The Nolan-Oscopy: THE ODYSSEY
Sing to us, O Muse, of determined men, haunted by dead women, consciously embracing lies; of nested framing devices, portentous insert shots, and groundbreaking IMAX-ery.
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And Now For Something Completely Gilliam: THE RANKINGS
We wrap up the Gilliam restrospective in the internet’s love language, ranked lists.
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And Now For Something Completely Gilliam: THE MAN WHO KILLED DON QUIXOTE
Gilliam’s career comes to its likely close with a film with a film that somehow managed to be one of the hardest-fought triumphs in the history of film, and appropriately doomed to immediate obscurity.
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And Now For Something Completely Gilliam: ZERO THEOREM
In which Gilliam gets back to form, sorta, with this basically functional dystopian satire.
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And Now For Something Completely Gilliam: THE IMAGINARIUM OF DOCTOR PARNASSUS
Look, it’s really very simple. Heath Ledger is a suicidal fraud with amnesia and a magic pipe, who is also sometimes 3 other actors, and falls in with a medieval theater troupe in present-day London, where they operate as a front for an immortal, alcoholic monk with a post-graduate degree who uses a magical
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And Now For Something Completely Gilliam: TIDELAND
Gwen Sisco returns to offer measured defense of possibly Gilliam’s least-loved film.
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And Now For Something Completely Gilliam: THE BROTHERS GRIMM
Chris Prentice returns to chart Gilliam’s precipitous decline with this overcast, fantasy snoozer
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And Now For Something Completely Gilliam – FEAR AND LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS
David Sarnecki returns to ponder the point where the wave crested and started rolling back, both for the dream of the 1960s and Gilliam’s creative prime.
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And Now For Something Completely Gilliam: THE FISHER KING
Michael Martin returns as Gilliam searches for the grail (again) while ushering us into Robin Williams bearded era.
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