Jump to content

Terry Gilliam

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Terry Gilliam
Gilliam in 2019
Born (1940-11-22) 22 November 1940 (age 83)
Minneapolis, Minnesota, US
Citizenship
  • United States (1940–2006)
  • United Kingdom (1968–present)
EducationBirmingham High School
Alma materOccidental College (BA)
Occupations
  • Screenwriter
  • director
  • comedian
  • animator
  • actor
Years active1968–present
Spouse
​
(m. 1973)​
Children3
Terry Gilliam's voice
from BBC's Desert Island Discs, 15 April 2011[1]
Websiteterrygilliamweb.com

Terrence Vance Gilliam (/ˈɡɪliəm/ GIL-ee-əm; born 22 November 1940)[2][3] is an American-British filmmaker, comedian, collage animator,[4] and actor. He gained stardom as a member of the Monty Python comedy troupe alongside John Cleese, Eric Idle, Michael Palin, Terry Jones, and Graham Chapman. Together they collaborated on the sketch series Monty Python's Flying Circus (1969–1974) and the films Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975, which Gilliam co-directed as well), Life of Brian (1979) and The Meaning of Life (1983). In 1988, they received the BAFTA Award for Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema.[5] In 2009, Gilliam received the BAFTA Fellowship for lifetime achievement.[6]

Gilliam transitioned to directing serious films with themes exploring imagination and oppositions to bureaucracy and authoritarianism. His films are sometimes set in dystopian worlds and involve black comedy and tragicomedic elements. He has directed 13 feature films, gaining acclaim for Time Bandits (1981), Brazil (1985), The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988), The Fisher King (1991), 12 Monkeys (1995), and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998). He later directed The Brothers Grimm (2005), Tideland (2005), The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (2009), The Zero Theorem (2013), and The Man Who Killed Don Quixote (2018).

Gilliam was born in Minnesota, but spent his high school and college years in Los Angeles. He started his career as an animator and strip cartoonist. He joined Monty Python as the animator of their works, but eventually became a full member and was given acting roles. The only Monty Python member not born in Britain, Gilliam became a naturalised British citizen in 1968 and formally renounced his American citizenship in 2006.

Early life and education

[edit]

Terry Gilliam was born on 22 November 1940 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, the son of Beatrice (née Vance) and James Hall Gilliam.[3] His father was a travelling salesman for Folgers before becoming a carpenter. Soon after, they moved to nearby Medicine Lake, Minnesota.[7] In 1952, the family moved to the Los Angeles neighbourhood of Panorama City. Gilliam attended Birmingham High School, where he was the president of his class and senior prom king, and was voted "Most Likely to Succeed" having achieved straight A grades. During high school, he began to avidly read Mad magazine, then edited by Harvey Kurtzman, which would later influence Gilliam's work.[8]

Gilliam graduated from Occidental College in 1962 with a Bachelor of Arts in political science.[9] In 2003, he told Salman Rushdie about defining experiences in the 1960s that set the foundations for his views on the world:

I became terrified that I was going to be a full-time, bomb-throwing terrorist if I stayed [in the US] because it was the beginning of really bad times in America. It was '66–'67, it was the first police riot in Los Angeles. ... In college my major was political science, so my brain worked that way. ... And I drove around this little English Hillman Minx—top down—and every night I'd be hauled over by the cops. Up against the wall, and all this stuff. They had this monologue with me; it was never a dialogue. It was that I was a long-haired drug addict living off some rich guy's foolish daughter. And I said, "No, I work in advertising. I make twice as much as you do." Which is a stupid thing to say to a cop. ... And it was like an epiphany. I suddenly felt what it was like to be a black or Mexican kid living in L.A. Before that, I thought I knew what the world was like, I thought I knew what poor people were, and then suddenly it all changed because of that simple thing of being brutalized by cops. And I got more and more angry and I just felt, I've got to get out of here—I'm a better cartoonist than I am a bomb maker. That's why so much of the US is still standing.[10]

Career

[edit]

1965–1969: Animation and move to England

[edit]

Gilliam began his career as an animator and strip cartoonist. One of his early photographic strips for the US magazine Help! featured future Python cast member John Cleese.[11] When Help! folded, Gilliam went to Europe, jokingly announcing in the final issue that he was "being transferred to the European branch" of the magazine,[10] which did not exist. Moving to England, he animated sequences for the children's series Do Not Adjust Your Set which he worked on from 1968 to 1969, and which also featured Eric Idle, Terry Jones, and Michael Palin.[11]

1969–1974: Monty Python's Flying Circus

[edit]
See also: Monty Python and Monty Python's Flying Circus

Gilliam was a member of Monty Python's Flying Circus from its outset, credited at first as an animator (his name was listed separately after the other five in the closing credits) and later as a full member. His cartoons linked the show's sketches together and defined the group's visual language in other media, such as LP and book covers and the title sequences of their films.[12] His animations mix his own art, characterised by soft gradients and odd, bulbous shapes, with backgrounds and moving cutouts from antique photographs, mostly from the Victorian era.

