Terry Gilliam - C/D, S/D

ah ok thx

it seemed to get zero promotion, not surprising it's invisible (it's not the triumph of filmmaking you'd hope for from 25 years of production, but Driver is great in it)

like many gilliam misfires, i felt like I could see the bones of a really good film buried somewhere in there, but it never quite makes it out from underneath all the mess.

That's how he gets me every time, even after being disappointed so many times, theres always this sense that theres a great movie thats tantalizingly close to snapping into place, but then it just lurches and stumbles around and smashes into stuff until it collapses from exhaustion.

He actually had a pretty good streak going until Fear and Loathing. Then there was a long gap, and it's been kind of flop-city ever since then.

the last one that entirely satisfied me was Time Bandits

I would say Brazil but... yeah

no wait I mean Baron Munchausen

twelve monkeys and id listen to a case for parnassus

Time Bandits is my fave - what a batshit movie. But I really like 12 Monkeys and Fisher King.

A strong read.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/jun/12/sarah-polley-terry-gilliam-run-towards-danger-baron-munchausen-interview

Very well written. Also solves the puzzle of why she didn’t use any explosives in Stories We Tell.