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1. Dark Knights and Holy Fools: The Art and Films of Terry Gilliam by Bob McCabe | |
Paperback: 192
Pages
(1999-07-16)
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Editorial Review Product Description Each chapter deals in depth with a different production, covering the story behind the movie and its making, and including a complete critical analysis of the film as well as detailed cast and credit listings. Using Gilliam's own drawings, storyboards, and scripts, this book builds a complete archive of the director's work detailing his renowned immense sets and labyrinth stories of man against bureaucracy (Brazil, 12 Monkeys), triumphant tales of imagination winning over mediocrity (Time Bandits, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, The Fisher King), and, of course, something completely different (Monty Python and the Holy Grail). Additionally, each chapter features a new, previously unpublished, in-depth interview with Gilliam in which his movies are assessed as a complete body of work within the context of his life. Dark Knights and Holy Fools also offers interestingglimpses at the inner workings of the film industry. McCabe chroniclesGilliam's well-publicized battles with studios over budgets, runninglengths, and less-than-sunny endings, illustrating the frustrations oftrying to push art through a bureaucracy (and, to a lesser extent, thefrustrations of trying to reason with a visionary). Just as engrossingare the accounts of how ideas that don't quite fit into one film canmaterialize in another, and the amount of pure serendipity that wentinto some of the indelible images Gilliam has created. This is alavish and thoughtful treatment of one of our most unpredictablemodern directors. --Ali Davis Customer Reviews (7)
Great Gilliam companion!
A Fantastic, colorful showcase of the art & film of Gilliam
The right way to look at an imaginative director It's a biography, a reference, a wonderful collection of illustrations and photographs, and a celebration of a cinematic genius. If you enjoy Gilliam's work, I suspect this ought to be on your bookshelf.
Our most imaginative director gets comprehensive treatment
Strange goings on |
2. Gilliam on Gilliam (Directors on Directors) by Terry Gilliam | |
Paperback: 304
Pages
(2000-06-15)
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The best book on Gilliam
Great! (For Gilliam fans, that is...) Reading these interviews puts you inside the creative mind of a filmmaking genius (yes, I dare say that). There's a reason for everything that's on the screen, and one understands that Gilliam's knack for weirdness is a little more than that... there's more to his filmmaking virtuosism (wild camera angles and moves) than there is when they make it in your average Nike comercial. If you wanna know what I mean, well, read the book. Also, I don't recommend this much to Python fans. Certainly, a good part of it talks about the Python days, but it doesn't talk about their creative process much - it's more about the making of the films and Gilliam's animations.
Fascinating, flawed, and funny It is,truly, Gilliam on Gilliam, with the book in total an interview with thefilmmaker. Gilliam talks about the battle for Brazil, his frustrations inthe early Python films (was was stigmatized as the arty image guy), and hisintricate intentions in later films. Most interesting to me, other thanhow it reminded me of how much of his films, sadly, I had forgotten, washow much visual work he puts into his films. That is relatively clear fromscreen, but even more apparent after you read through this book. Equallyinteresting to the biz geek in me was reading Terry's pitched battle forbudget credibility. After having budget troubles on two films (Brazil andBaron Munchausen), Gilliam had a financial scarlet letter to sport and ithas been tough for him to convince the studios that he is not a riskybudgetary bet. Hard to believe that such a prolific and successfulfilmmaker could still be auditioning, but there it is. Anyway, aninteresting and informative book. Not for those who are mildly interested,but a treat for Gilliam geeks who want the inside skinny on everything fromDe Niro's bizarre behavior in Brazil, to the casting of Jon Pryce, tounderlying mythic chain operating in The Fisher King.
Excellent overview and insight into Terry's films and mind
Gilliam is just Gilliam |
3. The Battle of Brazil: Terry Gilliam v. Universal Pictures in the Fight to the Final Cut by Jack Mathews | |
Kindle Edition: 362
Pages
(2000-05-01)
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Much the reverse of the great film it covers, an unhappy story with a happy ending
A massive let down considering the hype surrounding this book
The birth of a film...
