Tideland.

"Tideland, with its gleeful nastiness, recovers a little of the spirit of the earlier TV genius," writes Peter Bradshaw, who has not been a fan of the post-Python work: "For the first time in ages, Terry Gilliam has shown he can deliver the snakebite."

Also in the Guardian: Stuart Jeffries talks with Gilliam, and from the same page you can download Gilliam's chat with Mitch Cullin, author of the novel on which the film is based. Philip French profiles Jeff Bridges.

After calling the critical faculties of the BBC's David Mattin into question, Brendon Connelly takes Nina Caplan to task for her review for This is London. Connelly reports that Gilliam's next film will be The Owl in Daylight, "blending a biopic of Philip K Dick with an adaptation of his last, unfinished work." As it happens, Philip Purser-Hallard has a piece in the Guardian on the writer's later visions.

More talk with Gilliam from Wendy Ide in the London Times (plus a brief review) and SF Said in the Telegraph, where Tim Robey writes, "Gilliam's ghoulish provocations and long passages of inertia can make the whole thing feel like an overextended asylum visit: however unique and strange the surroundings, eventually you just want to leave."

Update, 8/16: Mark Sinker in Sight & Sound.

Posted by dwhudson at August 12, 2006 12:09 PM