The Imaginarium of Terry Gilliam
If Terry Gilliam didn’t make movies, what would he be? An artist and a cartoonist, certainly – he says he’s always drawn, and he made a living at it in the early 1960s. But just supposing we took away his pencil? Maybe it’s a knock-on from the antique traveling theatre at the heart of his latest film, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, but it seems natural to imagine him in a circus context. He could be the ring-master, or the clown, the lion-tamer or the showground...
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