The fight to get Brazil away from Sid It's really good, covering the fight to release the director's cut of the film. The villain is Sid Sheinberg, one of the executives at Universal. Sid says he doesn't want to change Gilliam's movie, but he wants to change the end. Changing the end changes the whole POINT of the film. So Sid pretended that the battle is over the length of the movie. He tried to get between the producer (Arnon Milchan) and Gilliam. He sort of succeeded, too. Then the LA critics chose Brazil as the movie of the year, even though it hadn't been released. (The author was one of those critics.) That move raised the stakes much higher, and ultimately led to Gilliam's victory.
A Good Book Jack Mathew's book chronicles the creative and business side of one of the strangest films ever made.The book is an act of life imitating art and exposes the deep flaws in the Hollywood system, and the subborness of the little man who won't give up. Read the book and see the movie.You'll be really glad you did. ... Read more |
4. Losing the Light: Terry Gilliam and the Munchausen Saga (Applause Books) by Andrew Yule | |
Paperback: 564
Pages
(2000-04-01)
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Incredibly Poor Waste of Your Time
"Surely this time there is no escape...." for Terry Gilliam The making of the movie "The Adventures of Baron Munchausen" is told via Andrew Yule's interviews and research, almost a post-mortem after the near-death experience of the filmmaking process.Director and producer fought, crews walked or were fired, accountants and accusations flew, and tigers and elephants literally got out of control.Compared to "The Battle of Brazil" that was a skirmish and this was a world war. For Gilliam fans, join the director in all his pain as he attempts to surmount and juggle language barriers, lethargic crews, bad weather, financial disputes, mysterious accidents, casts of characters fictional and real, and his own visions.
A darn good book about the troubles with Munchausen |
5. Dreams and Nightmares: Terry Gilliam, The Brothers Grimm, & Other Cautionary Tales of Hollywood by Bob McCabe | |
Hardcover: 296
Pages
(2006-10-01)
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A missed opportunity
A surprisingly unsympathetic look at my favorite director |
6. Brazil : The Evolution of the Best British Film Ever Made by Terry Gilliam | |
Paperback: 192
Pages
(2001)
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Draft Number One? |
7. The Adventures of Baron Munchausen: The Illustrated Screenplay (Applause Screenplay Series) by Terry Gilliam, Charles McKeown | |
Paperback: 186
Pages
(2000-05-01)
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Almost as Good As Seeing the Movie (but no cigar)
See the movie! |
8. Animations of Mortality by Terry Gilliam | |
Paperback:
Pages
(1979-04)
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Terry Gilliam, a contemporary genius.
...large pneumatic ladies exploding...
How to animate Monty Python style |
9. Terry Gilliam (British Film Makers) by Peter Marks | |
Hardcover: 304
Pages
(2010-03-15)
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Editorial Review Product Description Terry Gilliam presents a sustained and comprehensive examination of one of cinema’s most challenging and lauded auteurs. It proposes fresh ways of seeing Gilliam that go beyond reductive readings of him as a gifted but manic fantasist. Analyzing his work over nearly four decades, from the brilliant anarchy of his Monty Python animations through the nightmarish masterpiece Brazil to the provocative Gothic horror of Tideland, Marks critically examines the variety and richness of Gilliam’s sometimes troubled but always provocative output. The book situates Gilliam within the cultural contexts of the British, European and American film industries, and examines his struggles against aesthetic and commercial pressures. Gilliam emerges as a passionate, committed and immensely creative director, whose completed body of work encompasses a dizzying and inventive array of material: anarchic satire, childhood and adult fantasy, dystopia, romantic comedy, surrealism, road movie, fairy tale and gothic horror. The book shows how Gilliam employs, interweaves and refashions these genres to create magical interfaces between constricted reality and the illuminating, frightening but liberating worlds of the imagination. |
10. Terry Gilliam: Interviews (Conversations With Filmmakers Series) | |
Paperback: 228
Pages
(2004-02-13)
