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Um, WHICH film will be Gilliam's next, again? I just got this press release in my e-mail:
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
AFTER EXTENSIVE SEARCH, TERRY GILLIAM CASTS REMARKABLE JODELLE FERLAND, NINE YEARS OLD, TO STAR IN HIS NEW FILM 'TIDELAND'.
TORONTO, September 2 -- Jeremy Thomas, Chairman of Recorded Picture Company, is pleased to announce the start of principal photography of the feature film TIDELAND, a Canada-U.K. co-production, which will be directed by acclaimed filmmaker Terry Gilliam (Brazil, Twelve Monkeys, The Fisher King). Gabriella Martinelli of Toronto-based Capri Films will act as co-producer. The film is set to begin shooting in Saskatchewan on September 27, 2004 for 10 weeks.
Based on Mitch Cullin's highly acclaimed southern gothic novel of the same name, and written by Gilliam and Tony Grisoni, Tideland marks the feature film debut of the remarkable Jodelle Ferland, who will star in the lead role of Jeliza-Rose. Already a veteran at the tender age of nine years old -- she began acting at four -- Jodelle will team up with three slightly older veterans -- including the Oscar-nominated Jennifer Tilly (Bullets Over Broadway), Janet McTeer (Tumbleweeds) and also Brendan Fletcher (Five Senses). Further cast to be announced.
Thomas says "Terry and I have been developing this project for many years and I am thrilled with the involvement of Gabriella Martinelli and Capri to realize this film in Canada".
TIDELAND is a riveting fable about an abandoned girl's life and fantasies that introduces us to the extraordinary, suspenseful and surreal world of a precocious adolescent, Jeliza Rose, escaping from the harsh reality of her childhood.
TIDELAND is produced with the participation of the Foresight Film Partnership in the UK, Telefilm Canada, Astral Media, The Canadian Television Fund and the Harold Greenberg Fund in Canada. Jeremy Thomas is the Producer; Gabriella Martinelli is Co-producer. Nicola Pecorini (Harrison's Flowers, Rules of Engagement) is the Director of Photography, Jasna Stefanovic the Production Designer. The script was developed with the assistance of the UK Film Council Development Fund.
Worldwide distribution is being handled by HanWay Films who have already completed many international sales. Capri Releasing will distribute the film in Canada.
For further information contact:
Canada: Anna Maria Muccilli
A.M. Public Relations
(416) 969-1200 x 231
annamaria@ampr.biz
Tideland Terry Gilliam
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Posted 02 September 2004 - 11:07 PM
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| The film is set to begin shooting in Saskatchewan on September 27, 2004 for 10 weeks. |
"OMYGODOMYGODOMYGOD!!!"
Terry Gilliam is filming his next in my home province?! In the next month?!
I will have to track down the publicist people and do an interview for the university paper!! Jeffrey, and all who do regular interviews, any help would be appreciated in finding out how I would get in touch with Gilliam or his publicist. Is that what the email in the press release is for? I'm so inexperienced. Maybe P.M. me instead of filling up this thread.
Seriously, this is a rare chance for an aspiring film writer in Saskatchewan, and I gotta jump on it.
This post has been edited by Anders: 02 September 2004 - 11:08 PM
#5
Posted 14 September 2004 - 10:00 PM
They lie about the cold in Saskatchewan
"It's a very dark, beautiful, poetic and dangerous film," said the 64-year-old director, who plans to start 10 weeks of shooting in Saskatchewan on Sept. 27. "They said Saskatchewan was the driest, sunniest part of Canada," deadpanned Gilliam, "But they lie in Saskatchewan. It's cold, it's miserable, but we're going to bring some sunshine." . . . If all goes according to plan, Tideland will be released by late spring of next year. The entire film will be shot in the prairie province, which Gilliam says is perfect for a film about a little girl who lives on a Texan farm but dreams of a fantasy world featuring talking dolls' heads, among other things. "It's set in a place that consists of a small bit of shore land, where only flotsam and jetsam wash up," said Gilliam. "We found Saskatchewan perfectly cold and miserable. There's this infinite horizon, and Hell Valley runs like a beautiful scar across the landscape. It's beautiful and spare and they gave us a lot of money." . . . The only star who showed up at yesterday's conference was Ferland (Bridges was apparently "wandering around town without a cellphone," at least according to Gilliam). But the small, giggly Vancouver native is most important, as she carries the majority of the film. She is, says Gilliam, the next Sarah Polley. "Jodelle is the movie," he says, wrapping his arm around Ferland, who is dressed in 100-percent pink and resembles Pepsi commercial starlet Hallie Eisenberg. "It's very difficult to find a child actress to handle something like this -- something that's dark, serious and yet comic. And we really needed a Canadian actress." Gilliam has been spending as much time as he can getting to know Ferland, which includes everything from serious conversations about acting to playing with her dolls. "It's very freeing," he said. "The little girl in me is finally coming out." When asked whether he had settled on a style or methodology for Tideland, Gilliam paused. "I don't know how to make movies," he said, "I just start. All we're trying to do with this one is do the book, so it should be pretty easy." For those familiar with Gilliam's career, this isn't completely reassuring.
