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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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!
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.
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
: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.
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?
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Wow. For Terry being one of my favorite filmmakers. I'm embarrassed to admit how few of the movies on his list I've seen. lol I've got some homework to do.
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
Got me thinking what my favourite film was. To my surprise I have one! Lots of the Flies (1963), Peter Brook. The most haunting and pensive price of cinema ever. Then two more are Castaway (1986), Aguirre, Wrath of God (1972), Werner Herzog also Mosquito Coast (1986).
I believe you mean "Lord of the Flies", and yes, that story and it's film version is an unnerving reveal of how close to the surface our inherent savagery lies and how quickly it can take us over.
I appreciate Citizen Kane for its technical mastery but to be honest I never fully agreed with the claim that it's the best movie ever made. Great, yes. Best of *ALL* time? In the top 5 for sure.
The guy interviewing seem super friendly and competent but then Gilliam just answers honestly and the interviewer is not picking it up at all. He just wants his damn list get on with his day. So not so friendly and competent it seems.
The more movies I watch(or re-watch), my list changes. But as of 5/12/21, my top 10 is: *Describing why I love it, no plots here: 1. The Prince of Egypt(1998). I love Biblical epics and this is animated movie about Moses is the best if you ask me. Moving beyond words, gorgeous animation, and simply powerful. 2. Life Itself(2014). As a movie fan and Roger Ebert fan, I couldn't get enough of this and played many parts over again. I watched the first half at night but I had to watch the rest the next day as a result. 3. 2001: A Space Odyssey(1968). This is what movies were made for. Yes, I know there is a novel of it(I have it even), but the visuals are mesmerizing and create the ultimate movie experience. If you WATCH 2001, it's a bore. EXPERIENCE it as it's fascinating beyond words. 4.Citizen Kane(1941). The greatest movie ever made, of course, but not my FAVORITE. Still, it cracks the top 10. I shouldn't have to say anymore, Terry nailed it here! 5. The Courtship of Eddie's Father(1963). I actually watched this for the first time from start to finish exactly a week ago. (TCM aired it on Thanksgiving but I had to miss the 2nd half.) Simply put, I feel joy watching it, and I think it's the best "Family" movie I have ever seen. I will hold back on saying "ever made". , 6. Precious(2009). A heartbreaking story but one of the most powerful I have seen. Not many movies make me cry, but Precious made me broke down. I once wrote a review of Precious and I didn't know how to end it. I finally came up with "I hope I forget my name before I forget this powerful masterpiece." 7. Toy Story(1995). This is technically a spot for my favorite secular animated movies, but if I had to choose one, it would be Toy Story. I used to watch it all the time as a kid, and so there's probably no exaggeration in saying I have literally seen it 100 times. Today I have those memories and now I appreciate the animation, considering it was the first fully computer animated film. Also, it actually makes me cry now because it makes me think of my now deceased sister. It's bittersweet, but in a way it makes me appreciate it more. 8. My Fair Lady(1964). I love musicals and this is my favorite! I have probably seen it over a dozen times. I've watched only parts of many times too(ie catching it on TCM), because that's just as worth it! It's definitely one of my "perfect" movies. 9. Juno(2007). Again, "perfect" movie. Cleverly written and I love every minute. It's very funny too. When I first watched it, I tried to pick one nit pick, and I really couldn't. Juno's PG-13 F bomb may be the closest, I am serious, I couldn't find anything else. 10. The Night of the Hunter(1955). This was deemed too dark at the time, and the Oscars seemed to neglect it. Too bad, this suspenseful horror movie is a masterpiece. "Leeeeeeaning. Leeeeeaning. Safe and secure from ALL ALARMS..."
My top 10 Good Fellas 2 Yeti Fever Big Foot and Little Foot Dirty Grandad The Hobbit Sacrifice of Hoblin Bladerunner 2 Mumu King of the Bee People Terminator 5 Metal Fatigue Dracula’s Frog Phantom Menace
One-eyed Jacks is one of the big missed opportunities in film history. Kubrick was set to direct it, based on a script re-written by Sam Peckinpah. What a movie it could have been! But Brando's ego got in the way...
