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TERRY
GILLIAM BOOKS
Fun and Games (a book of brain-teasers assembled from Havey Kurtzman's "Help!" magazine, of which Terry Gilliam was assistant editor; includes contributions and humorous illustrations by Terry Gilliam)
The Cocktail People (a collection of cartoons and observations by a very young Terry Gilliam and future film-critic Joel Siegel; the cartoons are carricatures of the silly and strange people you find at cocktail parties; the back cover features four photo-booth photos of Terry and Joel)
Wonder Wart-Hog, Captain Crud & Other
Super Stuff (a collection of cartoons and comics produced by some of the funniest undergraduate minds of the 1960s; among the contributors are a young Joel Siegel and Harry Shearer; the book features a foreword by Harvey Kurtzman, Terry Gilliam's boss on Help! magazine, and the book was designed by Terry)
A Century of College Humor: Cartoons, Stories,
Poems, Jokes and Assorted Foolishness From Over 95 Campus Magazines (a collection of college humor from the 1870s through 1960s, including material from Occidental College's "Fang" magazine which Terry Gilliam edited during his senior year; more importantly, the book includes a two-page cartoon by Terry Gilliam entitled "Quick, Henry, The Flit!!;" a portion of this cartoon also serves as one of the chapter covers)
Milligan's Ark (edited by comedy legend Spike Milligan; this book was produced to help the Wildlife Youth Service; over ninety British celebrities contributed letters, drawings & poems to the book; foreword by HRH The Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh; Terry Gilliam contributed a sketch of a man with birdwings called "Fred - a hither to unknown Australian animal")
Sporting Relations (a collection of poems by Roger McGough about his family and relatives; includes 18 humorous illustrations by Terry Gilliam)
The Do-It-Yourself Film Animation Book (a guide for doing your own animated cartoons, covering techniques, equipment, storytelling, sound, and visual effects; the book features many Flying Circus images and sketches by Terry Gilliam to demonstrate various concepts and drawing techniques)
Jabberwocky (adaptation of the script by Charles Alverson and Terry Gilliam; the film itself was directed by Terry Gilliam and starred Michael Palin as "Dennis Cooper" and a brief appearance by Terry Jones as a "Poacher;" based on the Lewis Carroll poem)
Animations Of Mortality (includes Gilliam's strange and colorful animation artwork from Python as well as his pre- and post-Python animation; includes artwork to Gilliam's 1972 commercial for the British Gas Board)
Time Bandits: A Screenplay has
also been cited as Time Bandits: The
Movie Script (screenplay of the film directed and produced by Terry Gilliam and written by Terry Gilliam and Michael Palin; film included John Cleese as "Robin Hood" and Michael Palin as "Vincent")
Time Bandits (novelization of the film and screenplay written by Terry Gilliam and Michael Palin; includes a number of black and white photos from the film)
(a one-issue comic book adaptation of the film; the comic book features illustrations of the major scenes and dialogue of the original film; includes amusing caricatures of John Cleese and Michael Palin in their respective roles)
The Battle of Brazil (story of Terry Gilliam's battle with Sid Sheinberg and Universal Pictures to release the original version of his film Brazil rather than a severely edited version; the book also includes the annotated screenplay by Terry Gilliam, Tom Stoppard, and Charles McKeown; includes photographs and Terry Gilliam's storyboard sketches)
Brazil de Terry Gilliam (book about Terry Gilliam and his movie Brazil, includes filmography and bibliographical references; text is written in French)
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (novelization of the film co-written and directed by Terry Gilliam; the film also starred Eric Idle as "Berthold," the fastest man that ever lived)
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen: The Screenplay (the complete screenplay of the Terry Gilliam film, with photos and unused portions of the screenplay included)
Terry Gilliam's The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (beautifully illustrated four part comic book series depicting every scene of the film.)
