Terry Gilliam
Author
Language
English
Description
The screenwriter, innovative animator, highly acclaimed visionary film director, and only non-British member of Monty Python offers an intimate glimpse into his world in this fascinating memoir illustrated with hand-drawn sketches, notes, and memorabilia from his personal archive.
From his no-frills childhood in the icy wastes of Minnesota, to some of the hottest water Hollywood had to offer, via the cutting edge of 1960s and '70s counter-culture...
2) Brazil
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
A daydreaming bureaucrat becomes involved with an underground superhero and a beautiful mysterious woman and becomes the tragic victim of his own romantic illusions.
4) Time bandits
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
A troupe of tiny bandits, challenged with the task of patching up the handiwork of a Supreme Being who was forced into creating the world in only 6 days, instead steal the priceless map of the universe. Accompanied by an English school boy (Warnock), they are swept away on a whirlwind adventure through time and space, encountering bizarre incarnations of Napoelon (Holm), Robinhood (Cleese), Agamemnon (Connery), and others.
6) Tideland
Publisher
Arrow Films
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
To escape her unhappy life in a remote part of Texas, nine-year-old Jeliza-Rose dreams up an elaborate fantasy world. But the reality of having junkie parents - played by Jeff Bridges (The Big Lebowski) and Jennifer Tilly (Bound) - and the influence of her eccentric neighbours begins to encroach, turning her daydreams ever darker.
7) 8 1/2
Series
Criterion collection volume 140
Publisher
[Distributed by] Corinth Films
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Disc one contains Fellini's autobiographical film about a famous film director who loses his inspiration in the midst of making of film as well as an audio essay by Gideon Bachmann and Antonio Monda, an introduction by Terry Gilliam, and the theatrical trailer. Disc two features Fellini's rarely seen first film for television, an imagined documentary, as well as a documentary about Nino Rota, the maestro behind the music of Fellini's films, interviews,...
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Narrated by Jeff Bridges and made by acclaimed directors Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe, LOST IN LA MANCHA captures Terry Gilliam's aborted attempt to get The Man Who Killed Don Quixote in the can. Back injuries, freakish storms, and more zoom in to sabotage the project (which has never been resurrected).
11) Jabberwocky
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
A young peasant, with no interest in adventure or fortune, is mistaken as the kingdom's only hope when a horrible monster threatens the countryside.
Publisher
Altered Innocence
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
How does a filmmaker go from creating cutting-edge work and competing in Cannes to being labelled a failed erotic filmmaker? The debut documentary feature from Polish critic and academic Kuba Mikurda investigates the work of Walerian Borowczyk, a director of unparalleled creativity & sensitivity, revered in the 1970s for creations including Goto, Island of Love, The Beast, & Immoral Tales. The film interviews his closest collaborators, filmmakers,...
Publisher
1091 Media
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Toby (Adam Driver) enters a world of time jumping fantasy when he meets "Don Quixote" (Jonathan Pryce), a delusional Spanish cobbler who believes Toby to be Sancho Panza. They embark on an epic adventure where dreams and reality intertwine.
15) The fisher king
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999], c1991
Language
English
Description
A homeless, former history professor helps a shock radio dj find redemption in his search for the Holy Grail in modern day New York.
18) 12 Monkeys
Publisher
Universal Home Video
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
Description
Cole arrives at a mental hospital, claiming to be a time traveler from the year 2035. His mission: to save humanity from a killer virus that will devastate the future world population. A beautiful psychiatrist initially classifies Cole as delusional, but she soon joins him in an effort to unravel the mystery surrounding his questionable sanity with two clues: a haunting childhood memory and a series of puzzling symbols from a group known as The...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
The Monty Python troupe reunites onstage for a one-night-only performance of a musical adaptation of their film Life of Brian which tells the story of Brian Cohen, a young Jewish man who is born on the same day as, and next door to, Jesus Christ, and is subsequently mistaken for the Messiah.