Gilliam as Cardinal Fang in "The Spanish Inquisition" sketch during the Python reunion, Monty Python Live (Mostly), in 2014
A character of limited intelligence and vocabulary, Gumby (played by Gilliam) flower arranging at the 2014 reunion. The Gumbys were part of the Pythons' satire on 1970s television condescendingly encouraging more involvement from the "man in the street".

He also appeared in several sketches, though he rarely had main roles and did considerably less acting in the sketches. Gilliam did, however, have some notable sketch roles, such as Cardinal Fang of the Spanish Inquisition; the bespectacled commenter who said, "I can't add anything to that!" in the sketch "Election Night Special"; Kevin Garibaldi, the brat on the couch shouting "I want more beans!" in the sketch "Most Awful Family in Britain 1974" (episode 45); the Screaming Queen in a cape and mask in "The Visitors"; and Percy Bysshe Shelley in "Ant Poetry Reading". More frequently, he played parts that no one else wanted to play, generally because they required a lot of makeup or uncomfortable costumes, such as a recurring knight in armour who ended sketches by walking on and hitting one of the other characters over the head with a plucked chicken. He also designed the covers of most of the Monty Python albums, including Another Monty Python Record, The Monty Python Matching Tie and Handkerchief, Monty Python Live at Drury Lane, and all of their later film soundtrack albums.[13] Katy Hepburn, a freelance designer and graduate of the Royal College of Art in London, also worked with Gilliam.[14]

1975–1983: Transitional years

[edit]

In 1975, Gilliam began his career as a director by co-directing Monty Python and the Holy Grail with Terry Jones. Gilliam was responsible for photography and also appeared as both Patsy and the Old Man from Scene 24, while Jones guided the actors' performances. It was the only Python film directed by Gilliam, though he continued to act in their subsequent projects.

As Python started to take longer breaks between projects following Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Gilliam became a solo filmmaker, building upon the experience he had acquired. In 1977, he directed his first film outside the group, Jabberwocky, also a comedy set in the Middle Ages. It featured Python member Michael Palin in the lead role, and was based on the poem of the same name. In 1978, he published Animations of Mortality, an illustrated, tongue-in-cheek, semi-autobiographical how-to guide to his animation techniques and the visual language in them.[15]

Gilliam served as art director on Monty Python's Life of Brian, Terry Jones having taken on sole directing duties. Gilliam made Time Bandits in 1981. Following directing the short film The Crimson Permanent Assurance, which opened showings of Monty Python's The Meaning of Life, Python effectively ceased working together, and Gilliam pursued his career as a filmmaker.

1984–1998: Trilogies and critical success

[edit]

Gilliam says he used to think of his films in terms of trilogies, starting with Time Bandits. The "Trilogy of Imagination", written by Gilliam, about "the ages of man", consisted of Time Bandits (1981), Brazil (1985), and The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988). All are about the "craziness of our awkwardly ordered society and the desire to escape it through whatever means possible."[16] All three films focus on these struggles and attempts to escape them through imagination: Time Bandits through the eyes of a child, Brazil through the eyes of a man in his thirties, and Munchausen through the eyes of an elderly man. In the summer of 1986, he cut ties with Arnon Milchan and 20th Century Fox and started directing Munchausen through his own new Prominent Films banner independently.[17]

In the 1990s, Gilliam directed a trilogy of Americana: The Fisher King (1991), 12 Monkeys (1995), and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998), which took place on North American soil and, while still surreal, had fewer fantastical plots than his previous trilogy.[18]

1999–2009

[edit]
Gilliam at an IFC Center event on 4 October 2006

In 1999, Gilliam attempted to film The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, which was budgeted at US$32.1 million, making it among the highest-budgeted films to use only European financing; but in the first week of shooting, the actor playing Don Quixote (Jean Rochefort) suffered a herniated disc, and a flood severely damaged the set. The film was cancelled, resulting in an insurance claim of US$15 million.[19] Despite the cancellation, the aborted project did yield the 2002 documentary Lost in La Mancha, produced from film from a second crew that had been hired by Gilliam to document the making of Quixote. After the cancellation, both Gilliam and the film's co-lead, Johnny Depp, wanted to revive the project. The insurance company involved in the failed first attempt withheld the rights to the screenplay for several years[20] with the production on hold until 2008.[21][22]

Following the failure of The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, J. K. Rowling, the author of the Harry Potter series and a fan of Gilliam's work, advocated for him to direct Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone in 2000, but Warner Bros. ultimately chose Chris Columbus for the job.[23] In response to this decision, Gilliam said that "I was the perfect guy to do Harry Potter. I remember leaving the meeting, getting in my car, and driving for about two hours along Mulholland Drive just so angry. I mean, Chris Columbus' versions are terrible. Just dull. Pedestrian."[24]

Gilliam at the 41st Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, April 2006

In 2002, Gilliam directed a series of television advertisements called "Secret Tournament". Part of Nike's 2002 FIFA World Cup campaign, the advertisements feature a secret three-on-three tournament between the world's best football players, including Ronaldo, Ronaldinho and Thierry Henry, who are inside a huge tanker ship.[25] The advertisements are accompanied with a remixed version of the Elvis Presley song "A Little Less Conversation".[26]

In 2005, Gilliam released The Brothers Grimm, followed later in the year by Tideland. In 2006, Gilliam made his debut as theatre director by directing the stage show Slava's Diabolo, created and staged by the Russian clown artist Slava Polunin. The show combined Polunin's clown style, characterised by deep nonverbal expression and interaction with the audience, with Gilliam's rich visuals and surrealistic imagery. The show premiered at the Noga Hall of the Gesher Theatre in Jaffa, Tel Aviv, Israel.

