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Terry Gilliam's fantastic piece of imaginative cinema "Brazil" was released by Criterion Collection on Blu-ray this past Tuesday, December 4th. I have no idea how it compares to the other releases of the film, but I do know that this release is freaking spectacular and this film has never looked or sounded so damn great.Terry Gilliam's fantastic piece of imaginative cinema "Brazil" was... more
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In Get Low, Robert Duvall plays Felix Bush, a cantankerous hermit who hires Bill Murray to plan his funeral party to take place while he's still alive.
"He lives an isolated life, where he's kind of created his own jail," Duvall said. "And he wants to have his funeral early so he can hear what people say about him. It's the opposite of what I did in Lonesome Dove, where he was an outgoing guy. It's one of my favorite parts so far, and my wife said it was her favorite since The Apostle."
Get Low also marked a reunion between Duvall and Lucas Black, who played the twelve-year-old in Sling Blade and now as a adult, plays Buddy, the undertaker's assistant at the funeral home. "He's a wonderful young actor, this guy," Duvall said. After Get Low, the two actors teamed up again for Seven Days in Utopia, where Duvall plays a mentor to Black's golf player.
"It'll be the best golf movie because Lucas is a legitimate tournament golf player," Duvall said. "I play a retired golf professional, so I only had to swing once. It was more like I was teaching him about life. And I got them to give me some demons, some faults, some history, because there's only one Jesus."
Duvall's Sling Blade reunions don't stop here -- the actor said he's working again with Billy Bob Thornton, on a script Thornton co-wrote with Tom Epperson and will direct called Jayne Mansfield's Car. "I keep saying it's Tennessee Williams in a backseat," Duvall said. "It's so good. My wife read the script and was laughing all afternoon, it was just so funny. It's brilliant."
While he gets started on that, Duvall's still waiting to hear the fate of The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, which he was supposed to start in Europe last year with director Terry Gilliam. "He wants me to play Don Quixote," Duvall said, "but we're in retrograde on that, because there's no money. It's a different story now, but it's still based on Don Quixote."
Duvall said that he'd rather have the uncertainty than having the rest of his career mapped out. "Something might come around the corner as a surprise," he said. "And sometimes, that something will be as good as what you've been planning."
So no plans like his Get Low character, to try to find out what people think about him before he's gone? "Once it's over, it's over!" he laughed. "Go ahead and spread my ashes."In Get Low, Robert Duvall plays Felix Bush, a cantankerous hermit who hires Bill... more
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Terry Gilliam's "low budget" ode to New York, and pinhole into homelessness is one of my favourite films of all time, and for good reason.Terry Gilliam's "low budget" ode to New York, and pinhole into... more
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The Rotten Tomatoes Show runs down the top five dream sequences of all time, including the scene featuring a giant metal Samurai in Terry Gilliam's "Brazil." Surprisingly, Hitchcock's "Spellbound" misses the list -- Ellen Fox explains, the sequence designed by Salvador Dali is somehow not weird enough.
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The Big Lebowski premieres on Current TV Thursday, November 4th at 9 pm ET/6 pm PT.The Rotten Tomatoes Show runs down the top five dream sequences of all time, including... more
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In the brand new SHREK FOREVER AFTER, an ill-advised pact with a conniving Rumpelstiltskin (Walt Dohrn) turns reality upside-down for everyone's favorite Scottish-accented ogre (Mike Myers). Princess Fiona (Cameron Diaz) no longer loves him, Donkey (Eddie Murphy) is downright terrified of him (and still annoying), and everyone in the kingdom of Far Far Away wants his head on a pike.
But, by far, the most upsetting inversion is that of the formerly dashing lothario, Puss in Boots (Antonio Banderas) -- now a morbidly obese, singularly unmotivated housecat. When fantasy's ultimate swashbuckler can no longer buckle his swash, you know things are bad. (We can think of two reasons for so bloated a feline; for the sake of propriety, we'll go with an overindulgence in Tender Vittles.)
Puss isn't the first to have his downhill slide observed by the merciless eye of the camera. In fact, the list of characters who've undergone unfortunate cinematic transformations is considerable. Take a look at these 10 particularly distressing cases, and see if it doesn't inspire you to reactivate your New Year's resolutions:
http://www.reelzchannel.com/article/1031/top-10-wow-youve-really-let-yourself-go-moviesIn the brand new SHREK FOREVER AFTER, an ill-advised pact with a conniving... more
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We're still on weekend mode because, let's face it, who really works on President's Day? The news does!
