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...primitive? Then go with Twelve Monkeys (1995). Devastating plague, Terry Gilliam-style. The director gets a decent turn out of Bruce Willis, a better one out of Brad Pitt, and treats us to a spectacular vision of humanity crammed underground when germs and wild animals rule the streets of a Philadelphia far in the future. At least street crime is down...
...filmmaking itself is eccentric in the extreme. Near the beginning, an African lion shows up for no reason at all, and for a moment, we're magically transported into a Terry Gilliam movie. Later, there's a strange homage to The Sound of Music. Long, inexplicable pauses and extended slow-motion sequences account for at least two-thirds of the film's threehour duration...
...Georges on the Finance committee pried up the IRS rock and shone their dazzling light on the oily squirmings thus revealed. Knowledge is power; so armed, we may yet turn the tide. If we fail, we could cross that 21st century bridge into a land like Brazil (1985), Terry Gilliam's vastly incredible, exquisitely surreal romp through a near future in which bureaucracy is lord and master. Where if you don't have the proper stamp on your 27 B stroke six, soon enough Central Services is tearing up your ducts, the Central Collective Storehouse computer has got you down...
...blame Johnny Depp for getting me into this," says director Terry Gilliam about his current chaotic shoot. It's for the movie of Hunter S. Thompson's equally chaotic book, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Not that Gilliam, known for such movies as Time Bandits, Brazil and 12 Monkeys, doesn't want to make the film, which stars Depp as Thompson's alter ego, the pharmacological adventurer Raoul Duke. It's just that he's not sure he wants to do it this way. "Tony Grisoni and I wrote the script in eight days, but we didn't like...
Your articles underlined the urgent need to turn our fishermen into farmers--sea farmers. Rather than battling over fishing rights, nations should be establishing giant seafood farms in the multiplicity of bays and gulfs on our planet. If we are to survive, aquaculture must become as ordinary as agriculture. GILLIAM CLARKE Wesley Chapel...