In January 2007, Gilliam announced that he had been working on a new project with his writing partner Charles McKeown. One day later, the fansite Dreams reported[27] that the new project was titled The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus; the following October, Dreams confirmed that this would be Gilliam's next project and was slated to star Christopher Plummer and Tom Waits.[28] Production began in December 2007 in London.[29] On 22 January 2008, production of the film was disrupted following the death of Heath Ledger in New York City. Variety reported that Ledger's involvement had been a "key factor" in the film's financing.[30] Production was suspended indefinitely by 24 January,[31] but in February the actors Johnny Depp, Jude Law, and Colin Farrell signed on to continue Ledger's role, transforming into multiple incarnations of his character in the "magical" world of the film.[32][33] Thanks to this arrangement the principal photography was completed on 15 April 2008, on schedule. During the filming, Gilliam was accidentally hit by a bus and suffered a broken back.[34] The film had successful screenings including a premiere at the 62nd Cannes Film Festival. The UK release for the film was scheduled for 6 June 2009, but was pushed back to 16 October 2009. The USA release was on 25 December 2009. Eventually, this $30 million-budgeted film had grossed more than $60 million in worldwide theatrical release and received two Academy Award nominations. The film's end credit states that the film is dedicated to the memories of Ledger and William Vince. Depp, Farrell, and Law donated their proceeds from the film to Ledger's daughter.[35]

2010–present

[edit]

Gilliam made his opera debut at London's English National Opera (ENO) in May 2011, directing The Damnation of Faust, by Hector Berlioz.[36] The production received positive reviews in the British press[37][38][39] On 16 September 2012, the production opened at the Vlaamse Opera in Ghent, Belgium, in the opera's original French-language version and received praise from critics and audiences alike. After a number of performances in Ghent, the production moved to the opera house in Antwerp for a sold-out run of performances.

In July 2012, Gilliam revealed plans for a film which would be shot in Bucharest, Romania. He denied that it would be Don Quixote but refused to give any further details.[40] The actor David Walliams reportedly entered into talks with Gilliam to play a part in it and was told that he'd have to "be willing to work with Johnny Depp and fly to Bucharest where the movie is to be filmed."[41] Depp, to that point, had made no mention of his involvement but was seen in Bucharest around the same time in mid-July[42] as Romanian news outlets reported Gilliam was staying in the city for negotiations on studio work with the Romanian film production company MediaPro Studios.[43] On 13 August 2012, this project was announced to be The Zero Theorem, set to start shooting in Bucharest on 22 October, produced by Dean Zanuck (son of the late Richard D. Zanuck, who was originally to produce the film in 2009), with worldwide sales handled by Voltage Pictures, Toronto, and starring the Academy Award–winner Christoph Waltz in the lead (replacing Billy Bob Thornton, who had been attached to the project in 2009).[44][45][46][47][48][49][50] The Zero Theorem premiered at the 70th Venice International Film Festival on 2 September 2013.[51][52]

In June 2014, Gilliam followed up on his success with Faust with a new ENO production of another opera by Berlioz, the rarely performed Benvenuto Cellini.[53]

After regaining the rights to the screenplay of The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, Gilliam restarted preproduction in 2008, with Johnny Depp still attached to the project.[54] The film was to be reshot completely, with Rochefort's role recast. Michael Palin reportedly entered into talks with Gilliam about stepping in for Rochefort and playing Don Quixote.[55] However, Gilliam revealed on the Canadian talk show The Hour on 17 December 2009 that Robert Duvall had been cast to play Quixote, before the film was postponed once again.[56] In January 2014, Gilliam wrote on Facebook that "Dreams of Don Quixote have begun again".[57] At the Cannes Film Festival in 2016, it was confirmed that The Man Who Killed Don Quixote was going to be made, with Michael Palin and Adam Driver in starring roles.[58] In March 2017, filming finally began, with Driver and Jonathan Pryce starring.[59] On 4 June 2017, Gilliam announced that the shooting of the film was complete.[60] The film premiered on 19 May 2018, as the closing film of the 2018 Cannes Film Festival (where it received a standing ovation), and was released in French theatres the same day.[61][62][63][64]

His production of Into the Woods, which he co-directed with Leah Hausman, premiered at the Theatre Royal, Bath in August 2022 to positive reviews.[65]

In June 2024, Gilliam announced the making of a new film called The Carnival at the End of Days. It will star Depp, reuniting with Gilliam, along with Bridges, Driver, and Jason Momoa. The production of the film is expected to begin in January 2025 according to Gilliam. Johnny Depp will play Satan, and Jeff Bridges will play God in the film.[66]

Other projects

[edit]
See also: Terry Gilliam's unrealized projects
Gilliam at the 36th Deauville American Films Festival in 2010

In addition to film projects as director, Gilliam has been involved with developing projects for other artists and mediums. On 16 December 2010, Variety reported that Gilliam was to "godfather" a film called 1884, described as an animated steampunk parody of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, with several former Pythons lending their voices to the project; Gilliam was to be credited as "creative advisor".[67]

Fifteen years after the publication of Gilliam's Animations of Mortality, between the release of the CD-ROM game Monty Python's Complete Waste of Time in 1994, which used many of Gilliam's animation templates, and the making of Gilliam's film Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998), Gilliam was in negotiations with Enteractive, a software company, to tentatively release in the autumn of 1996 a CD-ROM under the same title as his 1978 book, containing all of his thousands of 1970s animation templates as licence-free clip arts for people to create their own flash animations, but the project hovered in limbo for years,[68][69] probably because Enteractive was about to downsize greatly in mid-1996 and changed its focus from CD-ROM multimedia presentations to internet business solutions and web hosting in 1997[70] (in the introduction to their 2004 book Terry Gilliam: Interviews,[69] David Sterrit and Lucille Rhodes claimed that the internet had overwhelmed the "computer-communications market" and gave this as the reason that the Animations of Mortality CD-ROM never materialised). Around the time of Gilliam's film The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (2009), the project had changed into the idea of releasing his 1970s animation templates as a licence-free download of Adobe After Effects or similar files.

Analysis

[edit]

Themes and philosophy

[edit]

Well, I really want to encourage a kind of fantasy, a kind of magic. I love the term magic realism, whoever invented it – I do actually like it because it says certain things. It's about expanding how you see the world. I think we live in an age where we're just hammered, hammered to think this is what the world is. Television's saying, everything's saying 'That's the world.' And it's not the world. The world is a million possible things.[10]

As for his philosophical background in screenwriting and directing, Gilliam said on the TV show First Hand on RoundhouseTV, "There's so many film schools, so many media courses which I actually am opposed to. Because I think it's more important to be educated, to read, to learn things, because if you're gonna be in the media and if you'll have to say things, you have to know things. If you only know about cameras and 'the media', what're you gonna be talking about except cameras and the media? So it's better learning about philosophy and art and architecture [and] literature, these are the things to be concentrating on it seems to me. Then, you can fly...!"[71]

Gilliam's films are usually imaginative fantasies. His long-time co-writer Charles McKeown commented, "the theme of imagination, and the importance of imagination, to how you live and how you think and so on ... that's very much a Terry theme."[72] Most of Gilliam's films include plotlines that seem to occur partly or completely in the characters' imaginations, raising questions about the definition of identity and sanity. He often shows his opposition to bureaucracy and authoritarian regimes. He also distinguishes "higher" and "lower" layers of society, with a disturbing and ironic style. His films usually feature a fight or struggle against a great power which may be an emotional situation, a human-made idol, or even the person himself, and the situations do not always end happily. There is often a dark, paranoid atmosphere and unusual characters who used to be normal members of society. His scripts feature black comedy and often end with a dark tragicomic twist.[citation needed]

Gilliam is fascinated with the Baroque period because of the pronounced struggle between spirituality and rationality in that era.[73][74] There is often a rich baroqueness and dichotomous eclecticism about his films, with, for instance, high-tech computer monitors equipped with low-tech magnifying lenses in Brazil and a red knight covered with flapping bits of cloth in The Fisher King. He also is given to incongruous juxtapositions of beauty and ugliness or antique and modern. Regarding Gilliam's theme of modernity's struggle between spirituality and rationality whereas the individual may become dominated by a tyrannical, soulless machinery of disenchanted society, the film critic Keith James Hamel observed a specific affinity of Gilliam's films with the writings of the historian Arnold Toynbee and the sociologist Max Weber, specifically the latter's concept of the "iron cage" of rationality.[74]

Look and style

[edit]
Gilliam at Cannes, 2001

Gilliam's films have a distinctive look, not only in mise-en-scène but even more so in photography, often recognisable from just a short clip; to create a surreal atmosphere of psychological unrest and a world out of balance, he frequently uses unusual camera angles, particularly low-angle shots, high-angle shots, and Dutch angles. Roger Ebert said that "his world is always hallucinatory in its richness of detail".[75] Most of his movies are shot almost entirely with rectilinear ultra-wide-angle lenses with focal lengths of 28 mm or less to achieve a distinctive style defined by extreme perspective distortion and extremely deep focus. Gilliam's long-time director of photography Nicola Pecorini has said, "with Terry and me, a long lens means something between a 40 mm and a 65 mm."[76] This attitude markedly differs from the common definition in photography, by which 40 to 65 mm is the focal length of a normal lens, resembling the natural human field of view, unlike Gilliam's signature style, defined by extreme perspective distortion due to his usual choice of focal length. The 14 mm lens has become informally known as "The Gilliam" among filmmakers because of his frequent use of it at least since Brazil.[77] Gilliam has explained his preference for using wide-angle lenses in his films:

The wide-angle lenses, I think I choose them because it makes me feel like I'm in the space of the film, I'm surrounded. My prevalent vision is full of detail, and that's what I like about it. It's actually harder to do, it's harder to light. The other thing I like about wide-angle lenses is that I'm not forcing the audience to look at just the one thing that is important. It's there, but there's other things to occupy, and some people don't like that because I'm not pointing things out as precisely as I could if I was to use a long lens where I'd focus just on the one thing and everything else would be out of focus. ...
[M]y films, I think, are better the second and third time, frankly, because you can now relax and go with the flow that may not have been as apparent as the first time you saw it and wallow in the details of the worlds we're creating. ... I try to clutter [my visuals] up, they're worthy of many viewings.[78]

In another interview, Gilliam mentioned, in relation to the 9.8 mm Kinoptic lens he had first used on Brazil, that wide-angle lenses make small film sets "look big".[79] The widest lens he has used so far is an 8 mm Zeiss lens employed in filming The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus.[80]

Commercial success

[edit]

Gilliam's first successful feature, Time Bandits (1981), earned more than eight times its original budget in the United States alone. The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988), although commercially unsuccessful, was nominated for four Oscars and won three BAFTA Awards, among several other Prizes in Europe. The Fisher King (1991), his first film not to feature a member of the Monty Python troupe, had a budget of $24 million and grossed more than $41 million at United States box office. 12 Monkeys grossed more than US$168 million worldwide, making it his most commercially successful film. The Brothers Grimm, despite a mixed critical reception, grossed over US$105 million worldwide. The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, with a budget of $30 million, has been an international commercial success, grossing over $60 million in worldwide theatrical release. According to Box Office Mojo, Gilliam's films have grossed an average of $21,602,510.[81]

Personal life

[edit]

Gilliam has been married to British makeup artist Maggie Weston since 1973. She worked on Monty Python's Flying Circus, many of the Python films, and Gilliam's films up to The Adventures of Baron Munchausen. They have three children: Amy Rainbow (born 1978), Holly Dubois (born October 1980), and Harry Thunder (born 3 April 1988), all of whom have also appeared in or worked on several of his films.

In 1968, Gilliam obtained British citizenship. He held dual American and British citizenship for the next 38 years, until he renounced his American citizenship in January 2006.[82][83] In an interview with Der Tagesspiegel,[84] he described the action as a protest against then-President George W. Bush, and in an earlier interview with The A.V. Club, he also indicated that it was related to concerns about future tax liability for his wife and children.[85][86] As a result of renouncing his citizenship, Gilliam was permitted to spend 30 days each year in the United States over the next ten years, "less than any European".[84] Holly followed suit, renouncing her American citizenship in 2017.[87]

He maintains a residence in Italy near the Umbria–Tuscany border. He has been instrumental in establishing the annual Umbria Film Festival,[88] held in the nearby town of Montone. Gilliam also resides in Highgate, London.[89]

Charitable activities

[edit]

Gilliam has been involved with a number of charitable and humanitarian causes. In 2009, he became a board member of Videre Est Credere (Latin for "to see is to believe"), a UK human rights charity.[90] Videre describes itself as giving "local activists the equipment, training and support needed to safely capture compelling video evidence of human rights violations. This captured footage is verified, analysed and then distributed to those who can create change."[91] He participates alongside movie producer Uri Fruchtmann, music producer Brian Eno and executive director of Greenpeace UK John Sauven.

Filmography

[edit]
Main article: Terry Gilliam filmography
Year Title Distributor
1975 Monty Python and the Holy Grail EMI Films / Cinema 5
1977 Jabberwocky Columbia Pictures / Warner Bros.
1981 Time Bandits Embassy Pictures
1985 Brazil Universal Pictures / 20th Century Fox
1988 The Adventures of Baron Munchausen Columbia Pictures
1991 The Fisher King TriStar Pictures
1995 12 Monkeys Universal Pictures
1998 Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
2005 The Brothers Grimm Dimension Films
Tideland Revolver Entertainment / ThinkFilm
2009 The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus Lionsgate UK
2013 The Zero Theorem Stage 6 Films
2018 The Man Who Killed Don Quixote Sparky Pictures

Honours and accolades

[edit]
Main article: List of awards and nominations received by Terry Gilliam
Awards and nominations received by films directed by Gilliam
Year Title Academy Awards BAFTA Awards Golden Globe Awards
Nominations Wins Nominations Wins Nominations Wins
1983 Monty Python's The Meaning of Life 1
1985 Brazil 2 2 2
1988 The Adventures of Baron Munchausen 4 4 3
1991 The Fisher King 5 1 2 5 2
1995 12 Monkeys 2 1 1
2009 The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus 2 2
Total 15 1 11 5 6 3

