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I caught an interview with Gilliam on the Big Think podcast, on which he was charming. He speaks very highly of Jonathan Pryce in the lead, but I'm even more interested in seeing Adam Driver.

I haven't really enjoyed Driver's work in the past, not because he's bad at his job but because he's typecast as the broody annoying guy. To hear Gilliam describe it, he seems to start that way, but then gets to exercise comic chops that I haven't seen him hit before. I'd love to think Driver has more range than I've seen so far.

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Driver had a small part in Inside Llewyn Davis but I thought he was great. Sort of a dry comedic performance. He had a sort of similar role in Logan Lucky as well. He's a good comedic actor.

I was really surprised by his comedic ability hosting Saturday Night Live.

Adam Driver in "The BlacKKKlansman" was really great, and is him in a different role than usual. He comes from a really fascinating background (military) compared to other actors which makes him incredibly unique.

He's good in Logan Lucky too. Fun film, including the best prison riot ever.

Check out Logan Lucky and BlackKklansman -- Driver definitely has more range than the Star Wars movie would have you believe.

Go check it out, I was able to see this a couple of months ago. I really enjoyed it, Gilliam has an amazing film style / world building ability.

I really feel transported to another universe/world in his films, Zero Theorem/Dr Parnasis/12 Monkeys/Time Bandits/Fisher King.

I can only imagine what it feels like to finally release this film after so many hurdles.

Love his work, his distribution lately has been rather crap, thumbs up from a random on the internet.

Don't forget Brazil: one of my all-time favorite dystopian films (the version with the uncut ending, not the "happy" one)

I seriously wish they would do a sequel to Time Bandits. That movie was a cult masterpiece.

He did. It was called _Brazil_. And the sequel to that was _The Adventures of Baron Munchausen_.

Okay, they aren't direct sequels but they make a trilogy of related movies: the fantasies of childhood, the fantasies of middle age and the fantasies of old age.

Beside, several of the original band of midgets (little people?) are sadly no longer with us.

There’s gonna be a series on Apple’s video service.

Which might or might not involve Gilliam himself in some kind of consulting form. He's not sure yet, because they've been talking, but at the moment there's no signature.

There was another good interview in NYC on US premiere day: https://youtu.be/zH982kFXMuM

I had to make sure to be in NY for it. Last time I saw him live (at IFC for The Zero Theorem), he mentioned that he can only spend 29 days per year in the United States after giving up his American citizenship. His days are counted, in a way...

Weird - this German language source [0] from around the time of his citizenship renunciation indicated the 29 day cap last for ten years - so it would've stopped 3 years ago..

[0] https://www.tagesspiegel.de/kultur/kopflos-am-potsdamer-plat...

Interesting, I didn't know about the ten years. The relevant rules seem to be here:

https://www.irs.gov/individuals/international-taxpayers/expa...

He mentioned it in 2013. So he's probably not affected anymore, but he still tends not to spend a lot of time in the US.

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