The remaining members of the Monty Python's Flying Circus comedy troupe are to
reunite for an upcoming TV documentary tribute

John Cleese, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Michael Palin and Terry Gilliam have all
agreed to appear in the six-episode Monty Python: Almost the Truth (The Lawyer's
Cut), which will debut in America in October as part of cable network IFC's
Python Week.

Following the TV run, the documentary will be released on DVD internationally.

Jones says, "This is the documentary I always hoped would be made - something so
complete and so faithful to the truth that I don't need to watch it."

The series will "study the Pythons up close" and feature the thoughts of fans
who are "rock stars, comedians, actors, politicians, writers, broadcasters,
religious groups, Python-haters and potential axe murderers."

They will include Playboy boss Hugh Hefner, Eddie Izzard, Dan Aykroyd and Tim
Roth.

IFC boss George Lentz says, "This is the first time the Pythons have come
together for a project since 1983's Monty Python's Meaning of Life. This
documentary series is a final opportunity for them to chronicle the Python
phenomenon on record as they approach their 40th anniversary, and leave it at
that."

Cleese might be the most unwilling participant - he recently declared he doesn't
really like his former Python pals, joking, "One of them's alright - the little
guy who does the very boring travel programmes (Michael Palin)... but the others
are awful."

The documentary will also serve as a tribute to late Python star Graham Chapman,
who lost his battle with cancer in 1989.

Gilliam resumes work on 'Don Quixote'
Saturday, January 17 2009, 00:50 GMT

By Lara Martin


Rex Features
Terry Gilliam has resumed work on his abandoned film The Man Who
Killed Don Quixote, starring Johnny Depp.

The director began filming Don Quixote in November 2000, but was
forced to abandon the shoot after a week when star Jean Rochefort
suffered a serious injury.

However, Gilliam told Empire that production on the project has now
resumed.

"Tony [Grisoni] and I have started rewriting Don Quixote just this
last week. [We] finally got the script back," he said.

"I re-read the greatest script ever written and realise we gotta get
rewriting! I really wanna knock that one out in the next month or so."

When asked if the film would differ from his ill-fated 2000 attempt,
he revealed that he had "some very different ideas" for the movie,
adding: "[I'm] starting to think I was lucky, because maybe the film
will be better seven years later. It will have matured a bit longer."

Depp is still attached to star, but the role of Don Quixote,
originally played by Rochefort, will be recast.

Filming is expected to begin later this year, with a slated 2011
release date.

story from:
http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/movies/a143068/gilliam-resumes-work-on-
don-quixote.html?imdb

We haven't seen confirmation on this yet from the usual sources, but
News Chief claims that the new U.S. release date for Terry Gilliam's
The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus will be September 24, 2009.

That date has been validated for the Netherlands, and the Czech
Republic will see the film on October 1st, but to this point, we hadn't
heard talk of an American opening day. Parnassus is the last film
featuring Heath Ledger, who died before completing the production. To
assist Gilliam and to honor Ledger's memory, Jude Law, Colin Farrell,
and Johnny Depp all filled in for Ledger during the rest of the film,
and all of them donated their checks to Ledger's young daughter,
Matilda.

Even without Ledger's untimely death, Gilliam is one of the few
directors who could get away with four actors playing one character...

more about it at
http://www.getthebigpicture.net/blog/2009/1/3/parnassus-eyes-september-
release-date.html

I have uploaded a few pics of the new film, scheduled to be released
sometime in March.
Hopefully there will be more pictures as time goes by, feel free to
add pictures into the new "Imaginarium" folder!

--- In terrygilliamfanclub@yahoogroups.com, pottenstein
<no_reply@...> wrote:
>
> I am happy to know the other Terry Gilliam Groups has been combined
> with this one. I would like to be more active and would like to
know if
> you would add or promot on your myspace, facebook or what other
social
> web pages out there to show and to recruit more Terry Gilliam fans.
> Feel free to post anything about your findings about Terry Gilliam
here
> and thanks for Anne's (the other owner of this club) work for
cleaning
> this up and starting again! We are going to start it up again for
Terry
> Gilliam as fans. As you know from postings in here Terry Gilliam
will
> be presenting another one of his great works!
>
> v/r
> Samantha
>

I am happy to know the other Terry Gilliam Groups has been combined
with this one. I would like to be more active and would like to know if
you would add or promot on your myspace, facebook or what other social
web pages out there to show and to recruit more Terry Gilliam fans.
Feel free to post anything about your findings about Terry Gilliam here
and thanks for Anne's (the other owner of this club) work for cleaning
this up and starting again! We are going to start it up again for Terry
Gilliam as fans. As you know from postings in here Terry Gilliam will
be presenting another one of his great works!

v/r
Samantha

Hello!
This is a notice to all members, that we (pottenstein and I) merging
some smaller Yahoo groups into this one,
http://movies.groups.yahoo.com/group/terrygilliamsfault
and
http://movies.groups.yahoo.com/group/terrygilliamsfault2

some members of those groups were invited to join this one.

