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  1. The #Beach at #Minehead is on the southern shore of the #BristolChannel, which eventually leads out to the #IrishSea. The town has this interesting #hill, which reminded me of the #Whale in #TerryGilliam's film #TimeBandits (if you know, you know). It think it’s a very distinctive natural feature.

    #MyWork #MyPhoto #CCBYSA #Android #Spring

  2. The #Beach at #Minehead is on the southern shore of the #BristolChannel, which eventually leads out to the #IrishSea. The town has this interesting #hill, which reminded me of the #Whale in #TerryGilliam's film #TimeBandits (if you know, you know). It think it’s a very distinctive natural feature.

    #MyWork #MyPhoto #CCBYSA #Android #Spring

  3. The #Beach at #Minehead is on the southern shore of the #BristolChannel, which eventually leads out to the #IrishSea. The town has this interesting #hill, which reminded me of the #Whale in #TerryGilliam's film #TimeBandits (if you know, you know). It think it’s a very distinctive natural feature.

    #MyWork #MyPhoto #CCBYSA #Android #Spring

  4. The #Beach at #Minehead is on the southern shore of the #BristolChannel, which eventually leads out to the #IrishSea. The town has this interesting #hill, which reminded me of the #Whale in #TerryGilliam's film #TimeBandits (if you know, you know). It think it’s a very distinctive natural feature.

    #MyWork #MyPhoto #CCBYSA #Android #Spring

  5. The #Beach at #Minehead is on the southern shore of the #BristolChannel, which eventually leads out to the #IrishSea. The town has this interesting #hill, which reminded me of the #Whale in #TerryGilliam's film #TimeBandits (if you know, you know). It think it’s a very distinctive natural feature.

    #MyWork #MyPhoto #CCBYSA #Android #Spring

  6. SWANSEA: World’s smallest solar cinema — built from a chicken coop caravan — heads to Monty Python statue unveiling

    A solar-powered cinema built from an old caravan by a man from Swansea is heading to north Wales this weekend — as part of one of the most Python-esque public events Wales has seen in years.

    The Sol Cinema, co-founded by Paul O’Connor from Swansea, has been engaged to screen exclusive films made by Terry Jones alongside behind-the-scenes footage from his Monty Python days, as part of the unveiling of a bronze statue of Jones in Colwyn Bay on Saturday April 25.

    Jones — who died from dementia in January 2020 — was born in Colwyn Bay and was, as his family put it, “a proud Welshman in an accent straight out of Surrey.” The statue, created by Llandudno sculptor Nick Elphick and funded entirely by donations from comedy fans around the world, depicts Jones as the Nude Organist from Monty Python’s Flying Circus — nude apart from a flapping tie and wild hair, grinning as he strikes the classic pose.

    Michael Palin said: “Terry always insisted on doing his own stunts, and I think that sitting stark naked (apart from a tie) on Colwyn Bay promenade, in all weathers, is the ultimate tribute to the lengths he was always prepared to go to for comedy. I hope his wonderfully generous bottom will become an emblem of the town he loved so much.”

    The day is being billed as “A Python on the Prom” — a Python-esque afternoon of silliness, with marauding Vikings, knights and their coconut-clopping squires, a recreation of the Spam Cafe set, and a Silly Olympics for fans to compete in. Visitors are encouraged to dress as anything Terry or Python, with official Monty Python merchandise on offer for the most imaginative costumes. The statue unveiling itself takes place at 3pm. Entry is free.

    The statue, shown prior to its installation, shows Python great Terry Gilliam as the nude organist.
    (Image: Nick Elphick)

    Steve Coogan, who worked with Jones on his film version of Wind in the Willows, said: “Naked at the organ is both cheeky and a strangely profound expression of Terry’s life-affirming anti-establishment anarchy.”

    The Sol Cinema is no ordinary picture house. It was created by upcycling a 1972 caravan that had been used to house chickens on a smallholding — fitted out with tiered seating, LED lighting, a projector and surround sound, and running entirely on solar power. Its smartly-dressed usherettes are experienced street performers who add what co-founder Jo Furlong describes as “a touch of bizarreness to the entire experience.” The cinema has also made headlines over the years for its innovations — including becoming one of the first cinemas to accept cryptocurrency payments.

    O’Connor said the Sol Cinema team were honoured to be involved in the event. “Monty Python influenced the construction of the Sol Cinema, with our flying cherubs, doric pillars, plush seating, surround sound and performing usherettes,” he said.

