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Photos From Terry Gilliam's NYC Street Mixer!!
Merrick here…
Yesterday, we reported on Terry Gilliam’s plans to crash the line waiting to get into a taping of THE DAILY SHOW. He was to hold an impromptu meet & greet that was open to anyone & everyone wanting to chat.
It happened this afternoon. Best guesses say 60-100 people showed up to meet Terry. PLUS the DAILY SHOW line folk, of course.
This was a very classy, very cool move as far as I’m concerned. Many filmmakers shun fans and sidestep interaction with them – ‘tis awesome to see a high profile personality taking such an open, accessible approach.
A few readers were kind enough to send along some photos of the event. We thought you might enjoy seeing how it all went down.
We talked of the Fisher King. His face lit up. A complete gentleman.
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Seeing Terry Gilliam like that was a fantastically cool experience. He was really engaging and took the time to talk to everybody personally about filmaking and everything else.
Skid
Here are some pics from Gilliam crashing the Daily Show line earlier today. He was incomprehensibly approachable.
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Terry was kind enough to sign my DVD of Fear and
Loathing in Las Vegas (criminally underrated!) and pose for a
picture with me. If you use this, please call me
Dr. Sang-Tang.
The pics below are from JewAskew…Terry even took time to draw a little sketch for him!
Obviously, we’d like to thank everyone who took the time to send images. We really appreciate it. Word is: comprehensive videos of the whole shebang may show up within a few days (Fridayish). Like…HERE!
Gilliam’s TIDELAND opens October 13.
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Skid
- Malice Highload
Loathing in Las Vegas (criminally underrated!) and pose for a
picture with me. If you use this, please call me
Dr. Sang-Tang.
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wish i wasn't in freezing-cold Calgary...
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He looks handsome. I hope tideland is better than Brothers Grimm. And that the PKD movie is badass.
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It's one of my favourite films. Incidentally; Is the "Castle" in the Fisher King really in New york? I've often wondered.
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I just wish I had the balls to stand out on the street with a sign like that, just imagine the amount of attention I could draw to myself. It was pretty cool though.
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I'm not in any of these pictures? I don't live in New York City? I'm not and I don't. Gilliam, you're a studio-less, homeless crack-whore bum. You're not?
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Anybody ever notice how much he looks like an older Uwe Boll?
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...I was just noticing how old he looks in general. Which, I think, means that I'm getting old. Damn.
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Good to see a film maker who is willing to put in all the hard work. He could just sit back and piss and moan about the state of the industry. Go Terry.
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Terry Gilliam is the best successor to Federico Fellini we have. Noone has better sense of the grotesque and a more foundational understanding of magic realism. If it is indeed true that he is not attached to a studio, that is a damn shame. I thought the reason studios made so many "popcorn" movies was to raise funding so that bonafied visionaries like Gilliam can have room to play and engage their creative spirit without having their hands tied by nervous, bottom-line obsessed bean counters. Why can't one studio grow some balls and say "you know what, lets give Gilliam as much money as he needs and let him run with this and finish a movie HIS WAY for a change". I can't wait to see Tideland.
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Gilliam dropped by a screening of TIME BANDITS on Monday at the Film Forum in Manhattan. It was written up here- http://tinyurl.com/p2ewm
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The Castle is in New York. It's the Mertopolitan Life Insurance Building at 11 Madison Square.
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"Gilliam dropped by a screening of TIME BANDITS"
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...of Terry Gilliam's work.
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Can't wait to see what he has in store. Brothers Grimm was a misstep in an otherwise sterling career and even during shooting the problems on that film mounted. it sounds like with Tideland Gilliam got to do what he wanted. I;m also looking forward to seeing Jeff Bridges, at this point in his career it seems he is a quirky directors wet dream.
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it's one of the best, if not the best film I've seen this year
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I wish I could've been there! Gilliam's one of my all-time favorite directors and I hope I can meet him in person someday. Until then, at least I can still go see his films...
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It's creeping me the fuck out.
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Well, there you go!
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With potatoes as a side
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That's Terry Gilliam. I hope TIDELAND makes $100 million.
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I don't know if I'd call it "impromptu," though, as we all knew when and where in advance. I do wonder... what do you talk to him about? I mean, would it piss him off to say, I love your Python stuff, or, 12 Monkeys was the shit! He doesn't seems to have stopped looking forward...
