After heart surgery and seven years away from the stage, comedian Robin Williams is ready to storm Broadway with his one-man show It takes some confidence to extend the Broadway run of your one-man show before opening night, especially a few months after undergoing heart surgery. But then Robin Williams has never been short of nerve. His lengthy career is due in equal measure to the fearless nature...
Here's some media that I've been exploring/enjoying lately that I thought I might share with you. Six Moral Tales: by Eric Rohmer Criterion boxset The title may be mistranslated/misleading, as these films aren't really parables of any kind, but instead are sure handed stories of people grappling with love and their own moralities. These films were first written as a series of stories (Collected in...
French For Cartridge Genre: Rock / Experimental From: London, United Kingdom London's genre defying, style blending, art-pop geniuses (or should that be genii ?) Cartridge changed their name to the very similar if slightly longer French For Cartridge. While they've been busy changing their name they've thankfully not tinkered around with their incomparable sound. If you check your dictionary (do people...
Here in America, we have solid theme park rides based on movies that, for the most part, make sense, like Universal Studios' "E.T. Adventure," or the "Wayne's World" roller coaster "Hurler" (since sold and de-"Wayne"'d by Paramount, but still). But in Rome, they're building a ride based on the Fellini film "City of Women." Yes, in an effort to shore...
Last week Joseph McCabe of FEARnet.com caught up with Terry Gilliam and the filmmaking Python told him that his long-in-development adaptation of Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett’s dark fantasy novel Good Omens isn’t dead in the water yet. Apparently, it’s just resting. “It’s still sitting out there. It needs a lot [...]
Lindsay Lohan’s mum has revealed that her famous daughter was dating Heath Ledger when he died. Dina claimed that the ‘Mean Girls’ star and the ‘Dark Knight’ star were in a relationship at the time of his accidental drug overdose in January 2008. In a leaked phone call between Dina and her ex-husband, she has said that [...] Related posts: Heath Ledger : Heath Ledger was...
By Jenny DCF It’s no secret that I love Terry Gilliam’s work: the wild fantasy, the sarcastic wit, the characters who run the gamut from caricatures to real, well developed, believable people caught up in dreamlike adventures. His films are distinctive. The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus is vintage Gilliam: it has roots in Time Bandits and Baron Munchausen and even The Brothers Grimm (though...
Source: Variety By PETER CARANICAS When Sony Pictures Classics releases “The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus” next month, viewers will be treated to a full-blown tour inside the head of helmer Terry Gilliam, courtesy of a mind-blowing blend of miniatures, motion control, bluescreen work and vfx. What they’ll barely glimpse is the thicket of obstacles — technical and human —...
I was very excited when I heard that Sony Picture Classics had begun its awards campaign for The Imaginarium Of Doctor Parnassus, however, I’ve been a bit concerned because I don’t see the awards campaign and our movie being discussed on the sites that are so important to the awards season campaign for a film. This just will not do. I know that the screeners are being put together to send...
Peter Caranicas: Take a trip through the mind of the director -- When Sony Pictures Classics releases "The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus" next month, viewers will be treated to a full-blown tour inside the head of helmer Terry Gilliam, courtesy of a mind-blowing blend of miniatures, motion control, blue-screen work and vfx.
2009. Dir: Terry Gilliam. Starring: Christopher Plummer, Lily Cole, Tom Waits, Andrew Garfield, Heath Ledger and friends. ●●●○○ If you were to brainstorm words associated with the back catalogue of Terry Gilliam then you would almost certainly perfectly describe his latest piece. Indeed The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus is a typical example of both the positive and negative...
The longest film ever made, all six days of it What's that? The world's longest film. How long is it? One hundred and fifty hours. That's six days. Or, if you prefer, six economy-size bags of Revels, three furtive bottles of gin, at least 12 trips to the loo, two sore buttocks, a pair of red eyes and one overwhelming sense of the utter pointlessness of human existence. Not a date movie then? Don't...
This film has been very eagerly awaited, both because it includes the final performance by Heath Ledger, and because it was rumoured to be a return to form by Terry Gilliam. The positive buzz pre-release was that Lily Cole’s mesmerising and sensitive performance would launch a new star. In reality, the film is a confusing and heartless mess, a fantasy for fantasy’s sake with any deeper...
Plot Summary: The big-screen version of Hunter S. Thompson's seminal psychedelic ideal on his pathway run across Western America in the way tha he and his bulky Samoan legal advise searched frightfully for the 'American dream'... They were helped in bulky bit beside the enormous quantity of drugs and alcohol kept in their convertible, The Red Shark. Actors: Johnny Depp - "Raoul Duke/Hunter S. Thompson"...
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