"got fired, and all these deals were oral deals. ... Columbia's new CEO, Dawn Steel, said 'Whatever David Puttnam ""[has]"" said before doesn't interest me'"". Regarding the new regime's apparent animosity towards all of Puttnam's projects and ""Munchausen"", Gilliam added in the same documentary, ""I was trying very hard to convince Dawn Steel that this was not a David Puttnam movie, it was a Terry Gilliam movie."" Similarly Kent Houston, head of Peerless Camera doing the film's special effects said in ""Madness and Misadventures"" that they were promised a bonus if they would finish the effects in time, but when"
"The Fabulous Baron Munchausen The Fabulous Baron Munchausen () is a 1961 Czechoslovak romantic adventure film directed by Karel Zeman, based on the tales about Baron Munchausen. The film combines live-action with various forms of animation and is highly stylized, often evoking the engravings of Gustave Doré. A digital restoration of the film premiered on 5 September 2016 at the Telluride Film Festival in the United States. The film begins with footsteps leading to a pond. The camera continually moves upwards to show the flight of butterflies, birds, and a progression of historical aircraft ending with a rocket ship travelling"
"Baron Munchausen's Narrative of his Marvellous Travels and Campaigns in Russia Baron Munchausen's Narrative of his Marvellous Travels and Campaigns in Russia is a 1785 novel about a fictional German nobleman written by the German writer Rudolf Erich Raspe. The lead character Baron Munchausen is loosely based on a real baron, Hieronymus Karl Friedrich, Freiherr von Münchhausen (1720–1797, ), the fictionalized character was created by Rudolf Erich Raspe. The novel was the basis of the 1988 film ""The Adventures of Baron Munchausen"". An eighteenth-century German nobleman, Baron Munchausen, experiences a series of amazing adventures. They bring him to the Turkish"
"the filmmaker Josef von Báky to direct ""Münchhausen"", a big-budget color film about the Baron. David Stewart Hull describes Hans Albers's Baron as ""jovial but somewhat sinister"", while Tobias Nagle writes that Albers imparts ""a male and muscular zest for action and testosterone-driven adventure"". A German musical comedy, ""Münchhausen in Afrika"", made as a vehicle for the Austrian singing star Peter Alexander, appeared in 1957. Karel Zeman's 1961 Czech film ""The Fabulous Baron Munchausen"" commented on the Baron's adventures from a contemporary perspective, highlighting the importance of the poetic imagination to scientific achievement; Zeman's stylized ""mise-en-scène"", based on Doré's illustrations"
"The Secret of the Selenites The Secret of the Selenites () is a 1984 French animated comedy film directed by Jean Image. It is also known as Moon Madness in the United States and Moontrek in the United Kingdom. The film is loosely based on the novel ""Baron Munchausen's Narrative of his Marvellous Travels and Campaigns in Russia"" (1785) by Rudolf Erich Raspe. Baron Munchausen, the titular protagonist, is a fictional German nobleman. Raspe based the character on a real-life Freiherr (Baron), Hieronymus Karl Friedrich, Freiherr von Münchhausen (1720–1797). The fictional Baron of the novel is a retired soldier and"
"John Neville (actor) John Reginald Neville, CM, OBE (2 May 1925 – 19 November 2011) was an English theatre and film actor, who moved to Canada in 1972. He enjoyed a resurgence of international attention in the 1980s as a result of his starring role in Terry Gilliam's ""The Adventures of Baron Munchausen"" (1988). Neville was born in Willesden, London, the son of Mabel Lillian (née Fry) and Reginald Daniel Neville, a lorry driver. He was educated at Willesden and Chiswick County Schools for Boys, and after service in the Royal Navy during the Second World War, trained as an"
"by his wife Caroline (née Hopper), and their six children. His grandson is actor Joe Dinicol. John Neville (actor) John Reginald Neville, CM, OBE (2 May 1925 – 19 November 2011) was an English theatre and film actor, who moved to Canada in 1972. He enjoyed a resurgence of international attention in the 1980s as a result of his starring role in Terry Gilliam's ""The Adventures of Baron Munchausen"" (1988). Neville was born in Willesden, London, the son of Mabel Lillian (née Fry) and Reginald Daniel Neville, a lorry driver. He was educated at Willesden and Chiswick County Schools for"