    O’Connor and his team have been touring the UK and Europe with the cinema since 2010, entertaining more than 100,000 people at festivals, schools, factories, farms and even a zoo. The BBC has previously described it as the world’s smallest solar-powered cinema. Previous celebrity visitors have included the Welsh Rugby squad, Suggs and Madness, and DJ Don Letts. The cinema has also performed at Glastonbury Festival among many other landmark events.

    The statue was funded through the “A Python on the Prom” campaign, which hit its target within six months thanks to donations from comedy fans worldwide. It will be gifted to Conwy County Borough Council to sit permanently on the promenade, and will be unveiled by Michael Palin and Terry Gilliam — Jones’s surviving Python colleagues.

    Terry Jones’s daughter Sally said the family wanted the day to reflect her father’s eclectic interests. “We want this celebration to reflect Dad’s eclectic interests, from his wonderful children’s books to his passion for medieval history,” she said. “We want everyone who has been a part of this campaign to join us and enjoy a really fun day.”

    Sol Cinema is currently taking bookings for 2026 and will be performing at Camp Bestival among other events. More details are available at thesolcinema.org.

    Related stories from Swansea Bay News

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    Sol Cinema hired by Madness to premiere their new film
    How Suggs and the band chose Swansea’s solar cinema for their film debut.

    Swansea cinema accepts first cryptocurrency payment
    Sol Cinema makes history as an early adopter of crypto payments.

    Sol Cinema — all our coverage
    Our full archive of reporting on Paul O’Connor’s award-winning mobile cinema.

    #APythonOnTheProm #CampBestival #ColwynBay #comedy #MontyPython #MontyPythonSFlyingCircus #NickElphick #PaulOConnor #sculpture #SolCinema #SteveCoogan #TerryGilliam
  7. The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988) - "Remarkable, unbelievable, impossible, and true!" Imagination and reality collide in this final entry of Gilliam's trilogy! #MovieReview #Podcast #Fantasy #TerryGilliam #BaronMunchausen
    timeshifterspodcast.com/the-ad

  8. We finish off 'Terry Gilliam's Trilogy of Imagination" when we watch THE ADVENTURES OF BARON MUNCHAUSEN.

    Leave any thoughts on the film below!
    #MovieReview #Podcast #TerryGilliam
    youtube.com/watch?v=O0p9W47frhI

  9. AI is for automating the typo in Brazil, but without the Monty Python humor, just the dystopia

    #AIeeeee #TerryGilliam

  10. “Never tell me the odds!”*…

    How likely is it that one will be born on a Leap Day? That one will find a pearl in an oyster? That one will solve Wordle on the first guess? That one will die on a tornado? That two people will share the same fingerprint?

    The good folks at R74n (@r74n.com) have these probabilities– and so many more: “What Are The Odds?

    (Image above– and tutorial on the odds ratio: source)

    * Han Solo (Harrison Ford) in Star Wars: Episode V– The Empire Strikes Back

    ###

    As we place our bets, we might spare a thought for Harvey Kurtzman; he died on this date in 1993. A cartoonist and editor, he is best know for writing and editing the parodic comic book Mad from 1952 until 1956. Kurtzman scripted every story in the first twenty-three issues. (The New York Times‘ obituary for Kurtzman in 1993, alluding to the role of publisher William Gaines, said Kurtzman had “helped found Mad Magazine.” This prompted an angry response to the newspaper from Art Spiegelman, who complained that awarding Kurtzman partial credit for starting Mad was “like saying Michelangelo helped paint the Sistine Chapel just because some Pope owned the ceiling.”)

    Kurtzman, who mentored many younger cartoonists (including Terry Gilliam and Robert Crumb), is considered, with cartoonists like Will EisnerJack Kirby, and Carl Barks, one of the defining creators of the Golden Age of American comic books. The prestigious Harvey Awards (for achievement in comic books) are named in his honor.

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    #culture #HarveyAwards #HarveyKurtzman #history #Mad #MadMagazine #Mathematics #Odds #Probability #R74n #RobertCrumb #Science #TerryGilliam #whatAreTheOdds
  11. Terry Gilliam – „12 Monkeys“ (1996)

    Zeitreisen sind bei Terry Gilliam kein Versprechen auf Rettung, sondern eine Form von Gewalt. Erinnerung ist brüchig und die Zukunft bereits kontaminiert. Die Gegenwart ist ein kaum haltbarer Zustand. Das ist keine Science-Fiction der technischen Möglichkeiten, sondern eine Dystopie über eine Kontrollgesellschaft und über die Unmöglichkeit, Wahrheit gegen Institutionen durchzusetzen. Mit Bruce Willis, Brad Pitt und Madeline Stowe. (ARTE, Wh.)