In no particular order :- Stalker La Strada The Enigma of Casper Hauser M Faust The Cabinet of Dr Caligari Midnight Cowboy Throne of Blood Seventh Seal The Gospel according to Mathew
Best film ever made is 'La Strada' by Fellini. 'ivan's Childhood' by Tarkovski is pretty good but like all his films it needs to be seen on a large screen. No silent films? Pictorial illiteracy.
Perfect films? I would say The Maltese Falcon. You can't do any better than that, as an adaptation from a novel, or in the casting. True, Bogart doesn't look like the San Spade of the book (who was described as looking more like the author), but Bogart acts the part perfectly, as directed by John Huston. It's funny because Bogart was not as good as Phillip Marlowe in The Big Sleep, though that movie gets way more recognition in these ratings.
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.
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.
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...
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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!
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Kermode has the energy of a passionate and charming man who is intensely interested in what you have to say but is very late for a train
Agree with the train bit.
He is refreshingly smart.
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This is me and I feel attacked
That's funny but in fairness, the format of the show is only 10 mins so they have to get a wriggle on.
Missed the opportunity to put 8 1/2 at 8.5 on the list and let Terry keep his 11.
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I had this exact thought. Cheers.
Love Terry. Definitely one of the most underrated directors of all time.
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...
He's world famous.. How is he underated
@@mavis3916 I agree that he's underrated. He's not spoken of in the same breath as Scorsese, Bergman, Fellini, etc.
@@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
@@mavis3916 I think Mr. Gilliam is a master. He's just not as appreciated as the other directors I mentioned.
There is usually a difference between one's concept of 10 perfect movies and their 10 favorite movies.
Hear hear
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.
This interview galvanized me to watch The Apartment and One Eyed Jacks again. Thanks!
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.
Standout scene from a fantastic film. Love the Chinese restaurant bit too..👍
one of the best scenes ever filmed
This was awesome. Somewhere in my top 10 is Terry's 12 Monkeys - Bruce Willis' best performance, just love that film. Brazil is great as well.
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.
Brazil was written in 1929, 19 years before Orwell wrote 1984.
@@grahamthompson2594 You mean the song, not the movie Brazil?
Brazil makes more sense as the information age matures into a total reality.
And Baron Munchausen has a powerful strain of Don Quixote.
@@starseed96 The song has absolutely nothing to do with the movie.
Remember that this list was made before “Doolittle” was released.
@MichaelKingsfordGray I can see from your other posts you are an exceptionally unhappy person
@MichaelKingsfordGray i dont understand are u implying that because they have a username? do u understand how the internet works?
why are u so angry about these boring ass movies?
Can't have a Top Ten without Brazil!
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.
@@bertroost1675 the visuals are awesome though.
@@felipedeornelas8054 I agree. It's a great film but I kinda wish they re-mix the sound.
@@bertroost1675 I will pay more attention next time I watch it. My first time was actually just a couple of months ago.
@@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.
If I did this we'd be whittling down to 10 all day, with me probably remembering more movies more quickly than we can whittle them off.
The scene with the clocks in Pinnochio is darn-near hypnotic.
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.
Interviewer: Let's cut to a picture of each movie he mentions.
Terry: Disney
Interviewer: Nope
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?
I wonder who owns the rights to this film? I am sure I've seen snippets of this film.
I have no clue why people think Jerry Lewis is good. He downright sucks.
@@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!
Did they break Terry's hand to get to his movie list?
My top 10 is over 75 movies. One of the biggest riddles in math, but true.
I think this goes for many people.
After I read the inaugural AFI 100 I started a list that I abandoned at around 250. Growing up in a 'biz family' has repercussions.
Mine too. And honestly, it kinda puzzles me that people can have favorite films. I have like 20 favorite films all tied at number 1
@@rafaelandrade7627 Love it. That's my kind of math! Now, all we need is a scientist who is willing to prove the logic. ;)
How can you sneak Paths of Glory into the list and not talk about it!?? Or did the camera operator forget to hit record during that segment?
