Billy Wilder has made at least one great film in multiple genres. Film Noir - Double Indemnity, Sunset Boulevard, The Lost Weekend & Ace in the Hole Romantic comedy - Sabrina, Ninotchka (screenplay) & The Apartment Comedy - Some Like it Hot, The Front Page & The Seven Year Itch Mystery/Thriller - Witness for the Prosecution War - Stalag 17
I don't think I've hated many films more than I hated Stalag 17. The tone is so off (is it a comedy? an adventure? a realistic drama about prisoners of war? It's neither funny, suspenseful nor disturbing/touching), and the characters and acting are intolerable. :D I'm really surprised that it's generally so well received.
I had a nice birthday meal - and a drinking session to follow - with Terry Gilliam in Italy - and he was the most genuine and honest guy... It was such a privilege to talk of films with him - and other things - an experience I'll remember, even if he probably won't!
Underrated I'm not sure. He divides, some love his work, some hate it. But one thing I'm sure of is that he will be recognized as one of the greatest filmmakers of all times as time will pass...
@@frankrogers2968 rightly so, tery gilliamsfilms are enjoyable and well loved by many but the directors you mentioned are masters in, the art of cinema, but he will be remembered so I don't think he's unappreciated in the history of cinema
There were four screenwriters associated with One-Eyed Jacks. Two were officially credited. One was Guy Trosper who also wrote the screenplays for Birdman of Alcatraz and The Spy Who Came In from the Cold and the other was Calder Willingham, who also wrote Paths of Glory and The Graduate. The two uncredited writers were Rod Serling and Sam Peckinpah. Fascinating.
More like "bullies Gilliam into making a list" in the way that you don't even realize till afterwards - the good doctor's essential skill, or one of them. Apparently Terry is a Vincent Van Gogh fan, good to know, suffering for the art and all that.
12 Monkey's is an OUTSTANDING movie. Willis actually acts, Pitt before he was famous playing a crazy man (who I have known and he NAILED it).. the sets... the legendary "hamster scene"..... Its fantastic!
My all time favorite single scene is from the Fisher King when the whole train station starts dancing and we follow Robin and Amanda as the weave their way through. It really gave you a glimpse of what was going through the mind of Perry.
i just recently rewatched it, after finding out there is a show, a tv show running into four seasons already. the movie is so good. really really excellent all round
Brazil is on my list, at the end of the movie I couldn't help but think that it was an interpretation of 1984 that was ultimately better than what a screen play of 1984 ever could.
I spent time with Jerry Lewis' first wife(a story in itself), but one of the things I had to ask her was about "The Day the Clown Cried", the project that basically scuppered Jerry Lewis' career as a film director. The film was not finished. Jerry had a completed script and filmed enough to assemble a rough edit, but had one of his breakdowns/heart attacks or something causing him to walk away from the whole thing. His ex-wife contended that if the project had been completed, Jerry would have swept the Oscars as director/actor. I've seen clips without sound from the shoot, but it was mostly "Making of" footage. For a legendary rumored project, it has only really been an open topic for the last 25 years or so. Jerry's ex-was dumfounded that I had even heard about the project as it was a topic that the JL camp deliberately avoided(until Roberto Benigni's Oscar). The only person I know who definitely saw the assemble footage was Harry Shearer. Maybe one day AI can finish it.
@@JordiH69 Bob Hope used to show up at the Ralph’s in Toluca Lake in the middle of the day in a limousine, he would then walk around the store with the aid of a cart loudly singing. He’s never put anything in the cart. He’d finish the song and get back in the limousine. The Ralph’s employees were used to it. “That just Bob”. As if that weren't weird enough. Some customers were spending the day at my record store and went to Boston Market in Burbank. While standing in line, they noticed, much to their amazement that Bob was in line ahead of them. Surprised, they asked him "Hey, aren't you Bob Hope?" and Bob responded "Get away from me you fucking moron". Thanks for the memories Bob. Horrible person and was only ever funny when Bing Crosby got to humiliate him and not really even then.
I love it!!!!!!! I thought I was gonna hate this. Just like Terry. Love how you honored him and us and yourself! Brilliant! And I'm even British, so I really mean brilliant!
The ONLY problem I have with Brazil is the sound. It's really not very good. I know it's very picky of me but movies from the 60's have better sound effects than Brazil.
@@felipedeornelas8054 It's not super horrible but (for example) the first explosion, the one with a woman pushing the stroller, the sound is way too shrill. Not a good sound at all for an explosion. No bass to it.
