Terry Giliam... I miss you!

Is this the end?

I've been admiring Terry Gilliams visual style since I was a kid watching Monty Python's Flying Circus on PBS (well past my bedtime). After a trio of failed attempts in directing The Brothers Grim, which I haven't seen, The Main Who Killed Don Quixote, which was never completed, and Tideland which I'd never even heard of, he appears to have reached new lows for hollywood studios. They won't touch him as he is now a three-strikes-and-you're-out director.

This makes me very sad.

Gilliam has, without a doubt, created some of my favorite movies of all time. The Fisher King IS my favorite movie and shouldn't be missed. Nominated for 5 oscars WAY back in 1991, it produced some of the best performaces by actors Mercedes Rule, Robin Williams, and Jeff Bridges. It's a masterpiece... perhaps that was Gilliam's peak.

I"d like to think that Gilliam will be able to return to his Quixote movie some day or perhaps create another sleeper hit like 12 Monkies or Brazil. In the meantime... I will morn the disappearances of, as Mercedes Rule stated during her Oscar Acceptance Speech some 15 years ago, "...the Gilliam Experience".

Read more:
Depth of Field: The Tragedy of Terry Gilliam - popmatters.com
Terry Gilliam's official website - TerryGilliam.com

Hollander Sings

Y'know... I didn't intend for this to become a Blog for/about Hollander but I guess this is typical.. eh?



A buddy from the Architecture program here at the University of Oregon recorded this gem of Hollander duing a recent holiday party. If Hollander's interest in music persists we may be paying for guitar lessons in a few years.

Thanks Peter!