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Terry Gilliam |
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Director / Screenwriter |
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| Born November 22, Minneapolis,
Minnesota |
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Production Countries: USA, UK |
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Genres: Fantasy, Fantasy Comedy, Science Fiction |
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Collaborators:
Charles McKeown (Screenwriter/Character Player), Roger
Pratt (Cinematographer), Katharine
Helmond (Leading Character Player), Christopher Plummer (Leading
Player), Johnny Depp (Leading Character Player), Ian Holm (Leading
Character Player), Jonathan Pryce (Leading Character Player), Michael Palin (Screenwriter/Leading
Character Player), Necola Pecorini (Cinematographer), Lesley Walker (Editor) |
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Recommended: Monty Python and the Holy Grail
(1975)* [co-directed by
Terry Jones], Twelve Monkeys (1995) |
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Worth
a Look: Time Bandits
(1981), Brazil (1985)*, The Adventures of Baron
Munchausen (1989), The Fisher King (1991), The Imaginarium of Doctor
Parnassus (2009) |
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Duds: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998) |
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* Listed in TSPDT's
1,000 Greatest Films
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Links: [
Amazon
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IMDB ] [
TCMDB ] [
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 ] [
Slant Magazine Interview (2009)
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Books:
[
The Battle of Brazil: Terry Gilliam v. Universal Pictures in the Fight
to the Final Cut ] [
Losing the Light: Terry Gilliam and the Munchausen Saga ] [
Terry Gilliam: Interviews ] [
Dark
Knights & Holy Fools: The Art and Films of Terry Gilliam ] [
Terry
Gilliam: The Pocket Essential ] [
Gilliam
on Gilliam ] |
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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."
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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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Please
note that the rating given for this director (see top-right) is based
only on the films we have seen (listed above). Films by this director
that we haven't seen include Jabberwocky (1977), The Brothers Grimm
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"Gilliam
likes the romantic vision available to apparently crazy
people, as evidenced in both The Fisher King (1991)
and his broken-off film about Don Quixote. Gilliam
sees animation as creative, vitalistic, and emotional. His
fish-eye lenses, fantastic sets, and caricatured acting all
contribute to a cartoon-like sensibility in his live-action
movies. In Twelve Monkeys, Gilliam takes the plot of
La Jetée and changes it from a meditation on
photography into a cartoon." -
Steven Dillon, The Solaris Effect: Art
& Artifice in Contemporary American Film |
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Top 250 Directors |
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501 Movie Directors: A
Comprehensive Guide to the Greatest Filmmakers |
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See Also |
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Walerian Borowczyk |
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Tim
Burton |
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Alfonso Cuarón |
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Gullermo del Toro |
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Jean-Pierre Jeunet |
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Terry
Jones |
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Spike Jonze |
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Fritz Lang |
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Alex
Proyas |
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Nicolas Roeg |
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Jan
Svankmajer |
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Vincent Ward |
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Terry Gilliam's Favourites |
| The
Birth of a Nation (1915)
D.W. Griffith,
Citizen Kane (1941)
Orson Welles,
8½ (1963)
Federico Fellini,
The Exterminating Angel (1962)
Luis Buñuel,
Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
David Lean,
Napoléon (1927)
Abel Gance,
Pinocchio (1940)
Ben Sharpsteen &
Hamilton Luske,
The Seven Samurai (1954)
Akira Kurosawa,
The Seventh Seal (1957)
Ingmar Bergman,
Sherlock Jr. (1924)
Buster Keaton.
Source: Time Out (1995) |
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