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Bureaucrats of the world, unite! Uberweird director Terry Gilliam's film from 1985, co-written with Tom Stoppard and Charles McKeown, is the perfect midnight movie.

The comedy troupe, who last appeared together 14 years ago, are being lined up to provide voices for Jones' new animated sci-fi film Absolutely Anything.

I spent New Year's eve in Brazil. Not the country, however. Although Brazil is a country in South America, that nation had nothing to do with my celebration, and has nothing to do with this column.

Ex-Python Terry Gilliam has made some of the most extraordinary of British movies: if not in terms of imagination and lavish expense, then because there have even been films made about the films he didn't manage to finish.