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Christmas Movie Reviews: “Sherlock Holmes” and “Dr. Parnassus” Both Disappoint (but in Different Ways!)
24 December 2009 11:03 PM, PST
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Two new movies open today: Sherlock Holmes (in wide release) and The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (in Los Angeles and New York), the film Heath Ledger was working on when he died.
Let’s look at each in turn:
Robert Downey Jr. as Sherlock Holmes and Jude Law as Dr. Watson
Sherlock Holmes
Let’s get one thing clear from the start: there is nothing gay about the new movie adaptation of Sherlock Holmes.
Earlier this year, star Robert Downey Jr. made headlines when he was quoted as saying the movie was about "two men who happen to be roommates, wrestle a lot and share a bed. It's bad-ass."
Cue the predictable conservative outrage from film critic Michael Medved and the idiots on talk radio.
But now that the movie is opening, other critics are chiming in on that meme, seeing some sort of gay subtext between Holmes (Downey Jr.
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Review: Review: Imaginarium Of Doctor Parnassus is a Failure (But a Fascinating One!)
24 December 2009 9:38 PM, PST
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Two and a Half Torches (Out of Five)
Put a fork in Terry Gilliam. I think his career as a major film director is done.
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, his most eagerly awaited film in years because it happened to be the last movie Heath Ledger ever made, is also his most inaccessible, and not in a good way.
Once word gets out, it will almost certainly be a massive box office flop (despite the Heath Ledger buzz). And since the budget was somewhere between $25 and $45 million, I have a hard time believing that any investor will be willing to indulge him again, especially considering his history of making expensive, often self-indulgent failed films.
And this is a total shame, for two reasons.
First, I'm a huge Gilliam fan, who is responsible for several of my all-time favorite fantasy films: Time Bandits and The Adventures of Baron Maunchausen.
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Celebrity Interview: Director Terry Gilliam (The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus)
24 December 2009 11:35 AM, PST
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Terry Gilliam didn't know what to do. It was January, 2008, and the filmmaker had just gotten word that Heath Ledger had died. Ledger was a close friend of Gilliam's and the star of The Brothers Grimm (2005) and The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (2009), the latter of which they were in the middle of shooting when Ledger passed away unexpectedly. Gilliam halted production at first, but finally elected to carry on, tweaking the story slightly and relying on Johnny Depp, Colin Farrell, and Jude Law to help complete Ledger's performance. It wasn't as complicated as it might sound, as, in the fantasy -- which involves a traveling theater troupe, a magical mirror, and an immortal man (Christopher Plummer) who's made a deal with the devil -- Ledger was playing Tony, who walks through the mirror into a fantastical universe, and Depp, Farrell, and Law now play Tony in that fantastical universe. ScreenStar
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Int: Terry Gilliam
23 December 2009 11:41 PM, PST
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Terry Gilliam is one of those directors that truly deserves being called a legend. Were it only for his work with Month Python, he would already be an icon, but if you consider the amazing films he's directed, Time Bandits, Brazil, The Fisher King, Twelve Monkeys, Fear & Loathing Is Las Vegas, he really stands up as one of the great cinematic artists of our time.