All files and message history will be transfered here.

I have already uploaded the message history from the first one.

"How would you like a bit of a teaser glimpse of the wonders Terry
Gilliam has planned for The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus?

Below, you'll find a very special message from Terry, as well as a
look at some of the production designs and artwork for the film.
Currently in post-production, Parnassus should be arriving at a
theater near you sometime in 2009. Until then, though, we share this
little peek behind the scenes."


Here are two links where you can find the video where Terry himself
talks about his new film:

http://www.quickstopentertainment.com/2008/09/13/quick-stop-exclusive-
teaser-trailer-from-terry-gilliams-the-imaginarium-of-doctor-
parnassus/

or if that doesn't work try this:

http://www.quietearth.us/articles/2008/09/14/Go-behind-the-scenes-of-
THE-IMAGINARIUM-OF-DR-PARNASSUS

You can visit the official Doctor Parnassus website at
www.doctorparnassus.com, where you can sign up to receive news about
the film.


http://www.doctorparnassus.com/

from imdb.com WENN news

Gilliam's Plans For Scrapped Movie
4 August 2008 5:06 AM, PDT


Filmmaker Terry Gilliam will revive his abandoned Don Quixote movie
project - as soon as Johnny Depp is available to start filming.

Gilliam scrapped his ambitious movie The Man Who Killed Don Quixote
eight years ago after just one week of shooting.

The production crew had suffered a string of disasters on location in
Spain, and the project was shelved when lead actor Jean Rochefort
suffered a double disc hernia and was unable to shoot his scenes.

But Gilliam is planning to relaunch the project early next year.

He says, "As far as we're concerned, it's on. When Johnny's ready,
we're ready. We're just talking about dates to film.

"Basically it all depends on his schedule but otherwise we're set. It
will be next year some time, before next summer anyway."

I thank you for getting my first post in the TGFC for an absolute age.  I have
not yet seen Tideland but it is on my reserved list of movies to rent from the
mail order company I use.  I live in the HIghlands of Scotland.  Not every film
makes it here unfortunately!

anastasia_57001 <no_reply@yahoogroups.com> wrote:          I was wondering, is
everyone asleep, really asleep?

ok, you have a pretty serious topic to discuss,
which is Terry Jones' health.

You've got a new movie by his majes--try ;)

TIDELAND

YOU HAVEN'T SEEN IT YET?

come on!

do start a discussion here.

the fact that I am a group moderator/owner
doesn't mean that I have to do all the work for you.

and this is not a job..,

and i am serious!

kind regards to everyone

(p.s. I hope you did not take that pill Morpheus was giving in the
Matrix -- what a bluff, really, that film)

p.s. I apologize to all Kuanu Reeves fans
I do like Kuanu ALOT but!
you know what i mean
when I discovered that after my Own Private Idaho
River Phoenix died,
my sympathy remains with the dead..

also,
even though I really like Kuanu very much
(and I do think that LIttle Buddha was a wonderul film)
I am still wondering what is going on in Tibet.

will the chineze be keeping a free state
under their arm for a very long time?

people,

you have to let go of Tibet or the Olympics with turn into Olumpics.
i detest to refer to the political facts in a serious way
even though i think comedy is a pretty serious issue as such.

so i have just changed a letter, there.

you see?






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The man can't do wrong in my eyes.  The worst film he ever made was Fear and
Loathing and that stands up better than countless films of similar genre.  The
fact that many said the book was unfilmable seems to have escaped the critics.

anastasia_57001 <no_reply@yahoogroups.com> wrote:          176 out of 189 people
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The Age Of Unreason, Or...Why Terry Gilliam Can't Catch A Break, 18
November 2005

Author: Film Cauldron from United States

Poor Terry Gilliam. The visionary director just can't catch a break.
Blessed with one of the most fertile imaginations in modern cinema,
equally renowned as an animator, filmmaker, and iconoclast, he has
made a handful of highly original, single-minded films, most of which
are now considered classics (although it tends to take a few years
before critical revisionism regards his work as such; I bet few
recall The Adventures of Baron Munchhausen was first considered a
costly bomb on par with Heaven's Gate). But of late he has had to
suffer a critical beating for his mainstream-designed The Brothers
Grimm, not to mention the well-documented collapse of The Man Who
Killed Don Quixote (why does the word schadenfreude come to mind?),
and more often than not he is regarded as somewhat of a brilliant
madman with integrity to burn, willing to battle Hollywood at any
cost to keep his visions intact.