"royal court, where he meets the Sultan, and even to the Moon. Baron Munchausen's Narrative of his Marvellous Travels and Campaigns in Russia Baron Munchausen's Narrative of his Marvellous Travels and Campaigns in Russia is a 1785 novel about a fictional German nobleman written by the German writer Rudolf Erich Raspe. The lead character Baron Munchausen is loosely based on a real baron, Hieronymus Karl Friedrich, Freiherr von Münchhausen (1720–1797, ), the fictionalized character was created by Rudolf Erich Raspe. The novel was the basis of the 1988 film ""The Adventures of Baron Munchausen"". An eighteenth-century German nobleman, Baron Munchausen,"
"to their talismans. Surrounded by skyscrapers and flying vehicles, the Baron and Sirius reminisce about their adventures. The Secret of the Selenites The Secret of the Selenites () is a 1984 French animated comedy film directed by Jean Image. It is also known as Moon Madness in the United States and Moontrek in the United Kingdom. The film is loosely based on the novel ""Baron Munchausen's Narrative of his Marvellous Travels and Campaigns in Russia"" (1785) by Rudolf Erich Raspe. Baron Munchausen, the titular protagonist, is a fictional German nobleman. Raspe based the character on a real-life Freiherr (Baron), Hieronymus"
"for the book, combined animation with live-action actors, including Miloš Kopecký as the Baron. In the Soviet Union in 1929 by Daniil Cherkes was released cartoon ""Adventures of Munchausen"". In the Soviet Union, Soyuzmultfilm released a 16-minute stop-motion animation ""Adventures of Baron Munchausen"" in 1967, directed by Anatoly Karanovich. Another Soviet animated version was produced as a series of short films, ""Munchausen's Adventures"", in 1973 and 1974. The French animator Jean Image filmed ""The Fabulous Adventures of the Legendary Baron Munchausen"" in 1979, and followed it with a 1984 sequel, ""Moon Madness"". Oleg Yankovsky appeared as the Baron in the"
"Hanussen (1988 film) Hanussen is a 1988 Hungarian film about Erik Jan Hanussen by István Szabó. It was nominated for the 1988 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. The German language film starred Klaus Maria Brandauer. The film was entered into the 1988 Cannes Film Festival. Austrian Klaus Schneider, who later comes to be known as Erik Jan Hanussen is wounded during World War I. While recovering in the care of Dr. Emil Bettelheim (Erland Josephson), the Doctor discovers that Schneider possesses empathic powers. After the war, with one friend as his manager and another as his lover, Schneider"
"Baron Munchausen's Dream Baron Munchausen's Dream (), also known as Les Aventures de baron de Munchhausen and Monsieur le Baron a trop bien dîné, is a 1911 French short silent film directed by Georges Méliès. After an evening of entertaining guests, an intoxicated Baron Munchausen goes to sleep only to experience a variety of disturbing and otherworldly dreams. Méliès greatly admired the Baron Munchausen stories created by Rudolf Erich Raspe, and may have used them as inspiration for his celebrated film ""A Trip to the Moon"". However, ""Baron Munchausen's Dream"" has little in common with the Baron character or his"
"Peter King 1991: ""Cyrano de Bergerac"" – Jean-Pierre Eychenne and Michèle Burke 1990: ""Dick Tracy"" – John Caglione Jr. and Doug Drexler 1989: ""The Adventures of Baron Munchausen"" – Maggie Weston, Fabrizio Sforza, and Pam Meager 1988: ""The Last Emperor"" – Fabrizio Sforza 1987: ""The Name of the Rose"" – Hasso von Hugo 1986: ""Ran"" – Tameyuki Aimi, Chihako Naito, and Noriko Takamizawa 1985: ""Amadeus"" – Paul LeBlanc and Dick Smith 1984 """" – Paul Engelen, Peter Frampton, Rick Baker, and Joan Hills 1983: ""Tootsie"" – Dorothy J. Pearl, George Masters, C. Romania Ford, and Allen Weisinger 1982: ""Quest for"
