05-13-2014, 11:27 PM
Gilliamesque
A Pre-Posthumous Memoir
Terry Gilliam
From his down-home childhood in the icy wastes of Minnesota, to some of the hottest water Hollywood had to offer, via the bleeding edge of ‘60s and ‘70s counter-culture in New York, LA and London, Terry Gilliam's picaresque odyssey has been a match for any of those he has depicted on celluloid.
Telling his own story for the first time in words and images, the director of Time Bandits, Brazil, The Fisher King and 12 Monkeys complements an extraordinary collection of never-before-seen artwork with a memoir every bit as pungent and surprising as fans of his Monty Python animations would hope.
Gilliam's coffee-table autobiography blends the visual and the verbal with a scabrous wit. Its cast of supporting creatures includes not just the expected creative collaborators – fellow Pythons Palin and Cleese, George Harrison, Robert De Niro, Johnny Depp, Heath Ledger, etc. – but also an amazing array of cameo appearances from some of the heaviest cultural hitters of the late twentieth century.
From Woody Allen to Frank Zappa, Gloria Steinem to Robert Crumb, and Richard Nixon to Hunter S. Thompson, Gilliam's encounters with the great and the not so good are revealing as well as funny.
A Pre-Posthumous Memoir
Terry Gilliam
From his down-home childhood in the icy wastes of Minnesota, to some of the hottest water Hollywood had to offer, via the bleeding edge of ‘60s and ‘70s counter-culture in New York, LA and London, Terry Gilliam's picaresque odyssey has been a match for any of those he has depicted on celluloid.
Telling his own story for the first time in words and images, the director of Time Bandits, Brazil, The Fisher King and 12 Monkeys complements an extraordinary collection of never-before-seen artwork with a memoir every bit as pungent and surprising as fans of his Monty Python animations would hope.
Gilliam's coffee-table autobiography blends the visual and the verbal with a scabrous wit. Its cast of supporting creatures includes not just the expected creative collaborators – fellow Pythons Palin and Cleese, George Harrison, Robert De Niro, Johnny Depp, Heath Ledger, etc. – but also an amazing array of cameo appearances from some of the heaviest cultural hitters of the late twentieth century.
From Woody Allen to Frank Zappa, Gloria Steinem to Robert Crumb, and Richard Nixon to Hunter S. Thompson, Gilliam's encounters with the great and the not so good are revealing as well as funny.