Now comes his adaptation of Mitch Cullin's Tideland, a category
defying film that is at turns poetic, disgusting, absurd, and darkly
funny (think the languid pacing of Spirit of the Beehive, the fever
dream of Alice in Wonderland, the wry insanity Psycho, and a large
dose of Terence Malik gone insane). In many ways, this is the purest
Gilliam film since Brazil (a film that also borrowed liberally from
other sources while maintaining its own originality), and hearkens
back to the days when auteurs were not only allowed to follow their
wildest muse but were expected to do so. And that, too, presents what
will no doubt be Tideland's greatest failing, as well as its highest
achievement. Cinema has become so cynical in the last twenty years -
so narrow in scope and so entertainment driven - that anything which
requires viewers to experience a motion picture on its own terms is
usually greeted with scorn. These would be very tough times, indeed,
for the likes of a young Fellini, Kubrick, and Lynch. That's not to
say Tideland is a perfectly misunderstood creation, although it
should be pointed out that those who are screaming foul about this
film being pointless, self indulgent, and too weird are likely the
very same people who ridiculed Grimm for being unoriginal,
mainstream, and plain. Yes, there were walkouts at its screenings,
gasps of shock, even angry grumbling. There were also laughs,
applause, and continued debates concerning what the film was really
about (how often does that occur these days after a screening?).

In the end, Tideland will likely please a select group who prefer to
experience cinema rather than opposing it with their own expectations
(there were those who were still talking about it two days following
its premiere, even when they hated it). But for those who are
anxiously wanting Time Bandits 2 or desire some degree of Pythonesque
humor, Tideland will disturb, bore, and profoundly bother to the
point of contempt. Nevertheless, it is a very unique and, at times,
incredible film, infused with at least two amazing performances,
beautiful photography, and one of the most enigmatic endings I've
seen in ages.

Hate it or love it, few will be able to deny the lingering, ineffable
vibrations left by this film, or that it stands as further proof that
its director has stayed true to himself. Of course, prepare for the
yin/yang laments to come in spades: Grimm would have been a better
film had Gilliam been left to his own devices; Tideland would have
been a better film had Gilliam not been left to his own devices. Poor
Terry Gilliam; apparently he can do no right even when he does.






Ian







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I was wondering, is everyone asleep, really asleep?

ok, you have a pretty serious topic to discuss,
which is Terry Jones' health.

You've got a new movie by his majes--try ;)

TIDELAND

YOU HAVEN'T SEEN IT YET?

come on!

do start a discussion  here.

the fact that I am a group moderator/owner
doesn't mean that I have to do all the work for you.

and this is not a job..,

and i am serious!

kind regards to everyone

(p.s. I hope you did not take that pill Morpheus was giving in the
Matrix -- what a bluff, really, that film)

p.s. I apologize to all Kuanu Reeves fans
I do like Kuanu ALOT but!
you know what i mean
when I discovered that after my Own Private Idaho
River Phoenix died,
my sympathy remains with the dead..

also,
even though I really like Kuanu very much
(and I do think that LIttle Buddha was a wonderul film)
I am still wondering what is going on in Tibet.

will the chineze be keeping a free state
under their arm for a very long time?

people,

you have to let go of Tibet or the Olympics with turn into Olumpics.
i detest to refer to the political facts in a serious way
even though i think comedy is a pretty serious issue as such.

so i have just changed a letter, there.

you see?

Sam
while i was in ireland i threw away the beatiful
purple pillow you had made for me.
It was my consolation.

I don't know why i did it,
yet.

I guess I was SO mad at richard
i had to blow things off.

You are welcome to visit me in Thessaloniki any time you want,
you know that.

And I DO hope that you will be able to make it, now that life is
running seriously more quiet than before.

How is work, you never told me.

Anne Murphy used to be curious about the parcels you sent over
while i was still living in FOxies-area :)

that's in south dublin and you might want to check a dublin map
to see what i mean
!

i wanted - and have been meaning to travel abroad many times
the past 5 years but has never been able to make it, mysteriously
enough,

so,

do what you want and get a plane and come over here
and we'll plan a gig or rehearse first (which is the same, actually
hahaha)

filakia
baci

annie b.

;)

--- In terrygilliamfanclub@yahoogroups.com, pottenstein
<no_reply@...> wrote:
>
>
> Thanks for taking over. Life was interesting last couple of years!
I
> missed your emails and wanting to know how life is going for you. I
> wanted to goto Greece to see you, but you know the begin of the
> problems why I did not show up. Things are a bit calmer now and i
> will try to stay in better contact. Let me know how you are.
>

176 out of 189 people found the following comment useful:-
The Age Of Unreason, Or...Why Terry Gilliam Can't Catch A Break, 18
November 2005

Author: Film Cauldron from United States


Poor Terry Gilliam. The visionary director just can't catch a break.
Blessed with one of the most fertile imaginations in modern cinema,
equally renowned as an animator, filmmaker, and iconoclast, he has
made a handful of highly original, single-minded films, most of which
are now considered classics (although it tends to take a few years
before critical revisionism regards his work as such; I bet few
recall The Adventures of Baron Munchhausen was first considered a
costly bomb on par with Heaven's Gate). But of late he has had to
suffer a critical beating for his mainstream-designed The Brothers
Grimm, not to mention the well-documented collapse of The Man Who
Killed Don Quixote (why does the word schadenfreude come to mind?),
and more often than not he is regarded as somewhat of a brilliant
madman with integrity to burn, willing to battle Hollywood at any
cost to keep his visions intact.