    Zum Blog: nexxtpress.de/mediathekperlen/
  12. Terry Gilliam – „12 Monkeys“ (1996)

    Zeitreisen sind bei Terry Gilliam kein Versprechen auf Rettung, sondern eine Form von Gewalt. Erinnerung ist brüchig und die Zukunft bereits kontaminiert. Die Gegenwart ist ein kaum haltbarer Zustand. Das ist keine Science-Fiction der technischen Möglichkeiten, sondern eine Dystopie über eine Kontrollgesellschaft und über die Unmöglichkeit, Wahrheit gegen Institutionen durchzusetzen. Mit Bruce Willis, Brad Pitt und Madeline Stowe. (ARTE, Wh.)

    Zum Blog: nexxtpress.de/mediathekperlen/
  13. Terry Gilliam – „12 Monkeys“ (1996)

    Zeitreisen sind bei Terry Gilliam kein Versprechen auf Rettung, sondern eine Form von Gewalt. Erinnerung ist brüchig und die Zukunft bereits kontaminiert. Die Gegenwart ist ein kaum haltbarer Zustand. Das ist keine Science-Fiction der technischen Möglichkeiten, sondern eine Dystopie über eine Kontrollgesellschaft und über die Unmöglichkeit, Wahrheit gegen Institutionen durchzusetzen. Mit Bruce Willis, Brad Pitt und Madeline Stowe. (ARTE, Wh.)

    Zum Blog: nexxtpress.de/mediathekperlen/
  14. Terry Gilliam – „12 Monkeys“ (1996)

    Zeitreisen sind bei Terry Gilliam kein Versprechen auf Rettung, sondern eine Form von Gewalt. Erinnerung ist brüchig und die Zukunft bereits kontaminiert. Die Gegenwart ist ein kaum haltbarer Zustand. Das ist keine Science-Fiction der technischen Möglichkeiten, sondern eine Dystopie über eine Kontrollgesellschaft und über die Unmöglichkeit, Wahrheit gegen Institutionen durchzusetzen. Mit Bruce Willis, Brad Pitt und Madeline Stowe. (ARTE, Wh.)

    Zum Blog: nexxtpress.de/mediathekperlen/
  15. Terry Gilliam – „12 Monkeys“ (1996)

    Zeitreisen sind bei Terry Gilliam kein Versprechen auf Rettung, sondern eine Form von Gewalt. Erinnerung ist brüchig und die Zukunft bereits kontaminiert. Die Gegenwart ist ein kaum haltbarer Zustand. Das ist keine Science-Fiction der technischen Möglichkeiten, sondern eine Dystopie über eine Kontrollgesellschaft und über die Unmöglichkeit, Wahrheit gegen Institutionen durchzusetzen. Mit Bruce Willis, Brad Pitt und Madeline Stowe. (ARTE, Wh.)

    Zum Blog: nexxtpress.de/mediathekperlen/
  16. Bientôt une soirée Terry Gilliam sur Arte avec le film "L'armée des 12 singes" et un documentaire ➡️ buff.ly/KJdjoY5

    C'est cool non ?

    #TerryGilliam #sciencefiction

  17. Terry Gilliam – „Time Bandits“ (1981)

    Die Kritik hat mit diesem Meisterwerk der Phantasie damals nicht viel anfangen können. Doch das hat niemanden von uns davon abgehalten, diesen Film lebenslänglich zu lieben. Und jede:r von uns hat eine andere Geschichte darüber. Für mich ist er vermutlich eines der größten Geschenke, das ARTE uns dieses Jahr überhaupt machen konnte… (ARTE, Wh)

    Zum Blog: nexxtpress.de/mediathekperlen/
  18. Terry Gilliam – „Time Bandits“ (1981)

    Die Kritik hat mit diesem Meisterwerk der Phantasie damals nicht viel anfangen können. Doch das hat niemanden von uns davon abgehalten, diesen Film lebenslänglich zu lieben. Und jede:r von uns hat eine andere Geschichte darüber. Für mich ist er vermutlich eines der größten Geschenke, das ARTE uns dieses Jahr überhaupt machen konnte… (ARTE, Wh)

    Zum Blog: nexxtpress.de/mediathekperlen/
  19. Terry Gilliam – „Time Bandits“ (1981)

    Die Kritik hat mit diesem Meisterwerk der Phantasie damals nicht viel anfangen können. Doch das hat niemanden von uns davon abgehalten, diesen Film lebenslänglich zu lieben. Und jede:r von uns hat eine andere Geschichte darüber. Für mich ist er vermutlich eines der größten Geschenke, das ARTE uns dieses Jahr überhaupt machen konnte… (ARTE, Wh)

