Terry Gilliam wins fantastic lifetime award
The Fantastic Film Festival will present Terry Gilliam with its Lifetime Achievement Award next month. The festival, which runs from April 18 through April 25, takes place in Amsterdam.
Gilliam deserves the award, festival organizers said, because "he never allows his fantasy to be limited." His films include Time Bandits, Brazil, The Fisher King, The Brothers Grimm and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Gilliam, of course, was a member of the Monty Phthon troupe and had been Harvey Kurtzman’s assistant editor on Help! magazine.
Pan’s Labyrinth, from director Guillermo del Toro, opens the festival.
The first Fantastic Film Festival was in 1984, when it was known as the Weekend of Terror. The event was then described by the media as a "meeting ground for nerds with a taste for stomach-churning, violent horror." Since that time, the festival has included fantasy and science fiction films as well as horror.
Previous lifetime achievement award winners include Wes Craven and Paul Verhoeven.
Baby take my hand… Don't fear the ReaperWe'll be able to fly… Don't fear the ReaperBaby I'm your man… "(Don't Fear) The Reaper"- by Blue Oyster Cult written by Donald "Buck Dharma" RoeserThanks, Bo! This is a very fun story. One minor note, it needs more cowbell.
Thanks Russ–if that's your real name–I feel like I should know you…BTW Sherwood is back next week!
Yeah, it's my real name. But as far as I know, we don't know each other. Sorry my comment was so obtuse and cryptic. It's just that the song, "(Don't Fear) The Reaper," popped into my head while reading this story, something about Lana telling Cosmo that he would have to leave his body and then Cosmo and Lana diving toward their shadows. The cowbell was a reference to a particularly funny "Saturday Night Live" sketch that revolved around the recording of the song.I'm looking forward to the return of "Demons of Sherwood." That's a cracker-jack story, a wonderful reinterpretation of the characters, beautiful art with a clever and exciting plot.
So great to hear, Russ!! Demons is about as much fun as I can have in comicsand when it gets thru to the reader Bob and I are always psyched! Especially when they care enough to post! And UNDERWORKED is semi-auto biographical inthat comics is a glam industry in which the aging process usually works againstyou –ultimately there's a little Cosmo in all comics creators if they hang aroundlong enough. Especially those unable or in my case unwilling to re-inventmyself. Thanks again-