I was wondering the same thing, I only noticed it as I read the notepad.
He forgot to mention "Cats" and "Xanadu". An oversight, no doubt.
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!
Surprisingly canonical. Half of these could have come from a Sight & Sound poll.
did I miss where he talks about Paths of Glory?
Eh ?
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.
@@stephendeluca4479 Paths of Glory did make the list. #8
The OP is noting that Paths of Glory is on the list, but there was no discussion of it.
I'm guessing it was edited out.
@@talastra Yes!
I love One Eyed Jacks. One of my favorites as well. My dad and I used to watch it from time to time.
Thank you Terry Gilliam for everything
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
What, none of the Police Academys?
: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.
Well, both The Adventures of Baron Munchausen and Brazil are on my list, so...
Same here - and "Time Bandits" of course!
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?
This is the kind of discussion that film critics' societies go through every time they get together to dole out awards.
On his list of 10 best films _Eight And A Half_ should be # 8.5.
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Wtf can we do jack
I've found that I can't even stop at ten of my favorite directors, let alone movies.
This is mostly Mark's list really...
I'm too eclectic too. I can hardly do a top 20... The list goes on and putting one above another.. I find that shit hard.
It is hard. But life is hard, knp77. All we ask is that you do your level best.
@@jamesanthony5681 life is hard. At 44 I know very well now. Life has fucked me and I have fucked life. I am ready to rage quit every day.
Citizen Kane! Absolutely!
how did anyone know his last word was rosebud ? there was no one around !
Brazil. The only film that i have ever watched well over a hundred times
I like watching what I call 'hub' films. Sometimes it's not even a famous title, but you can see a half-dozen later films radiating from it.
I like your thinking. Alien is the hub of my wheel in this case, but Withnail and I are coming along for the ride. 🏆🇬🇧
@@nigelcarren _Alien_ is a rewrite of earlier films. Try _20,000 Leagues Under the Sea._
Wow. For Terry being one of my favorite filmmakers. I'm embarrassed to admit how few of the movies on his list I've seen. lol
I've got some homework to do.
Nobody born after the Internet will ever be as engaging or present as the greats of the past.
I want that shirt Terry is wearing.
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
The French thought he was a comedic genius, a Chaplin, no?
How is it possible this has only 13 k views?
Probably because this is not original content but obviously from a tv show. It’s not new and it can be found elsewhere.
The interviewer put Singing In The Rain on the list.
I’ve always thought the same about Pinocchio
Are there any more of these filmmakers top 10's by kermode ??
Got me thinking what my favourite film was. To my surprise I have one!
Lots of the Flies (1963), Peter Brook. The most haunting and pensive price of cinema ever.
Then two more are Castaway (1986), Aguirre, Wrath of God (1972), Werner Herzog also Mosquito Coast (1986).
I believe you mean "Lord of the Flies", and yes, that story and it's film version is an unnerving reveal of how close to the surface our inherent savagery lies and how quickly it can take us over.
You'd probably like Swept Away, since all your choices involve sweaty people on beaches, yelling at each other!
I appreciate Citizen Kane for its technical mastery but to be honest I never fully agreed with the claim that it's the best movie ever made. Great, yes. Best of *ALL* time? In the top 5 for sure.
What is the film in the opening shot of the video?
Now I'm gonna have to watch One Eyed Jacks..
The guy interviewing seem super friendly and competent but then Gilliam just answers honestly and the interviewer is not picking it up at all. He just wants his damn list get on with his day. So not so friendly and competent it seems.
The more movies I watch(or re-watch), my list changes. But as of 5/12/21, my top 10 is:
*Describing why I love it, no plots here:
1. The Prince of Egypt(1998). I love Biblical epics and this is animated movie about Moses is the best if you ask me. Moving beyond words, gorgeous animation, and simply powerful.
2. Life Itself(2014). As a movie fan and Roger Ebert fan, I couldn't get enough of this and played many parts over again. I watched the first half at night but I had to watch the rest the next day as a result.
