Terry Gilliam
1) Tideland
Pub. Date
2021.
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.
Pub. Date
2023.
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).
3) Jabberwocky
Pub. Date
2020.
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.
Pub. Date
2021.
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,...
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
Immaculate ed.
Formats
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...
10) The Fisher king
Pub. Date
[1998]
Edition
Deluxe widescreen presentation.
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.
12) Brazil
Pub. Date
c1998
Description
A daydreaming bureaucrat becomes involved with an underground superhero and a beautiful mysterious woman and becomes the tragic victim of his own romantic illusions.
13) 12 monkeys
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
Special ed. ; Anamorphic widescreen (1.85:1)
Description
After the world's population is devastated by a killer virus, Cole volunteers to travel into the past to obtain a pure virus sample, thereby helping scientists develop a cure. Along the way, he crosses paths with a beautiful psychiatrist and a mental patient as he searches for the Army of the 12 Monkeys, a radical group linked to the deadly disease.
Pub. Date
[2005]
Description
19th-century "folklore collectors" Wilhelm and Jacob Grimm are con artists. They perform exorcisms of "evil enchantments" (for a healthy fee) while wandering about in French-occupied Germany during the Napoleonic wars. Wilhelm is a swashbuckling cad with an answer for everything, while Jacob is a dreamer who looks at life through fairytale-tinted spectacles. When French Gen. Delatombe gets wise to the schemes of Team Grimm, he presents them with a...
17) Time bandits
Pub. Date
c1999
Description
A young boy 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 the Evil Genius is watching their every move!.