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Taking a look at the world of film through gay eyes - news, reviews, trailers, gay film, queer cinema and more

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Jabberwocky (Criterion Blu-ray Review) – Terry Gilliam’s first directorial fantasy returns (including its little gay Easter Egg)

November 20, 2017 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

Starring: Michael Palin, Harry H. Corbett, John Le Mesurier, Max Wall, Bernard Bresslaw
Director: Terry Gilliam
Running Time: 105 mins
Certificate: PG
Release Date: November 20th 2017 (UK)

In 1977 Monty Python had made their TV series and their first film, The Holy Grail, but hadn’t yet brought us Life Of Brian or The Meaning Of Life. In amongst this came Jabberwocky, which wasn’t a Python movie (although their production company was involved), but marked Terry Gilliam’s first movie as a solo director, and starred Michael Palin and Terry Jones.

The result is a movie that’s semi-Python, with echoes of the zany, off-the-wall humour, but which is still its own beast.

Palin plays Dennis, an apprentice cooper in a fantasy medieval kingdom. He’s desperately in love with Griselda (Annette Badland), and so to prove himself – and after a falling out with his father – he sets off to the city to make his fortune. [Read more…]

Adam Driver & Michael Palin Up For Terry Gilliam’s The Man Who Killed Don Quixote

May 17, 2016 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

adam-driverYou’ve got to hope that when/if it’s going to be made, Terry Gilliam’s The Man Who Killed Don Quixote is going to be good. The film has been so beset by disasters that it spawned a feature-length documentary about it, 2002’s Lost In La Mancha.

Now though it’s back on track, with Screen Daily reporting that Adam Driver and Michael Palin are now set to star in the movie. Driver is taking over the role that was originally going to be played by Johnny Depp, with the likes of Ewan McGregor and Jack O’Connell attached to it over the years. Michael Palin meanwhile will play the title role.

In case you don’t know the story, after several years of trying to get it off the ground, the movie finally went into production in 2000, with Johnny Depp and Jean Rochefort starring. However very quickly a combination of factors, ranging from Rochefort getting seriously ill to a storm wrecking the sets, meant to the whole thing had to be called off.

Over the years Gilliam has tried on numerous occasions to get it off the ground again, but a range of issues, mainly surrounding financing, means it’s never happened. He’ll be hoping for more luck this time around, to the this revisionist version of Cervantes’ classic tale.

A new synopsis lets us know that: ‘There was a time when Toby was a young film student full of ideals. So he decided to shoot a film adapted from the story of Don Quixote in a pretty Spanish village.

‘But those days are gone and now Toby is an arrogant publicist, libidinous and jaded. Money and glitter have corrupted him, and while he is in Spain where he finishes filming an ad, he has to juggle with his boss’s wife – Jacqui – a calamitous weather, and his own ego. This is when a mysterious gypsy comes to find him with an old copy of his student film: Toby is upset and decides to go in search of a little village where he had made his first work a long time ago. He discovers with horror that his little film has had terrible effects on this quiet place. Angelica, the girl full of innocence, became a high-class call girl; and the old man who played Don Quixote lost his mind, convinced in his delusion of being the real “Knight of the Sorrowful Countenance.”

‘A series of incidents lead to a fire that threatens to destroy the village. Wanted by the police, Toby is “saved” by the old fool who takes him for his faithful squire Sancho, and drives on the roads in search of his perfect wife, Dulcinea.

‘During this journey, Toby will face demons, real and imaginary, modern and medieval. Damsels will be saved, jousts will be completed, and giants will be killed!

Reality and fantasy merge in this strange journey, until a spooky ending.’

The current plan is to start shooting in September.

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ACTORS: Adam Driver, Michael Palin  DIRECTORS: Terry Gilliam  

First Poster For Simon Pegg’s Absolutely Anything

February 18, 2014 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

absolutely-anything-promo-posterWe’re never going to have another proper Monty Python movie, but we’re getting close, as Absolutely Anything will feature the voices of John Cleese, Terry Jones, Michael Palin & Terry Gilliam, although it will centre around Simon Pegg’s characters.

With shooting starting next week, a promo poster has arrived, via Collider.

Pegg will play Neil Clarke Clarke, “a disillusioned school teacher who suddenly finds he has magical powers, bestowed upon him by aliens.” Those extra-terrestrials are voiced by the Pythons. Robin Williams is also onboard as the voice of Neil’s dog.

CHECK OUT THESE RELATED ARCHIVES:
ACTORS: Simon Pegg, John Cleese, Michael Palin, Terry Gilliam, Robin Williams  DIRECTORS: Terry Jones  

A Liar’s Autobiography – The Untrue Story of Monty Python’s Graham Chapman in 3D (Cinema)

February 5, 2013 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

Starring: Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Jones, Michael Palin, Terry Gilliam
Director: Various
Running Time: 85 mins
Certificate: 15
Release Date: February 8th 2013

This film has been released 23 years after the untimely death (or not, if you look at his lifestyle) of Graham Chapman. The Film is not calling itself A Monty Python film, but a Graham Chapman film, and after watching it you might understand why.

The synopsis: in 1989 Chapman – ‘a freeloading bastard’ (according to John Cleese at his funeral) sadly ceased to be! ‘E’s expired and gone to meet ‘is maker! ‘E’s kicked the bucket, ‘E’s shuffled off ‘is mortal coil, run down the curtain and joined the bleedin’ choir invisible!! – OK enough Parrot Sketch quotes already!! (which he co-wrote with John Cleese) [Read more…]

Surviving Pythons Reuniting For Absolutely Anything

January 27, 2012 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

After Graham Chapman’s death in 1989, the surviving members of Monty Python haven’t done all that much that’s involved all of them, however John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, and Michael Palin are reteaming for a new project.

Variety reports that Jones is working on a new live-action/CG comedy called Absolutely Anything, and while we won’t get to see the Pythons on screen, we will hear their voices. They’re set to play ‘a group of aliens who endow an earthling with the power to do “absolutely anything” to see what a mess he’ll make of things.’

Jones hasn’t directed anything since 1996’s The Wind In The Willows, but it appears he’s been working on this new movie (on and off) every since, alongside screenwriter Gavin Scott. All the Pythons have agreed to take part, except for Eric Idle, but it’s said the producers are working on him.

Also onboard is Robin Williams, who’s set to play a talking dog who seems to understand more about the mayhem that ensues than anyone else does. He could also play another role, “a pompous Frenchman reminiscent of Inspector Clouseau.”

Jones says about the movie, “it’s not a Monty Python picture, but it certainly has that sensibility.”

CHECK OUT THESE RELATED ARCHIVES:
ACTORS: John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Michael Palin  DIRECTORS: Terry Jones  FILMS: Absolutely Anything  

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