Now comes his adaptation of Mitch Cullin's Tideland, a category
defying film that is at turns poetic, disgusting, absurd, and darkly
funny (think the languid pacing of Spirit of the Beehive, the fever
dream of Alice in Wonderland, the wry insanity Psycho, and a large
dose of Terence Malik gone insane). In many ways, this is the purest
Gilliam film since Brazil (a film that also borrowed liberally from
other sources while maintaining its own originality), and hearkens
back to the days when auteurs were not only allowed to follow their
wildest muse but were expected to do so. And that, too, presents what
will no doubt be Tideland's greatest failing, as well as its highest
achievement. Cinema has become so cynical in the last twenty years -
so narrow in scope and so entertainment driven - that anything which
requires viewers to experience a motion picture on its own terms is
usually greeted with scorn. These would be very tough times, indeed,
for the likes of a young Fellini, Kubrick, and Lynch. That's not to
say Tideland is a perfectly misunderstood creation, although it
should be pointed out that those who are screaming foul about this
film being pointless, self indulgent, and too weird are likely the
very same people who ridiculed Grimm for being unoriginal,
mainstream, and plain. Yes, there were walkouts at its screenings,
gasps of shock, even angry grumbling. There were also laughs,
applause, and continued debates concerning what the film was really
about (how often does that occur these days after a screening?).

In the end, Tideland will likely please a select group who prefer to
experience cinema rather than opposing it with their own expectations
(there were those who were still talking about it two days following
its premiere, even when they hated it). But for those who are
anxiously wanting Time Bandits 2 or desire some degree of Pythonesque
humor, Tideland will disturb, bore, and profoundly bother to the
point of contempt. Nevertheless, it is a very unique and, at times,
incredible film, infused with at least two amazing performances,
beautiful photography, and one of the most enigmatic endings I've
seen in ages.

Hate it or love it, few will be able to deny the lingering, ineffable
vibrations left by this film, or that it stands as further proof that
its director has stayed true to himself. Of course, prepare for the
yin/yang laments to come in spades: Grimm would have been a better
film had Gilliam been left to his own devices; Tideland would have
been a better film had Gilliam not been left to his own devices. Poor
Terry Gilliam; apparently he can do no right even when he does.

Terry Jones is similarly intellectual with the rest of the Pythons.
He did a great series on BBC2 about the Middle Ages (history not us
folk!). One of his most memorable roles for me was the loopy king in
Eric the Viking.  Best wishes and prayers for TJ.



--- In terrygilliamfanclub@yahoogroups.com, "Royal_Payne"
<c.tomlinson@...> wrote:
>
> Monty Python star Terry Jones has bowel cancer, although doctors
> believe they have caught it at an early stage, a newspaper has
> reported.
>
> Jones, who directed the cult comedy troupe's three films, "Life of
> Brian", "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" and "The Meaning of
Life",
> is in a private London hospital after being diagnosed, the Daily
> Mirror said Saturday.
>
> His agent Jodi Shield told the newspaper: "He is having a routine
> exploratory operation in the next few days.
>
> "His surgeon is fairly confident -- they think they've got it
early
> enough.
>
> "He's in great spirits. We're having to make him stop working."
>
> The paper said Jones, 64, was told of his diagnosis just days
before
> Wednesday's London premiere of Monty Python musical "Spamalot",
when
> he appeared alongside fellow Pythons Eric Idle, Michael Palin and
> Terry Gilliam.
>
> Jones often took female roles in Monty Python's films and
sketches --
>  perhaps his most famous line was in "Life of Brian" when, playing
> the eponymous hero's mother, he said: "He's not the Messiah, he's
a
> very naughty boy".
>
> Graham Chapman, another Monty Python founder member, died in 1989
> after contracting throat cancer.
>

Monty Python star Terry Jones has bowel cancer, although doctors
believe they have caught it at an early stage, a newspaper has
reported.

Jones, who directed the cult comedy troupe's three films, "Life of
Brian", "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" and "The Meaning of Life",
is in a private London hospital after being diagnosed, the Daily
Mirror said Saturday.

His agent Jodi Shield told the newspaper: "He is having a routine
exploratory operation in the next few days.

"His surgeon is fairly confident -- they think they've got it early
enough.

"He's in great spirits. We're having to make him stop working."

The paper said Jones, 64, was told of his diagnosis just days before
Wednesday's London premiere of Monty Python musical "Spamalot", when
he appeared alongside fellow Pythons Eric Idle, Michael Palin and
Terry Gilliam.