References

[edit]
  1. ^ "Terry Gilliam". Desert Island Discs. 15 April 2011. BBC Radio 4. Retrieved 18 January 2014.
  2. ^ "Terrence Vance GILLIAM". Companies House. Retrieved 15 April 2023.
  3. ^ a b "BBC Music biography". BBC Music. Retrieved 14 September 2015.
  4. ^ Earmarked for Collision: A Highly Biased Tour of Collage Animation - Routledge
  5. ^ "Outstanding British Contribution To Cinema in 1988". BAFTA.org. Retrieved 25 August 2019.
  6. ^ "Gilliam to get Bafta fellowship". BBC News. 3 February 2009. Retrieved 25 August 2019.
  7. ^ The Pythons: Autobiography by the Pythons. New York: St. Martin's Griffin. 2005. ISBN 978-0-312-31145-2.
  8. ^ Gilliam, Terry; Sterritt, David; Rhodes, Lucille (April 2004). Terry Gilliam: Interviews. Univ. Press of Mississippi. p. 67. ISBN 978-1-57806-624-7. Retrieved 7 October 2010. Mad comics inspired everything we ever did. (p. 67)
  9. ^ "Terry Gilliam '62 Honored by British Film Academy". Oxy. Occidental College. 9 February 2009. Archived from the original on 5 April 2018. Retrieved 23 November 2014.
  10. ^ a b c "Salman Rushdie Talks with Terry Gilliam". The Believer. March 2003.
  11. ^ a b "Terry Gilliam". lambiek.net.
  12. ^ "Monty Python's Flying Circus". BBC. Retrieved 24 August 2019.
  13. ^ Monty Python: Almost the Truth (Lawyers Cut), episode 3, 2009
  14. ^ Communicate: Independent British Graphic Design Since the Sixties. Yale University Press. 2004. p. 241.
  15. ^ Dreams: Terry Gilliam Books[permanent dead link‍]. Dreams: The Terry Gilliam Fanzine.
  16. ^ Matthews, Jack (1996). Dreaming Brazil. Essay accompanying the Criterion Collection DVD.
  17. ^ "Gilliam To Direct 'Munchhausen' For His Own Company". Variety. 10 December 1986. pp. 7, 30.
  18. ^ Pirie, Chris (2002). "Gilliam the Snake Charmer". Imagine Magazine (backed up on Dreams by Phil Stubbs, used with permission.
  19. ^ Ebert, Roger (November 2005). Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2006. Andrews McMeel Publishing. pp. 400–1. ISBN 978-0-7407-5538-5. Retrieved 7 October 2010.
  20. ^ "Dreams: The Man Who Killed Don Quixote". Smart.co.uk. Retrieved 1 June 2011.[permanent dead link‍]
  21. ^ Haen, Theo d'; Dhondt, Reindert (5 May 2009). International Don Quixote. Rodopi. p. 254. ISBN 978-90-420-2583-7. Retrieved 7 October 2010.
  22. ^ Alica-Azania Jarvis (4 August 2008). "Pandora: Don Quixote Rides Again, Says Delighted Gilliam". The Independent. UK. Archived from the original on 19 August 2008. Retrieved 4 August 2008.
  23. ^ IMDb: Biography for Terry Gilliam. Retrieved 22 April 2007. [unreliable source?]
  24. ^ "Terry Gilliam Bitter About Potter". Wizardnews.com. 29 August 2005. Retrieved 1 June 2011.
  25. ^ "'The Secret Tournament' – the Nike World Cup 2002 Advert". BBC. 24 July 2002. Retrieved 1 June 2011.
  26. ^ "Elvis Makes Chart History". BBC News World Edition. British Broadcasting Corporation. 16 June 2002. Retrieved 29 June 2019.
  27. ^ "Dreams: The Imaginarium of Dr Parnassus, a Terry Gilliam Film". Smart.co.uk. 25 January 2008. Retrieved 1 June 2011.
  28. ^ Stubbs, Phil. "The Imaginarium of Dr Parnassus". Dreams. Retrieved 10 October 2007.
  29. ^ "Gilliam, Ledger Reteam for Film". Variety. 31 October 2007. Retrieved 30 December 2007.
  30. ^ Dawtrey, Adam (23 January 2008). "'Parnassus' Team Faces Dilemma". Variety. Retrieved 23 January 2008.
  31. ^ Kilpatrick, Christine (24 January 2008). "Production Suspended on Heath Ledger's Latest Movie". People. Retrieved 24 January 2008.
  32. ^ Moriarty (15 February 2008). "AICN Exclusive! We Know Who's Paying Tribute to Heath Ledger in Dr. Parnassus Now!". Ain't It Cool News. Retrieved 17 February 2008. ...we're going to see Heath Ledger's work in Terry Gilliam's new film, and that we're also going to see three very interesting actors step up to offer interpretations of him...now we've got the names verified... Johnny Depp. ... Jude Law. ... Colin Farrell.
  33. ^ Shawn Adler (15 February 2008). "Heath Ledger's Final Film to Go Forward – With Johnny Depp, Jude Law, Colin Farrell in His Role". MTV. Archived from the original on 11 May 2011. Retrieved 15 February 2008. Report: The three actors have signed on to complete film. ... Heath Ledger died last month at the age of 28, but his final performance will live on – thanks to a little creativity and some famous friends. ... Johnny Depp, Jude Law and Colin Farrell have all signed on to film scenes as Ledger's character in Terry Gilliam's 'The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus,' a magical re-telling of the Faust story, according to Aintitcoolnews.com. The announcement serves as a tribute to the man many have called one of the best actors of his generation.
