comment #1

AH says ...

I like Gilliam and I look forward to his films but you are totally right.

comment #2

BL says ...

Whatever became of that Gilliam little girl/older man movie he made around a year ago?

Not that I'd go to see it if id ever does open - sounds a little too pedophilish for me.

comment #3

BL says ...

Duh - sorry - I wrote the above without reading Well's item right below this one.

comment #4

nemo says ...

(My mind is melting & the plaster walls are cracking -- I know I wrote a four or five-graph story about the Giamatti-Dick project three or four days ago, and now I can't find it on the site.)

I remember that story clearly, and I can't find it either. I remember you said that Giamatti had formed some kind of production company called Touchy-Feely. Does not come up through your archive search.

comment #5

T. H. Ung says ...

The ghost in your machine is your soul. It's charma.

comment #6

ST says ...

Can't stand Gilliam. Good luck sitting through BROTHERS GRIMM. With his recent track record I can't believe anyone would give him money to make a movie. You just know this is going to turn out a mess.

comment #7

Colin says ...

http://hollywood-elsewhere.com/archives/2006/08/giamatti_and_mr.php

I can't wait for this one.

comment #8

Dixon Steele says ...

From the director & writer of FEAR & LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS...one of the worst movies ever made.

comment #9

Lisa says ...

I like some of his films - The Fisher King, 12 Monkeys, Time Bandits and Brazil - but yeah Brothers Grimm sucked. Some of the performances were terrible but there were moments of genius in it, like the kid losing his face, the horse swallowing the little boy. I thought I read that he had a lot of problems with Miramax while making the film. If you ask me, Samantha Morton would have been a better choice than Lena Headey who was quite boring. I think that if there is a good script, then it could be really great. I mean Giametti's in it!

comment #10

Ajay says ...

Try googling for 'giamatti owl daylight', the first link is your column (Colin linked to it above also).

comment #11

Sean Richardson says ...

I saw an early screening of 'Grimm'. The problem with the feature was that they cut all the Gilliam touches out from the cut I saw. It was much more comedic. It still didn't quite work, in that way that many Gilliam films don't, but it was undoubtedly his work. Unfortunately, they trimmed all his stuff. That didn't make the story -- which was shit either way, but was the story Gilliam was hired to tell -- any better, it just made it easier to see that it was shit.

Hopefully, someday, they'll release a better cut, because I swear there was a good Gilliam movie there. Just not theatrically.

comment #12

Julianna X. says ...

Terry Gilliam is one the last great maverick filmmakers. "Brothers Grimm" was destroyed by Miramax, but much of Gilliam's past work is weird, wonderful and classic in every way: his work, as co-director, on "Monty Python & the Holy Grail"; the marvelous "The Crimson Permanent Assurance" introduction to "The Meaning of Life"; "Time Bandits"; "Brazil"; "The Adventures of Baron Munchausen;" "Twelve Monkeys."

His is an original vision. And if you don't appreciate that fact, well, there's room in this world for you, too.

comment #13

Edward says ...

I'm a huge fan of Hunter Thompson's writing and was excited to see Gilliam's "Fear and Loathing." The first time I saw it I was really disappointed, but on further viewings it grew on me. Gilliam captured some of the weird, LSD induced visions of the original.