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This Week on MUBI: A Quartet from the Brothers Quay
In our weekly MUBI column, Jake Cole looks at a quartet of shorts from the Brothers Quay.
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The King and the Fool: Robin Williams in “The Fisher King”
Robin Williams’s suicide last August kicked off the latest round of handwringing over the received wisdom that the funniest comedians often suffer from overwhelming depression. But as shocking as the entertainer’s death was, Williams could never really bury hi...
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Blu-ray Review: “The Zero Theorem”
Distributor: Well Go USA
Release Date: January 20, 2015
MSRP: $29.98
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Film: C- / Video: B+ / Audio: B / Extras: C-
The Zero Theorem begs comparisons to Terry Gilliam’s magnum opus, the ornate dystopian epic Brazil, from the word go: It feat...
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Looking Good, Looking Glass: The Many Iterations of Alice
“You would have to be half mad to dream me up.” The Mad Hatter, as far as characters dreamt up by the illustriously literary genius Lewis Carroll goes, seems to be the one most akin to its creator. Carroll, born 183 years ago on January 27, 1832 in Daresbury, ...
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Calling The Shots: 3 Defining Images from Terry Gilliam’s Filmography
This week finally sees the home release of Terry Gilliam’s latest effort, The Zero Theorem. The film itself is debatable, but it does lie in the better camp of Gilliam’s films for me personally for one reason mainly. There was one shot in the film that transce...
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“The Zero Theorem” Waltzes Through Disconnection
The Zero Theorem's first 20 minutes or so are an endurance test. If you can withstand the film's introductory sensory assault, then you can reasonably withstand the rest of it. But the ride remains jarring even when the edges smooth on Terry Gilliam's latest t...
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New “The Zero Theorem” Trailer and Release Date
It's been a long process, but we've finally got a domestic release date for Terry Gilliam's newest film The Zero Theorem along with a new trailer. The film will be released on iTunes on August 19th ahead of a limited theatrical release starting September 19th....
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Terry Gilliam Gearing Up “The Man Who Killed Don Quixote”….Again.
Terry Gilliam's history with trying to make The Man Who Killed Don Quixote is well documented (see here) and remains one of the most prolific examples of a passion project that never got made. Variety has word out of Cannes that this film may finally come to l...
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Top 10 Office Movies
With Mad Men coming back on the air for its (bifurcated) final season, and me returning to work after a wonderful weekend at the Turner Classic Movies Classic Film Festival, I've got offices on my mind. Luckily, the office is not an infrequent topic in cinemat...
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“Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons”: Another Giddily Over-the-Top Fantasy Epic from Stephen Chow
For audiences habitually hungry for visual feasts of movement and mayhem, lapping up Stephen Chow’s films can be irresistible. That unstoppable box office titan of Hong Kong cinema’s wired filmmaking flair is evident as ever in his ninth feature as director, t...
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