The Day the Clown Cried is the unreleased Jerry Lewis film. The tagline was something like "He makes them laugh as he leads them to the gas chamber" Catchy!
Another story of a clown and the concentration camps was filmed and earned an Oscar for Roberto Benigni, in the film “Life Is Beautiful” (1998). I'm not saying they are the same film but the similarity can't be denied.
@@charlie-obrien Yes, I've seen it. I don't think he was actually a clown but I see your point. Jerry's film needs to be released. Maybe on some streaming service?
@@andrewa9694 Apparently Lewis donated an unfinished copy to the Library of Congress just a few years ago, before his death in 2017. He said that it should not be screened until at least 2024, so we might see it sooner than we think!
I've just ordered the Arrow version of One Eyed Jacks. Thank you Terry #1 for being a Python and #2 an awesome director and producer of wonderful movies.
Here is a good discussion; would Python have been the phenom it became without Gilliam's strange twist of art and humor to offset the very British sketches the others performed?
I'm not a film director either but I will always watch certain movies again and again to enjoy revisiting the craft of everyone involved. 8 1/2 is all about that craft...and is due another revisit!
@@davidsanderson5918 I tried 8 1/2 a couple of times over the years and I find La Dolce Vita MUCH more satisfying and memorable. Honestly, I find Fellini's Roma more haunting and memorable than 8 1/2, too.
It's kinda odd how they think. They (directors) all praise, as we viewers do as well, the best directors of all time, but when directors actually talk about their top 10 or favorite films, Kubrick, Chaplin, Tarkovsky, Kurosawa (yes I realize Seven Samurai was mentioned here), Leone..etc... are largely not talked about. Even today, many Directors hail Lars Von Trier as the best Director alive today, yet his films are rarely talked about further amongst the industry...
For me, I loved the moments when the fairy appeared as I found all the blues and silvers so hypnotic. Also when the whale Tokyo Drifts into a bunch of rocks. It looks fantastic.
Not in order: Mirror (Tarkovsky, this is my all-time #1 however), Harold and Maude (Ashby), Long Day's Journey into Night (Lumet; much Lumet in fact), Jacob's Ladder (Lyne, so envious of the writing), Fantasia 2000 (Disney), Metropolis (the anime, Rintaro), Tombstone (Cosmatos and Kurt Russell, "I'm you're Huckleberry"), Stalker (Tarkovsky), one scene in particular in Nostaghia (Tarkovsky), Beanpole (a recent discovery, currently very enthused and impressed, Balagov), Angel at my Table (Campion), Picnic at Hanging Rock (Weir), Cries & Whispers (Bergman), In the Bedroom (Field, stunning performances by Sissy Spacek and Tom Wilkinson), Santa Sangre (Jodorowsky, the only film I still want to watch by him), Airplane! (Abrahams, Zucker, and pretty much anything else they did), Fitzcarraldo (Herzog, the only thing I like by him, except probably the remake of Nosferatu), Come and See (Klimov), The Thing (Carpenter, and much else besides), Videodrome (Cronenberg), Barton Fink (Coen), &c. My favorite Gilliam film is probably Fisher King, with 12 Monkeys right up there. I frankly also really like Jabberwocky. Was that 10?
@@unclvinny I got to see it in college on the big screen in one of those "Foreign Film Series" things that colleges do. Nice to see it big style. Like the movie River's Edge, Picnic at Hanging Rock seems to have layer after layer after layer of meaning; you can just keep digging down into it and discovering more.
@@lpowers You mean Alexei Gherman's "Hard to be a God". :) Tarkovsky is obviously always "deft" and both Ivan's Childhood and Andrei Rublev are statements. But it is not until Solaris that he discovers his "thing" and then perfects it in Mirror, Stalker, and Nostalghia. The "personal" change he undergoes when making a film not in Russia (for Nostalghia) begins to affect his judgment in that movie, and he has completely lost his way for Sacrifice. this is my too-brief summary. Meanwhile, the "Russian medievalism" in Gherman's "Hard to be a Good" is utterly staggering. It's like the opposite of Tarkovsky and completely full of its own genius for that very reason. Khrustalyov, My Car! is super-really good too. Gherman was getting better and better as he went along. We're fortunate that Hard to be a God was completed.
Interesting how One Eyed Jacks suddenly hit Terry. I haven't seen it myself, but love the stories of how Stanley Kubrick was originally going to direct, and showing up at Marlon's house with other actors sitting on the floor in a circle with a gong. Stanley put up with it for a bit, but finally bailed. I'd be interested now to see if Marlon did it all his own way, or was there any influences of Stanley that may have seeped in?
