What happened to Terry Gilliam?
Until very recently, Terry Gilliam was one of my favorite director/writers. There are a few directors whose work i look forward to — Jim Jarmusch comes to mind. And i enjoyed Sophia Coppola’s Lost in Translation and Marie Antionette enough that i’m looking forward to seeing what she does next. Sometimes directors “fall out of favor” really just because my tastes in movies change with time. But this is something different. I still really enjoy Gilliam’s older movies: 12 Monkeys, The Adventures of Baron von Munchausen, Brazil, and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. But something has definitely changed since Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.. I was disappointed by Brother’s Grimm, when i saw it in the theater, but i was willing to attribute that to (the widely reported) interference from the Brothers Weinstein. Gilliam himself reportedly said “Brothers Grimm helped him line up financing for Tideland,” which i figured was a good thing, because Tideland was going to be a low budget pet project,
