Clowns! Pasta! Babies hatched from giant eggs! It's a new Terry Gilliam movie! Pasta company Garofalo sponsored the 20-minute short The Wholly Family as part of its annual series of films about Naples, Italy. The advert became a surreal tale about a young boy in the southern Italian city. He spots several presepe, Italian nativity scenes, and is drawn to a set of carnivalesque figures nearby. After trying to steal one, his mother momentarily banishes him away in anger, and he becomes lost in a strange dream world. Sounds familiar, right? Cristiana Capotondi, Douglas Dean, Nicolas Connolly and Sergio Solli star in the story that won Best Short Film at the European Film Awards. The last feature we saw from the director was 2009's The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus. The...
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- 1/8/2013
- by Alison Nastasi
- Movies.com
The last we heard about Terry Gilliam's 20-minute short film "The Wholly Family" was well over a year ago, when it took home Best Short Film at the European Film Awards. Not bad at all for a movie that got its start as a project sponsored by the pasta company Garofalo as part of an annual series of films about Naples. Well, Gilliam took that basic premise, ran with it, and now you can finally watch it. After doing a brief festival circuit run (mostly in Europe), and being available to stream (again, mostly in Europe) those of us stateside can finally sit down with the movie, as it has wormed its way online. Penned by Gilliam, the film stars Cristiana Capotondi, Douglas Dean, Nicolas Connolly and Sergio Solli in a typically fantastical story where a visit to a market winds up leading a kid into the kind of...
- 1/5/2013
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
Terry Gilliam appears at a live Q&A, hosted by Peter Bradshaw, after presenting his new film at the Guardian offices
Terry Gilliam will be at the Guardian's offices from 7pm tonight for the online premiere of his new short, The Wholly Family.
Sponsored by the Italian pasta manufacturer Garofalo, Gilliam's film sees a young boy dream of a nightmare-ish dinner after he's sent to bed without any supper by his tetchy parents. We have a stream of the film here, which we'll be hosting exclusively for two weeks – and you can stream it up to five times for a fortnight, from noon today.
Our own Peter Bradshaw will be interviewing Gilliam tonight, but we'll also be a holding a readers' Q&A, so we'll need your questions too. Post your queries below and we'll get the best of them answered at the event, which we'll be live-blogging here from 6.45pm.
Terry Gilliam will be at the Guardian's offices from 7pm tonight for the online premiere of his new short, The Wholly Family.
Sponsored by the Italian pasta manufacturer Garofalo, Gilliam's film sees a young boy dream of a nightmare-ish dinner after he's sent to bed without any supper by his tetchy parents. We have a stream of the film here, which we'll be hosting exclusively for two weeks – and you can stream it up to five times for a fortnight, from noon today.
Our own Peter Bradshaw will be interviewing Gilliam tonight, but we'll also be a holding a readers' Q&A, so we'll need your questions too. Post your queries below and we'll get the best of them answered at the event, which we'll be live-blogging here from 6.45pm.
- 1/24/2012
- by Henry Barnes, Catherine Shoard
- The Guardian - Film News
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