(actually a quarterly periodical on the film industry but reads more like a short book about Terry Gilliam; a 68-page detailed behind-the-scenes look at Terry's films, including Time Bandits, Brazil, and The Adventures of Baron Munchausen)
Cages (a comic novel told through various different graphical art styles; originally serialized between 1990 and 1996 (and collected in 1998), the series tells the story of a painter, a writer and a musician who live in the same apartment building find their lives intersecting; the book's gradual shift from literalism to fanciful allegories and stories-within-stories mostly serves as the springboard for a visual tour de force; endorsed by Terry Gilliam on the cover who writes "Mesmerizing")
Losing the Light: Terry Gilliam and the Munchausen
Saga (the story of Terry Gilliam's fight to film and release "The Adventures of Baron Munchausen," told by all of the participants)
The Fisher King: The Book of the Film (complete screenplay of the film directed by Terry Gilliam; includes the scripts to a few deleted scenes; also includes an introduction written by Terry Gilliam and the text to a series of interviews with Terry Gilliam by David Morgan)
The Fisher King (novelization of the Richard LaGravenese screenplay; film was directed by Terry Gilliam)
The Golden Age of Children's Television (includes information on "Do Not Adjust Your Set" which featured Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, and Michael Palin; mentions John Cleese's appearance on the "Dr. Who" episode "City of Death")
The Golden Age of Children's Television
Quiz Book (includes information on "Do Not Adjust Your Set" which featured Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, and Michael Palin)
Le Petit Livre de Terry Gilliam (part of a French series on well-known individuals in cinema; this one on Terry Gilliam is amazingly thorough and well researched; covering Gilliam's cinematic works through The Fisher King in 1991; lots of behind-the-scenes photographs; published entirely in French)
Gloom, Doom, And Very Funny Money: Economics
for Half-Wits (humorous look at finance and economics; it is has been said that the book is illustrated by Terry Gilliam which may be the hardcover edition since the paperback version is illustrated by Richard Robinson)
The Last Machine: Early Cinema and the Birth
of the Modern World (Based on the BBC television series presented by Terry Gilliam in 1995; a look at cinema at the turn of the century and how the hopes and fears of that era were reflected on the screen; with a foreword by Terry Gilliam)
12 Monkeys (novelization of the Terry Gilliam film and the motion picture screenplay by David and Janet Peoples; story of a prisoner from a doomed future who is sent to the present to uncover the cause of an apocalyptic virus)
River of Mirrors: The Fantastic Art of Judson
Huss (a collection of beautiful fantasy and science fiction paintings by artist Judson Huss; includes a foreword by and photograph of Terry Gilliam; Gilliam contrasts Judson's art with the world wide web of fraudulent and meaningless images of today's contemporary society)
Brad Pitt (biography of Brad Pitt, who starred in Terry Gilliam's 12 Monkeys; includes a chapter on the film 12 Monkeys with a full photo page dedicated to Terry Gilliam)
Inside Stories: Diaries of British Film-Makers
at Work (includes a diary by Mick Audsley, when editing Twelve Monkeys; essentially a day-by-day account before, during, and after filming Twelve Monkeys with Terry Gilliam)
The Use of Arthurian Legend in Hollywood Film: From Connecticut Yankees to Fisher Kings (1996) (see Books About Monty Python) Peter Cook: A Biography (1997) (see Other Books)
Not the Screenplay to Fear and Loathing in
Las Vegas (the screenplay to the film by Terry Gilliam and Tony Grisoni, based on the novel by Hunter S. Thompson; written in under two weeks after the original script was rejected by Gilliam; the title is intended to make sport of how the Writer's Guild of America insisted that the credits list Alex Cox and Tod Davies as the scriptwriters; this script includes a large number of sketches and the complete storyboards by Terry Gilliam)
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and Other
American Stories (the original novel as well as three additional stories by the famous Gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson ; Fear and Loathing tells of his drug-filled trip to Las Vegas with his attorney in the 1960s; first published in Rolling Stone magazine as a series of articles in 1971, this story was eventually picked up by Terry Gilliam and made into a film in 1997)
Terry Gilliam: El Soñador Rebelde
(Terry Gilliam: The Rebel Dreamer) (the official guide to the 1998 San Sebastian Film Festival Gilliam retrospective; this is an excellent biography of Gilliam, with the full text offered in both Spanish and English)