Jones often took female roles in Monty Python's films and sketches --
  perhaps his most famous line was in "Life of Brian" when, playing
the eponymous hero's mother, he said: "He's not the Messiah, he's a
very naughty boy".

Graham Chapman, another Monty Python founder member, died in 1989
after contracting throat cancer.

You skinned me there!

John Smith XXVIII <waitingtobeamup@...> wrote:          Cleese is actually
touring at the moment with his standup titled "Seven Ways to Skin an Ocelot"

iansut2004 <iansut2004@...> wrote: John Cleese can retire quite nicely
on the royalties from Owley
Fawlts. Apart from Bond and a Fish he's done nothing much in the
comedy vein.

What's our Tel doing, that's wot I ask?

--- In terrygilliamfanclub@yahoogroups.com, "Royal_Payne"
<c.tomlinson@...> wrote:
>
> John Cleese has said he is retiring to write the history of comedy
> for the younger generation.
>
> He admitted that he could "never do better than Fawlty Towers
> whatever I do", so had decided to "teach young talent some rules
of
> the game".
>
> Cleese, 66, will act as a "comedy professor", holding
masterclasses
> with students on how to make people laugh.
>
> In an interview with The Times, he said: "I want to write a book
> which is the history of comedy. It will cover the greats of silent
> cinema to Ricky Gervais, who is the height of modern
entertainment.
>
> "The thrill I got discovering Buster Keaton when I was growing up
was
> so exciting. He was one of the greats.
>
> "The Marx Brothers and Harold Lloyd will be in there too. But it
is
> very rare today to see someone with that grasp of old-fashioned
> comedy.
>
> "The last truly excellent performance I saw was Eddie Izzard. But
> Ricky Gervais is also a match for the great American sitcoms."
>
> The Monty Python star said too much television comedy was aimed at
> American teenagers, with little emphasis on fine acting and
writing.
>
> He plans to create a chapter in his book on "creating the perfect
> comedy-drama" for the stage, citing influences such as Tom
Stoppard,
> Alan Bennett, Alan Ayckbourn and Michael Frayn.
>
> Cleese has been lauded as a comedy genius for his role as hotelier
> Basil Fawlty in the 1970s sitcom Fawlty Towers and as part of the
> Monty Python team, in which his best-known sketches were the Dead
> Parrot and the Ministry of Silly Walks.
>

You laugh because I'm different...
I laugh because I'm insane

-What can you tell me about the great scientists of the nineteenth century?
>They're all dead.
-No no no.
>All right. They're all living.
-No no no.
>Well, now we're getting into philosophy.
~ the tv show "Animaniacs"

"If Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at the age of 22, it would have
changed the history of music... and of aviation."
-Tom Stoppard

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Cleese is actually touring at the moment with his standup titled "Seven Ways to
Skin an Ocelot"

iansut2004 <iansut2004@...> wrote:          John Cleese can retire quite
nicely on the royalties from Owley
Fawlts. Apart from Bond and a Fish he's done nothing much in the
comedy vein.

What's our Tel doing, that's wot I ask?

--- In terrygilliamfanclub@yahoogroups.com, "Royal_Payne"
<c.tomlinson@...> wrote:
>
> John Cleese has said he is retiring to write the history of comedy
> for the younger generation.
>
> He admitted that he could "never do better than Fawlty Towers
> whatever I do", so had decided to "teach young talent some rules
of
> the game".
>
> Cleese, 66, will act as a "comedy professor", holding
masterclasses
> with students on how to make people laugh.
>
> In an interview with The Times, he said: "I want to write a book
> which is the history of comedy. It will cover the greats of silent
> cinema to Ricky Gervais, who is the height of modern
entertainment.
>
> "The thrill I got discovering Buster Keaton when I was growing up
was
> so exciting. He was one of the greats.
>
> "The Marx Brothers and Harold Lloyd will be in there too. But it
is
> very rare today to see someone with that grasp of old-fashioned
> comedy.
>
> "The last truly excellent performance I saw was Eddie Izzard. But
> Ricky Gervais is also a match for the great American sitcoms."
>
> The Monty Python star said too much television comedy was aimed at
> American teenagers, with little emphasis on fine acting and
writing.
>
> He plans to create a chapter in his book on "creating the perfect
> comedy-drama" for the stage, citing influences such as Tom
Stoppard,
> Alan Bennett, Alan Ayckbourn and Michael Frayn.
>
> Cleese has been lauded as a comedy genius for his role as hotelier
> Basil Fawlty in the 1970s sitcom Fawlty Towers and as part of the
> Monty Python team, in which his best-known sketches were the Dead
> Parrot and the Ministry of Silly Walks.
>






You laugh because I'm different...
I laugh because I'm insane

-What can you tell me about the great scientists of the nineteenth century?
>They're all dead.
-No no no.
>All right. They're all living.
-No no no.
>Well, now we're getting into philosophy.
      ~ the tv show "Animaniacs"

"If Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at the age of 22, it would have
changed the history of music... and of aviation."
-Tom Stoppard










[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

John Cleese can retire quite nicely on the royalties from Owley
Fawlts.  Apart from Bond and a Fish he's done nothing much in the
comedy vein.

