Time Bandits review – the gloriously fun return of a fantasy classic
Taika Waititi! Jemaine Clement! Lisa Kudrow being the absolute master of the muttered aside! This remake of the 80s film is a confident, hilarious romp through history
June 2024
Johnny Depp to play Satan opposite Jeff Bridges as God in Terry Gilliam biblical comedy
Director says The Carnival at the End of Days will begin shooting in January and that Depp’s devil will be trying to save humanity
February 2024
The reader interview
Terry Gilliam: ‘Robin Williams was one of the most stunning people I’ve ever met’
The film-maker answers your questions on his famous collaborators, whether Brazil is a Christmas movie – and what he really thinks about baked beans
January 2024
The reader interview
Post your questions for Terry Gilliam
The Monty Python legend and director of 12 Monkeys and Brazil will be receiving his first Aardman Slapstick award for visual comedy next month. Ask him anything here
December 2023
Wish You Were Here director David Leland dies aged 82
How we made
‘Robert De Niro prepared to play a plumber by watching a brain surgeon’: Terry Gilliam and Jonathan Pryce on making Brazil
September 2022
The week in theatre: The Narcissist; Into the Woods – review
Christopher Shinn’s new play of post-Trump politics finds complex characters lost in ego and addiction, while Terry Gilliam and Leah Hausman’s take on Sondheim is just a bit too much
August 2022
It’s not that people are more sensitive these days. Some things just aren’t funny any more
Martha Gill
Python star Terry Gilliam says today’s students can’t handle the truth. That’s an ex-debate
June 2022
Sarah Polley: ‘It took me years to see how responsible Terry Gilliam was for my terror’
As a child, the Canadian actor-director starred in the former Python’s The Adventures of Baron Munchausen. Here she recalls how she feared for her life on his chaotic film set
May 2022
Sarah Polley on her unflinching memoir: ‘Can you forgive – and should you forgive?’
As a child star, the actor suffered trauma and neglect. Now an acclaimed director, she is confronting the ghosts of her past with a frank new book
April 2022
Lost in La Mancha review – landmark doc of Terry Gilliam’s cinematic nightmare
Gilliam’s epic travails filming Don Quixote are well worth seeing again – and should be on the syllabus at every film school
November 2021
Musical to move after unrest at Old Vic over Terry Gilliam remarks
Staff at London theatre unhappy about comments previously made by director of Into the Woods
July 2021
Bye Bye Morons review – frantically misjudged French farce doesn’t travel well
Albert Dupontel stars in his own hectic romp, which tries and fails to be funny about disability and dying
March 2021
He Dreams of Giants review – Terry Gilliam's inspiring La Mancha sequel
Keith Fulton and Lou Pepe have made a compelling follow-up to their 2002 look at the disastrous production of The Man Who Killed Don Quixote
August 2020
Ranked
The top 10 long-awaited films – ranked!
Following substantial delays, anticipation is sky-high for Tenet and the new Bond, No Time to Die. But from Eraserhead to The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, plenty of movies have made their audiences wait
June 2020
Film blog
Ian Holm: a virtuoso actor of steel, sinew – and charm
Alien, Lord of the Rings, Chariots of Fire and so many more extraordinary performances in classic films – what an exemplary career the actor Ian Holm, who has died aged 88, leaves behind
April 2020
Screen bites
I watched 627 minutes of Adam Driver movies because what else am I going to do
SBS On Demand is streaming more than 10 hours of his features. Our isolated film critic took the bait and watched them all
February 2020
The Man Who Killed Don Quixote review – Gilliam’s knight proves errant
This long-delayed sidelong look at Cervantes gets lost in its own metatextual jokes
January 2020
Terry Gilliam faces backlash after labeling #MeToo a 'witch-hunt'
2020 culture preview
War epics, airmen and young Sopranos: essential films for 2020
