num_pages: 352
description: The screenwriter innovative animator highly acclaimed visionary film director and only non-British member of Monty Python offers an intimate glimpse into his world in this fascinating memoir illustrated with hand-drawn sketches notes and memorabilia from his personal archive.From his no-frills childhood in the icy wastes of Minnesota to some of the hottest water Hollywood had to offer via the cutting edge of 1960s and 70s counter-culture in New York L.A. and London Terry Gilliams life has been as vivid entertaining and unorthodox as one of his films.Telling his story for the first time the director of Time Bandits Brazil The Adventures of Baron Munchausen The Fisher King 12 Monkeys and Fear &amp; Loathing in Las Vegasnot to mention co-founder of Monty Pythons Flying Circusrecalls his life so far. Packed with never-before-seen artwork photographs and commentary Gilliamesque blends the visual and the verbal with scabrous wit and fascinating insight.Gilliams pre-posthumous memoir also features a cast of amazing supporting charactersGeorge Harrison Robin Williams Jeff Bridges Robert De Niro Brad Pitt Uma Thurman Johnny Depp Heath Ledger and all of the fellow Pythonsas well as cameo appearances from some of the heaviest cultural hitters of modern times from Woody Allen to Frank Zappa Gloria Steinem to Robert Crumb Richard Nixon to Hunter S. Thompson. Gilliams encounters with the great and the not-so-good are revealing funny and hugely entertaining.This book is an unrestrained look into a unique creative mind and an incomparable portrait of late twentieth-century popular culture.
language: English
title: Gilliamesque: A Pre-posthumous Memoir
publisher: Harper Design