Terry Gilliam
1) Gilliamesque
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...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Awakenings: Based on the true story of a shy research physician who uses an experimental drug to awaken catatonic victims of a rare sleeping sickness. ; The Fisher King: A deejay who finds himself penniless is plucked from disaster by a homeless history professor, who lives in a fantasy world full of castles, Red Knights and damsels in distress. Together they begin a modern quest for redemption and the Holy Grail
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
©2005
Language
English
Description
Comedic sketches and musical numbers covering every stage of life
A 1983 British musical sketch comedy film written and performed by the Monty Python troupe, directed by Terry Jones. It was the last film to feature all six Python members before Graham Chapman's death in 1989. Unlike Holy Grail and Life of Brian, the film's two predecessors, which each told a single, more-or-less coherent story, [2] The Meaning of Life returns to the sketch format...
4) 12 monkeys
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
An inmate from a futuristic prison is sent to the past to gather information about the virus that sent the human race to live underground
Publisher
Universal Music Enterprises
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
"Using unseen photos and footage, ... director Martin Scorsese traces the life of George Harrison in a personal film, weaving together performance footage, home movies, rare archival materials and interviews with his family and friends"--Container
6) Brazil
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
In this surrealistic nightmare vision of a "perfect" future where technology reigns supreme, a daydreaming bureaucrat who is involved with an underground superhero and a beautiful mysterious woman becomes the tragic victim of his own romantic illusions. This is the original 142 minute director's cut edition of the film assembled from both the European and American versions
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Monty Python delivers the group's sharpest and smartest satire of both religion and Hollywood's epic films. Set in 33 A.D. Judea where the exasperated Romans try to impose order, it is a time of chaos and change with no shortage of messiahs and followers willing to believe in them. At its center is Brian Cohen, born in Bethlehem in a stable next door, who, by a series of absurd circumstances is caught up in the new religion and reluctantly mistaken...
Publisher
Screen Media Films
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Toby is a disillusioned director, currently heading commericals, who becomes pulled into a world of fantasy and memory when he's reunited with a Spanish cobbler he cast as Don Quixote in a student film years earlier. The old man now believes himself to be the legendary character, and Toby to be Sancho Panza, who must play along with the delusion as he also attempts to fulfill his professional duties and rescue a young woman who believed his seductive...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
The immortal Dr. Parnassus and his daughter Valentina travel the countryside with his imaginarium show, a mirror that audience members enter and are given two different paths to follow. If they choose correctly they will find joy and happiness, but choose wrongly and things will be quite the opposite. The doctor must also discover the right course to follow. After making a deal with Mr. Nick years ago, he must choose the correct path if he is to save...
Author
Language
English
Description
A portrait of animator and independent filmmaker Bill Plympton, who after working as an illustrator in publications such as the New Yorker, Hustler, Penthouse and Playboy, turned to independent film. In 1988, he was nominated for an Academy Award for his short film, 'Your Face' and has since received critical acclaim for numerous short and feature films.
14) Jabberwocky
Author
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.