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31 unusual facts about Terry Gilliam


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Terrygilliam is named after American-born filmmaker and animator Terry Gilliam.

Belchite

The remains of the old village have been used as filming locations in films including Terry Gilliam's 1988 film The Adventures of Baron Munchausen and Guillermo Del Toro's Pan's Labyrinth.

Bob Godfrey

The use of cutout animation for the narrator pre-dates Terry Gilliam's use of the technique, and the film is often mis-credited as being produced by Gilliam.

Chris Gorak

He changed his career to film and worked as art director for directors like David Fincher, the Coen brothers, and Terry Gilliam.

Cloudbuster

The video, intended by Bush to be a short narrative film rather than a traditional music video, was conceived by Terry Gilliam and Kate Bush, and directed by Julian Doyle.

Crowded in the Ear

The album's back cover was painted by Yossi Abulafia using images inspired by the album's songs in the style of Terry Gilliam's artworks for Monty Python.

Curzon Community Cinema, Clevedon

Patrons include Sir Charles Elton (son of the notable documentary director Sir Arthur Elton), Aardman Animations founders David Sproxton and Peter Lord, directors Nick Park and Terry Gilliam, and actors Tony Robinson and Alan Rickman.

Diaries 1969–1979: The Python Years

It started as a means to keep away from smoking, after fellow Python Terry Gilliam accused him of being addicted to cigarettes.

Dimensions of Dialogue

It was also selected by Terry Gilliam as one of the ten best animated films of all time.

Filmmakers Alliance

The Vision Award, presented by Filmmakers Alliance at this event, has been given to such filmmakers as Terry Gilliam, Wim Wenders, and Alexander Payne.

Mark Leiren-Young

His celebrity interviews can be found at the Georgia Straight Online, detailing a range of celebrities from William Shatner to Salman Rushdie and including such A-Listers as Emily Blunt, Michael Cera, and Terry Gilliam.

Marriage Guidance Counsellor

The television version of the sketch ends with Mr Pewtey getting hit in the head with a chicken by a knight in a suit of armour (Terry Gilliam).

Medicine Lake, Minnesota

Terry Gilliam – American-born British screenwriter, film director, animator, actor and member of the Monty Python comedy troupe.

Neuchâtel International Fantastic Film Festival

Famous fantastic film directors have already honored the NIFFF with their presences, including George A. Romero, Joe Dante, John Landis, Terry Gilliam, Hideo Nakata.

Paul Spike

His four other work include a collection of short stories, two political thrillers, and the cult novelization of Terry Gilliam's Jabberwocky.

Peter I. Chang

Chang's digital short Regina Monologue, which features Cullin and was shot in Canada during the production of Terry Gilliam's Tideland, is included as an easter egg on Disc 2 of the UK DVD release of the film.

Quintessence Editions

# 1001 Comics You Must Read Before You Die by Paul Gravett (Editor), Foreword by Terry Gilliam; published October 11, 2011

Richard C. Jack

Ice Pick, Tandem, Panico Productions (studio owned by Julian Doyle - Director of Photography for Brazil, Holy Grail, and other Gilliam-related projects), Blue Sunflower Studios, Uli Meyer Animation, Passion Pictures

Richard LaGravenese

It was acquired by Lynda Obst and Debra Hill's production company and subsequently directed by Terry Gilliam.

Roger Ashton-Griffiths

He has appeared in numerous high-profile films, including Terry Gilliam's The Brothers Grimm and Brazil, A Knight's Tale, Martin Scorsese's Gangs of New York, Roman Polanski's Pirates, Peter Greenaway's The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover, Woody Allen's You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger and Olivier Dahan's Grace of Monaco.

Stacey Sher

Sher has worked with multiple high profile directors, including Terry Gilliam, Richard LaGravenese, Danny DeVito, Miloš Forman, Zach Braff, Oliver Stone, and has worked on multiple films with Quentin Tarantino and Steven Soderbergh.

Susi Graf

She worked as a television producer interviewing numerous film directors such as Quentin Tarantino, John Waters, Terry Gilliam and many more as well as actors like Demi Moore, Michael Douglas, Bruce Willis, Mel Gibson.

Tape from California

"Half a Century High," a portrait of haunting by televisual media, works as a proto-Cyberpunk document, foreshadowing such bleak futures as The Firesign Theatre's I Think We're All Bozos on This Bus and Terry Gilliam's 12 Monkeys.

The Funniest Joke in the World

Another captor (Terry Gilliam) notices the two deceased officers and points his gun at Palin, who recites the joke to the captor, who also dies laughing.

The Slow Empire

The several console terminals on the planet Goronos reminded Anji of that film done by the man who did Time Bandits and was originally going to be titled 1984 and a Half.

The World Jones Made

In August 2009, Terry Gilliam confirmed that he is planning to direct a film adaptation of the novel.

Ultra wide angle lens

A notable, signature employment for this purpose is frequently seen in the films of Terry Gilliam, for instance.

Undertakers sketch

This sketch, the last in both the episode and the second series, immediately followed the "Lifeboat sketch" (also about cannibalism) and some graphically cannibalistic animation from Terry Gilliam.

Uri Fruchtmann

Fruchtmann is currently the Chairman of the Board along with film-maker Terry Gilliam, Executive Director of Greenpeace UK John Sauven and music producer Brian Eno.

Vincent Diderot

Influenced by the painters Jackson Pollock, Jean-Michel Basquiat and Francis Bacon, as well as by the film directors David Lynch, Stanley Kubrick, Tim Burton, Terry Gilliam, his first short films, Louise and Sirène, are experimental.

Yossi Abulafia

In 1975 Abulafia illustrated the back cover for Kaveret's third album "Crowded in the Ear" (צפוף באוזן) which was a collage of images illustrating the various songs on the album in the style of the famous Monty Python illustrations done by Terry Gilliam.


Bors

In 1975's Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Sir Bors (played by Terry Gilliam) is the first Knight of the Round Table to succumb to the Killer Rabbit of Caerbannog; he is quickly decapitated before he can attempt a single blow.

London Film Academy

Panico was created in the mid eighties and has patrons that include Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones and Sir Ben Kingsley.

Micronauts

In Terry Gilliam's 1981 film Time Bandits, the protagonist's bedroom has parts of the Mobile Exploration Lab (which is seen in large scale during the film's climactic battle).

Stefan Avalos

His other work includes animation for Lost in La Mancha, the documentary about the spectactular demise of a Terry Gilliam movie, directed by Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe.