Friday, October 09, 2009

Jim Emerson at Scanners has an early review (w/a couple of images!) of Terry Gilliam's Imaginarium Of Doctor Parnassus.

Spoiler-free, unless you think of scene setting as spoilers. It ends:

"Imaginarium" reminds us that we are always inhabiting more than one "reality" at any given moment -- memory, the physical present, fantasy -- and that the totality of those experiences is what our existence is really made of. While it's not Gilliam's strongest work (that would probably be "Munchausen," but I'd like to put in a small plug here for the darker, grossly [!] underrated "Tideland"), it's another fanciful chapter in a body of work that is fiercely devoted to celebrating imagination in all its guises. I don't know how he does it, but leave it to Terry Gilliam to make CGI look like vintage animation. Bravo for that!


And bravo about liking Tideland, with a hearty "me, too!"

Updated from an earlier entry of Least newsworthy headlines:

Heath Ledger was missed at Imaginarium Of Doctor Parnassus premiere, says Terry Gilliam


As if he was going to say, "Thank God that shit isn't here..."

...okay, so this is Gilliam, and he might've...

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