DES MOINES, Iowa —

One of my favorite filmmakers is Terry Gilliam. My fascination with his work began when my parents took me to see Time Bandits , a film that by modern thinking shouldn’t have been a successful family film but somehow was at the time. Of course, I didn’t know who made it from Adam, but when I heard a new film from the director of Time Bandits was coming out, called Brazil , I knew I had to see it.

I had to wait until its pay-cable premiere, and I was much too young to really “get” most of it, but the visuals were entrancing, and I thought the bit where De Niro fills the guys’ suits with poop was hilarious. As I further learned more about him—his being an American, a member of Monty Python , etc.—his career fascinated me, especially the fact that I absolutely lov

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