What's our Tel doing, that's wot I ask?



--- In terrygilliamfanclub@yahoogroups.com, "Royal_Payne"
<c.tomlinson@...> wrote:
>
> John Cleese has said he is retiring to write the history of comedy
> for the younger generation.
>
> He admitted that he could "never do better than Fawlty Towers
> whatever I do", so had decided to "teach young talent some rules
of
> the game".
>
> Cleese, 66, will act as a "comedy professor", holding
masterclasses
> with students on how to make people laugh.
>
> In an interview with The Times, he said: "I want to write a book
> which is the history of comedy. It will cover the greats of silent
> cinema to Ricky Gervais, who is the height of modern
entertainment.
>
> "The thrill I got discovering Buster Keaton when I was growing up
was
> so exciting. He was one of the greats.
>
> "The Marx Brothers and Harold Lloyd will be in there too. But it
is
> very rare today to see someone with that grasp of old-fashioned
> comedy.
>
> "The last truly excellent performance I saw was Eddie Izzard. But
> Ricky Gervais is also a match for the great American sitcoms."
>
> The Monty Python star said too much television comedy was aimed at
> American teenagers, with little emphasis on fine acting and
writing.
>
> He plans to create a chapter in his book on "creating the perfect
> comedy-drama" for the stage, citing influences such as Tom
Stoppard,
> Alan Bennett, Alan Ayckbourn and Michael Frayn.
>
> Cleese has been lauded as a comedy genius for his role as hotelier
> Basil Fawlty in the 1970s sitcom Fawlty Towers and as part of the
> Monty Python team, in which his best-known sketches were the Dead
> Parrot and the Ministry of Silly Walks.
>

John Cleese has said he is retiring to write the history of comedy
for the younger generation.

He admitted that he could "never do better than Fawlty Towers
whatever I do", so had decided to "teach young talent some rules of
the game".

Cleese, 66, will act as a "comedy professor", holding masterclasses
with students on how to make people laugh.

In an interview with The Times, he said: "I want to write a book
which is the history of comedy. It will cover the greats of silent
cinema to Ricky Gervais, who is the height of modern entertainment.

"The thrill I got discovering Buster Keaton when I was growing up was
so exciting. He was one of the greats.

"The Marx Brothers and Harold Lloyd will be in there too. But it is
very rare today to see someone with that grasp of old-fashioned
comedy.

"The last truly excellent performance I saw was Eddie Izzard. But
Ricky Gervais is also a match for the great American sitcoms."

The Monty Python star said too much television comedy was aimed at
American teenagers, with little emphasis on fine acting and writing.

He plans to create a chapter in his book on "creating the perfect
comedy-drama" for the stage, citing influences such as Tom Stoppard,
Alan Bennett, Alan Ayckbourn and Michael Frayn.

Cleese has been lauded as a comedy genius for his role as hotelier
Basil Fawlty in the 1970s sitcom Fawlty Towers and as part of the
Monty Python team, in which his best-known sketches were the Dead
Parrot and the Ministry of Silly Walks.

I think we should check any Monica Belucci fan out there,
there are plenty! whaddayathink??

lol

--- In terrygilliamfanclub@yahoogroups.com, pottenstein
<no_reply@y...> wrote:
>
> i will see about advertising this club so we can get more members.
> Should be easier since Brothers Grimm is out. Then again one may
never
> know until we try!!
>
> ^_^
> Samantha
>

i will see about advertising this club so we can get more members.
Should be easier since Brothers Grimm is out. Then again one may never
know until we try!!

^_^
Samantha

Yes welcome indeed craig. Wow I think you and I should hook up!!. I
have been collecting Craigs lately. Now I have so many of them (at
work place mainly) they made a brotherhood. Would not doubt it if they
ask you to join. ^_^ LOL.

Any way warm welcome.

samanta aka pottenstein

Annie I owe you so much on helping out on this one. We can start
posting again now I am on line. I did not see the Brothers Grimm yet.
i can imagine its awsome!!! I missed this group sooo much!! Hey any
new pics for this club??

Thank you all for posting.

I haven't had the chance to see the film myself, yet.
It is not released here in Greece, where I live.
So, I'll get back to you on it when I see it.

I am still waiting for Sam's comments on this one!
Come on, Sam, you are our moderator,after all :)
  are you still out of the theatre????

I need to see some interaction here, the group has been sleeping for
quite a while, and NOW THAT THERE IS SOMETHING NEW OUT, you just HAVE
to keep it rolling.

keep me posted, everyone.

xxx

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Anastasia asks for comments on The Brothers Grimm.

