Terry Gilliam
21) Brazil
Series
Criterion collection volume 51
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
1 DVD (142 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In this surrealistic nightmare vision of a "perfect" future where technology reigns supreme, a daydreaming bureaucrat who is involved with an underground superhero and a beautiful mysterious woman becomes the tragic victim of his own romantic illusions. This is the original 142 minute director's cut edition of the film assembled from both the European and American versions.
Publisher
Brainstorm Media
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (85 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Not a documentary, not a Monty Python film, 'A Liar's Autobiography' is Chapman's own take on his bizarre life and his search for self-knowledge. Incredible, yes. Surreal, certainly. True, who knows?
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (ca. 127 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The amazing journeys of Baron von Munchausen, who sets sail in a hot air balloon in search of his old comrades-at-arms with the object of saving a European city from the superior forces of a Turkish sultan.
Publisher
Universal Music Enterprises
Pub. Date
[2012], c2011
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 227 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"Using unseen photos and footage, ... director Martin Scorsese traces the life of George Harrison in a personal film, weaving together performance footage, home movies, rare archival materials and interviews with his family and friends"--Container.
Publisher
Distributed by New Video Group
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (ca. 93 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Tracks maverick filmmaker Terry Gilliam's madcap mission to film "The man who killed Don Quixote". He struggles to complete his masterpiece, all the while beset by obstacles of such epic proportions that not even Hollywood could have concocted them. Capturing the mayhem on camera, filmmakers Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe are granted unlimited, behind-the-scenes access to Gilliam's frantic but inspired creation.
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...
30) 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.
31) 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.
Series
Criterion collection volume 141
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
©2012
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (190 min.) : sound, black & white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (40 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.)
Description
Drama about the theater and the individuals that made the stage their life. Includes the love story of four men for one woman.
33) Time bandits
Series
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (116 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A troupe of tiny bandits, challenged with the task of patching up the handiwork of a Supreme Being who was forced into creating the world in only six days, instead steal the priceless map of the universe. Accompanied by an English school boy, they are swept away on a whirlwind adventure through time and space, encountering bizarre incarnations of Napoleon, Robin Hood, Agamemnon, and others.