  34. ^ Hart, Hugh (7 January 2010). "How Terry Gilliam Weathered Loss of Heath Ledger to Finish Fanciful Imaginarium". Wired. Retrieved 28 January 2010.
  35. ^ Salter, Jessica (18 August 2008). "Heath Ledger's Daughter Given Wages of Stars in Terry Gilliam's Dr. Parnassus". The Daily Telegraph. Archived from the original on 21 August 2008. Retrieved 18 August 2008.
  36. ^ "The Damnation of Faust". ENO. Archived from the original on 11 October 2010. Retrieved 23 October 2010.
  37. ^ Christiansen, Rupert (9 May 2011). "Terry Gilliam's First Opera Is a Damned Fine Glimpse of the Abyss". The Daily Telegraph. London. Archived from the original on 11 January 2022. Retrieved 10 May 2011.
  38. ^ Clements, Andrew (7 May 2011). "The Damnation of Faust – Review". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 10 May 2011.
  39. ^ Duchen, Jessica (9 May 2011). "The Damnation of Faust, English National Opera". The Independent. London. Retrieved 10 May 2011.
  40. ^ Lyman, Eric. J. (2012)"Terry Gilliam: 'Don Quixote' Postponed Again, but Bucharest Calls (Q&A)". Hollywood Reporter. 7 July 2012.
  41. ^ McGarry, Lisa (2012). "Britain's Got Talent: David Walliams Lands Role in New Johnny Depp Flick as Amanda Holden Says 'He Can Be Dark'" Archived 16 July 2012 at the Wayback Machine. Unreality TV. 10 July 2012.
  42. ^ Connelly, Brendon (2012). "Johnny Depp Teaming Up with Wes Anderson for the Grand Budapest Hotel". Bleeding Cool. 16 July 2012.
  43. ^ Ciuverca, Florentina (2012). "Terry Gilliam a ales România pentru noul său film". Filmreporter.ro. 17 July 2012. Translation of the first paragraph by Google Translate: "One of the most celebrated contemporary directors, Terry Gilliam, plans to shoot next production in Romania, according to US media. Sources confirm to Filmreporter.ro that shooting could occur in MediaPro Studios located in Buftea in the coming months."
  44. ^ Billington, Alex (2012). "Terry Gilliam's Latest Existential Head Trip Will Star Christoph Waltz". Firstshowing.net. 13 August 2012.
  45. ^ White, James (2012). "Waltz Figures Out the Zero Theorem: Terry Gilliam's Latest!". Empire. 13 August 2012.
  46. ^ Eisenberg, Eric (2012). "Christoph Waltz to Star in Terry Gilliam's Zero Theorem". Cinema Blend. 13 August 2012.
  47. ^ Fleming, Mike (2012). "Update: Toronto: Terry Gilliam Confirms Christoph Waltz for 'Zero Theorem'". 14 August 2012.
  48. ^ Serafino, Jason (2012). "Christoph Waltz Signs On for Terry Gilliam's 'Zero Theorem'". Complex. 14 August 2012.
  49. ^ Schafer, Sandy (2012). "Terry Gilliam Is Making 'The Zero Theorem' with Christoph Waltz", screenrant.com. 14 August 2012.
  50. ^ Brown, Todd (2012)."Terry Gilliam Resurrects the Zero Theorem with Christoph Waltz" Archived 15 August 2012 at the Wayback Machine. Twitch Film. 14 August 2012.
  51. ^ Jagernauth, Kevin (14 July 2013). "Terry Gilliam Says 'The Zero Theorem' Headed to Venice Film Festival; Jessica Chastain's 'Eleanor Rigby' Also Rumored". blogs.indiewire.com. Archived from the original on 16 July 2013. Retrieved 15 July 2013.
  52. ^ "2 September". www.labiennale.org. Venice Film Festival. Archived from the original on 16 October 2015. Retrieved 16 August 2013.
  53. ^ Opera on 3 – Berlioz's Benvenuto Cellini. BBC Radio 3 broadcast, 30 June 2014.
  54. ^ Alica-Azania Jarvis (4 August 2008). "Pandora: Don Quixote rides again, says delighted Gilliam". The Independent. UK. Archived from the original on 19 August 2008. Retrieved 4 August 2008.
  55. ^ "Monty Python – Palin to Act Alongside Depp?". Contact Music. 26 May 2008. Retrieved 25 July 2008.
  56. ^ "Episode 61 – The Hour". CBC News.
  57. ^ "Terry Gilliam – Timeline Photos – Facebook". facebook.com.
  58. ^ Skinner, Craig (2016). Exclusive: Terry Gilliam's The Man Who Killed Don Quixote to Star Adam Driver and Michael Palin; New Concept Art Uncovered. Flickreel.com. 11 May 2016.
  59. ^ Lapin, Andrew (9 March 2017). "Terry Gilliam Has Begun Shooting 'The Man Who Killed Don Quixote,' For Real This Time". IndieWire.