In the last few years, he's has a bit of bad luck, with The Man Who Killed Don Quixote being shut down mid-production,
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Terry Gilliam interview on G4's Attack of the Show
22 December 2009 10:20 PM, PST
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Attack of the Show airs weeknights at 7 pm Et. G4 fired over the highlighted video interview of the week featuring Monty Python alum Terry Gilliam, the American member of the comedy troupe who has since become a noted director. Gilliam's work includes "Time Bandits," "Brazil" and "The Fisher King." In his latest effort, "The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus," Gilliam continues his work aided by an all-star cast that included the late Heath Ledger. In the first of these two behind-the-scenes interviews sent to us from G4, Gilliam talks about Parnassus, as well as his involvement in the original film incarnation of The Watchmen, a legendary Hollywood story that finally gets set straight. The second is
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- April MacIntyre
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Exclusive Video: The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus Cast Featurette
22 December 2009 9:13 PM, PST
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When the late Heath Ledger died early last year, it was a tragedy felt around the world but especially for Terry Gilliam and the cast and crew of The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, the film that Ledger was making at the time of his death. The movie, which opens in theaters on December 25th, Christmas Day, is Ledger's last film and posed a difficult problem for director Gilliam. How to finish the film without his star, Ledger, who had only shot a little over half of the movie? Luckily for Gilliam, the plot of the film revolves around a paranormal mirror to an alternate-dimension and Ledger had shot all of his character's scenes in the real world before he passed, so recasting his role for the scenes that take place in the "mirror-world" would make sense story-wise. But it would take more than one person to replace the exceptional young actor ... it would take three,
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Podcast: Terry Gilliam
21 December 2009 12:56 PM, PST
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Beginning as a strip cartoonist and then animating member of the groundbreaking comedy troupe Monty Python's Flying Circus (celebrating its 40th anniversary this year), Terry Gilliam is most widely recognized today as the mischievous auteur behind such hallucinatory, darkly comic fantasies as Time Bandits, Brazil, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, and 12 Monkeys. His latest flight of surreal whimsy is The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, credited with love as "A film from Heath Ledger and friends" since star Ledger unforeseeably died during its production:
Dr. Parnassus (Christopher Plummer) and his troupe make up an extraordinary traveling show where members of the audience get an irresistible opportunity to enter the world of their imagination. Blessed with the extraordinary gift of guiding the imaginations of others, Dr. Parnassus is cursed with a dark secret. Long ago he made a bet with the devil, Mr. Nick (Tom Waits), in which he won immortality. Many centuries later,
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Terry Gilliam Talks about His “Beleaguered” Past, Updates His IMDb Page, and His Thoughts on Watchmen
18 December 2009 4:02 PM, PST
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Sometime my job is weird. This past September, I was awoken by a phone call from a publicist asking if I wanted to come down to DragonCon-Atlanta’s major geek convention-and interview Terry Gilliam, the director behind such classics as Brazil, Time Bandits, Twelve Monkeys, and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, for his upcoming film The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus. I had to get downtown in less than 90 minutes, which usually wouldn’t be a problem except DragonCon, a huge college football game, multiple concerts, and pretty much every major Labor Day event were happening at the same time.
Thankfully, I made it just as Mr. Gilliam was finishing up his Q&A with his many fans who came to hear him speak about Parnassus and his upcoming projects. I was lucky enough to ask him about those projects as well along with his legacy, his past, and why
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Gilliam Confirms Robert Duvall For Quixote
8 December 2009 12:42 PM, PST
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Former Monty Python member and visionary director Terry Gilliam has confirmed last week’s news that Robert Duvall will be playing the role of Don Quixote in Gilliam’s long-gestating project, The Man Who Killed Don Quixote. The director also reiterated the news that original star Johnny Depp would not be returning.
However, Gilliam did add that as of yet, there is still no funding for the troubled film.
When asked by Cinema Blend about the film while promoting his current release, The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus, Gilliam said:
“Well, it’s up. We’re getting it going again. As Bobby says, we don’t have the money yet. I just think he’s phenomenal. I sent him the script, and he was so excited by it. I just thought, if I can get Robert Duvall talking as he was on the phone with that kind of excitement and energy and childish enthusiasm,
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- Niall Browne
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Find Interview: Terry Gilliam on "The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus"
7 December 2009 11:41 AM, PST
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To
call Terry Gilliam an auteur almost seems like an understatement in today's
Hollywood where so many directors are also writers - producers - actors, but it
takes more than hyphenates to earn one's own adjective. "Gilliamesque" is a
word that conjures up a rich world of surrealism, humor, beauty, risk, and
sometimes failure. My own love for the director began with Time Bandits, which
I probably saw 20 times, but nothing could match that first viewing when I
watched slack jawed as the hero's parents blew up at the end of the film. Who
does that? No one in Hollywood, that's for sure. These kind of absurd and
unorthodox choices are what lead Mr. Gilliam to his permanent status as an
ex-pat independent filmmaker extraordinaire.