In Brando's 1979 Playboy interview, he told the story of what finally broke Kubrick. They'd been batting the script back and forth for weeks, and Kubrick finally said, "Marlon, what's this picture about?" and Brando was thinking, Now you're asking me?!? So he snapped back, "Stanley, it's about the $300,000 dollars I already paid Karl Malden to wait for us and not accept a different movie!" Kubrick says if that's what it's about, I'm in the wrong picture. He walks out. Brando is told by the producer that if he can't find another director in a week, the picture is dead. So Brando nominated himself and made the movie.
There were four screenwriters associated with One-Eyed Jacks. Two were officially credited. One was Guy Trosper who also wrote the screenplays for Birdman of Alcatraz and The Spy Who Came In from the Cold and the other was Calder Willingham, who also wrote Paths of Glory and The Graduate. The two uncredited writers were Rod Serling and Sam Peckinpah. Four A-list screenwriters.
Gilliam's greatest films are Brazil, Life Of Brian (Writer and art director), Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Monty Python and the Holy Grail (co director with Terry Jones), 12 Monkeys, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, The Adventures Of Baron Munchausen, Time Bandits.
My 10 favorites off the top of my head - probably forgot a bunch: - Some Like it Hot - Singing in the Rain - Taxi Driver - Spirited Away - 12 Monkeys - The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring - Unforgiven - Blade Runner (I even consider the sequel as well) - Parasite - There Will Be Blood
I actually Really appreciate Blade Runner 2049, even slightly more than the original. There Will Be Blood is one of my favorites as well, and Unforgiven is a given. I own all 4 I mentioned. My Top 10 are above,see if U recognize any of them. 😉
I think it's impossible to be carved in stone but off the top of my head: Citizen Kane Cinema Paradiso Dr. Strangelove Withnail and I Spirited Away Old Boy Big Lebowski Solaris (the Russian '72 movie) No Country for Old Men Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
So many great movies mentioned here and in the comments. I love Seven Samurai, but I’d place Harakiri above it if we are to talk about samurai films. In the modern era, I’d add Unforgiven, No Country For Old Men, and, a very close to the top for me, Children of Men. I agree with Citizen Kane and Seventh Seal. I would add La Passion de Jeanne d’Arc (1928)...there is something about Reneé Jeanne Falconetti’s acting in that one... And guilty pleasure? I get a kick out Drop Dead Gorgeous, Deadpool, and anything by Mel Brooks. I’m curious as to what some of your guilty pleasures are?
2:42 this is one of the things that make Gilliam movies some of my favorites. And watching Gilliam movies digitally is amazing because you can pause it and look at all those details. Back on VHS, when you paused, the screen got all staticky and distorted.
Off the top of my head...The Music Man, In the Heat of the Night, 12 Angry Men, Sunset Boulevard, Godfather 2, Man who Shot Liberty Valance, 2001, Goodfellas, White Heat and Of Mice and Men, ( 1939. )
It's shot so voluptuously for a "Western." And just out of balance, maybe, that keeps visual interest. I know the area they used and the light is spot on.
Gilliam, you are star; the standard of artwork in Pinocchio is second to none. Thought I was the only one waxing lyrical about it. Oh, yes, thank you for The Fisher King and Brazil. I'm not going to lie but even as a child in the sixties Terry Gilliam's animation was my favourite part of Monty Python.....still is!
Yeah, I especially liked the Gilliam movie where one of the pythons kept feeding the other python with an inordinate amount of food in that restaurant, to the point where he got so big that he ended up exploding. Sublime. Absolutely sublime.
Does Terry make himself available so freely? I was so pleased to see his rise in the last season of Python, and become an absolute necessity in the group's movies. He's a man of high principles and quality cinema art. I have, however, met Grahame Chapman!
"You have to do this and that and here's the rules and we're going to..." There'd have to be more in it for me than a few pints to sit and listen to that guy.
1. Biutiful 2. Chariots of Fire 3. On The Waterfront 4. Motorcycle Diaries 5. Tree Of Life 6. The Petrified Forest 7. Cool Hand Luke 8. The Elephant Man 9. Spotlight 10. Brother Sun, Sister Moon ...just in case anyone cared...😁💚
:50 same. Maybe I could pick a top ten list of favorite 80s comedies, favorite animated movies, or favorite weird post modern movies; which of course would be dominated by Gilliam and Jean Pierre Jeunet. Same with music; hell, I have a hard time just picking my favorite 10 songs of 2022.
