Terry Gilliam @ NFT

From Jabberwocky to Time Bandits, Brazil to 12 Monkeys, The Fisher King to Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Terry Gilliam has made some of cinema's most fantastically imaginative, intellectually stimulating and visually distinctive films. He spent some of his early career in New York as a writer and illustrator working with comic book legend Harvey Kurtzman on his magazine Help! before moving to the UK in the mid-60s. Gilliam had met John Cleese during his time at Help! and through him ventured into television, a move that led to his involvement in Monty Python's Flying Circus for which he created the programme's iconic animation sequences. It was through Python that Gilliam gained movie experience. In 1975 he co-directed Monty Python and the Holy Grail with Terry Jones and in 1977 made his first outing as director on a non-Python project, the medieval fantasy Jabberwocky. Famously uncompromising in his approach to film-making he has often had to struggle to realise his vision, an aspect of his career aptly illustrated in the documentary, Lost in La Mancha, which followed the ill-fated production of his long-cherished project The Man Who Killed Don Quixote. His latest film The Brothers Grimm, included in the Festival, is a dark and magical imagining, focussing on the adventures of the fairytale scribes. It's with great pleasure we welcome him to the National Film Theatre to discuss his fascinating career, on 1st November 2005 @ 18:30, National Film Theatre, NFT1.