Month: August 2014

Gilliam takes a turn for the worse in this not-as-hopeless-as-I-remembered fairytale concoction.  He should’ve finished Quixote!

Title:	The Brothers Grimm
Director:	Terry Gilliam
Score:	5/8
Crush of the day:	Cersei Lanister

Not actually a Gilliam-film, I’ve nonetheless included it in the festival program.  After completing Fear and Loathing, Gilliam set out to film a story based on Don Quixote.  Struck heavily by Murphy, the whole project stranded with little salveagable result, and that was that.  Pity.  Judging from this not-making-of documentary, I think he was still on a roll.

Title:	Lost in La Mancha
Director:	Keith Fulton / Louis Pepe
Score:	3/6
Director:	Not Terry Gilliam

I’m worried about this new development.  I went to an improvised jazz festival today, and the superior, kick-ass band was the band that played actual jazz!  Before you know it I’ll be sitting nodding my head, nipping to a glass of red wine and speaking pretentiously about atonal polyrhythms.

Title:	Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Director:	Terry Gilliam
Score:	6/6
Crush of the day:	Christina Ricci.

Very different film to the last three.  Not sure this is a perfect match.  I do believe I thought better of it when it came out though.  Maybe it just hasn’t weathered well.

Title:	12 Monkeys
Director:	Terry Gilliam
Score:	6/8
Miscasting of the day:	Brad Pitt.

I love Terry Gilliam!

Title:	The Fisher King
Director:	Terry Gilliam
Score:	6/6
Only drawback:	I’ll be humming Sinatra for days.

We resume our reagular programming with one of my all time favourite films.  But then I’m probably biased, as one of the books (not sure which, maybe the one by Bangs) is one of my first memories of actually enjoying a novel. Not the first–that would be Michael Strogoff: The Courier of the Czar. Let that be a lesson to you all.

Title:	The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
Director:	Terry Gilliam
Score:	6/6
ObCrush:	Uma.

Saturday night is family film night, so we shall perhaps step out from our Gilliam festival temporarily.

Title:	My Neighbour Totoro
Director:	Hayao Miyazaki
Score:	10/10
Dad says:	What he said.

In my opinion the film where Gilliam found his voice.  You’ve all seen it, right?  Right?  Well, make it so!

Title:	Brazil
Director:	Terry Gilliam
Score:	6/6
Unanswered questions:	Why is it called Brazil!?

I remember seeing Time Bandits in the eighties.  And I clearly remember it being better than this  Anyway, Terry’s starting to find his form here.  It’s looking up!

Title:	Time Bandits
Director:	Terry Gilliam
Score:	3/6
Looking down:	Michael Palin.

Cool camera!

When I saw The Holy Grail wasn’t as good as I remembered earlier, I though maybe Jabberwocky wouldn’t be as bad as I remembered.  But if I’m honest, I don’t think I remember how bad it was. It has its moments, though.

Title:	Jabberwocky
Director:	Terry Gilliam
Score:	3/6
Gilliamest scene:	The hide-and-seek.