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| Dark Knights and Holy Fools: Art and Films of Terry Gilliam | 
 enlarge | Authors: Terry Gilliam, Bob Mccabe
Publisher: Orion
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 193945
Media: Paperback
Edition: New Ed
Pages: 192
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.9
Dimensions (in): 10.2 x 9.8 x 0.5
ISBN: 0752818511
Dewey Decimal Number: 791.430233092
EAN: 9780752818511
ASIN: 0752818511
Publication Date: June 15, 2000
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Amazon.co.uk Review
Peculiar beasts, Anglicised Americans. Terry Gilliam came to Britain to escape his illiberal homeland in 1967 on the arm of a girlfriend and ended up as an animator of peculiar beasts for a group of young British performers who became Monty Python's Flying Circus. After cutting his teeth on the group's feature films, the long-haired Young American in the fur jacket cast out on his own, making a series of innovative and uneasy films that established him as a director in his own right, from his interpretation of Lewis Carroll's poem "Jabberwocky" in 1977 to the self-described "cinematic enema for the 90s", Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. The core of Bob McCabe's book is based on interviews with Gilliam, who is a master of candid self-observation. Where Ian Christie's Gilliam on Gilliam in the Faber Film series is a sober, mid-life contextualising of the artist's oeuvre, McCabe's book is a louder and more colourful cousin, crammed with stills and illustrations. It speaks highly of the director that both representations work; the biography remains essentially the same, and after the legendary struggles to release Brazil and The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (the story of the former already covered by Jack Mathews' The Battle of Brazil), the anecdotal production detail is well-honed without losing any sparkle. McCabe, an experienced writer on cinema, clearly knows both his and Gilliam's onions, and his contention is that Gilliam remains essential to the modern film world as much for his uncompromising spikiness as his unquestioned vision and technical prowess, while exemplifying the hard graft needed to harness even the most powerful imagination. That he is still kicking against the pricks and polarising opinion is testament to a funnily serious and urgent director, perhaps only now coming to the peak of a career for which this book serves as an enlightening and affectionate record to date. --David Vincent
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Terry Gilliam - Mad to Python to Fear and Loathing in 1 book June 17, 2001
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Dark Knights and Holy Fools is an in-depth view of Terry Gilliam's work, from Occidental College's student magazine Fang, Harvey Kurtzman's magazine HELP!, through Monty Python to his dark and often gothic films such as Time Bandits, Brazil and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.This book contains the stories behind many of the films (although if you want the full version of the Brazil saga, you're better off reading The Battle for Brazil). Bob McCabe also talks to the man himself to get his take on what the films are really about. With storyboard pictures, behind the scenes shots, new artwork and old favourites, this book is a must for all Terry Gilliam (and Monty Python) fans.
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