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	Terry Gilliam
		Gilliam is seen peripherally as an actor in Monty Python's Flying Circus (1969), though it is his handcrafted, cut-out animation sequences that is his distinguishing contribution.
		Gilliam is a director with specifically fantastic visions that encumber the economy of film production, as evidenced in the commercial performance (in relation to cost) of many of his films.
		Gilliam has been validated as a director of invention and personality – not in his completed films but in his failures, his conception of visions that could not be made within the economy of film.
	www.sensesofcinema.com /contents/directors/03/gilliam.html (4125 words)

	Terry Gilliam - MSN Encarta
		Gilliam was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and studied political science at Occidental College in Los Angeles, California.
		Gilliam’s animated interludes for the popular television show Monty Python’s Flying Circus (1969-1974) revealed his riotous visual imagination and were a perfect fit with the madcap British comedy.
		Gilliam’s directorial debut, Monty Python and the Holy Grail (codirected with Terry Jones, 1975), is full of the absurdist humor made famous in the television show—including Gilliam’s animation—and the film has become a comedy classic.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_701610452/Terry_Gilliam.html (376 words)

	Terry Gilliam: The Man, The Myth... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		For Gilliam, it signifies that he has a unique visual style which had heretofore been confined to his animations and which was now going to be unleased onto the world of feature films.
		Gilliam says his films are "about the eccentricities, the blind absurdity of the human race" (Thompson 25).
		Gilliam is alternately bringing you up and then sending you tumbling down on an emotional roller-coaster that doesn't really end when the movie comes to an end.
	home.earthlink.net /~cjclark/gilliam.htm (2698 words)

	IGN: Featured Filmmaker: Terry Gilliam
		Terry Gilliam was born the son of a poor Midwestern American sharecropper and a brain surgeon, the 37th of 12 children.
		Gilliam is able to create an atmosphere more oppressive than anything Orwell could imagine, but it is leavened by an overwhelming sense of the human spirit – personified in the aspirations of the lead character, Sam Lowry (Jonathan Pryce), whose dreams soar as high as the societal cage will allow.
		Perhaps it was because Gilliam was working from a script given to him – and therefore he didn't have the same attachment to the material as his other films – or maybe it is because this is by far the most mainstream, "studio", film he's done.
	filmforce.ign.com /articles/307/307500p1.html (1353 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - Biography
		Gilliam's contributions to the show were geared more toward adults, as his surrealistic stream-of-consciousness segments, drenched in fl humor, were beyond the grasp of most children.
		Gilliam began offering his iconoclastic vision to moviegoers with the comedy troupe's first original film, Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975), which he co-directed with fellow Python Terry Jones.
		Gilliam subsequently fought to buy back the rights to The Man Who Killed Don Quixote in light of all the renewed interest, but it remained to be seen whether the director would get a chance to finish what he started.
	video.barnesandnoble.com /search/Biography.asp?ctr=128530 (1167 words)

	The Animations of Terry Gilliam
		Terry Gilliam was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1940.
		Gilliam was extremely influenced by the work that Kurtzman was producing and, in an effort to be accepted by one of his idols, he would routinely send copies of 'Fang' to Kurtzman in New York City.
		Terry Gilliam is the rare individual who has left distinct contributions in two diverse areas (animation and live action films).
	www.digitalmediafx.com /Features/terry-gilliam.html (2159 words)

	Terry Gilliam - biography
		Terry Vance Gilliam was born in the rural community of Medicine Lake, Minnesota on 22 November 1940.
		Although Gilliam’s style of animation gave, and still gives Monty Python it’s unique look, he picked the method because it was cheap, and (for someone who had never done a moments animation of his life) easy to learn.
		Gilliam’s first film Jabberwocky (a film that mirrored the muddy realism of Holy Grail) was not a box-office smash (American distributors took to calling it "Monty Python’s Jabberwocky" in an attempt to sell more tickets).
	www.geocities.com /fang_club/Gilliam_biog.html (1331 words)

	Twelve Monkeys (1995)
		Terry Gilliam is a former member of the Monty Python troupe, although is nowadays better known as a director with films like Jabberwocky (1977), Time Bandits (1981), Brazil (1985), The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1989), The Fisher King (1991), Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998) and
		Terry Gilliam's films are not always easily accessible films - they are bleak and pessimistic and filled with a cruel sense of humour.
		Gilliam seems to film with a willful emphasis on ugliness - camera angles are often distorted, the lighting schemes unattractive and washed out, and Gilliam has his big name star made up as a virtual derelict.
	www.moria.co.nz /sf/12monkeys.htm (1174 words)

	Terry Gilliam
		Terry Gilliam is the odd man in an odd group, and the only American Python.
		Terry Gilliam: "The experience of being on the road and doing theatre stuff was great, but you walk away because ultimately that's not what you want to do.
		Terry Gilliam was born in the "rustic" village of Medicine Lake, Minnesota on 22 November, 1940.
	orangecow.org /pythonet/terry-gilliam.html (10098 words)

