In 1984, he reunited with Terry Gilliam to appear in Brazil.

Under the leadership of the new CEO, Orey Gilliam, who also assumed the responsibility for all of AOL's messaging business in 2007, ICQ resumed its growth and turned into a highly profitable company, and one of AOL's most successful businesses.

Gilliam again contributed two animated sequences ( one being the opening credits ) and took charge of set design.

On the DVD commentary, Gilliam expresses great pride in one set in particular, the main hall of Pilate's fortress, which had been designed so that it accurately looked like an old Judean temple that the Romans had converted by dumping their structural artifacts ( such as marble floors and columns ) on top.

More frequently, he played parts that no one else wanted to play ( generally because they required a lot of make-up or uncomfortable costumes, such as a recurring knight in armour who would end sketches by walking on and hitting one of the other characters over the head with a plucked chicken ) and took a number of small roles in the films, including Patsy in Monty Python and the Holy Grail ( which he co-directed with Terry Jones, where Gilliam was responsible for photography, while Jones would guide the actors ' performances ) and the jailer in Monty Python's Life of Brian.

Up until the 1990s, each of Gilliam's non-Python films was to feature at least one of his fellow Monty Python alumni ( particularly Palin, Cleese, and Idle ), and for his finished projects Gilliam has worked with the following actors more than once ( in order of first film appearance ):

This short film was selected by director and animator Terry Gilliam as one of the ten best animated films of all time, and critic Jonathan Romney included it on his list of the ten best films in any medium ( for Sight and Sound's 2002 critics ' poll ).

The film has gained cult favorite status over time, however, and in a commentary track on the DVD edition of his 2007 feature Tideland, Gilliam now says that Munchausen is one of the films that his fans most often cite as a favorite ( along with Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Brazil, Twelve Monkeys and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas ).

The nice one, Fidgit, as Palin ; the self-appointed leader, Randall, as Cleese ; the acerbic one, Strutter, as Eric Idle ; the quiet one, Og, as Graham Chapman ; the noisy rebel, Wally, as Terry Jones ; and the nasty, filth-loving one, Vermin, as Gilliam himself.

Also famous ( and much imitated ) is the short Dimensions of Dialogue ( 1982 ), selected by Terry Gilliam as one of the ten best animated films of all time.

Among the most notable are La Voix du rossignol ( The Voice of the Nightingale ) ( 1923 ), a hand-tinted film ( some sources say Prizmacolor ) starring the young " Nina Starr " ( Janina Starevich ) and the naturalistic nightingale who convinces her to free him, and Fétiche Mascotte ( Duffy the Mascot, aka The Mascot, aka Puppet Love, aka The Devil's Ball ) ( 1934 ), a long and strange story about a loving dog puppet who practically goes through Hell to get an orange to a girl dying of scurvy, selected by Terry Gilliam as one of the ten best animated films of all time.

Due to the grotesque, unsettling mood effect peculiar to wide-angle lenses, films making use of such perspective distortion can often be placed in one of two categories: Grotesque and surreal satire and fantasy, also to some extent black comedy ( Gilliam, Jeunet & Caro, Orson Welles, Dr. Strangelove ) on the one hand, and serious, more realistic films with a particular edge for social criticism on the other, whereas social conventions, collective society, and / or the motives and acts of leaders are portrayed as grotesque and absurd, and often also feature tyrannical characters with conformist values who act out in an extremely hostile and prejudiced way towards individualism and outsiders ( Paths of Glory, Straw Dogs, The Offence ).

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Gilliam then created a different style of credit for the Pythons so that in the final version of the film, Lownes's credit is the only one that appears in that way.

* Filmmaker Terry Gilliam did a five minute video presentation for the Criterion release, in which he saluted Children of Paradise as one of his favorites and a source of inspiration, because of its dreamlike quality.

J. D. Williams, Seth Gilliam, Lance Reddick, and Reg E. Cathey were featured in very prominent roles in Oz, while a number of other notable stars of The Wire, including Wood Harris, Frankie Faison, John Doman, Clarke Peters, Domenick Lombardozzi, Michael Hyatt and Method Man appeared in at least one episode of Oz.

* Baldwin Hills Estates ( east of La Brea, southwest of Santo Tomas Drive, south of the Jim Gilliam Recreation Center and north of Stocker Street ), one of the wealthiest majority-African American areas in the United States, and is sometimes called " the Black Beverly Hills ".

Along with Terry Jones / Gilliam ' nude organist, Michael Palin's " It's " man, the Gumbys and Graham Chapman's Colonel, Mr Praline was one of the few deemed popular and useful enough for multiple appearances.

Most of the time, the original characters have no plot impact on the game ( though it is worth noting that Leeroy Gilliam, a major figure in the novelization of Mobile Suit Gundam, is one of these characters ).

