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Gilliam, Terry

Summary: A memoir from the screenwriter, animator, visionary film director, and founding member of Monty Python describes his life through recollections, anecdotes, and never-before-seen photographs and artwork.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperDesign 0000

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GILLIAM, TERRY GIL

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Summary: Toby is a disillusioned director, currently heading commericals, who becomes pulled into a world of fantasy and memory when he's reunited with a Spanish cobbler he cast as Don Quixote in a student film years earlier. The old man now believes himself to be the legendary character, and Toby to be Sancho Panza, who must play along with the delusion as he also attempts to fulfill his professional...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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3 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE MAN

Summary: Taped Hollywood Bowl performance including the Luberjack song; Philosophers song; Colin "Bomber" Harris, the man who wrestles himself; Never be rude to an Arab; Crunchy frog; silly walks; nudge nudge; sit on my face and other comedy sketches. Live at Aspen: 1988 U.S. Comedy Arts Festival Tribute to Monty Python.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: A&E 2001

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV Monty

Summary: A boy named Kevin escapes his gadget-obsessed parents to join a band of time-traveling dwarves. Armed with a map stolen from the Supreme Being, they plunder treasure from Napoleon and Agamemnon; but Evil is watching their every move. A giddy fairy tale, a revisionist history lesson, and a satire on technology gone awry.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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2 available in Fantasy DVDs, Call number: DVD FANTASY TIM

Plympton, Bill.

Summary: Presents the life of the independent cartoonist and animator, including his childhood influences, experiences as an Oscar nominee, and reaction to an offer to work for Disney.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Universe Pub. 2011

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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 791.43 PLYMPTON, BILL PLY

Summary: A young peasant, with no interest in adventure or fortune, is mistaken as the kingdom's only hope when a horrible monster threatens the countryside.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

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Summary: The Pythons satirize religion, capital punishment, revolutionary politics, terrorism, graffiti, science fiction, and a host of other topics through the story of Brian, a first-century Judean.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 1999

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Summary: The amazing journeys of Baron von Munchausen, who sets sail in a hot air balloon in search of his old comrades-at-arms with the object of saving a European city from the superior forces of a Turkish sultan.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 1998

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1 available in Fantasy DVDs, Call number: DVD FANTASY ADV

Summary: 19th-century "folklore collectors" Wilhelm and Jacob Grimm are con artists. They perform exorcisms of "evil enchantments" (for a healthy fee) while wandering about in French-occupied Germany during the Napoleonic wars. Wilhelm is a swashbuckling cad with an answer for everything, while Jacob is a dreamer who looks at life through fairytale-tinted spectacles. When French Gen. Delatombe gets wise...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Dimension Home Video 2005

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2 available in Fantasy DVDs, Call number: DVD FANTASY BRO

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Summary: A boy named Kevin escapes his gadget-obsessed parents to join a band of time-traveling dwarves. Armed with a map stolen from the Supreme Being, they plunder treasure from Napoleon and Agamemnon; but Evil is watching their every move. A giddy fairy tale, a revisionist history lesson, and a satire on technology gone awry.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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Summary: The immortal Dr. Parnassus and his daughter Valentina travel the countryside with his imaginarium show, a mirror that audience members enter and are given two different paths to follow. If they choose correctly they will find joy and happiness, but choose wrongly and things will be quite the opposite. The doctor must also discover the right course to follow. After making a deal with Mr. Nick...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2010

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1 available in Fantasy DVDs, Call number: DVD FANTASY IMA

Summary: A deejay who finds himself penniless is plucked from disaster by a homeless history professor, who lives in a fantasy world full of castles, Red Knights and damsels in distress. Together they begin a modern quest for redemption and the Holy Grail.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Video 1998

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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY FIS

Summary: Includes episodes 1-13 from season 1, 14-26 from season 2, 27-39 from season 3, 40-45 from season 4 of the British television series broadcast from 1969-1974.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: A & E 2000

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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV COM

Summary: "Experience fifteen years in the life of seminal British artist Ralph Steadman, whose surreal, often confrontational artwork is frequently associated with Gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson"--Container.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2014

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY DOC FOR

Summary: The boundless imagination of Terry Gilliam yields a dazzling fantasy of epic proportions. Inspired by the extravagant exploits of the fabled Baron Munchausen, this spectacle born of a famously turbulent production follows the whimsical eighteenth-century nobleman as he embarks on an outlandish quest that takes him from faraway lands to the moon to the belly of a sea monster and beyond,...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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1 available in Fantasy DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FANTASY ADV

Summary: Parry is a homeless history professor who lives in a fantasy world full of castles, Red Knights, and damsels in distress. Jack is New York's number one shock deejay, until the day his off-hand arrogance triggers a tragedy that ruins his career. Penniless and without prospects, Jack finds himself plucked from disaster by the most improbable of saviors, Parry.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY COMEDY FIS

Summary: A daydreaming bureaucrat becomes involved with an underground superhero and a beautiful mysterious woman and becomes the tragic victim of his own romantic illusions.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion 1999

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1 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD SCI-FI BRA

Summary: Fueled by a suitcase full of pharmaceuticals, journalist Raoul Duke and his sidekick Dr. Gonzo set off on a fast and furious ride through nonstop neon, surreal surroundings and a crew of crazy characters.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2003

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2 available in Avant-Garde DVDs, Call number: DVD AVANT-GARDE FEA

Summary: A journey to the beginning of time (1955) : Youngest of four boys one day finds a fossil of trilobite. So his older friend take him on journey through prehistory, up to beginning of time, to see real live trilobites.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN THR

Python, Monty.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 1976

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1 available in LP Phonograph Record, Call number: VINYL COMEDY/SPOKEN MON

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Summary: Awakenings: The story of the consequences of a maverick doctor's medical miracle.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2008

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Summary: The quest for the Holy Grail by King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table is retold in the inimitable Python fashion.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2001

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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY MON

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE MON

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Monty

Summary: In this spoof of the legend of King Arthur, the king recruits the Knights of the Round Table. He is soon joined by Sir Bedevere the Wise, Sir Lancelot the Brave, Sir Galahad the Chaste and the Pure, Sir Robin the Not-Quite-So-Brave-As-Sir-Lancelot, and Sir Not-Appearing-In-This-Film. God sends them on a quest to find the Holy Grail. Along the way they encounter a plague-ridden community, the...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

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Contents: Parrot sketch not included: 20 years of Python -- Monty Python's German Episode #1 (Fleiggender Zirkus #1).

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: A&E 2001

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV Monty

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