Triple Feature: Time Bandits/The Adventures of Baron Munchausen/Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

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Tonight we celebrate the career of Terry Gilliam!
What happens when the animator from Monty Python decides to direct movies? You get Terry Gilliam — an American who somehow made the most British films imaginable.
Gilliam’s fingerprints are all over Monty Python’s Flying Circus — those cut-out animations, the grotesque faces, the surreal leaps between worlds. And when he moved into directing, he carried that style with him: cluttered sets, exaggerated characters, satire of authority, and a constant blur between dream and reality.
You see it evolve across three films. Time Bandits — childhood fantasy meets biting satire, a boy escaping his consumer-obsessed parents to loot history with dwarves. The Adventures of Baron Munchausen — a sprawling tale of impossible adventures, about how imagination itself becomes resistance in a world closing in. And Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas — Hunter S. Thompson’s American nightmare, filtered through Gilliam’s absurd, grotesque lens, with Johnny Depp mumbling like a Monty Python character for two straight hours.
Gilliam’s films are infamous for their production disasters — blown budgets, lawsuits, near career-enders. But that’s exactly why he matters. In an age of safe blockbusters, Gilliam shows what happens when you chase imagination at any cost. His movies are messy, personal, and unforgettable.
Terry Gilliam isn’t just a filmmaker. He’s the warning and the inspiration — proof that cinema can still be wild.
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