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One notable director that frequently employs rectilinear ultra wide angle lenses in order to achieve a distinctive signature style defined by extreme perspective distortion is Terry Gilliam. Also Stanley Kubrick (in "Paths of Glory", and "Dr. Strangelove", among others) as well as Orson Welles (in "The Trial", partly "Orson Welles' London", segment "Four Clubmen"), Sam Peckinpah (in "Straw Dogs"), and Sidney Lumet (in "The Offence") have occasionally done the same in the past, though mostly in moderation, for single shots or sequences only, while Gilliam hardly ever uses any lens longer than 14mm, which has garnered lenses of that particular focal length the informal nickname "The Gilliam" among film-makers. Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro, two French filmmakers influenced by Gilliam, adopted his typical wide-angle photography in their two most "Gilliamesque" features, "Delicatessen" and "The City of Lost Children". Orson Welles's "The Trial" is notable for heavily influencing Gilliam's signature style years before the American ex-patriate joined the Monty Python comedy troupe while only being a one-feature style for Welles.