I saw The Brothers Grimm last night and I had the advantage, going in,
that I had somehow managed to avoid all the advance trailers, flack,
noise, pre-analysis, plot summary, and opinion related to the movie
and the making of it, and I think that's a rare luxury these days.
Since I don't want to deprive anyone of that experience, if you
haven't seen The Brothers Grimm, here's your last chance to bail out
of this message and see the movie unspoiled.





In general, I thought the film was amazing and entirely engrossing, to
the extent that when I left the theater afterwards I realized I had
forgotten what day of the week it was, what time of day, and where I
had parked! Like many of Gilliam's films, this is the kind that will
probably reveal more with each viewing. A lot gets thrown at you very
fast, and though the movie's entertaining, it also makes demands
on the viewer, which is great. Some of the movie is truly scary to
watch (at least it was for me, since I'm not a big fan of horror
and graphic violence--though here, most of the violence happens
off-screen, making it worse in some ways, you often view the grisly
results afterwards).

Lots of great visual humor in the film and beautiful effects. I think
the historical realism, locations, and set/costume design, along with
the occasional "hamster factor" added here and there, are great
ballast for digital special effects. Movie special effects (digital
explosions, Jar Jar characters, actors talking to green screens, etc.)
have all become tired and sterile looking, but not in this movie.
Everything seems fresh (over-ripe) and realistic. My only criticism is
the use of squeaky clean actors/stars: Matt Damon as Matt Damon doing
a vaguely British-sounding accent, Lena Headey surrounded by rabbit
guts and grime but with cosmetic commercial-ready hair, complexion,
and lipstick. These seemed like big concessions to Hollywood.

The larger themes of the movie are very interesting. There is the
usual Gilliamesque tension between fantasy and reality, with the
former seeping out despite the best efforts of heartless middle
managers to stamp it down. Here I liked the subplot of the (not so)
Enlightened and civilized French occupiers losing their minds when
thrust into the savage and Romantic world of the Teutonic jungle--sort
of like a Napoleonic Apocalypse Now. When confronted by the dark
folktale irrationality of the forest, like all sensible modern men,
they try to burn the forest down, only to have a massive wind, an
exhalation from the forest queen herself, put out all the flames and
blow over the whole proud French army. Also, I liked the scene in
which Will and Jake follow Angelika the trapper into the forest and
Will pulls out his funny looking ghost busting gear, saying something
like, "I'm sure this is too technologically advanced for you to
understand." And then when the enchanted forest attacks he marvels out
loud at the ingenuity of the invisible wires and wheels that must be
animating everything--just like those who go to action/fantasy movies
to deconstruct all the visual effects. Reminds me of the Mike Teavee
character from Tim Burton's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,
who has had all of his awe and imagination destroyed by computers,
video games, and television. Great stuff.

Not sure what to make of the ending. Any thoughts?

To answer the original question, I think the critics are all wet.
I'd give the film a B+/A-.

Craig

Critics love to be critical, don't they?  I enjoyed it.  Of course I'm a Gilliam
fan and I'm also a fan of the re-interpreted familiar, like Wicked, so this was
right up my alley.



I think it's strange when Gilliam is criticized for being bizarre and over the
top.  That's what he does and he does it better than anybody else.  He like to
throw walking trees, hordes of skittering insects and a tender-eyed wolf man at
you all in one scene while somehow holding it all together.  Somehow he manages
to draw a sense out of the nonsense.



-Bryce


terrygilliamfanclub@yahoogroups.com wrote:
Message: 1
Date: Sun, 04 Sep 2005 19:45:53 -0000
From: anastasia_57001
Subject: BROTHERS GRIMM FINALLY RELEASED!

And on the 2nd place in U.S. box office.

COME ON, PEOPLE, tell us if you watched it and what do you think!
Most critics give it a C, do you agree???????

according a Boston Globe critic, the film is "an absurd mess" that is
"more entertaining than it has any right to be."

here is the full text:

The Brothers Grimm
'Grimm' stuffs magic, and everything else, into an erratic tale
By Ty Burr
Boston Globe
Published: 08/26/2005

Quick, what do you get when you mix Hansel and Gretel, Rapunzel,
Snow White, the Frog Prince, the Gingerbread Man, Sleeping Beauty,
Little Red Riding Hood, werewolves, the Napoleonic Wars, Jacob and
Wilhelm Grimm, a 1,000-year-old Thuringian Queen, and a director
with Monty Python in his DNA and a penchant for shambolic overbudget
follies?

You get an absurd mess that's more entertaining than it has any
right to be.




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And on the 2nd place in U.S. box office.

COME ON, PEOPLE, tell us if you watched it and what do you think!
Most critics give it a C, do you agree???????

according a Boston Globe critic, the film is "an absurd mess" that is
"more entertaining than it has any right to be."

here is the full text:

The Brothers Grimm
'Grimm' stuffs magic, and everything else, into an erratic tale
By Ty Burr
Boston Globe
Published: 08/26/2005

Quick, what do you get when you mix Hansel and Gretel, Rapunzel,
Snow White, the Frog Prince, the Gingerbread Man, Sleeping Beauty,
Little Red Riding Hood, werewolves, the Napoleonic Wars, Jacob and
Wilhelm Grimm, a 1,000-year-old Thuringian Queen, and a director
with Monty Python in his DNA and a penchant for shambolic overbudget
follies?

