Time Bandits': The Ever-Lasting Importance of Terry Gilliam's Best Fairy Tale • Cinephilia & Beyond
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By Sven Mikulec One of the most imaginative children’s movies we’ve ever seen was made in 1981 by the king of the bizarre, the grand maester of visual storytelling, the American odd man out in the Monty Python British lineup—the one and only, Terry Gilliam. With Time Bandits, the fantasy film he wrote
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Monty Python and the Holy Grail': The Peak of British Comedy • Cinephilia & Beyond
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OPEN THE GATES - Terry Gilliam's Imagination Trilogy
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My Favourite Terry Gilliam Film: Time Bandits
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Terry Gilliam Archives • Cinephilia & Beyond
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Time Bandits: Guerrilla Fantasy, Current
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Time Bandits Rotten Tomatoes
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Time Bandits Rotten Tomatoes
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Time Bandits - Sound & Vision
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Favorite Terry Gilliam film? I love 12 monkeys, Time Bandits and Fisher King : r/criterion
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Time Bandits (1981) - News - IMDb
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Time Bandits: Terry Gilliam's perfect fantasy - Arrow Films