Tag Archives: Terry Gilliam

Blu-ray review | Brazil – And now for something completely mental!

Posted on 5 December 2011 by Jason Best

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 , , , , | Leave a comment

Lucrezia Borgia – Sex, violence & poisoning: Donizetti’s lurid opera live on stage & screen

Posted on 23 February 2011 by Jason Best

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 , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Lucrezia Borgia – Oscar-winning filmmaker Mike Figgis makes his opera-directing debut at ENO

Posted on 31 January 2011 by Jason Best

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 , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Pete’s Peek | There’s more than Tears for Sale in the stunning Serbian fantasy

Posted on 19 September 2010 by peter

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 , , , , , | Leave a comment

Small Screen – this week’s top ten DVDs…

Posted on 8 April 2010 by admin

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 , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Out on DVD | The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus – Terry Gilliam’s flights of fantasy keep tragedy-hit film aloft

Posted on 30 March 2010 by Jason Best

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 →

Posted in DVD Releases, Reviews, The Best View | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Big Screen – this week’s top ten at the cinema…

Posted on 29 October 2009 by admin

Up High flyers… A grumpy OAP and a lively eight-year-old boy become unlikely adventurers in this uplifting Disney Pixar animation If you can see this, then you might need a Flash Player upgrade or you need to install Flash Player … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema Releases | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Cannes Lifts Off – but the world’s most glamorous film festival tones down the glitz

Posted on 13 May 2009 by heidi

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 →

Posted in Special Events | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

News Muse – dreaming of film festivals

Posted on 24 April 2009 by Adele Craciun

Bah! It’s that time of the year when I am dragging my tired winter feet over spring’s threshold and humming June is bustin’ out all over just to keep me going. And I start dreaming of festivals. No, not the … Continue reading →

Posted in News, News Muse | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

The Best view | Watchmen

Posted on 6 March 2009 by Jason Best

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 , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment