Posts about Terry Gilliam
Today I bought The Adventures of Baron Munchausen on 4K via Criterion and it made me think about Terry Gilliam's work as a director and how I still need to watch a huge chunk of his filmography. Which one of his is your favorite?
Your choices:
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975): King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table embark on a surreal, low-budget search for the Holy Grail, encountering many, very silly obstacles.
Jabberwocky (1977): A young peasant with no interest in adventure or fortune is mistaken for the kingdom's only hope when a horrible monster threatens the countryside.
Time Bandits (1981): A young boy accidentally joins a band of time travelling dwarves, as they jump from era to era looking for treasure to steal.
Brazil (1985): A bureaucrat in a dystopic society becomes an enemy of the state as he pursues the woman of his dreams.
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988): An account of Baron Munchausen's supposed travels and fantastical experiences across late 18th-century Europe with his band of misfits.
The Fisher King (1991): A former radio DJ, suicidally despondent because of a terrible mistake he made, finds redemption in helping a deranged homeless man who was an unwitting victim of that mistake.
12 Monkeys (1995): In a future world devastated by disease, a convict is sent back in time to gather information about the man-made virus that wiped out most of the human population on the planet.
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998): An oddball journalist and his psychopathic lawyer travel to Las Vegas for a series of psychedelic escapades.
The Brothers Grimm (2005): Will and Jake Grimm are traveling con-artists who encounter a genuine fairy-tale curse which requires true courage instead of their usual bogus exorcisms.
Tideland (2005): Because of the actions of her irresponsible parents, a young girl is left alone on a decrepit country estate and survives inside her fantastic imagination.
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (2009): A traveling theater company gives its audience much more than they were expecting.
The Zero Theorem (2013): A hugely talented but socially isolated computer operator is tasked by Management to prove the Zero Theorem: that the universe ends as nothing, rendering life meaningless. But meaning is what he already craves.
The Man Who Killed Don Quixote (2018): Toby, a disillusioned film director, is pulled into a world of time-jumping fantasy when a Spanish cobbler believes himself to be Sancho Panza. He gradually becomes unable to tell dreams from reality.
