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| Terry Gilliam |
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| Director /
Screenwriter / Actor / Producer |
| 1940 - |
| Born November 22, Minneapolis,
Minnesota |
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Production Countries: USA, UK |
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Genres: Fantasy Comedy, Fantasy, Science Fiction |
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Collaborators: Roger
Pratt (Cinematographer), Katharine
Helmond (Leading Character Player), Michael Palin (Screenwriter/Leading
Character Player), Ian Holm (Leading Character Player), Jonathan Pryce (Leading Character Player), Lesley Walker (Editor),
Julian Doyle (Editor), Michael
Kamen (Composer), Charles McKeown (Character Player), Peter Vaughan (Character Player) |
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Recommended: Monty Python and the Holy Grail
(1975) [co-directed by Terry Jones], Twelve Monkeys (1995) |
| Worth
a Look: Brazil
(1985), The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1989), The Fisher King
(1991) |
| Links: [
IMDB ] [ All-Movie
Guide ] [ Senses
of Cinema: Great Directors ] [
Film Reference ]
[ Dreams: The Terry
Gilliam Fanzine ] [ The
Terry Gilliam Files ] [ Salon
Entertainment Interview ] [ A
Chat with Terry Gilliam ] |
| Books: [
Dark
Knights & Holy Fools: The Art and Films of Terry Gilliam ] [ Terry
Gilliam: The Pocket Essential ] [ Gilliam
on Gilliam ] |
| DVD's:
[ Amazon
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| 1,000
Greatest Films: Monty Python and the Holy Grail
(1975) [co-directed by Terry Jones], Brazil (1985) |
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"In
breaking free of Monty Python's brand of humour, Gilliam has
proven and idiosyncratic visionary to rank alongside
Lynch...Brazil provides
ample evidence of a talent for creating impossible but
nightmarishly familiar worlds. Gilliam's taste for the visually
surreal and grotesque compares with
Borowczyk,
Lynch and
Tashlin, also former animators." - Geoff
Andrew (The Film Handbook, 1989) |
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"Gilliam
has worked resolutely in the space between the two elements of
magic and reality in all his work, hardly surprising in a man
who first became widely known as the provider of brilliant,
surreal animation sequences for the Monty Python comedy team in
the late 1960s and early 1970s... Gilliam's vision is dazzling
an often very funny. One wishes, however, that he would push
towards its limits and make films which were meals rather than
snacks." -
Norman Miller (International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers, 1991) |
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"Genial
American-born cartoonist, animator and, latterly, film director
whose affable exterior conceals a macabre sense of fantasy
humour, as perhaps befits a former member of the Monty Python
team...When the Pythons moved into films, Gilliam's opportunity
to direct soon presented itself. His typically zany flourishes
added to the crazy medieval world depicted in Monty
Python and the Holy Grail before he made his solo
directorial debut on the semi-Python Jabberwocky." - David
Quinlan (Quinlan's Illustrated Guide to Film Directors, 1999) |
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