  60. ^ "Sorry for the long silence". 4 June 2017. Retrieved 4 June 2017.
  61. ^ "Cannes adds Lars von Trier latest, 'The Man Who Killed Don Quixote', 'Whitney' doc". Screen Daily. 19 April 2018. Retrieved 19 April 2018.
  62. ^ "Cannes Adds Lars von Trier's 'The House That Jack Built,' Sets Terry Gilliam's 'Don Quixote' as Closer". Variety. 19 April 2018. Retrieved 19 April 2018.
  63. ^ "@quixotemovie by @TerryGilliam will close the @Festival_Cannes". 19 April 2018. Retrieved 20 April 2018.
  64. ^ Han, Karen (22 May 2018). "Decades in the Making, Terry Gilliam's Don Quixote Is a Dream, and a Delusion, Come True". Slate. Retrieved 22 May 2018.
  65. ^ "Into the Woods review – Terry Gilliam's rollicking take on Sondheim's 'fairytale collision'". The Guardian. 25 August 2022. Retrieved 23 October 2022.
  66. ^ "Terry Gilliam Details New Film Starring Johnny Depp as Satan and Jeff Bridges as God". 2 June 2024.
  67. ^ Hopewell, John; Keslassy, Elsa (2010). "Gilliam to Godfather '1884': Tim Ollive to Helm Retro Sci-Fi Fantasy". Variety. 16 December 2010.
  68. ^ Cate, Hans ten (1996) "Animations of Mortality:" Terry Gilliam's New Interactive CD-ROM Game Archived 2 October 2023 at the Wayback Machine. Monty Python's Daily Llama. 16 January 1996.
  69. ^ a b Sterrit, David; Rhodes, Lucille (2004). Terry Gilliam: Interviews, University Press of Mississippi.
  70. ^ "Enteractive, Inc." MobyGames.com.
  71. ^ Terry Gilliam on YouTube. Uploaded by RoundhouseTV.
  72. ^ Stubbs, Phil (2008). "Charles McKeown on writing the Dr Parnassus script". Dreams.
  73. ^ "The clash between the baroque and the Newtonian view of the world is my message in a bottle." "Dreams: The Adventures of Baron Munchausen".
  74. ^ a b "In [Max] Weber's view, the technological world of modernity tries to eliminate any need for magic, fantasy, or any irrational forces. Gilliam presents this idea of change 'from without' through certain aspects of his mise-en-scene." Hamel, Keith James. "Modernity and Mise-en-Scene: Terry Gilliam and Brazil". Images: Journal of Film and Popular Culture, issue 6.
  75. ^ Ebert, Roger (25 August 2005). "Lost in the forest without a story". RogerEbert.com. Retrieved 14 April 2020.
  76. ^ Stubbs, Phil (2011). "Dreams: Nicola Pecorini on The Wholly Family". Dreams: The Terry Gilliam Fanzine.
  77. ^ Stubbs, Phil: "Terry Gilliam Talks Tideland". Dreams.
  78. ^ Bianculli, David (2009). "Gilliam's Imaginarium: Surreal and All-Too-Real". 21-minute streaming radio interview (quote from the host's question and Gilliam's answer at running times 16:23–18:34). Fresh Air. National Public Radio. 22 December 2009.
  79. ^ Sheehan, Henry (2006). "A Shot to Remember: Terry Gilliam on Brazil's Rescue Scene". DGA Quarterly. Fall 2006. Archived 3 July 2007 at the Wayback Machine
  80. ^ Shell, Theresa (2009). "Exclusive! Nicola Picorini, Director of Photography, Talks to Dr. Parnassus Support Site About the Film, Heath Ledger & Terry Gilliam".
  81. ^ "Terry Gilliam". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 4 March 2022.
  82. ^ "Terry Gilliam Sounds Off" . ShowBuzz. CBS News. 6 October 2006.
  83. ^ "Quarterly Publication of Individuals, Who Have Chosen To Expatriate, as Required by Section 6039G". Federal Register. 1 May 2006. Retrieved 23 July 2020.
  84. ^ a b (10 February 2006). Kopflos am Potsdamer Platz. tagesspiegel (in German). Retrieved 28 April 2014.
  85. ^ Robinson, Tasha. "AV Club Interview". Avclub.com. Archived from the original on 21 September 2008. Retrieved 1 June 2011.
  86. ^ Gross, David M. (2014). 99 Tactics of Successful Tax Resistance Campaigns. Picket Line Press. p. 86. ISBN 978-1-4905-7274-1.
  87. ^ "Quarterly Publication of Individuals, Who Have Chosen To Expatriate, as Required by Section 6039G". Federal Register. 2 November 2017. Retrieved 23 July 2020.
  88. ^ "Umbria Film Festival web site". Umbriafilmfestival.com. Archived from the original on 15 July 2002. Retrieved 1 June 2011.
  89. ^ "My latest is a disaster movie". The Guardian. 4 February 2001. Retrieved 30 March 2017.
  90. ^ UK Charity Commission, UK Charity Commission Report on Videre, UK Charity Commission, 23 July 2013
  91. ^ Videre Website. Videre Est Credere. 23 July 2013.

Bibliography

[edit]
[edit]
Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Terry_Gilliam&oldid=1258233320"