The delightful Anne Hathaway got up early this morning to announce the nominees for the Academy Awards and already Oscar season head scratching has begun. Can Avatar halt The Hurt Lockers march on claiming what seems like every single award in the Western world? Can Clooney oust Freeman for a second little gold man? Does having two [...]

The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus is what we have come to expect from Gilliam in terms of absurdity and plenty of subtext to chew on and mull over. When you have such classics as Brazil, Time Bandits, and The Monty Python films, you learn to expect much more. This has always been a hard task [...]

The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus is Terry Gilliam’s best film since Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas or perhaps 12 Monkeys in 1995. In Parnassus, Gilliam proves that he retains the ability to pair his unique sensibilities with a beating heart of a character driven story. His visuals alone are noteworthy, but in this [...]

Presenting three clips from Terry Gilliam’s fantastical morality tale The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus.
“The film follows the leader of a traveling theatre troupe who, having made a deal with the Devil, takes audience members through a magical mirror to explore their imaginations.  Christopher Plummer, Tom Waits, and Heath Ledger star in the film, though Ledger’s [...]