare occasions when a state begins again in what a fond humanitarian might think of as a condition of innocence, a supply of young torturers is the first thing it produces... In the Nazi and Soviet cellars and camps, people were regularly tortured for information they did not possess: i.e., they were tortured just for the hell of it."

"Filmmakers like Gilliam keep coming to the Canadian talent trough for child actors because our kids, by all accounts, tend to be easy to direct, manage, and mould.

amberglow — Sun, 02 Oct 2005 20:42:56 -0800

Sarah Polley, the little girl in The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, finds out that another little Canadian girl is about to star in another Terry Gilliam film, and writes--and warns--about her experiences. Gilliam responds.

rube

onkelchrispy — Sat, 15 Jan 2005 08:33:03 -0800

If Terry Gilliam and Rube Goldberg made flash games, they may go something like this.

campy — Wed, 19 Dec 2001 15:37:07 -0800

Why grammar is the first casualty of war... "It's hard for abstract nouns to surrender. In fact it's very hard for abstract nouns to do anything at all of their own volition - even trained philologists can't negotiate with them."