) re-assembling themselves, only to be destroyed again when the last object ( a bomb ) is complete, and the nightmarish Jeux des anges ( 1964 ), selected by Terry Gilliam as one of the ten best animated films of all time.

The writers were John Cleese, Tim Brooke-Taylor, John Junkin, Marty Feldman, Barry Took, Graham Chapman, Terry Jones, Philip Jenkinson, Donald Webster, Peter Dickinson, Terry Gilliam, John Law, Frank Muir and Denis Norden.

Gilliam was a part of Monty Python's Flying Circus from its outset, at first credited as an animator ( his name was listed separately after the other five in the closing credits ), later as a full member.

Toying with many television conventions, Monty Python's Flying Circus ( 1969 – 74 ) played around with the concept of cold opens, sometimes having an entire episode before the starting credits, and, in two instances (" The Cycling Tour ", the first episode to have a full-length story, and " The Golden Age of Ballooning ", the first episode of series four ) had no opening credits at all ( the former has a brief title card with the episode's title, and the latter has no titles because Terry Gilliam had not finished the new opening sequence ).

Another argument with Lownes occurred when Terry Gilliam designed the opening credits for the film.

McTeer's screen credits include Songcatcher ( with Aidan Quinn ), Waking the Dead ( with Billy Crudup and Jennifer Connelly ), the dogme film The King is Alive ( with Jennifer Jason Leigh ), The Intended ( with ( Brenda Fricker and Olympia Dukakis ), and Tideland, written and directed by Terry Gilliam.

* The opening credits were created by Terry Gilliam.

In 1969, Chapman and Cleese joined the other Pythons including Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, and Michael Palin for their sketch comedy show Flying Circus.

Directing duties were handled solely by Terry Jones on this project, having amicably agreed with Gilliam ( who co-directed Holy Grail ) that Jones ' approach to film-making was better suited for Python's general performing style.

Gilliam also worked on the matte paintings, useful in particular for the very first shot of the three wise men against a starscape and in giving the illusion of the whole of the outside of the fortress being covered in graffiti.

Afterwards, George Lucas met Terry Gilliam in San Francisco and praised Gilliam for his work.

He has also appeared in several films directed by fellow Python Terry Gilliam and made notable appearances in other films such as A Fish Called Wanda, for which he won the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role.

The animations for Do Not Adjust Your Set were made by Terry Gilliam.

That first season started with a 94 yard opening kickoff return for a touchdown by John Gilliam ( No other team in NFL history has ever returned a kickoff for a touchdown on its first attempt as a new franchise ), but the Saints lost that game 27 – 13 to the Los Angeles Rams at Tulane Stadium.

After sitting on the bench for the Pirates ' first three games, Clemente played on April 17, 1955, in the first game of a double header against the Dodgers and made his first major league hit, a ground ball that hit off the glove of shortstop Pee Wee Reese, as well as a catch-dubbed " heart-stopping " by a Pirates beat writer-to rob his Santurce teammate, Junior Gilliam.

The team's primary deep threat was Pro Bowl wide receiver John Gilliam, who caught 42 passes for 907 yards, an average of 21. 6 yards per catch, and scored eight touchdowns.

" On defense the Dolphins ' goal was to neutralize Chuck Foreman by using cat-quick Manny Fernandez at nose tackle and to make passing difficult for Tarkenton by double-teaming John Gilliam and knocking down his receivers.

Gilliam had started for the first four games of the season, but Noll eventually made Bradshaw the starter.

Gilliam is also known for directing several films, including Brazil ( 1985 ), The Adventures of Baron Munchausen ( 1988 ), The Fisher King ( 1991 ), 12 Monkeys ( 1995 ), and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas ( 1998 ).

Gilliam was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, the son of Beatrice ( née Vance ) and James Hall Gilliam, who was a traveling salesman for Folgers before becoming a carpenter.

Gilliam later spoke to Salman Rushdie about defining experiences in the 1960s that would set the foundations for his views on the world, later influencing his art and career:

As for his philosophical background in screenwriting and directing, Gilliam said on the TV show First Hand on RoundhouseTV: " There's so many film schools, so many media courses which I actually am opposed to.

As Gilliam is fascinated with the Baroque due to the historical age's pronounced struggle between spirituality and logical rationality, there is often a rich baroqueness and dichotomous eclecticity about his movies, with, for instance, high-tech computer monitors equipped with low-tech magnifying lenses in Brazil, and in The Fisher King a red knight covered with flapping bits of cloth.

Gilliam has explained his preference for using wide-angle lenses in his films:

In the mid-1990s, Gilliam and Charles McKeown developed a script for Time Bandits 2, a project that never came to be made.