3. 2001: A Space Odyssey(1968). This is what movies were made for. Yes, I know there is a novel of it(I have it even), but the visuals are mesmerizing and create the ultimate movie experience. If you WATCH 2001, it's a bore. EXPERIENCE it as it's fascinating beyond words.
4.Citizen Kane(1941). The greatest movie ever made, of course, but not my FAVORITE. Still, it cracks the top 10. I shouldn't have to say anymore, Terry nailed it here!
5. The Courtship of Eddie's Father(1963). I actually watched this for the first time from start to finish exactly a week ago. (TCM aired it on Thanksgiving but I had to miss the 2nd half.) Simply put, I feel joy watching it, and I think it's the best "Family" movie I have ever seen. I will hold back on saying "ever made". ,
6. Precious(2009). A heartbreaking story but one of the most powerful I have seen. Not many movies make me cry, but Precious made me broke down. I once wrote a review of Precious and I didn't know how to end it. I finally came up with "I hope I forget my name before I forget this powerful masterpiece."
7. Toy Story(1995). This is technically a spot for my favorite secular animated movies, but if I had to choose one, it would be Toy Story. I used to watch it all the time as a kid, and so there's probably no exaggeration in saying I have literally seen it 100 times.
Today I have those memories and now I appreciate the animation, considering it was the first fully computer animated film. Also, it actually makes me cry now because it makes me think of my now deceased sister. It's bittersweet, but in a way it makes me appreciate it more.
8. My Fair Lady(1964). I love musicals and this is my favorite! I have probably seen it over a dozen times. I've watched only parts of many times too(ie catching it on TCM), because that's just as worth it! It's definitely one of my "perfect" movies.
9. Juno(2007). Again, "perfect" movie. Cleverly written and I love every minute. It's very funny too. When I first watched it, I tried to pick one nit pick, and I really couldn't. Juno's PG-13 F bomb may be the closest, I am serious, I couldn't find anything else.
10. The Night of the Hunter(1955). This was deemed too dark at the time, and the Oscars seemed to neglect it. Too bad, this suspenseful horror movie is a masterpiece. "Leeeeeeaning. Leeeeeaning. Safe and secure from ALL ALARMS..."
How many movies have you seen?
@@JohnDaubSuperfan369 At least 10
"Glengarry Glen Ross".
Surprised somewhat no mention of any films by Karel Zeman
I have my top 10 list......and number 1 is a Terry Gilliam film.........(Brazil)
Try the de-caf, Mark.
He made one of my top 10: Munchhausen.
Not in my top ten, but a firm favourite of mine.
It's one of my favorites too. A shame the budget was slashed, and we didn't get the full spectacle he intended.
One Eyed Jacks is up there for me also. Considering how problematic the production was and nearly doomed from release it's a cinematic miracle.
The Jerry Lewis film you refer to is "The Day the Clown Cried".
So what's wrong with "The Invasion of the Body Snatchers"?
Which one?
No, a Terry Gilliam Top 10 should legitimately have eleven.
My top 10
Good Fellas 2
Yeti Fever
Big Foot and Little Foot
Dirty Grandad
The Hobbit Sacrifice of Hoblin
Bladerunner 2
Mumu King of the Bee People
Terminator 5 Metal Fatigue
Dracula’s Frog
Phantom Menace
I believe you
One-eyed Jacks is one of the big missed opportunities in film history. Kubrick was set to direct it, based on a script re-written by Sam Peckinpah. What a movie it could have been! But Brando's ego got in the way...
Wish they wouldn’t keep cutting TG’s speech to go to the interviewer.
Best Stanley Donen film has to be Charade and best Billy Wilder is definitely Double Indemnity.
The Life Of Kermode
In no particular order :-
Stalker
La Strada
The Enigma of Casper Hauser
M
Faust
The Cabinet of Dr Caligari
Midnight Cowboy
Throne of Blood
Seventh Seal
The Gospel according to Mathew
Every film lover picks Felini’s 8 1/2. I love it too but I love Nights of Caberia. Even better.
I like Roma better.
I agree with you.
gilliam never heard of the day the clown cried? wow
Taxi Driver
Alien
There will be blood
Interstellar
Pulp Fiction
Raging Bull
Goodfellas
The Big Lebowsky
Joker
The Matrix
Good choices, Vic.
