Terry Gilliam
Gilliam (Wikipedia) was a member of Monty Python. I don’t credit his work with them separately here.
In the early part of his directing career, Gilliam was a Borgesian expressionist auteur, blending social conscience with pageantry, grotesquerie, humour and unfunny madness at the end of the era of practical effects in camera. Three of his better films constitute a loose cycle on the life of an imaginative human in oppressive circumstances: Time Bandits (1981) about childhood, Brazil (1985) about adulthood and The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988) about old age and second childhood. In a Guardian interview (Andrew Pulver, 2013-09-02), Gilliam said Brazil was the start of a trilogy of “dystopian satires”, followed in this context by Twelve Monkeys (1995) and The Zero Theorem (2013).
Work
The following works of Terry Gilliam are reviewed on this site.
- Director: “Storytime” (1968)
- Director: Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
- Writer-director: “The Miracle of Flight” (1975)
- Director: Jabberwocky (1977)
- Director: Time Bandits (1981)
- Director: Brazil (1985)
- Director: The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988)
- Director: The Fisher King (1991)
- Director: Twelve Monkeys (1995)
- Director: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998)
- Cast: Lost in La Mancha (2002)
- Director: The Brothers Grimm (2005)
- Director: Tideland (2005)
- Director: The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (2009)
- Director: “The Legend of Hallowdega” (2010)
- Director: “The Wholly Family” (2011)
- Director: The Zero Theorem (2013)
- Director: The Man Who Killed Don Quixote (2018)
Other
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