Terry Gilliam
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 127 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Baron Munchausen attempts to free a besieged city from the hordes of the Ottoman Empire. Assisting him on his perilous journey is a highly-unusual servant and a feisty little girl named Sally.
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
c1998
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 138 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A deejay who finds himself penniless is plucked from disaster by a homeless history professor, who lives in a fantasy world full of castles, Red Knights and damsels in distress. Together they begin a modern quest for redemption and the Holy Grail.
6) Jabberwocky
Series
Criterion collection volume 903
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
A witless, bumbling young peasant is mistaken for the man the townspeople are expecting to save the kingdom from a terrible dragon.
Publisher
distributed by Anchor Bay
Pub. Date
c1999
Physical Desc
1 DVD (93 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The Pythons satirize religion, capital punishment, revolutionary politics, terrorism, graffiti, science fiction, and a host of other topics through the story of Brian, a first-century Judean.
Publisher
Screen Media Films
Pub. Date
[2019]
Formats
Description
Toby is a disillusioned advertising executive that becomes pulled into a world of a time-jumping fantasy when a Spanish cobbler believes himself to be Don Quixote and Toby to be Sancho Panza, gradually becoming unable to tell dreams from reality.
10) Life of Brian
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (ca. 93 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Monty Python delivers the group's sharpest and smartest satire of both religion and Hollywood's epic films. Set in 33 A.D. Judea where the exasperated Romans try to impose order, it is a time of chaos and change with no shortage of messiahs and followers willing to believe in them. At its center is Brian Cohen, born in Bethlehem in a stable next door, who, by a series of absurd circumstances is caught up in the new religion and reluctantly mistaken...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
1 DVD (123 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The immortal Dr. Parnassus and his daughter Valentina travel the countryside with his imaginarium show, a mirror that audience members enter and are given two different paths to follow. If they choose correctly they will find joy and happiness, but choose wrongly and things will be quite the opposite. The doctor must also discover the right course to follow. After making a deal with Mr. Nick years ago, he must choose the correct path if he is to save...
12) Brazil
Series
Criterion collection volume 51
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
2 blu-rays (142 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. .
Description
A daydreaming bureaucrat becomes involved with an underground superhero and a beautiful mysterious woman and becomes the tragic victim of his own romantic illusions.
13) The fisher king
Series
Criterion collection volume 764
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2015]
Formats
Description
Parry is a homeless history professor who lives in a fantasy world full of castles, Red Knights, and damsels in distress. Jack is New York's number one shock deejay, until the day his off-hand arrogance triggers a tragedy that ruins his career. Penniless and without prospects, Jack finds himself plucked from disaster by the most improbable of saviors, Parry.