November 2012
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“When I went to film school we had to do three short films,” stated the filmmaker who sought to obtain his masters in directing at the American Film Institute, “so I started reading the short stories of my favourite authors. The first film I did at AFI was called Fortune Cookie.” The tale, written by Hulbert Selby, Jr., is “about a salesman who gets addicted to fortunes, and can’t make a sale...
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In addition to being Thanksgiving, today is Terry Gilliam’s birthday, which is plenty in of itself to be thankful for. Here’s a short compilation of three groundbreakingly weird cartoons by Gilliam that were broadcast on British TV shows The Marty Feldman Comedy Machine and Do Not Adjust Your Set between 1968 and 1971. “Don the Cockroach,” “The Albert Einstein Story” and “The Christmas Card.”
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