You get an absurd mess that's more entertaining than it has any
right to be.

''The Brothers Grimm," Terry Gilliam's long-awaited return to the
screen after a run of director's bad luck (see the 2002
documentary ''Lost in La Mancha" for the dire evidence), is hardly a
triumph. It is a Terry Gilliam movie, though, and that's worth
something. This sprawling comic fantasia on the life and adventures
of the early-19th-century siblings -- who collected and put to paper
many of the fairy tales we now take for granted -- is overplotted,
overacted, and over-art-directed, with mossy sets and wonky digital
effects crowding the frame.

But because this is a filmmaker who truly believes that a movie's
not enough unless it's too much, there is genuine over-the-top magic
here.

After a brief and darkly funny childhood introduction, we meet Jake
(Heath Ledger) and Will (Matt Damon) as they're traveling through
French-occupied Germany, scamming one village after another with a
profitable ghost-busting act. Jake is the bespectacled scholar,
mortified that they're trading on the old folk tales to make a quick
thaler, while Will is the cynical rake who's always ready to play a
game of ''who's the fairest of them all" with the local damsels.

There's a bit of Hope and Crosby to these two and remarkably little
of Ledger and Damon. In fact, I spent the first half of the movie
trying to figure out whether that really was Damon under the vague
British accent and the muttonchops. This is either talent or
embarrassment.

Captured by a French general (Jonathan Pryce, wallowing in
caricature) and his Italian adjutant Cavaldi (Peter Stormare, even
more so), the brothers are frog-marched to a distant village by the
Forest of Marsbaden, where children have been disappearing at an
alarming rate, where horses refuse to go, and where the trees have
minds of their own. Despite the presence of a fetching local
huntress named Angelika (Lena Headey), Will wants to bolt. Jake is
convinced he has found the mother of all primary sources.

''The Brothers Grimm" never quite makes up its mind whether to play
as the broadest of farces -- that's certainly what the director told
Stormare, who quickly grows tiresome -- as an action-filled buddy
movie, or as a tingly eldritch mystery of pagan beliefs taking back
a little post-Enlightenment ground. When all the cylinders click,
the effect is transporting, as when a glop of enchanted mud wipes a
child's face right off her head and uses it to morph into a bratty
gingerbread kid. When the pieces don't fit, the movie's just dank
noise, a poor cousin to Gilliam's ''The Adventures of Baron
Munchausen."

Without spoiling too much, I can reveal that ''Brothers" is lucky
enough to actually have the fairest of them all -- that would be
Monica Bellucci, as a wicked queen with eternal youth on her agenda -
- and a climax that looks both cluttered and nicely pre-Raphaelite.
But the movie never does enough with the idea that the old fairy
tales might be all that's left of a powerful, pre-Christian world.

''The Brothers Grimm" has been sitting on Miramax's back shelf for
the better part of a year and is getting a quick release before DVD
oblivion and the fall appearance of Gilliam's ''Tideland," which
from early reports is a much more ambitious work.

Consider this an appetizer, then, from a gifted, if bonkers, movie
visionary. The fact that we're seeing it at all counts as a happy
ending.

The Monty Python team is compiling a new six-part series of old clips
and new material.

Each of the five remaining members of the madcap troupe will write
and present their own special episode.

John Cleese, Eric Idle, Terry Gilliam, Michael Palin and Terry Jones
will collaborate on a sixth episode to honour the late Graham
Chapman.

"They have all chosen their favourite bits from old Python films and
the television series and linked them together in their own crazy
way," a spokesman said.

The episodes are being filmed at various locations. Palin chose to do
his at Teddington Lock in London while Idle's was shot at the
Hollywood Bowl in California.

Monty Python's Personal Best will be screened on PBS in the US next
year. A deal has not yet been made for broadcast in the UK.

American audiences first discovered Monty Python after PBS obtained
the rights to the sketch series Monty Python's Flying Circus from the
BBC in the 1970s and its popularity shows no signs of waning.

Spamalot, Eric Idle's Broadway musical based on 1975 hit Monty Python
and the Holy Grail, has wowed critics and swept the board at awards
ceremonies, picking up three Tonys last month, including best
musical.

hi

  I am a animator desperately wanting to choose animation as my profession. I had
an impression that to learn and to work in this field is not possible in India.
Since long time there is no reponce regarding this field.

I would really appreciate if you could tell me what are the career opportunities
in india and is there any specific courses that i should do in order to get
placed in an animation  company . Any other specific requirements please let me
know. I am really interested to specialize in 3D animation.

i am really looking forward to your reply.



Thanking You,

GK





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