His
latest film, The
Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, which Find is screening on December 9,
has gotten more press than any in decades, due to its
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Doctor Who: Dreamland - preview images plus David Warner talks role as evil alien
2 December 2009 1:18 PM, PST
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Veteran actor David Warner has spoken about his role in the new Doctor Who animation Dreamland, which features the David Tennant incarnation of the Time Lord.
Warner played Ed Dillinger (aka Sark/Master Control Program) in 1982's cult sci-fi classic Tron and voiced the villainous Ra's Al Ghul in the Batman and Batman Beyond animated series.
He's also starred in films such as The Omen and Titanic and next year is set to reprise his role as Kenneth Branagh's father in BBC series Wallander.
In Dreamland - which is on the BBC website and airs on BBC2 this Saturday, December 5 - the 68-year-old voices the evil, cockroach-like alien Lord Azlok, as you can see in our exclusive sneak preview images below.
Warner (pictured right), a former Warwickshire actor, revealed it's not his first voyage into the world of Doctor Who, as he's previously done audio adventures playing the Time Lord.
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Palin Turned Down Move To Hollywood
27 November 2009 12:21 AM, PST
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Monty Python star Michael Palin refused to take his career to Hollywood - because he prefers the comfort of his British home.
The actor starred in a string of successful films in the 1980s, but declined offers to move to Tinseltown as he was put off by the hectic lifestyle.
And he feared the only movie parts available to him in Los Angeles would be stereotypical English roles.
He says, "I'm not sure that failure's quite the right word. What happened was that, all these films that I made, like Time Bandits, and Brazil and A Private function, A Fish Called Wanda, they all did very well in America, but they were all made here (Britain). So I was being asked, you know, your films have done well, come over to Hollywood, we'll write you a part here.
"Now, the only parts that some British actors at my age were getting in Hollywood were butlers, things like that... they all end up as butlers in some Hollywood mansion. And I realised that as insidiously lovely though the whole Hollywood lifestyle might be... you know balls, and massage parlours, and off to Las Vegas every weekend and all that, (it) wasn't really what I wanted. I quite like being at home."
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'Big Bang Theory': Everybody's fighting!
10 November 2009 12:45 AM, PST
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Don't let that sweet and cuddly photo from the end of last night's Big Bang Theory fool you; this episode was packed to the rafters with one full bore fight after another, and, thank jeebus, the result was maybe the funniest ep of the season thus far. Which means I owe Pennard an apology. For weeks now, I've used this space to gripe and gripe and gripe about their peripheral, inconsistently funny, and obviously doomed relationship, but last night, for the first time, not only was Pennard the catalyst for most of the comedy, but I actually could picture these
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- Adam B. Vary
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10 Most Fascinating 'End of the World' Movies
8 November 2009 4:59 AM, PST
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There are many theories, ideas or should I say 'schools of thought' on how the world would end. At the height of the Cold War, nuclear annihilation ranks at the very top. While others argue it will not be man who will destroy the world (directly) but - an epidemic of global proportions (most probably from a potent strain of virus - think: I am Legend) or severe climactic change (another ice age perhaps? That would be Day After Tommorow right?) or mechanical uprising (The Terminator, anyone?) or even attack from the outside - conquering aliens (Mars Attacks!) or perhaps an asteroid. And let's not forget zombies!
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Inspired by the upcoming release of Roland Emmerich's latest disaster epic 2012, tMF listed down 10 of the most fascinating 'end of the world' movies.
Before looking at the list, you need to know that it's not based
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10 Most Fascinating 'End of the World' Movies
8 November 2009 4:59 AM, PST
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There are many theories, ideas or should I say 'schools of thought' on how the world would end. At the height of the Cold War, nuclear annihilation ranks at the very top. While others argue it will not be man who will destroy the world (directly) but - an epidemic of global proportions (most probably from a potent strain of virus - think: I am Legend) or severe climactic change (another ice age perhaps? That would be Day After Tommorow right?) or mechanical uprising (The Terminator, anyone?) or even attack from the outside - conquering aliens (Mars Attacks!) or perhaps an asteroid. And let's not forget zombies!
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Inspired by the upcoming release of Roland Emmerich's latest disaster epic 2012, tMF listed down 10 of the most fascinating 'end of the world' movies.