"- Gerry Hambling ""' ""Dead Poets Society"" - Maurice Jarre ""The Adventures of Baron Munchausen"" - Dante Ferretti ""The Adventures of Baron Munchausen"" - Maggie Weston, Fabrizio Sforza ""Mississippi Burning"" ""Back to the Future Part II"" ""The Adventures of Baron Munchausen"" - Gabriella Pescucci Alec Guinness 43rd British Academy Film Awards The 43rd British Film Awards, given by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts in 1990, honoured the best films of 1989. Peter Weir's Dead Poets Society won the award for Best Film. ""Dead Poets Society"" Daniel Day-Lewis in ""My Left Foot"" Pauline Collins in ""Shirley Valentine"" Ray"
"various films including ""Baron Munchausen's Dream"" (1911, Georges Méliès), ""The Adventures of Baron Munchausen"" (1943, Josef von Báky with script by Erich Kästner), ""The Fabulous Baron Munchausen"" (1961, Karel Zeman), and ""The Very Same Munchhausen"" (1979) directed by Mark Zakharov, who depicted Munchausen as a tragic character, struggling against the conformity and hypocrisy of the world around him. The film was over budget; what was originally $23.5 million, grew to a reported $46.63 million. Gilliam, acknowledging he had gone over budget, said its final costs had been nowhere near $40 million. In ""The Madness and Misadventures of Munchausen"" (included on"
"Sinéad Cusack as Lady Macbeth. Also in 1986 he starred in the film ""Jumpin' Jack Flash"". Pryce worked once again with Gilliam in ""The Adventures of Baron Munchausen"" (1988), playing ""The Right Ordinary Horatio Jackson"". The film was a notorious financial fiasco, with production costing more than $40 million, when the original budget was $23.5 million. The following year Pryce appeared in three of the earliest episodes of the improvisation show ""Whose Line Is It Anyway?"", alongside Paul Merton and John Sessions, and in ""Uncle Vanya"", again a play by Chekhov, at the Vaudeville Theatre. After a series of major"
"and the Baron"", in 2018. Sadler's Wells Theatre produced the pantomime ""Baron Munchausen; or, Harlequin's Travels"" in London in 1795, starring the actor-singer-caricaturist Robert Dighton as the Baron; another pantomime based on the Raspe text, ""Harlequin Munchausen, or the Fountain of Love"", was produced in London in 1818. Herbert Eulenberg made the Baron the main character of a 1900 play, ""Münchhausen"", and the Expressionist writer Walter Hasenclever turned the stories into a comedy, ""Münchhausen"", in 1934. Grigori Gorin used the Baron as the hero of his 1976 play ""That Very Munchausen""; a film version was made in 1980. ""Baron Prášil"","
"Baron Munchausen Baron Munchausen (; ) is a fictional German nobleman created by the German writer Rudolf Erich Raspe in his 1785 book ""Baron Munchausen's Narrative of his Marvellous Travels and Campaigns in Russia"". The character is loosely based on a real baron, Hieronymus Karl Friedrich, Freiherr von Münchhausen (; 1720–1797). Born in Bodenwerder, Electorate of Brunswick-Lüneburg, the real-life Münchhausen fought for the Russian Empire in the Russo-Turkish War of 1735–1739. Upon retiring in 1760, he became a minor celebrity within German aristocratic circles for telling outrageous tall tales based on his military career. After hearing some of Münchhausen's stories,"
"he absconded. He finally moved to Ireland where he managed a copper mine on the Herbert Estate in Killarney. He died in Killarney, County Kerry, of typhoid, in November 1794. The Baron Munchausen tales were made famous when they were 'borrowed', translated into German, and embellished somewhat by Gottfried August Bürger in 1786—and have been among the favourite reading of subsequent generations, as well as the basis of several films, including Terry Gilliam's ""The Adventures of Baron Munchausen"" inspired by the Karel Zeman (Czech director) movie ""The Fabulous Baron Munchausen"", made twenty years before (""Baron Prášil"" 1961). Others during Raspe's"
"Münchhausen (film) Münchhausen is a 1943 fantasy comedy film directed by Josef von Báky. Science fiction author David Wingrove has commented that this work ""sidesteps immediate political issues whilst conjuring up marvellous visual images of an ageless pastoral Germany."" The film opens at an 18th-century ball, where Baron Hieronymus von Münchhausen is propositioned by a young woman who is engaged to another man. He graciously rejects her advance, and as she leaves, she asks him to turn on the light. The camera follows his hand to a modern light switch, and the young woman drives off in an automobile. The"
