Mar 31st
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus**
GB/Canada 2009. Infinity Features/Poo Poo Pictures/Davis Films. 123m.

In present day London an elderly travelling entertainer is actually a centuries old philosopher engaged in a constant battle of wits with the devil, and is helped in his quest by a mysterious young charity worker who shepherds them along.
The last film of Heath Ledger, whose death halfway through filming is replaced by three other Hollywood heartthrobs also playing his character in the Imaginarium sequences; the effect is surreal and suitably Gilliamesque, and imaginatively livens up what is a slightly sluggish, sentimental and not entirely convincing drama fantasy, spending a little too long in grimy London for its own good.

Written by: Terry Gilliam, Charles McKeown.
Producers: Terry Gilliam, Samuel Hadida, Amy Gilliam, William Vince.
Director: Terry Gilliam.
Starring: Christopher Plummer, Heath Ledger (and Johnny Depp, Jude Law, Colin Farrell), Lily Cole, Verne Troyer, Andrew Garfield, Tom Waits.
Photography: Nicola Pecorini.
Music: Jeff Danna, Mychael Danna.
Production Design: Anatsasia Masaro.
Editing: Mick Audsley.