    Zum Blog: nexxtpress.de/mediathekperlen/
  20. Terry Gilliam – „Time Bandits“ (1981)

    Die Kritik hat mit diesem Meisterwerk der Phantasie damals nicht viel anfangen können. Doch das hat niemanden von uns davon abgehalten, diesen Film lebenslänglich zu lieben. Und jede:r von uns hat eine andere Geschichte darüber. Für mich ist er vermutlich eines der größten Geschenke, das ARTE uns dieses Jahr überhaupt machen konnte… (ARTE, Wh)

    Zum Blog: nexxtpress.de/mediathekperlen/
  21. Terry Gilliam – „Time Bandits“ (1981)

    Die Kritik hat mit diesem Meisterwerk der Phantasie damals nicht viel anfangen können. Doch das hat niemanden von uns davon abgehalten, diesen Film lebenslänglich zu lieben. Und jede:r von uns hat eine andere Geschichte darüber. Für mich ist er vermutlich eines der größten Geschenke, das ARTE uns dieses Jahr überhaupt machen konnte… (ARTE, Wh)

    Zum Blog: nexxtpress.de/mediathekperlen/
  22. Just listened to a family member rant about the arbitrary and unfair bullshit they're having to deal with because of stupid bureaucracy and sent them this link because they've never seen it. If you're feeling it, seriously set aside some time and watch it because Terry Gilliam's "Brazil" is a masterwork with one of the most impeccable casts you will ever see in a movie.

    #terrygilliam

    youtube.com/watch?v=oiH0zGPlzyQ

  23. #QAnon #TerryGilliam

    "Terry Gilliam Confronts His Most Absurd Legacy: ‘I’m Responsible for QAnon’

    Gilliam always knew that 'Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas' would leave a cultural mark far outstripping its modest box-office returns. But he never thought it would morph into a kind of foundational text for the tinfoil-hat right.

    'I’m responsible for QAnon,' he says, half in disbelief, referring to the amorphous conspiracy movement that seized on the idea of adrenochrome — a fictional hallucinogen invented by Hunter S. Thompson and later amplified and distorted by Gilliam’s 1998 adaptation.

    (. . .)

    'The world hasn’t changed that much, but people have,' he sighs. Referring to anti-vaccine rhetoric, he adds, 'It drives me mad. I grew up during polio — vaccines stopped it. Now polio’s rising in Gaza. Measles in Texas. Then there’s graphene — conspiracies about Bill Gates putting metal in our bodies to control us. It’s insane.'

    Gilliam was speaking to Variety from the Torino Film Festival, where he will receive a lifetime achievement honor. Looking back, does he feel like the most American of British directors — or the most British of Americans?

    'Neither,' he says. 'Let’s be honest — that’s Ridley Scott.'

    (Scott’s 1996 film 'White Squall,' incidentally, also fed QAnon mythology, providing its rallying cry: 'Where we go one, we go all.' Strange bedfellows indeed.)"

    variety.com/2025/film/festival

  24. Enjoying that #BrattleFilm in #CambridgeMA will be running #TerryGilliam's classic film #Brazil for all shows starting the evening of 12/25-12/30. Lovely new 4k restoration, too! #BostonFilm #Boston

  25. 𝐋e 𝐅ilm 𝐂ulte 𝐃u 𝐌ardi 𝐒oir

    𝐋𝐞𝐬 𝐀𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐬 𝐝𝐮 𝐁𝐚𝐫𝐨𝐧 𝐝𝐞 𝐌𝐮𝐧𝐜𝐡𝐡𝐚𝐮𝐬𝐞𝐧
    Film Germano-Britannique de Terry Gilliam en 1988
    Avec John Neville , Eric Idle , Sarah Polley , Oliver Reed , Jonathan Pryce et @umathurman

    #BaronDeMünchhausen #TerryGilliam #JohnNeville #EricIdle #SarahPolley #OliverReed #UmaThurman #cinegenres #vidéothèqueidéale #cinema #culte

    𝐄n 𝐒avoir 𝐏lus:
    cinegenres.com/film-du-jour/

  26. Terry Gilliam – „Time Bandits“ (1981)

    Die Kritik hat mit diesem Meisterwerk der Phantasie damals nicht viel anfangen können. Doch das hat niemanden von uns davon abgehalten, diesen Film lebenslänglich zu lieben. Und jede:r von uns hat eine andere Geschichte darüber. Für mich ist er vermutlich eines der größten Geschenke, das ARTE uns überhaupt machen konnte… (ARTE, Wh)