Maybe I’m wrong… It’s probably because of the way he grew up… But he didn’t name one movie made after 1970… And there are at least 100 amazing fucking movies made after 1970
It must be nice being Terry Gilliam because then you don't have to debate which gilliam movie should go on the list! 😂. Glad to see The Apartment on the list. It is well respected but somehow criminally underrated at the same time. For me, top slots go to Some Like It Hot and Singin in the Rain, two of the best films ever made, and also my favorites. Now i have to see what my list would be.... Love the interviewer and his lovely fun chat with Gilliam! One for the archive.
Exactly. Paths of Glory would have been on the list if he wasn't being stubborn and childish and outrageous with this guy. Or maybe he was full of it when he talked about Paths of Glory in the other video.
1) I miss my wife 2) I miss my wife 3) I miss my wife 4) I miss my wife 5) I miss my wife 6) I miss my wife 7) I miss my wife 8) I miss my wife 9) I miss my wife 10) I miss my wife
@@leewiltshire111 You're sure? Better than Hombre? Better than Guns in the Afternoon? Better than Searchers? Better than Big Country? Better than Better than the Wlid Bunch? Better than Rio Conchos? Better than Stagecoach? Better than Duel in the Sun? Better than.. Ok, you know the drill... means, that I have doubts..
1. The conversation 2. Chinatown 3. Willy wonka (original) 4. Big Lebowski 5. Mulholland dr. 6. Dog day afternoon 7. Paper moon 8. Paths of glory 9. An Egyptian story (Chahine) 10. Planet of the apes (original)
Couldn't agree with that list but i can see why TG would like them. I've seen Blow up any 40 times (yes really) and Groundhog Day about 20 times and Space 2001 around 20 times. I loved Its a Mad Mad world (seen it about a dozen times). Fargo - about ten times. My guilty pleasure is Under Siege. Brazil, Time Bandits and Baron Munchausen are very high on my list. I've seen the 1974 Day of the Jackal many times and i never tire of it. Amelie is one of the few foreign films I adore. Can i be forgiven for really liking Jailhouse Rock? Can i also be forgiven for loving A Fish Called Wanda? I know Hail Caesar was a bit of a flop and I can't stand Clooney, who I think is a miserable fraud, but I really liked that film on so many levels.("Would that it were"....). Who couldn't love The Producers or Young Frankenstein? If you don't like those films, you don't have a pulse. There's about 12 movies. They're not too highbrow and obviously, you can see I like comedies. Nursery's films like the Seventh Seal and Citizen Kane just depressed me. I go to the movies to be transported to a happy fantasy world. Shindler's list, whilst wonderful is too upsetting. Why do people want to see these films? Isn't they're enough sadness in the world?
the French interest in Jerry Lewis is because he was producing/directing/writing, they liked him for the auteur theory he represents not for the particular films content
Great video. Key point though, JERRY himself, put the stops to "The Day the Clown Cried". He was doped up on percs while he was making it and in a moment of clarity decided he'd made a mistake. He spent a lot of money to insure he was the only one with any print of the uncompleted film. It is said, it's to be released some time after his passing. I just can't remember the year it is to hapen.
My top 10: My Dinner with Andre, Au Hazard Balthazar, Melancholia, Ma Nuit Chez Maude, Paris Texas, Zabriskie Point, Winter Light, Stalker, Satantango, Stroszek.
If background artwork is criteria, I'm surprised Terry didn't have a Wes Anderson vehicle to toss in. Out of the gate you can pause on the five year plan notebook in Bottle Rocket and get lost in fantastic details.
It's really the "top ten" that comes to mind. If Terry gave the interview a month later there would probably be quite a few changes. Isn't it interesting that most of the films' major players are no longer with us? No hurt feelings that way.
Just saw One Eyed Jacks after watching this - it’s a fun movie! Much better than either this interviewer or even Gilliam are giving it credit for. Interesting to see Brando’s choices as a director. Seaside setting was pretty refreshing for a Western.
I laugh like a maniac every time I see FaL. When it first came out I saw it in the theater 3 times and was the only one laughing through the whole thing, except for a few people laughing at me. I'm not even sure that it's a comedy. It is to me.
A difference between Terry Gilliam & me is that you can't pay me enough money to watch any more Brando films. I think he is one of the most overrated actors! His mannered performance as Fletcher Christian, mumbling through the Godfather, the debacle of Apocalypse Now & the infamous sex scene in Last Tango which is the only reason most people watch it.
