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'The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus' review (3/5) - The final performance from Heath Ledger.
29 December 2009 8:10 PM, PST
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Terry Gilliam has always had a star-crossed career. His magnum opus, "Brazil," was sliced-and-diced and essentially neutered when it hit American shores. The problems he ran into shooting "Man of La Mancha," a film he never finished, have been widely documented. "Tideland," his last film and his most personal movie to date, was (rightly) savaged by critics and ignored by most audiences. And during his latest film, "The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus," leading man Heath Ledger died during shooting.
Of course, that means "Imaginarium" has to be considered with that in mind, doesn't it? Because Gilliam's solution, having Johnny Depp, Jude Law, and Colin Farrell to step into Ledger's shoes for various sequences, wasn't a choice borne out of anything but necessity. Essentially, it's a conceit that you have to decide if you're able to forgive as an audience member, but since you know the history behind the film and Ledger's death,
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Movie Review: The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (2009)
25 December 2009 3:42 AM, PST
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Heath Ledger in The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
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Terry Gilliam's mind doesn't operate the same as the rest of us. His imagination runs wild on occasion and delivers films such as Brazil and the acid trip that is Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus is more Brazil than it is Fear and Loathing, but in this respect we're talking about measures of obscurity, because this is a film all its own. I've watched it twice now and the first time looked at it with a crooked eye, not exactly sure what to make of it. My second viewing cleared up a variety of details -- sorting the story out -- but not entirely convincing me the film is up to snuff. Gilliam delivers a satisfying carnival trip into the imagination, but it never does much more than become a mildly intriguing,
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- Brad Brevet
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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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The Imaginarium Of Doctor Parnassus Review
24 December 2009 8:12 PM, PST
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At first glance, the death of Heath Ledger combined with his posthumous Oscar® for The Dark Knight would seem to overshadow his final film, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, an independent feature from a director whose last two films flopped both critically and commercially. But in an unexpected triumph, director Terry Gilliam shows that his limitless imagination can keep the outside world behind the theater doors and invite audiences to step inside the world he depicts on the screen.
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus is a traveling vaudeville show no one wants in the modern day of relentless digital entertainment. With audiences uninterested in his antiquated mode of live entertainment, the immortal Parnassus (Christopher Plummer) has grown weary of his unending life and his conscience is eating away at the whatever will he left. Unable to stop gambling with Mr. Nick aka the Devil (Tom Waits), Parnassus is about to
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Interview: Terry Gilliiam
24 December 2009 2:31 PM, PST
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Whatever it is you think is going wrong with your pet project or however difficult you think the circumstances are, believe that Terry Gilliam has been through worse. The filmmaker is as famous for his wild fantasies like Brazil and The Adventures of Baron von Muchhausen as the trying circumstances that it took to make them, and his new film The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus is no exception. The fantasy about a traveling sideshow and a magical mirror that makes peoples imaginations come true was humming along in production until January 22, 2008, when star Heath Ledger died of an accidental overdose in New York City.
Gilliam considered scrapping the project entirely, but was encouraged by his cast and crew to soldier on, and eventually he recruited Jude Law, Johnny Depp and Colin Farrell to step in for Ledger in scenes behind the magic mirror. He now says he considered giving Ledger
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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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The M/C Interview, Part II: Joe Letteri, FX Supervisor on 'Avatar,' talks 'TinTin'
23 December 2009 11:42 PM, PST
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The conversation continues here exactly where it left off in part one of this interview. Dm: Wow. Just throwing one of these technical challenges at you would make this a wildly difficult film, so I really can’t get my head around how you guys broke everything down. One of the thing I’ve always hardest to pull off in effects is flight. I think flight... there’s just something inherently fake about it on film. Jl: Yeah. Dm: I would say Terry Gilliam’s “Brazil” got flight right, and for me Miyazaki in animation is one of the few guys who really gets it. Jl: Sure, yeah. Dm: I
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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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- Chris Bumbray
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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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Running Amunk for the Holidays
22 December 2009 11:59 AM, PST
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Happy holidays, everyone! Those willing and able to drag themselves away from the huge pile of swag under the tree can enjoy the late Heath Ledger's final performance, a Jude Law double bill and a drolly comic Romanian police procedural underneath among other holiday presents that await at the multiplex.
"Alvin and The Chipmunks: The Squeakquel"
With the tagline "Munk Yourself" sounding more like a threat than a come-on, the high-pitched trio of singing rodents return just in time for exhausted moms to plunk the rugrats down at the multiplex after the presents are unwrapped while they snore quietly in the back row. Betty Thomas, who has some kid-themed kid-themed hijinks with on her CV, steps in for the first film's helmer Tim Hill and trades out her experience with real critters on "Dr. Dolittle" for these much less messy (not to mention non-union) digital substitutes. Jason Lee reprises his role as Dave,
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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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Lily Cole Talks Nude Photos, Playing Heath Ledger's Love Interest In His Last Film
14 December 2009 5:38 PM, PST
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Not many supermodels have made graceful transitions from the runway to the big screen, but Lily Cole may prove an exception. The doll-faced redhead started walking in top shows all over the world at age 14, became the youngest model ever to cover British Vogue at age 16 and at 21 stars in Terry Gilliam's new fantasy film, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus.
"Over time I started to absorb what I was doing and who I was working with," she told the Huffington Post about landing the role of the female lead, Valentina. "It was a really, really amazing team to have been asked to be a part of."
That team included the famously trippy Gilliam (Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Brazil) and screen legend Christopher Plummer, who plays Cole's 1,000-year-old magician father fighting to save her from the Devil--a
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The Imaginarium of Terry Gilliam
9 December 2009 3:00 AM, PST
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Terry Gilliam has been making movies for 40 years, with standouts like Brazil, The Fisher King, and Twelve Monkeys holding their own with Monty Python classics The Meaning of Life and Monty Python and the Quest for the Holy Grail. In his new film, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, Gilliam has made one of the most talked about movies of the year, chiefly owing to the fact that Parnassus is the film on which Heath Ledger was working when he suddenly passed away in early 2008.
That's not to say Parnassus, which Gilliam also co-wrote (with Charles McKeown), should not be viewed, regardless, as the next logical step in Gilliam's fantastical career. Doctor Parnassus (the inimitable Christopher Plummer) is an old-as-the-hills (and immortal) mystic who has made a deal with the devil, aka Mr. Nick (a wry and sinister Tom Waits, perfectly cast), regarding his coming-of-age daughter (the lovely model-turned-actress Lily
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Exclusive: Terry Gilliam Reflects on 'Parnassus'
7 December 2009 9:50 PM, PST
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Director Terry Gilliam is known for movies that take strange, wonderful and sometimes indecipherable trips deep into the recesses of the human mind. His latest film, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (read Blaine Kyllo's review of the film here), was to be just another in a string of mind-bending movies from the director who has brought us such previous brain teasers as Brazil, The Fisher King and The Brothers Grimm. But in the middle of filming, something happened that changed the direction of the film, the cast, and the director himself.
As everyone is well aware, the star of Doctor Parnassus, Heath Ledger, died suddenly while on a break from filming Gilliam’s movie. While the rest of the world mourned the loss of a potentially great actor, Gilliam was forced to decide how to finish a film that would now serve as a eulogy for Ledger.
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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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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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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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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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