Note to people outside the US, when Gilliam is talking about the early days of Monty Python's Flying Circus crossing over to the US, he refers to NPR (National Public Radio) when he actually means PBS (Public Broadcasting Service).
The release of the episode hasn't been publicized on the hollywood reporter website or even on Scott Feinberg twitter account. If you want to understand how Gilliam's recent comments hurt his carreer and his image, here's how.
01-14-2020, 12:55 PM (This post was last modified: 01-14-2020, 03:38 PM by MercuryZap.)
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I was going to try and rationalise my complicated thoughts about all this into some articulate essay but ultimately I just keep coming back to my (hardly unique) realisation that the human race seems totally incapable of dealing with the responsibilities & implications thrown up by the internet.
I haven’t read the recent interviews for fear of upsetting & annoying myself but it seems to me that Terry Gilliam is being true to a pugnacious aspect of himself and that is a stance entirely consistent with how he has (not) played the media “game” throughout his turbulent career.
These are heightened & ridiculous times.
Society and the “game” have changed.
Maybe Terry is blissfully free of the paranoid self censorship and double think seemingly demanded of those in public spheres.
Maybe after the ordeal of Quixote he’s just beyond caring.
I have no real answers...
There are no easy answers. In embracing them we just seem to scupper ourselves collectively.
I am however buying my tickets today for the U.K./Ireland theatrical run of TMWKDQ at my local cinema.
Yeah, he's got Quixote out of his system, it's an experience that nearly killed him, I think he's beyond caring about the state of cinema at the moment. Who can blame him? He's been treat horribly by that very same system for years.
Very pleasantly surprised today to discover a great article (with a timeline of the film's history) & review of the film within the ever thought provoking and informative pages of the latest issue of the BFI's Sight & Sound magazine.
‘Adam Driver is either an idiot or the last pure-hearted person out there’ - a considerably less inflammatory interview with Terry Gilliam (unless you're a Trumpster/Brexiteer) via the Irish Times: https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/film/...-1.4139626
Really, really thrilled to be seeing the film on my home turf tonight. I hope everyone going has a safe and enjoyable evening. What a long, strange trip...as they say.
01-24-2020, 01:38 PM (This post was last modified: 01-24-2020, 01:42 PM by MercuryZap.)
The Man Who Killed Don Quixote - A Personal Appreciation
The legendary, turbulent 30 year production history of director Terry Gilliam’s idiosyncratic and mysterious re-contextualisation of Cervantes monumental literary/cultural cornerstone both informs and is transcended by this bold reinvention.
Playing with audience expectations of not only the source material but general, contemporary narrative/character structure with an often breathtaking and occasionally elliptical audacity the film lights a fresh, liminal space among the tentpole shadowed movie landscape.
Far from a petulant, mechanical assault but perhaps an organic call back to the revolutionary, meta-textual leanings of the source material this invigorated charge at the status-quo is written with the unique deftness of a seasoned artist and is rich with insights into the travails of the art life from the trenchant perspective of one who has lived deeply.
The film's combination of sweeping land and dream scapes coupled with lyrical and often moving character detail and occasional philosophical inquiry brings to mind the 60s/70s explosion of artistic, intellectual, personal cinema within a mainstream context.
It also made me laugh.
I sincerely hope it is a rousing rallying cry and not an elegiac trumpet call for such cinema.