-Terry Gilliam finally weighs in on Avatar, cries foul about movies designed to make money make other movies (i.e. his) that don't make money look bad. [Female First]
-Valentine's Day made a ton of money on a weekend where your choices were a Harry Potter rip-off and a Wolfman remake. [Deadline]
-I, too, was unaware that ScreenDaily would be choosing to go Variety and use a PayWall. Which is lame. [David Hudson]
-Kevin Smith had a fun weekend with Southwest Airlines. Listen to the NSFW smodcast to find out how lame. [Smodcast via Current]
-A Taxi Driver remake with Scorsese and Lars Von Trier could and would be awesome. [The Guardian]
We're still on weekend mode because, let's face it, who really works on... more
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Join us as Brett and Ellen, along with our loyal webcam community, go beyond the mirror to explore Terry Gilliam's latest. More explicitly, what does the "latest" from the auteur best known for literally chasing windmills wind up bringing to the table? Find out when we review The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, which opens in wider release today.
Join us as Brett and Ellen, along with our loyal webcam community, go beyond the... more
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Our third film on tonight's Rotten Tomatoes Show, which is on in two hours(!), is the latest from Terry GIlliam--The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus. It opens wider tomorrow, so why not see which reviews we used on the show tonight and tune in to see how we found the good Doctor.
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Want to be part of the show next week? Then go out and see Daybreakers, Youth in Revolt or Leap Year and upload your review to Current by Sunday at midnight.
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Happy (almost) New Year, folks! The Rotten Tomatoes Show returns next Thursday, which means we need your webcam reviews. But let's get on with what you can catch this weekend if you haven't already.
-The White Ribbon is Michael Haneke's bleak yet argubally "pretty" film about pre-World War I Germany. I caught it at the New York Film Festival and thought it was...well...not good. [NY/LA]
-The Lovely Bones is Peter Jackson's take on Heaven and Mark Whalberg emoting. [NY/LA]
-The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus has Tom Waits as God, the last performance of Heath Ledger and Terry Gilliam.
If you see those three films, leave us your webcam review by Sunday 1/3 at midnight to possibly get on next Thursday's Rotten Tomatoes Show.
As for what else comes out in time for the new year:
-The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond is like when you said, I think I'm like Tennessee Williams. Like this film. Which is written by him. [NY/LA]
-That's it!
Happy (almost) New Year, folks! The Rotten Tomatoes Show returns next Thursday,... more
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It’s a genre light week, with no new horror, fantasy, or science fiction titles released in cinemas, so Dan Persons, Lawrence French, and Steve Biodrowski take this opportunity to shine a little much-deserved light on some overlooked and/or under-rated genre titles. The main topic of discussion is INK, the surprisingly good low-budget fantasy film about a girl kidnapped by a dream demon. Also under analysis, Roman Polanski’s Kafkaesque thriller THE GHOST WRITER, starring Pierce Brosnan and Ewan McGregor, playing in limited release in New York and Los Angeles. And Terry Gilliam’s THE IMAGINARIUM OF DR. PARNASSUS, which received only a small release earlier this year.
Click on the link to hear the show:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dan-persons/emcinefantastique-horror_b_498621.htmlIt’s a genre light week, with no new horror, fantasy, or science fiction titles... more
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In the Gasslight Foggy Realms of Allternity--
there is STILL -The Justice League-Star Wars-The Avengers-Hellboy-
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http://www.sillof.com/C-ALL.htmIn the Gasslight Foggy Realms of Allternity--
there is STILL -The Justice League-Star... more
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Alas, poor Terry Gilliam. Even though his work is admired by critics and film lovers alike, mention some of the titles of his most celebrated works to anyone and their eyes will glaze over. In fact, mention his latest film, “The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus” and they will ask “Whatta who?” Mention that “Parnassus” was Heath Ledger’s last film, that, in fact, he died before shooting of the film was completed and they might even say, “but I thought ‘The Dark Knight’ was his last movie.”