"continuing his acting career. On top of his artistic decisions, Neville helped eliminate the Neptune's deficit with canny promotions, such as giving free tickets to the local taxi drivers and their families, correctly anticipating the recipients to enthusiastically discuss the theatre to passengers and tourists. In 1988, Terry Gilliam cast him as the lead in ""The Adventures of Baron Munchausen"". In the film, Neville plays the character at three different stages of his life; in his 30s, his 50s and his 70s. From 1995 to 1998, Neville had a prominent recurring role in ""The X-Files"" television series as The Well"
"just a story, was it?"" The Baron grins, rides off on Bucephalus, and then disappears. Tall tales based loosely on the German adventurer Hieronymus Karl Friedrich Freiherr von Münchhausen, or Baron Munchausen, were compiled by Rudolf Erich Raspe and published for English readers in 1785 as """" (or ""Baron Munchausen's Narrative of his Marvellous Travels and Campaigns in Russia""). The tales were further embellished and translated back to German by Gottfried August Bürger in 1786. These tales were frequently extended and translated throughout the 19th century, further fictionalized in the 1901 American novel ""Mr. Munchausen"". The stories were adapted into"
"in honor of both the real and the fictional Baron. Baron Munchausen Baron Munchausen (; ) is a fictional German nobleman created by the German writer Rudolf Erich Raspe in his 1785 book ""Baron Munchausen's Narrative of his Marvellous Travels and Campaigns in Russia"". The character is loosely based on a real baron, Hieronymus Karl Friedrich, Freiherr von Münchhausen (; 1720–1797). Born in Bodenwerder, Electorate of Brunswick-Lüneburg, the real-life Münchhausen fought for the Russian Empire in the Russo-Turkish War of 1735–1739. Upon retiring in 1760, he became a minor celebrity within German aristocratic circles for telling outrageous tall tales based"
"Lightness of Being""<br> 3. Michelle Pfeiffer – ""Dangerous Liaisons"" 1. Ron Shelton – ""Bull Durham""<br> 2. David Cronenberg and Norman Snider – ""Dead Ringers""<br> 3. Shawn Slovo – ""A World Apart"" 1. Henri Alekan – ""Wings of Desire"" (""Der Himmel über Berlin"")""<br> 2. Sven Nykvist – ""The Unbearable Lightness of Being""<br> 3. Philippe Rousselot – ""Dangerous Liaisons""<br> 3. Conrad L. Hall – ""Tequila Sunrise""<br> 3. Vittorio Storaro – """" 1. The Thin Blue Line<br> 2. """"<br> 3. ""Tokyo Olympiad"" (""Tôkyô orimpikku"") 1988 National Society of Film Critics Awards The 23rd National Society of Film Critics Awards, given on 9 January"
"work. Pearl died in New York in 1982. He was an uncle to the agent and producer Bernie Brillstein. Pearl was married to Winifred Desborough. Jack Pearl Jack Pearl, born Jack Perlman (October 29, 1894 – December 25, 1982), was a vaudeville performer and a star of early radio. He was best known for his character Baron Munchausen. Born in New York, Pearl debuted as an entertainer in ""School Days"", Gus Edwards's vaudeville act. He made the transition from vaudeville to broadcasting when he introduced his character Baron Munchausen on ""The Ziegfeld Follies of the Air"" in 1932. His creation"
"United States and UK. He was in Terry Gilliam's ""The Adventures of Baron Munchausen"" (1988) (as the god Vulcan); ""The Lady and the Highwayman"" (1989) with Hugh Grant; ""The House of Usher"" (1989); ""The Return of the Musketeers"" (1990) with Lester and Fraser; ""Treasure Island"" (1990) with Charlton Heston; ""A Ghost in Monte Carlo"" (1990); ""Hired to Kill"" (1990); ""Panama Sugar"" (1990); ""The Revenger"" (1990); ""The Pit and the Pendulum"" (1991) ; ""Prisoner of Honor"" (1991) for Russell; and ""Severed Ties"" (1993). Reed was in ""Return to Lonesome Dove"" (1993); ""Funny Bones"" (1995); ""Russian Roulette - Moscow 95"" (1995); ""Luise"