	Heroes: Terry Gilliam (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		If Terry Gilliam had not become a filmmaker he surely would have ended up working as either an architect or a pathologist, such seems to be his interest in the internal workings of everything from people to buildings.
		This is deliberate in that Gilliam will purposely remove a frame or two of film to ‘fool’ the eye into thinking that there’s something not quite right with the world you’re watching.
		Gilliam felt that the whole point of the film, like it or not, was that the main character Sam Lowry (played by Jonathan Pryce) would never escape from his nightmare, or in fact real-life, world and indeed would never be able to.
	www.moviebunker.com /heroes_terry_gilliam.htm (475 words)

	Terry Gilliam: The Man, The Myth...
		For Gilliam, it signifies that he has a unique visual style which had heretofore been confined to his animations and which was now going to be unleased onto the world of feature films.
		Gilliam is alternately bringing you up and then sending you tumbling down on an emotional roller-coaster that doesn't really end when the movie comes to an end.
		Gilliam fought a major battle with Universal Pictures to release the film his way (this is amply covered in Jack Matthews's The Battle of Brazil, so I won't go into it here), even after it had been voted Best Picture by the L.A. Film Critics.
	dada.warped.com /cjclark/gilliam.htm (2698 words)

	Gadfly Online.
		Jabberwocky (1977), Gilliam's first solo feature effort, over which Lewis Carroll would surely be sporting enough not to sue for defamation, were he around, and which some equally sporting critics took as an allegory about Thatcher's Britain taking on the red-eyed (and green-skinned?) monster of communism.
		Gilliam, who may or may not have invoked Kafka and Orwell at the time but certainly could have, forced the studio to release his version instead.
		From which they will be reminded that Gilliam is a bright and charismatic conversationalist who will lecture if you let him, pausing periodically for what is referred to in Dreams, the Terry Gilliam Fanzine, as "his trademark jackal-on-his-way-to-a-piefight laugh." This is used for punctuation, diffusion or simply the surreal collision of contrary moods.
	www.gadflyonline.com /11-5-01/ftr-gilliam-interview.html (4555 words)

	Terry Gilliam Biography
		Terry Gilliam was educated at Birmingham High School, showing skill at an early age in drawing by amusing himself and family with strange alien figures.
		Gilliam was the missing link that fused Python as a unit and, uniquely, was given total control over his animations.
		Following Jabberwocky Gilliam pushed for his script of The Ministry, later to become Brazil (1985), and toiled with a fantasy idea called The Minotaur.
	www.britmovie.co.uk /biog/g/005.html (586 words)

	Terry Gilliam - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Gilliam then participated in Monty Python's Flying Circus from its formation, at first being credited as an animator (his name was listed separately after the other five in the closing credits), later as a full member.
		Gilliam has several projects in various states of development, including an adaptation of Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett's comic fantasy novel Good Omens; as of Summer 2006, this seems likely to be his next project.
		In the mid-1990s, Gilliam and Charles McKeown developed a script for Time Bandits 2; the project never came to be, as several of the original actors had died.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Terry_Gilliam (1714 words)

	Pythonland - Terry Gilliam.
		Terence Vance Gilliam (born November 22, 1940) is an American-born British filmmaker and animator, and member of the comedy group Monty Python.
		Terry Gilliam was born in Medicine Lake, Minnesota on November 22, 1940.
		Gilliam was part of the College magazine, Fang, and became editor of it during junior year, turning the magazine into a tribute for Kurtzman.
	www.pythonland.com /biogilliam.php (687 words)

	NPR : Terry Gilliam, 'Lost in La Mancha'
		Gilliam gave unfettered access to filmmakers Louis Pepe and Keith Fulton to record the missteps and seeming acts of God that brought the production to a halt.
		Gilliam says he couldn't stop, because he couldn't afford a delay in the shooting schedule.
		Gilliam found inspiration in the story of Quixote himself -- an aging madman, inspired to bring back the glory days of chivalry and knighthood, who ignores the reality of his situation.
	www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=955041 (639 words)

	interview: terry gilliam » Badmouth
		Gilliam moved on to his own projects and in 1985 co-wrote and directed the seminal science fiction and fantasy film Brazil.
		Terry Gilliam: Oh no, our problem is the script is tied up in a legal Gordian knot at the moment and I’ve been trying to get it out of this problem for the last several years.
		Terry Gilliam: Yeah, I mean they’re actors and the problem with leading actors is they tend to get pigeon-holed and they become “stars,” and you’ve got to deliver the same thing each time for your faithful following.
	www.badmouth.net /interview-terry-gilliam (1595 words)

	Optimus Prime Films \| Directors \| Terry Gilliam
		Terry does seem to have some horrible luck when it comes to making his films.
		Terry's main character is Patsy, King Arthur's servant, he's the one banging the coconut at the very beginning of the film.
		Gilliam came up with the idea of Time Bandits (1981), while waiting for Brazil to go through.
	optimusfilms.20m.com /directors/tg (974 words)

	Terry Gilliam (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Terry was the first-born, followed by a sister and brother, who is ten years younger (and who is now a senior detective with the Los Angeles Police Department).
		In 1951, the Gilliams moved from Minnesota to the drier air of California, due to his sister's asthma.
		The draft came, and Terry enrolled in the National Guard to escape the horror, but still had to report for basic training at Fort Dix, NJ, where he learned how to bypass the more unpleasant details of Army life by drawing flattering caricatures for the officers.
	bau2.uibk.ac.at /sg/python/Bio/Gilliam.html (504 words)

	Interview - Terry Gilliam for "The Brothers Grimm"
		Terry Gilliam is one of Hollywood's most unique visionaries, who began as an animator working with the Monty Python troupe, before embarking as one of the world's most idiosyncratic filmmakers.
		Gilliam's contributions to the show were geared more toward adults, as his surrealistic stream-of-consciousness segments, drenched in fl humour, were beyond the grasp of most children.
		Gilliam subsequently fought to buy back the rights to The Man Who Killed Don Quixote in light of all the renewed interest, but it remained to be seen whether the director would get a chance to finish what he started.
	www.darkhorizons.com /news05/grimm1.php (3301 words)

	Terry Gilliam Sounds Off, Director Of 'Brazil' Says Current Events Parallel His Cult Movie - The ShowBuzz
		Gilliam was in New York to promote his latest film, "Tideland," a dark fantasy about a child using her fervent imagination to escape the horrors of abandonment when her drug-addicted parents overdose.
		Gilliam thinks it honors the resiliency of children, but such a film that puts a child in seeming peril is admittedly a tough sell.
		In Gilliam's latest film, "Tideland," Jodelle Ferland plays a young girl who uses her imagination to escape from a terrible reality of abandonment, death and decay.
	www.showbuzz.cbsnews.com /stories/2006/10/06/movies/main2071659.shtml (638 words)

	Pythonline > Biographies > Terry Gilliam
		Gilliam came to England just 12 years ago for a bet.
		The sloping forehead, the forward slant of the body as he lopes and the prognathous jaw all point to the Upper Paleolithic period.
		Left alone with some crates of crayons, some bales of paper and a box or two of fresh fruit, his output is nothing short of phenomenal.
	www.pythonline.com /plugs/gilliam/index.shtml (181 words)

	Review: Terry Gilliam's Tideland on Table of Malcontents
		Gilliam spends ample time on the yellow and grey expanse, fascinating the viewer with dry-rotted wood, silver sky, and the secrets of the undergrass.
		Disappointment is, perhaps, the driving theme behind Tideland, from Noah's unrealized dream to move to Jutland and become a Norse chieftan, to the almost-friendships of Jeliza-Rose with the resident nutjobs-on-the-prairie.
		It's no wonder that the original manuscript this film was based on caught Gilliam's eye at the time he saw it a few years ago, considering what he had just gone through with the La Mancha catastrophe.
	blog.wired.com /tableofmalcontents/2007/02/tideland.html (2458 words)

	Terry Gilliam [Mustard] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		In Brazil, Gilliam painted a world smothered in soulless bureaucracy, where people are crammed in endless tower-blocks filled with oversized ducting and inefficient, retrofitted technology.
		It's a typical Gilliam character: on the face of it surreal, even silly, but driving home a philosophical point with the kind of wit, imagination and style that long stays in the memory.
		Gilliam is unfairly slammed by the same media that coveted him during Brazil.
	www.mustardweb.org /issue1&2/gilliam.htm (1568 words)

	IGN: Interview with Terry Gilliam (Part 1 of 4)
		Terry took time out of his busy pre-production schedule on The Man Who Killed Don Quixote to speak with our own Ken Plume.
		GILLIAM: I was born in 1940 in Minnesota – in Minneapolis – and grew up in the country...
		GILLIAM: Yeah, I think it is fine flmail material – I have the negatives and he's got the money...
	filmforce.ign.com /articles/035/035923p1.html (3984 words)

	Prisma: Terry Gilliam
		Terry Gilliam, der seine Karriere als Mitglied der legendären Monty Python-Truppe begann und im Anschluß als Regisseur einige der phantasievollsten Filme und verblüffendsten visuellen Landschaffen in der Geschichte des Kinos kreierte, verfilmte mit "12 Monkeys" (1995) erst zum zweiten Mal ein Drehbuch, das er nicht selbst geschrieben hatte.
		Terry Gilliam studierte am Occidental College in Kalifornien politische Wissenschaffen.
		Neben seinen Monty Python-Filmen und eigenen Arbeiten ist Terry Gilliam in den Produktionen "Spione wie wir" und "Pleasure at her Majesty's" aufgetreten, hat mit den Pythons verschiedene Platten aufgenommen und diverse Bücher kompiliert.
	www.prisma-online.de /tv/person.html?pid=terry_gilliam (677 words)

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