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10 Most Fascinating 'End of the World' Movies
8 November 2009 4:59 AM, PST
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There are many theories, ideas or should I say 'schools of thought' on how the world would end. At the height of the Cold War, nuclear annihilation ranks at the very top. While others argue it will not be man who will destroy the world (directly) but - an epidemic of global proportions (most probably from a potent strain of virus - think: I am Legend) or severe climactic change (another ice age perhaps? That would be Day After Tommorow right?) or mechanical uprising (The Terminator, anyone?) or even attack from the outside - conquering aliens (Mars Attacks!) or perhaps an asteroid. And let's not forget zombies!
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Inspired by the upcoming release of Roland Emmerich's latest disaster epic 2012, tMF listed down 10 of the most fascinating 'end of the world' movies.
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10 Most Fascinating 'End of the World' Movies
8 November 2009 4:59 AM, PST
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There are many theories, ideas or should I say 'schools of thought' on how the world would end. At the height of the Cold War, nuclear annihilation ranks at the very top. While others argue it will not be man who will destroy the world (directly) but - an epidemic of global proportions (most probably from a potent strain of virus - think: I am Legend) or severe climactic change (another ice age perhaps? That would be Day After Tommorow right?) or mechanical uprising (The Terminator, anyone?) or even attack from the outside - conquering aliens (Mars Attacks!) or perhaps an asteroid. And let's not forget zombies!
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Inspired by the upcoming release of Roland Emmerich's latest disaster epic 2012, tMF listed down 10 of the most fascinating 'end of the world' movies.
Before looking at the list, you need to know that it's not based
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10 Most Fascinating 'End of the World' Movies
8 November 2009 4:59 AM, PST
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There are many theories, ideas or should I say 'schools of thought' on how the world would end. At the height of the Cold War, nuclear annihilation ranks at the very top. While others argue it will not be man who will destroy the world (directly) but - an epidemic of global proportions (most probably from a potent strain of virus - think: I am Legend) or severe climactic change (another ice age perhaps? That would be Day After Tommorow right?) or mechanical uprising (The Terminator, anyone?) or even attack from the outside - conquering aliens (Mars Attacks!) or perhaps an asteroid. And let's not forget zombies!
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Inspired by the upcoming release of Roland Emmerich's latest disaster epic 2012, tMF listed down 10 of the most fascinating 'end of the world' movies.
Before looking at the list, you need to know that it's not based
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- modelwatcher@gmail.com (Jed Medina)
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AFI La 09: Review of The Imaginarium Of Doctor Parnassus
4 November 2009 4:43 PM, PST
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Year: 2009
Directors: Terry Gilliam
Writers: Terry Gilliam & Charles McKeown
IMDb: link
Trailer: link
Review by: Hal MacDermot
Rating: 7 out of 10
Terry Gilliam’s latest movie is a tribute to his wonderfully creative and absurd imagination, and it’s also the last film of the late, great Heath Ledger, who died during production. With Gilliam on the verge of quitting, Heath’s friends in the shape of Johnny Depp, Jude Law and Colin Farrell stepped into the breach and saved the day. Imaginarium is ambitious with flashes of genius, but the individual parts are greater than the whole. When Gilliam is in full-on Time Bandit absurd mode I loved it, but in the bigger picture, the exploration of imagination, lust and the path to salvation, I wasn’t convinced. This is a movie with the Gilliam visual stamp, and you should try and see it on the big screen.
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Denver Film Festival announces full lineup
26 October 2009 11:34 AM, PDT
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The only big film festival in my own backyard is back and it runs from November 12th through the 22nd. While it caters more to heavy run fest material and arthouse film, they do have some of the more interesting films playing this year:
Ryan Ward's excellent Son of the Sunshine which is one of my favorite films of the year. (review)
The weird, lengthy comedy The Revenant (review)
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus
and much more. Program after the break!
In Competition
Children of Invention
Two first-generation Chinese kids in suburban Boston find themselves on their own after their desperate mother is unwittingly involved in a pyramid scheme and arrested. Older brother Raymond takes a page from her marketing seminars to start creating a life for himself and his sister - casting a strange, pint-sized reflection on the American Dream.
Footprints
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