"The Red Baron (2008 film) The Red Baron (also known by its original German title, Der rote Baron) is a 2008 German-British biographical action war film written and directed by Nikolai Müllerschön about the World War I fighter pilot Manfred von Richthofen, known as the ""Red Baron"". The film stars Matthias Schweighöfer, Joseph Fiennes, Til Schweiger and Lena Headey. ""The Red Baron"" was filmed entirely in English to improve its international commercial viability. In 1916, Manfred von Richthofen is serving as a fighter pilot with the Imperial German Air Service along the Western Front. After dropping a wreath over the"
"Jack Pearl Jack Pearl, born Jack Perlman (October 29, 1894 – December 25, 1982), was a vaudeville performer and a star of early radio. He was best known for his character Baron Munchausen. Born in New York, Pearl debuted as an entertainer in ""School Days"", Gus Edwards's vaudeville act. He made the transition from vaudeville to broadcasting when he introduced his character Baron Munchausen on ""The Ziegfeld Follies of the Air"" in 1932. His creation was loosely based on the Baron Munchausen literary character. As the Baron, Pearl would tell far-fetched stories with a comic German accent. When the straight"
"changes his name and goes to Berlin to perform in halls and theaters as a hypnotist and mind reader. His purported powers bring him to the attention of the Nazis which cause his fame and power – as well as his own troubles – to grow. Hanussen (1988 film) Hanussen is a 1988 Hungarian film about Erik Jan Hanussen by István Szabó. It was nominated for the 1988 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. The German language film starred Klaus Maria Brandauer. The film was entered into the 1988 Cannes Film Festival. Austrian Klaus Schneider, who later comes to"
"protagonist of the first animated cartoon series in cinema history, was created by John Randolph Bray in 1913 as an amalgamation of the Baron and Teddy Roosevelt. The Italian director Paolo Azzurri filmed ""The Adventures of Baron Munchausen"" in 1914, and the British director F. Martin Thornton made a short silent film featuring the Baron, ""The New Adventures of Baron Munchausen"", the following year. In 1940, the Czech director Martin Frič filmed ""Baron Prášil"", starring the comic actor Vlasta Burian as a 20th-century descendant of the Baron. For the German film studio Ufa's 25th anniversary in 1943, Joseph Goebbels hired"
"satire of the Soviet Stagnation-Era society. The film takes place in 1779, Germany. Baron Munchausen is perceived by others as a fabricator living in a world of fantasy. However, his stories have a strange tendency to become reality. Hunters at a camp are laughing at the story which Baron Munchausen is telling about him hunting a deer and shooting it with a cherry pit but suddenly they see a noble animal with a cherry tree in place of horns appear from the woods. The Baron says proudly that he became famous not for his exploits but for the fact that"
"tune. In an interview with Salman Rushdie, Gilliam stated: Gilliam sometimes refers to this film as the second in his ""Trilogy of Imagination"" films, starting with ""Time Bandits"" (1981) and ending with ""The Adventures of Baron Munchausen"" (1988). All are about the ""craziness of our awkwardly ordered society and the desire to escape it through whatever means possible."" All three movies focus on these struggles and attempts to escape them through imagination—""Time Bandits"", through the eyes of a child, ""Brazil"", through the eyes of a man in his thirties, and ""Munchausen"", through the eyes of an elderly man. In 2013,"
"music unrelated to film. Tom Tykwer Tom Tykwer (; born 23 May 1965) is a German film director, producer, screenwriter, and composer. He is best known internationally for directing the thriller films ""Run Lola Run"" (1998), ""Heaven"" (2002), """" (2006), and ""The International"" (2009). He collaborated with The Wachowskis as co-director for the science fiction film ""Cloud Atlas"" (2012) and the Netflix series ""Sense8"" (2015–2018). Tykwer was born in Wuppertal, West Germany. Fascinated by film from an early age, he started making amateur Super 8 films at the age of eleven. He later helped out at a local arthouse cinema"