Comments on: The magical Munchausen

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By: ArtD0dger

ArtD0dger — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 04:33:48 +0000

There’s this great scene in the movie where Eric Idle outruns a musket ball. I have this very distinct memory of seeing that scene in an ad or trailer on the television in the kitchen of my grandparents’ lake cottage. However, that cannot be since they sold the cottage in 1979, and the movie did not come out until 1988. Thus, Baron Munchausen figures prominently in one of my only known false memories. I don’t know how this spurious association occurred, perhaps it was some sort of “Munchausen by proximity” inside my mind.

What a great movie. It’s a shame it didn’t do better.

By: Ron

Ron — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 19:44:35 +0000

Peter Greenaway's Prospero's Books has a similar effect on me, though it's not as good as Munchausen. Some of the individual scenes are incredibly beautiful.

By: Jamie Irons

Jamie Irons — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 15:31:07 +0000

Neo,

As you know, “Mé¼nchausen” has a medical context, as well, in “Mé¼nchausen syndrome,” one of the factitious disorders in psychiatric nosology

This rather arcane and not especially common problem has appeared twice already in my hospital consultation work this year.

Jamie Irons

By: Whig

Whig — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 13:24:44 +0000

I like when Jonathan Pryce’s French-Revolutionary commissioner character is introduced (right before he orders Sting executed for showing bravery) as the `Right Ordinary So-and-So…’

By: Fausta

Fausta — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 12:50:56 +0000

I saw it in a theater, too, and loved it. Very entertaining, and wild.

By: kamper

kamper — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 04:38:38 +0000

Munchausen is a definite favorite. The scenes inside the whale, the hot air balloon made of undergarments, so many great scenes.

Fisher King is another great one, and one of the few movies where Robin Williams is tolerable.

If you are interested in Gilliam, Lost in La Mancha is an interesting documentary about his failed attempt to make Don Quixote.

If you look at Gilliam’s IMDB page, he had a hand in an awful lot of great movies: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000416/

Though I’d stay away from The Brothers Grimm. God, that was awful. I would note he didn’t write it.

By: John Douglas

John Douglas — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 03:55:05 +0000

I love a lot of what Terry Gilliam has done. I’m not as big on the Baron. I love “Brazil” and “12 Monkey’s” much more. “Brazil” is one of my all time favorites. If you like Gilliam, then you should see the movies of Jean-Pierre Jeunet such as “Delicatessen”, “City of Lost Children”, “Amelie” and another of my all time favorites “A Very Long Engagement”.

By: Sean Sorrentino

Sean Sorrentino — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 03:01:45 +0000

It was clear a long time ago that you had some smarts, but you have finally confirmed that you are vastly intelligent and possessed of exquisite taste.

By: Gray

Gray — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 01:17:52 +0000

It’s Terry Gilliam’s “The Adventures of Baron Munchausen,” a box office and financial disaster when it first came out.

Love that movie; and Time Bandits. I knew there was a reason we get along.

I have a Terry Gilliam spot that can only be satisfied by….

Terry Gilliam.