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Tag Archives: Terry Gilliam
Blu-ray review | Brazil – And now for something completely mental!
Newly issued on Blu-ray, Terry Gilliam’s 1985 masterpiece Brazil looks every bit as good as it did when it was first released – just as surreal, just as funny, and even more prescient. Inspired equally by Orwell’s 1984 and by … Continue reading
Posted in Blu-ray Releases, DVD Reviews, The Best View
Tagged Brazil, Jonathan Pryce, Kim Greist, Robert De Niro, Terry Gilliam
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Lucrezia Borgia – Sex, violence & poisoning: Donizetti’s lurid opera live on stage & screen
Filmmaker Mike Figgis’s opera-directing debut, the new English National Opera production of Donizetti’s lurid Renaissance melodrama Lucrezia Borgia, goes out live on Sky Arts 1 & Sky Arts 2 , and on Sky 3D tonight, as well as in over … Continue reading
Posted in Special Events
Tagged Claire Rutter, Donizetti, English National Opera, ENO, Lucrezia Borgia, Mike Figgis, Opera, Terry Gilliam
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Lucrezia Borgia – Oscar-winning filmmaker Mike Figgis makes his opera-directing debut at ENO
Oscar-nominated filmmaker Mike Figgis makes his opera-directing debut at English National Opera tonight with his eagerly anticipated production of Donizetti’s Lucrezia Borgia. Donizetti’s rarely staged opera about the infamous Renaissance femme fatale tells a story as lurid as any Hollywood … Continue reading
Posted in News
Tagged Anthony Minghella, Damnation of Faust, Donizetti, ENO, Lucrezia Borgia, Mike Figgis, Terry Gilliam
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Pete’s Peek | There’s more than Tears for Sale in the stunning Serbian fantasy
What would you get if you combined the romance of Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s Amélie with Terry Gilliam’s surreal imagination and the dark fairy tale intrigue of Guillermo del Toro’s Pan Labyrinth? The answer is Tears for the Sale. This dazzling debut … Continue reading
Posted in DVD Releases, Pete's Peek
Tagged Amélie, Pan Labyrinth, Serbia, Tears for Sale, Terry Gilliam, Uros Stojanovic
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Small Screen – this week’s top ten DVDs…
2012 Impending doom… A series of cataclysmic events plunge the world into chaos and threaten to destroy life on Earth in Roland Emmerich’s apocalyptic epic. If you can see this, then you might need a Flash Player upgrade or you … Continue reading
Posted in Small Screen - DVD Top 10
Tagged 2012, An Education, Harry Brown, Heath Ledger, Johnny Depp, jude law, Michael Caine, Nick Horny, Paranormal Activity, Terry Gilliam, The Fourth Kind, The Hurt Locker, the imaginarium of doctor parnassus, the twilight saga: new moon, this is it, Zombieland
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Out on DVD | The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus – Terry Gilliam’s flights of fantasy keep tragedy-hit film aloft
Famously, Terry Gilliam’s The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus was very nearly derailed by the sudden death of Heath Ledger last January. Equally famously, Johnny Depp, Jude Law and Colin Farrell then rallied round to step into Ledger’s shoes and save … Continue reading
Cannes Lifts Off – but the world’s most glamorous film festival tones down the glitz
The 62nd Cannes Film Festival lifts off today with the world premiere of Pixar’s Up, but as the red carpets are rolled out, reports are circulating that the Festival’s trademark glitz has been toned down from blinding to merely squint-worthy thanks to the … Continue reading
The Best view | Watchmen
Fans of graphic novels have been trying for years to convince me of the medium’s merits. Try as I might, though, I’m afraid I can’t shake off my prejudice that a comic book in the hands of a grown-up is … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema Releases, The Best View
Tagged 300, Alan Moore, Brideshead Revisited, Citizen Kane, Cold War, Dark Knight, Darren Aronofsky, Dave Gibbons, DC Comics, Frank Miller, From Hell, Jackie Earle Haley, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Malin Akerman, Matthew Goode, Patrick Wilson, Paul Greengrass, Terry Gilliam, V for Vendetta, Watchmen, Zach Snyder
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