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Terry Gilliam (Pocket Essentials) (Paperback)

by John Ashbrook (Author)
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  • Paperback: 96 pages
  • Publisher: Pocket Essentials (27 Jun 2000)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1903047145
  • ISBN-13: 978-1903047149
  • Product Dimensions: 17.1 x 10.8 x 0.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 516,485 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Short, subjective and informal - yet an enjoyable read, 30 Jul 2000
By A Customer
John Ashbrook's pocketessential guide about Terry Gilliam is an entertaining, brief and personal guide to his films.

"Gilliam on Gilliam" is in Terry's own words and "Dark Knights and Holy Fools" by Bob McCabe is sober and authoritative. Ashbrook has wisely avoided competing with either of these books and delivers an amusing take on Gilliam's films.

Many of his insights are revealing and his writing style shows a genuine love of Gilliam's movies. He does go on a bit about Freud...

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5.0 out of 5 stars 100% Gilliam-approved Genius, 6 Jul 2000
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'Except for your insistence on my overwhleming Oedipal 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.' - Terry Gilliam

Nuff said?

Well, not quite. Ashbrook's books is like Dark Knights & Holy Fools only cheaper, funnier and more original.

Role on the Pocket Essential De Palma!

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1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars Nice cover, shame about the book., 23 Jul 2000
By A Customer
Well, here we have another pundit who thinks he knows all about Terry Gilliam.

Instead, what he's clearly done is read a few too many psychology books, and then looked for a subject onto which he can attach all this Freudian nonsense.

And, what's worse, the author thinks that he is funny, yet has completely missed the fact that Gilliam's films actually are funny.

Okay, so he deals with all the films in turn, but where's the background info? The stories about all the board-room tussels? Why doesn't he tell us about the nervous breakdown Gilliam had during the making of '12 Monkeys'? I love that story!

Nice try - but next time, try to write a book about someone whose work needs all that psychotherapy - like Chris Columbus or John Hughes.

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