Sep 12th
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen*
GB/WG 1988. Columbia/Prominent Features/Laura Film. 126m.
Together with his motley band, an 18th century German aristocrat saves a Greek island from the Turks with tall tales of fantasy.
This director at his most indulgent: an elaborately filmed but badly structured fantasy comedy, with some suitably over-the-top cameos but very poor comic timing, as though Gilliam is having too much fun with his visuals to bother about that sort of thing. The end result is enjoyable and imaginative, but also rather hollow.

Written by: Charles McKeown, Terry Gilliam.
Producer: Thomas Schüly.
Director: Terry Gilliam.
Starring: John Neville, Sarah Polley, Eric Idle, Winston Dennis, Jack Purvis, Charles McKeown, Robin Williams (uncredited), Valentina Cortese, Oliver Reed (as Vulcan), Uma Thurman (as Venus), Bill Paterson, Alison Stedman, Jonathan Pryce, Peter Jeffrey, Sting.
Photography: Giuseppe Rotunno.
Music: Michael Kamen.
Production Design: Dante Ferretti.