Gilliam on Gilliam,9780571202805

Gilliam on Gilliam

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ISBN13: 9780571202805
ISBN10: 0571202802
Format: Trade Paper
Pub. Date: 2000-06-15
Publisher(s): Faber & Faber
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Summary

Every Terry Gilliam film creates its own unique world, fuelled byobsession and fantasy, yet realized with meticulous craftmanship and dark humour. From the medieval mock-epic Monty Python and the Holy Grail to the mythic, paranoid worlds of The Fisher King, Twelve Monkeys and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Gilliam has pursued a totally personal, uncompromising vision. This has led to legendary battles with studios and financiers, notably over The Adventures of Baron Munchausen and Brazil, which is now widely considered a classic.Gilliam is a famously candid commentator on his own work, and in these specially recorded interviews he reflects on how his Midwestern childhood and early career as an animator prepared him to undertake his extraordinary adventures in cinema.

Author Biography

Ian Christie is the co-editor of Scorsese on Scorsese and the author of Arrows of Desire: The Films of Powell and Pressburger.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Poems Unlimited vi
Acknowledgements x
Minnesota, Magic and the Movies
1(15)
Alice and the assembly line; Mad at the Algonquin and filming Joyce; army life, escape to Europe and disillusion in Disneyland
16(20)
Late Swinging London; animation as stream of consciousness; a programme called Monty Python; and the Holy Grail on a shoestring
36(28)
Jabberwocky and the joy of real actors; in the footsteps of Zeffirelli for Life of Brian
64(23)
Handmade Time Bandits and unlikely heroes; The Crimson Permanent Assurance comes aboard
87(24)
1984½ becomes Brazil, with the aid of ducts and De Niro; and what happened next
111(41)
Bernini, Dore and light filtering through the pines of Cinecitta while Munchausen hovers between life and death
152(38)
Knights errant and distressed damsels in Manhattan: The Fisher King
190(26)
The Defective Detective in development hell; A Tale of Two Cities untold; Twelve Monkeys unleashed; early cinema as The Last Machine and the art of Spellbound
216(27)
An unexpected rendezvous with Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas; and still The Defective Detective
243(24)
Filmography 267(21)
Index 288

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