Get the complete review at:
http://www.cafemagazine.com/index.php/reviews/116-1001/591--inside-terry-gilliams-imaginariumAlas, poor Terry Gilliam. Even though his work is admired by critics and film lovers... more
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Brett Erlich and Ellen Fox join forces with bloggers, comedians, students and citizen critics to review "The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus."
The Rotten Tomatoes Show is a movie review show that airs on Thursday nights at 10:30 e/p on Current TV. From reviews of the newest releases to commentary on cult favorites and movie trends, each episode of The Rotten Tomatoes Show is a fast-paced, comedic journey through the week in cinema.
For more from the Rotten Tomatoes Show: http://rottentomatoesshow.com
For more about movies from Current: http://current.com/moviesBrett Erlich and Ellen Fox join forces with bloggers, comedians, students and citizen... more
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Musician Tom Waits has a key role in the new film from director Terry Gilliam. Waits plays the devil incarnate in The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus. The movie also stars Christopher Plummer and the late Heath Ledger. Waits talks to Steve Inskeep about his role as Mr. Nick in the movie.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=121963816Musician Tom Waits has a key role in the new film from director Terry Gilliam. Waits... more
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Happy New Year!
We want your webcam reviews for The White Ribbon, The Lovely Bones and the Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus this weekend for the Rotten Tomatoes Show. Any reviewers who make it on the show will be paid $100 via paypal.
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The best way to see “The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus” is to free fall into Terry Gilliam’s magical world. Don’t think about it; if you do, you probably won’t appreciate the other-worldly plot. But if you let yourself float and drift with the prevailing winds, you’ll find yourself transported to a preternatural world of colors and shapes and mysticism that will captivate you -- even if you don’t always understand it.
Gilliam was the only American member of Monty Python, the man responsible for the inventive graphics that separated the show’s segments. He went on to an “interesting” and trouble-filled career as a director. “Trouble-filled” may be a bit of an understatement; cursed is likely a better way to put it.The best way to see “The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus” is to free fall... more
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The wild imagination of director Terry Gilliam returns to the big screen this week with The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, about a small acting troupe that travels through London with an extraordinary portable stage. On it, a mirror — a looking glass — that can transport anyone from the audience into an imaginary world. The film is signature Gilliam, alive with color and fantasy and punctuated by flashes of psychedelic imagery.
And the fact that it has now been completed is a small miracle.
The money to make Dr. Parnassus almost ran out. Three days after the first round of filming wrapped, lead actor Heath Ledger died. A few months later, in the middle of post-production, the producer, Bill Vince, succumbed to cancer.
And in September 2008, Gilliam himself was struck by a car and ended up in the hospital.
But the director managed to overcome each challenge, and to complete what some critics are calling his best work in many years.
Gilliam tells NPR's Guy Raz that he had help from friends, family and colleagues as he worked to salvage Dr. Parnassus, but three people were particularly critical — starting with Johnny Depp.
"Johnny is a very close friend," Gilliam says, "and he was a close friend of Heath's as well. I called him a day or two after Heath died, just commiserating, and I said, 'I don't know what I'm gonna do, I might just close it down.'... And he said, 'Well, whatever you decide to do, I'm there.'"
It was a turning point. The film's financial backers had already started to retreat; Depp's interest helped turn the tide. Then Gilliam reached out to more of Ledger's friends — "I wanted to keep this in the family," he says — and soon Colin Farrell and Jude Law were adjusting their calendar commitments to join the project.
Moviemaking logistics being complicated, "it actually was an incredible dance between our schedule and their three schedules," Gilliam says. Even Depp's participation was in doubt at one point — but at the last minute the shoot for the gangster movie Public Enemy, a previous commitment for the actor, was pushed back a week.
Depp's total availability during that week? "A day, and three-and-a-half hours," Gilliam laughs
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=121636569The wild imagination of director Terry Gilliam returns to the big screen this week... more
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Wow, ‘Alien’ Artist H.R. Giger was asked to design the Batmobile? See the results and read other little tid-bits of film news by clicking on the link!Wow, ‘Alien’ Artist H.R. Giger was asked to design the Batmobile? See the... more
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As the Flying Circus celebrates its anniversary, The Daily Beast recalls their funniest routines. WATCH VIDEO of the Dead Parrot sketch, The Ministry of Silly Walks, and more.As the Flying Circus celebrates its anniversary, The Daily Beast recalls their... more
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