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Join NOW!It’s not like it’s the first time the book has come around in a different medium, so why not comics? Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is a deeply visual book, and while Terry Gilliam’s film adaptation is nothing if not visually stimulating, it lacks some of the power of Thompson’s language. Out this October, […]
...moreTotal Film has published an installment of their regular feature “Movie by Movie,” about each one of Terry Gilliam’s films: “The Trials, the Tribulations, The Triumphs.” From Monty Python and the Holy Grail and Jabberwocky on to Time Bandits — about which there is an amazing story: Gilliam was having a big argument with the […]
...moreIntroduction I think the best criteria for judging the quality of a film is whether you’re still thinking about it a week after you watched it. Then there are those films we return to in our thoughts time and time again over the course of years. I find myself thinking about Jane Campion’s The Piano, […]
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