The Adventures of Baron Munchausen

By Steve Biodrowski • February 26, 2009

Terry Gilliam’s elaborate 1988 fantasy-adventure double bills with THE LADY EVE (1941) for a two-night run at the New Beverly Cinema. This imaginative epic was barely released by Columbia Pictures, and it more or less sank Gilliam’s career as an independent auteur: his subsequent films tend to be director-for-hire jobs on other people’s scripts, not projects he originated. But we shouldn’t hold that against MUNCHAUSEN which is loaded with all the familiar Gilliam touches that made his work so memorable: flights of fancy, the conflict between truth and illusions, the joys of childhood wonder battling against the cynicism of adulthood.

Friday & Saturday, February 27 & 28
New Beverly Cinema – 7165 Beverly Blvd – Los Angeles, CA 90036 – (323) 938-4038 www.newbevcinema.com

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Steve Biodrowski

Steve Biodrowski owns and operates Hollywood Gothique. Since graduating from the University of Southern California's School of Cinema, Steve has worked as a film critic, script analyst, journalist, and interviewer. As a film journalist, his work has appeared in Movieline, Premiere, Le Cinephage (in France) and The Dark Side (in England). He served as the West Coast Editor of Cinefantastique magazine in the 1990s, then worked as the Vice President of Editorial Content at Fandom.com and, more recently, as the Executive Editor at Cinescape Online. He is currently the Managing Editor of Cinefantastique Online, the website incarnation of Cinefantastique magazine.

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