Terry Gilliam Retrospective at Era New Horizons Film Festival

Era New Horizons Film Festival in Wroclaw, Poland will be featuring retrospectives this year of Terry Gilliam, Bruno Dumont, Anja Breien, Jack Smith, Andrzej Munk and Mariusz Wilczyński. The festival runs July 21-31, with most screenings beginning today. Era New Horizons Film Festival will also be premiering a new book titled "Wunderkamera. Terry Gilliam's Cinema," edited by Kubą Mikurdą. Festival passes sold out July 1st but single tickets are still available. With almost all of the Gilliam screenings taking place at the Helios Cinema, here's the film schedule along with book details….....

WUNDERKAMERA. KINO TERRY'EGO GILLIAMA (Wunderkamera. Terry Gilliam's Cinema)

Wunderkamera is a collection of texts by young Polish film critics and designed by artist and art theorist Jakub Woynarowskiego. Apart from articles on Gilliam's work in various contexts (musical, neo-Baroque aesthetics, the tradition of surrealist animation, genre cinema, the politics of fantasy and mythology in contemporary America), the book contains six lengthy discussions on specific films and interviews with Terry Gilliam in which the director answers questions from the authors. No word yet on whether or not there will eventually be an English language translation of the book.

Interview (in Polish) with Kubą Mikurdą, editor of the book Wunderkamera.


WUNDERKAMERA BOOK PRESENTATION 

24 Jul 16.00, Teatr Lalek
Mikurdą and Woynarowski will offer a lecture: Gilliam's Atlas or the compendium of all the rare things

"An explorer of Terry Gilliam's world should be a geographer rather than a historian. An attempt to comment on Gillian's films only by means of words seems to be paradoxical. Both the temperament of the director (who is the architect of worlds rather than a storyteller) and the excessive sensuality of his creations do not meet the requirements of textual linear narration. An in-depth analysis of the director's universe allows us to see a "meaningful" web woven from the threads of tensions, analogies, visual quotations and erudite references organized around central points of this symbolic topography, hidden behind the surface of the plot. Moreover, in most of Gilliam's worlds there is a metaphorical "book of film," manifesting itself as maps, notepads, boards (filled with notes and newspaper clippings), chests containing collections of significant items, altars (made of personal memorabilia), and paranoid plans recreating links between people, items and places."

TERRY GILLIAM FILM SCHEDULE

BRAZIL
23 Jul 09:45 
25 Jul 18:45 
27 Jul 15:45

FEAR AND LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS
22 Jul 09:45        
30 Jul 19:30
31 Jul 16:15

JABBERWOCKY
22 Jul 15:45
24 Jul 09:45
27 Jul 12:45

MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL
22 Jul 10:15
29 Jul 19:15
31 Jul 13:15

MONTY PYTHON'S FLYING CIRCUS - TERRY GILLIAM'S PERSONAL BEST
Shown With: STORYTIME and THE WHOLLY FAMILY
22 Jul 13:15
25 Jul 22:15
30 Jul 22:15

THE ADVENTURES OF BARON MUNCHAUSEN
25 Jul 12:45
27 Jul 09:45
30 Jul 22:00

THE BROTHERS GRIMM
24 Jul 18:45
30 Jul 10:15
31 Jul 19:15

THE CRIMSON PERMANENT ASSURANCE
22 Jul 22:15
29 Jul 10:15
31 Jul 16:15

THE FISHER KING
24 Jul 15:45
26 Jul 12:45
31 Jul 09:45

THE IMAGINARIUM OF DOCTOR PARNASSUS
22 Jul 12:45
26 Jul 18:45
29 Jul 09:45

THE WHOLLY FAMILY
Shown With: STORYTIME, MPFC TERRY GILLIAM'S PERSONAL BEST
22 Jul 13:15
25 Jul 22:15
30 Jul 22:15

TIDELAND
29 Jul 16:15
30 Jul 13:15
31 Jul 10:15

TIME BANDITS
22 Jul 22:15
29 Jul 10:15
31 Jul 16:15

TWELVE MONKEYS
25 Jul 09:45
28 Jul 12:45