Gilliamesque
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- $18.99
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- $18.99
Publisher Description
Les mémoires pré-posthumes de l'auteur deBrazil.
Pour la première fois, le réalisateur deBandits, bandits,Brazil,Les Aventures du baron de Münchhausen,The Fisher King,L'Armée des douze singesetLas Vegas Parano– et bien sûr cofondateur des Monty Python – revient sur son passé.
De son enfance modeste dans les plaines glacées du Minnesota jusqu'aux sommets d'Hollywood, en passant par le cur de la contre-culture des années 1960 et 1970 à New York, Los Angeles et Londres, Terry Gilliam a vécu une vie aussi trépidante, rocambolesque et anticonformiste que n'importe lequel de ses films.
Les " mémoires pré-posthumes " de Gilliam affichent aussi un incroyable casting de seconds rôles – George Harrison, Robin Williams, Jeff Bridges, Robert De Niro, Brad Pitt, Uma Thurman, Johnny Depp, Heath Ledger et tous ses anciens camarades des Monty Python –, ainsi que la participation exceptionnelle de quelques-unes des plus grandes figures culturelles des temps modernes, de Woody Allen à Frank Zappa en passant par Gloria Steinem, Robert Crumb, Richard Nixon et Hunter S. Thompson. Les rencontres de Gilliam, que ce soit avec des gens tout en haut ou parfois tout en bas de l'échelle, sont révélatrices, drôles et férocement jubilatoires.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Gilliam, the former Monty Python animator and director of Time Bandits, Baron Munchausen, and other fantasias, describes a life spent confounding authority in this acerbic memoir. Gilliam's picaresque tale breezes from his Vietnam-era period as an underground cartoonist dodging service in the National Guard to the surreal silliness of the Monty Python comedy troupe. tHe cheerfully allows that his films were marked by his "amazing ability never to learn to do anything properly." Along the way, he defies hierarchs of all kinds: network censors, studio chiefs bent on re-cuts, and church officials enraged by the blasphemous gospel spoof Life of Brian. Baffled by thespians ("Where an actor has got upset... I just try to get in there and look understanding as if I'm doing something to make it better when really I don't have a clue"), Gilliam is an art-director's director his masterpiece Brazil may be cinema's greatest visual critique of the totalitarian state and his accounts of integrating images, sets, d cor, costumes, and monster-models, illustrated with his own sketches and hand-drawn storyboards, are fascinating. Amid the gleeful potshots at dictators and divas ("How long it was since he had actually done anything great," he writes of a tantrum-throwing Hunter S. Thompson), Gilliam shows us how prosaic attention to craft can gel into art. Photos.
