Terry Gilliam
Author
Publisher
HarperDesign, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
A memoir from the screenwriter, animator, visionary film director, and founding member of Monty Python describes his life through recollections, anecdotes, and never-before-seen photographs and artwork.
Author
Publisher
Abrams
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
This is the story of Monty Python, one the most popular and influential forces in modern comedy--and of their TV show--told in words and images. This celebratory book includes 22 removable facsimiles of rare memorabilia from their official archives, including hand-scribbled scripts, cue sheets, character lists, posters, and animation artwork. Written with active input from the Pythons themselves, the book recounts the adventures of all six members...
3) Tideland
Publisher
Arrow Films
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
To escape her unhappy life in a remote part of Texas, nine-year-old Jeliza-Rose dreams up an elaborate fantasy world. But the reality of having junkie parents - played by Jeff Bridges (The Big Lebowski) and Jennifer Tilly (Bound) - and the influence of her eccentric neighbours begins to encroach, turning her daydreams ever darker.
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Narrated by Jeff Bridges and made by acclaimed directors Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe, LOST IN LA MANCHA captures Terry Gilliam's aborted attempt to get The Man Who Killed Don Quixote in the can. Back injuries, freakish storms, and more zoom in to sabotage the project (which has never been resurrected).
5) Jabberwocky
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Pub. Date
2020.
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.
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Parry is a homeless history professor who lives in a fantasy world full of castles, Red Knights, and damsels in distress. Jack is New York's number one shock deejay, until the day his off-hand arrogance triggers a tragedy that ruins his career. Penniless and without prospects, Jack finds himself plucked from disaster by the most improbable of saviors, Parry.
Publisher
Altered Innocence
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
How does a filmmaker go from creating cutting-edge work and competing in Cannes to being labelled a failed erotic filmmaker? The debut documentary feature from Polish critic and academic Kuba Mikurda investigates the work of Walerian Borowczyk, a director of unparalleled creativity & sensitivity, revered in the 1970s for creations including Goto, Island of Love, The Beast, & Immoral Tales. The film interviews his closest collaborators, filmmakers,...
Publisher
1091 Media
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Toby (Adam Driver) enters a world of time jumping fantasy when he meets "Don Quixote" (Jonathan Pryce), a delusional Spanish cobbler who believes Toby to be Sancho Panza. They embark on an epic adventure where dreams and reality intertwine.
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
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Matt Damon and Heath Ledger star as a pair of medieval con men forced to confront a terrifying world of magic that they had believed existed only in their imaginations in THE BROTHERS GRIMM.Will and Jacob Grimm (Academy Award winner Damon--Syriana, Ocean's Eleven and Academy Award nominee Ledger--Casanova, Brokeback Mountain) travel from village to village frightening people with stories of magical beasts--and charging the terrified locals to vanquish...
13) The fisher king
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
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.
14) Brazil
Series
Criterion collection volume 51
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
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.
16) 8 1/2
Series
Criterion collection volume 140
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
Italiano
Description
Fellini's autobiographically-inspired film about a famous film director (Guido Anselmi) who loses his inspiration in the midst of making a film, and retreats into his memories and fantasies.
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...
Series
Criterion collection volume 175
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Fueled by a suitcase full of pharmaceuticals, journalist Raoul Duke and his sidekick Dr. Gonzo set off on a fast and furious ride through nonstop neon, surreal surroundings and a crew of crazy characters.
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Czech
Description
A journey to the beginning of time (1955) : Youngest of four boys one day finds a fossil of trilobite. So his older friend take him on journey through prehistory, up to beginning of time, to see real live trilobites.
Invention for destruction (1958) : An evil millionaire named Artigas plans to use a super-explosive device to conquer the world from his headquarters inside an enormous volcano.
The fabulous Baron Munchausen (1962) : The outrageous...
20) Time bandits
Series
Criterion collection volume 37
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
A boy named Kevin escapes his gadget-obsessed parents to join a band of time-traveling dwarves. Armed with a map stolen from the Supreme Being, they plunder treasure from Napoleon and Agamemnon; but Evil is watching their every move. A giddy fairy tale, a revisionist history lesson, and a satire on technology gone awry.
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