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Editorial Review Product Description Among many subjects, Gilliam discusses his formative years as an artist and humor-magazine cartoonist, his move from the United States to England, his entry into British television, and his success as resident animator for the Monty Python's Flying Circus television show. As co-director of Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) and as director of Jabberwocky (1977) Gilliam made his advent as a maker of feature films, followed by such popular movies as Time Bandits (1981) and The Fisher King (1991). A mixture of critical acclaim and film-studio animosity greeted his epic Brazil (1985). Gilliam discusses all these, as well as the damage The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988) did to his career and the disasters that plagued his attempt to film a time-travel comedy called The Man Who Killed Don Quixote after the commercial disappointment of his unexpectedly acerbic Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998). In his conversations with a diverse array of interviewers Gilliam talks about an eclectic succession of topics, including his idiosyncratic tastes in painting and architecture, his fascination with the art and history of medieval Europe, his outspoken hostility for the commercial film industry, his views on comedy, fantasy, and film, and his philosophical perspectives on contemporary society. "I like the idea," he says, "of actual demons sucking your brains out---envy and greed, these things being tangible. It's somehow on a common level, a more sensible way of dealing with the world. . . ." Customer Reviews (1)
valuable, if often rather repetetive collection of interviews with Gilliam over a 30-year career |
11. Terry Gilliam: The Pocket Essential (Pocket Essentials) by John Ashbrook | |
Paperback: 96
Pages
(2000-11)
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12. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: Not the Screenplay by Terry Gilliam, Tony Grisoni | |
Paperback: 232
Pages
(2000-02-01)
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Are you kidding me? LESS than 1 star! REVIEW This book is so overrated. I've yet to read exactly WHAT the genius is supposed to be behind this book. That Thompson is able to ramble on and on and on and on and ON about drugs for a few hundred pages? That he was able to put to words what it's like to be in a week-long drug binge (which WOULD be hard, because how COULD you remember it?) I enjoy out-of-the-ordinary books and movies. Although the people that have previously posted (rave) reviews about this book are much deeper into the alternative culture, things like Pulp Fiction and Fight Club are still considered "out there" by the vast majority of the public. And Fear and Loathing not just out there, it's gone. (...) I started the book. I lost interest. I rented the movie, hoping it could contain my focus for 90 minutes. It was ***. At the encouragement of another author, I read the book all the way through. Still bored. Constant drug ramblings with no real objective. It could have ended 50-100 pages earlier, or it could have continued 50-100 pages more (in Denver or Malibu), and it would have made no significant change to the content of the book. I rented the movie again. Ugh. Other than they did a good job sticking to the original content (amazingly so), the original material still was... boring! I'm sure the flames will come, but after spending a considerable amount of energy trying to get through this material, I can't find the genius in the work. As for why everyone that has previously reviewed it has given it 5 stars: it is rare for anyone not extremely interested in the drug culture to get past the first 5 pages, so anyone who didn't love the book probably gave up on it way early and can't make a valid review.
buy the NOVEL!
A Great Script Adaption Of The Book |
13. Le petit livre de Terry Gilliam (French Edition) by Jean-Marc Bouineau | |
Paperback: 144
Pages
(1996)
Isbn: 2950611265 Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
14. The Last Machine by Ian Christie | |
Paperback: 152
Pages
(1995-01)
Isbn: 1860000940 Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
15. TIME BANDITS by TERRY GILLIAM MICHAEL PALIN | |
Paperback: 128
Pages
(1981)
Isbn: 0099260204 Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
16. The Adventures Of Baron Munchausen by Terry Gilliam Charles McKeown | |
Paperback:
Pages
(1989)
Asin: B000XTK9CM Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
17. Magic Movie Moments by George Perry, Bob Adelman, Michael Rand, Terry Gilliam | |
Hardcover: 176
Pages
(2000-03-20)
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18. The Pythons' Autobiography By The Pythons by Michael Palin, Terry Jones, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, John Cleese, Graham Chapman, Bob McCabe | |
Paperback: 544
Pages
(2005-09-15)
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And now for something completely not funny, yet indispensible.
Wonderful book
A few points about this Monty Python book |
19. The Adventures of Baron Munchausen: The Illustrated Novel (Applause Screenplay Series) by Charles McKeown, Terry Gilliam | |
Paperback: 202
Pages
(2000-02-01)
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The movie's book |
20. The Fairly Incomplete and Rather Badly Illustrated Monty Python Song Book by Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Michael Palin | |
Hardcover: 96
Pages
(1994-10)
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