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you know, asked him where they do the best ones with the hottest girls. After what I read on the Tideland website seemingly years ago Gilliam really loves him some donkey shows. Of course maybe he was kidding.
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By his standards The Brothers Grimm was appalling trash. By Hollywood's current standards, The Brothers Grimm was like Lawrence of Arabia. Looking forward to Tideland.
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The fact that Gilliam has no studio support is a crime. Who the fuck are these bozos running the studios? Do they really think audiences want to see My Super-Ex Girlfriend instead of Gilliam's work? Fuck em. It might become my life work to track these guys down and publicly humiliate them for their stupidity. Anybody with me?!
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I spoke to terry for a a couple of minutes and he was adoreable BUT I sensed no midgets or dwarfs nearby.
Tideland is getting such positive attention. I'm SO excited i could... -
seeing those pics of him out on the street, goofing it with his fans, both genuinely upsets me and makes me smile. i mean, i know he did it coz he has a snarky sense of humor, but it points out a problem that has plagued him his entire career. it IS a crime he has no and has had no support for his entire career. want a serious wake-up call? watch 'lost in la mancha.' i teach a film class and gilliam's work is always in the forefront of my lectures as an example of what we should aspire to as filmmakers.
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I half expected to see David Letterman and a camera crew following Gilliam around. Studio-Less Filmmaker, Will Direct For Food. Comedy gold I tells 'ya!
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A truly amazing human being. I will cherish that sketch forever!!!
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Just thought I'd mention it for those Canadians.
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Even the misfire BROTHERS GRIMM had some moments of pure Gilliamnism (and Monica Bellucci onscreen never hurts).
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"Did you have to shake them all into a blender and take a giant dump inside before pressing the puree button?"
Or at least, that's what I would have asked if I'd been there. Oh, and, "Did we REALLY need a Robin Williams nude scene? Are you SURE the world couldn't have progressed to the state we're in WITHOUT everyone knowing how much hair Robin Williams has?" Disturbing man-ape comparisons aside, I did enjoy the "Fisher King". But "The Brothers Grimm" was such an abysmally awful movie, it makes me made just REMEMBERING that I spent two hours trapped in a theatre with that cinematic equivalent of nuclear waste. -
He also did a Q&A screening at the IFC center on 4th St. last night, of a 1991 Belgian flick called Toto the Hero. He was really friendly and personable, handling even people's aggro questions ("Will you cameo in my movie?") with aplomb. Plus, he signed my Brazil swag...all in all, a class act!
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That would be awesome. Truly.
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the picture with all the geeky white fan boys is my new favorite ever. classssiiicccc!
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FWIW, I wrote up the Gilliam IFC Q&A here: http://www.ghostinthemachine.net/004236.html#004236
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Although it seems the book is great, specially being kind of a kid's tale... not for kids. It's a shame big studios have always picked on Gilliam, I believe he's loosing confidence.
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..that Terry doesn't have a studio deal or any support/grounding to get his projects like Good Omens off the ground. It's such a shame, I really want to see that movie. Great book. But Gilliam wouldn't be Gilliam if he compromised on his own feelings... if he's good at anything, it's speaking his own mind and laying himself pretty open. That's how I see him, anyway.
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I love your work and admire your ethic. That's all I have to say.
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OK, just had a thought... I haven't seen Brothers Grimm (thankfully) but I did check out the production art. So if Gilliam doesn't have a studio, let's get the guy involved in art direction of a video game. I want "Paper Mario," art direction by Terry Gilliam. Seriously folks.
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There maybe one out there. Over here in the UK we had a russian football geek billionaire that bought a club (Chelsea) and spent hundreds of millions on a manager and players. Surely there is someone out there that loves movies instead. Someone that could give Terry 50 million and say "Do what you want." I mean come on, this is the guy that made Time Bandits ffs!!!
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I'd happily hand him 60 million to do Don Quioxte. Time to start playing the lotto I think.
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With all the crap that's being turned out it behooves me that someone with his talents and rep is not picked up.
And to think the movie NAVY SEALS was actually made!!!!
The Shame of it all...
Welcome to Hollywood.
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- Johnny the Homicidal Maniac.
(Terry should do an adaptation of that comic.)
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