Heath Ledger

By jtatham There’s a curate’s egg quality to The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus. Admittedly, with that mouthful of a title, the end result was unlikely to be without flaws. But, as ever with Terry Gilliam, all the broken pieces are somehow precious. After all, nobody else on Earth would make a movie like this. A clattering, dazzling, Heath Robinson contraption, filled with idiosyncrasies and gormless, half-noble ideas; it’s not a monument to Heath Ledger, but rather, the sort of movie that Heath’s success allowed him to risk. Don’t go in expecting it all to make sense. It’s a story of failure. Some are bound to get lost. Terry Gilliam has a reverence for failure. In his movie The Fisher King, Jeff Bridges talks (ruefull   [read the full post]