Best film ever made is 'La Strada' by Fellini. 'ivan's Childhood' by Tarkovski is pretty good but like all his films it needs to be seen on a large screen. No silent films? Pictorial illiteracy.
Half of my top ten are Gilliam films, so I'm self-disqualifying.
Perfect films? I would say The Maltese Falcon. You can't do any better than that, as an adaptation from a novel, or in the casting. True, Bogart doesn't look like the San Spade of the book (who was described as looking more like the author), but Bogart acts the part perfectly, as directed by John Huston. It's funny because Bogart was not as good as Phillip Marlowe in The Big Sleep, though that movie gets way more recognition in these ratings.
For that matter, The Treasure Of The Sierra Madre is a perfect film.
This seems like an impromptu list...which is _absolutely_ not the way to do it.
One eyed jacks is on youtube
Airplane is a 10 😊
Why no one ever choose Demolition Man :(
because nobody could figure out how they wiped their butts in that movie
...but what is up with Terry's right arm?
He had a ruptured artery in his brain around 2018, so maybe something to do with treatment for that?
Broke wrist rubbing own breast.
Boxer's fracture, Terry?
"So, your top 10 list, Terry..."
"This irritates me"
"...Never heard of that one, but I'll write it down"
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.
@@Doomsterlobster Yeah, everyone's got a film they hate, that is universally loved. No accounting for taste.
Couldn’t agree more. Check out Five Graves to Cairo!
The Mask? didn't make your list? really?
And that's why I ranked Billy Best Director of All Time years ago.
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.
What's the matter with the bloody cameraman? Starting to feel slightly seasick.
Doesn't he know just how good the Fisher King is? That film is my favourite film of all time.
@@freakybeaky1
The best use of Grand Central in any film. Cheers
yes people see things differently and i like that
Right there w/ you. Absolutely love it.
I was an extra for 2 nights of shooting at Grand Central Station for The Fisher King. I was there for the waltz. It was an extraordinary experience.
All film directors put 8 1/2 in their list. I'll never be a film director.
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...
This was fun. Terry's reasons for choosing the movies was better than the actual list
This was painful. Kermode forcing Gilliam to make choices was more important than the actual list.
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.
LOL - Thanks! That sounds like pure Brando to me! LOL
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.
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!
True, but watch that possessive. Plurals don't use apostrophes.
The "Blueberry Hill" scene... Oh, my god...
@@beachcomber2008 stupid speech to text. Thanks
@@chefsanders9151 I didn't know speech to text did CAPS. (I'm off!).
Bruce Willis best performance
Never been able to forget Time Bandits, amazing acting, great kids story (for the 80's and David Warner was amazing)
It's the clearest explanation for the problem of evil, as well as being entertaining.
Our ultimate family film and so demand magical on 3v3ry level
@@SuperLibbyB very nice
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 would have loved to see them discuss The Seven Samurai in depth. Instead they showed an image of The Seventh Seal and moved on.
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.
“I really hate it when people ask me to do a top ten list.”
“That’s understandable, so anyway what would be in your top ten list?”
"Nobody's me Terry" -Mark Kermode
Good, that's good.
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?
Picnic at Hanging Rock is terrific, I’m so glad I stumbled on it. Great list!
@@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.
Except you left ou Andrei Rublev. 😂
@@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.
This is fun to watch but apparent that over half of them would be something completely different depending on the interviewer...✌🏻
Or the day.
"Tell me your top 10 films FAST FAST FAST!"
"Well, I..."
"Here's MY list..."
Man, Gilliam is so comfy to listen to, while Kermode has such a stressful energy. Fascinating interview nonetheless.
Was a cat filming this?
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!
I thought this dude was British for years. SHOCKING I will never look at Monty Python the same way 😜
British? LOL.
he might as well be. being a member of monty python makes you honorary british i think
@@iconoclast137 he has a British citizenship now. He renounced his US citizen ship following the war in Iraq.
@@iododendron3416 i know how he feels