The actor starred in a string of successful films in the 1980s, but declined offers to move to Tinseltown as he was put off by the hectic lifestyle.

BIRTHDAY GUY: Terry Gilliam was born in Medicine Lake, Minn., on this date in 1940.

Greetings. What does an Internet Police State look like in an ersatz democracy? The UK is apparently well on its way toward providing a remarkable and depressing object lesson that could answer this very question.

There is nothing more relaxing than sitting down to an evening of action and adventure.

"A FILM from Heath Ledger and friends, " proclaim the credits to the actor's last project, but the opening 15 minutes - in which a jellyfish abducts a drunk Geordie - suggest this is very much a Terry Gilliam movie.

D ave Brubeck is one of the most popular and original artists in jazz history. Ever since he took college campuses by storm in the 1950s, Brubeck has been renowned for compositions that mix jazz with modern Euroclassical influences and deploy advanced harmonies and unique time signatures.

By the time you're done, you may feel like Mr. Creosote, stuffed to the gills and unable to eat another bite.

Reviewed by Paul Byrnes WELCOME to the imaginarium of Terry Gilliam. It's many things: a Baroque morality play with Dickensian and Gothic overtones, a little bit of Heath Robinson madness and, as you will have heard, the final performance of Heath Ledger.

Heath Ledger as Tony in The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus. Sacha Molitorisz For many filmmakers, actors are an inconvenience.

He's known as Captain Chaos and his productions are notoriously problematic. Brazil almost never saw the light of day when battles raged over final cut.

Demetrios Matheou gives his verdict on Heath Ledgera TMs last movie. It's likely that The Imaginarium Of Dr Parnassus will always be remembered as Heath Ledger's last film, which he was still making when he died in 2008.

Monty Python reconvened on a stage in New York last week to receive a Bafta award and for the premiere of the new documentary Monty Python: Almost the Truth - The Lawyer's Cut.

Beginning Sunday, Oct. 18, the Independent Film Channel presents a six-evening, six-hour documentary about Monty Python's Flying Circus - The Lawyer's Cut, timed to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the groundbreaking British TV series and comedy troupe.

Terry Gilliam's latest movie veers wildly between the magical, maladroit and plain mushy, says Philip French Heath Ledger and Lily Cole in The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus.

There's an obvious dramatic flaw in the time-frame covered by the second instalment of Michael Palin's diaries, which spans the years from 1980-88. It's a decade which begins with a series of unproductive meetings for Monty Python's Contractual Obligation Album , and concludes with Palin signing up for the first of the documentaries that would turn ...

There are moments in the new Terry Gilliam movie when his florid animations burst out of nowhere, reminding you of those giant trompe l'oeils he famously conjured for Monty Python.

Here's one reason to move to Lithuania: Eight weeks of time off. Workers in the Baltic state tied with Brazil for the most days off in the world: a whopping 41 a year, according to a report released Wednesday by global consulting firm Mercer.

Terry Gilliam has given up on ever getting an Oscar, and really, that's probably a good thing.

In Corporate America, screenshots of Brazil are great ways to make jokes about work.

Riding a trans-European subway, Roger , center, struggles with the voice inside his head in the Swedish animated feature Metropia, which will be screened at PIFF.