The Life and Times of R. Crumb: Comments
From Contemporaries (a collection of memoirs and tributes attesting the importance and influence of underground comics artist Robert Crumb; includes a section contributed by Terry Gilliam on the pre-Monty Python days with Crumb and Mad magazine creator Harvey Kurtzman when they worked on Help! magazine together)
Writers on Directors (a collection of essays on Hollywood's greatest directors; includes a piece written by Jack Womack about Terry Gilliam; also includes several comic photographs of Gilliam; Womack writes: "Gilliam has through the years developed his own view of existence so clearly, and so deftly, that to a degree greater than any other director he is now able to create any kind of world, historical or imaginary, and make it absolutely believable and understandable to the audience")
How I Overcame Shyness: 100 Celebrities Share
Their Secrets (a collection of wisdom on confronting social situations with confidence and grace; over 100 celebrities share their stories and motivational quotes; includes one by Terry Gilliam)
Gilliam on Gilliam (a new volume in the Faber and Faber series called "Directors on Directors;" this book edits into a single volume several interviews conducted with Terry Gilliam in 1996 and 1998 and covers Gilliam's entire life and professional career through Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas)
Dark Knights and Holy Fools: The Art and
Films of Terry Gilliam (extensive book on Terry Gilliam's career; covers Terry's career through Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas; richly illustrated with tons of Gilliam artwork, production sketches, and behind-the-scenes photos; includes a foreword by Terry)
Modern Classics: Brazil (small paperback dissecting Brazil, forming part of BFI Publishing's Modern Classics series)
The Pocket Essential Terry Gilliam (a small-format biography of Terry Gilliam billed as "almost everything you need to know in one essential guide," including an overview of each of Terry's films, through Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas; on the back cover Gilliam writes: "Except for your insinstence on my overwhelming Oedpial complex - which I still deny despite my wife looking like my mother - I think it's a great and smart read. I learned an awful lot about my films")
Magic Movie Moments (a book that chronicles some of cinema's greates scenes and characters; featuring memorable stills from the films and lots of film trivia throughout; Terry Gilliam wrote the introduction; Terry captures one of his greatest complaints about Hollywood: "Most modern filmmakers have been raised in film schools where they endlessly go over the films of the past. Their minds are filled with so much that their works turn out to be an assembly of all their favorite moments. Their difficulty is that they want to be original but know too much")
SITGES 2000 - Festival Internacional de Cinema de Catalunya (a 250-page program from the SITGES 2000 international film festival in Catalonia, Spain; that year the festival honored Terry Gilliam with the Time Machine Award (La Màquina del Temps) for achievement in the fantasy genre of film; includes a brief section on Terry Gilliam and his film Brazil; Terry attended the festival at the end of the second week of the Quixote shoot and answered questions)
Brazil: The Evolution of the 54th
Best British Film Ever Made (this is the never before published first – and very different – screenplay of Terry Gilliam's Brazil, with Gilliam's notes and sketches; in addition to the full, restored, previously unseen screenplay, the book includes an extensive foreword chronicling the beginnings of the project, featuring extracts and sketches from Gilliam's notebooks and includes new in-depth interviews with both Terry Gilliam and Charles Alverson talking for the first time about his contribution to the movie)
Terry Gilliam Interviews (a book in the conversations with filmmakers series; this is a collection of 18 interviews with Terry Gilliam, from 1981 through 2002; interviewers include well-known Gilliam/Python biographers David Morgan and Bob McCabe, as well as Phil Stubbs, the webmaster of the Terry Gilliam Dreams website)
Dreams and Nightmares: Terry Gilliam, 'The
Brothers Grimm' and Other Cautionary Tales of Hollywood (a behind-the-scenes chronicle of the creation of the Terry Gilliam's The Brothers Grimm, charting all the highs and lows in the film's journey from script to screen; told by both Gilliam and McCabe, who provides an on-set diary, this unique account reveals exactly how a film is made -- or ruined -- in today's Hollywood system)
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