National Post, September 14
"It's a very dark, beautiful, poetic and dangerous film," said the 64-year-old director, who plans to start 10 weeks of shooting in Saskatchewan on Sept. 27. "They said Saskatchewan was the driest, sunniest part of Canada," deadpanned Gilliam, "But they lie in Saskatchewan. It's cold, it's miserable, but we're going to bring some sunshine." . . . If all goes according to plan, Tideland will be released by late spring of next year. The entire film will be shot in the prairie province, which Gilliam says is perfect for a film about a little girl who lives on a Texan farm but dreams of a fantasy world featuring talking dolls' heads, among other things. "It's set in a place that consists of a small bit of shore land, where only flotsam and jetsam wash up," said Gilliam. "We found Saskatchewan perfectly cold and miserable. There's this infinite horizon, and Hell Valley runs like a beautiful scar across the landscape. It's beautiful and spare and they gave us a lot of money." . . . The only star who showed up at yesterday's conference was Ferland (Bridges was apparently "wandering around town without a cellphone," at least according to Gilliam). But the small, giggly Vancouver native is most important, as she carries the majority of the film. She is, says Gilliam, the next Sarah Polley. "Jodelle is the movie," he says, wrapping his arm around Ferland, who is dressed in 100-percent pink and resembles Pepsi commercial starlet Hallie Eisenberg. "It's very difficult to find a child actress to handle something like this -- something that's dark, serious and yet comic. And we really needed a Canadian actress." Gilliam has been spending as much time as he can getting to know Ferland, which includes everything from serious conversations about acting to playing with her dolls. "It's very freeing," he said. "The little girl in me is finally coming out." When asked whether he had settled on a style or methodology for Tideland, Gilliam paused. "I don't know how to make movies," he said, "I just start. All we're trying to do with this one is do the book, so it should be pretty easy." For those familiar with Gilliam's career, this isn't completely reassuring.
National Post, September 14
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Posted 22 November 2004 - 07:40 PM
#11
Posted 12 September 2005 - 03:05 PM
Jeffrey Wells on Tideland:
And then...
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... I saw Terry Gilliam's Tideland, which everyone I'd spoken to had warned me away from. (One guy told me it's the worst film of the festival so far; another called it "unreleasable.") This is why I wanted to see it, frankly. I like seeing films that everyone has trashed because I always seem to find something about them that I like or admire.
But not this time. Tideland feels Gilliam-esque (visually alluring and semi-pastoral at times with a Fisher King-like fetish for dust and grunge and curio clutter) but it was very tough going, for the most part. I'm talking about zero tension, funereal pacing, no engagement in the characters to the point of engendering hostility, a maddening sense of directorial indulgence, etc.
But not this time. Tideland feels Gilliam-esque (visually alluring and semi-pastoral at times with a Fisher King-like fetish for dust and grunge and curio clutter) but it was very tough going, for the most part. I'm talking about zero tension, funereal pacing, no engagement in the characters to the point of engendering hostility, a maddening sense of directorial indulgence, etc.
And then...
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I really can't do this, I told myself. I can't sit through another Terry Gilliam stylistic free-for-all masturbation movie. Others had the same notion. Two guys in front left somewhere around the 45 minute mark. Then another one left, and then another. I've seen this domino effect before. People say to themselves, "If all these guys are leaving, this gives me an excuse to leave too."
I turned to Chicago Tribune critic Mark Caro, who was sitting to my immediate left, but he was toughing it out. I said to myself, "If Caro goes, I go....and I won't feel as guilty about walking out on a Terry Gilliam movie." Another guy left. A woman left. Caro was looking around and chuckling at the exodus, but he wouldn't budge. So I decided to be a man and just do it on my own.
I turned to Chicago Tribune critic Mark Caro, who was sitting to my immediate left, but he was toughing it out. I said to myself, "If Caro goes, I go....and I won't feel as guilty about walking out on a Terry Gilliam movie." Another guy left. A woman left. Caro was looking around and chuckling at the exodus, but he wouldn't budge. So I decided to be a man and just do it on my own.
#13
Posted 13 September 2005 - 09:28 AM
Variety's Toronto film-fest review:
Made back-to-back with Terry Gilliam's boffo-selling but roundly panned studio pic "The Brothers Grimm," indie-produced "Tideland" sees the fanciful helmer overindulging his dark side with a slice of Gothic nastiness. Story about an imaginative orphan living alone under open skies is anchored by an ace perf from tyke thesp Jodelle Fletcher, and features the helmer's signature spooky production design, but is dragged down by a sputtering script and torpid pacing. Way too disturbing for kids and too weird for most grown-ups, "Tideland" is likely to wash up in boutique distribution where Gilliam's name will pull in a faithful fan base. . . .
#15
Posted 13 September 2005 - 10:19 AM
Yeah, and what's with the "boffo-selling" reference? Is the movie doing gangbusters business overseas, cuz it sure isn't a blockbuster here in North America.
Sounds like Emperor Gilliam is being seen for who he is, or who he has become, as a filmmaker.
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Way too disturbing for kids and too weird for most grown-ups, "Tideland" is likely to wash up in boutique distribution where Gilliam's name will pull in a faithful fan base. . . .
Sounds like Emperor Gilliam is being seen for who he is, or who he has become, as a filmmaker.
#17
Posted 13 September 2005 - 06:57 PM
Berardinelli didnt like it and said he thought it was Gilliam's worst:
Berardinelli TIFF coverage
BTW he also trashed Revolver.
Berardinelli TIFF coverage
BTW he also trashed Revolver.
#20
Posted 15 October 2006 - 09:38 PM
QUOTE(Peter T Chattaway @ Oct 15 2006, 07:10 PM) 
Yeah, I was just watching Ebert and Roeper with guest reviewer A.O.Scott of the NYTimes, and they just gave this film a pasting. This may be the worst reviewed film by a fairly well respected director, that I remember seeing on this show. Roeper said it was so bad that he nearly walked out of the screening. What a disappointment.
This post has been edited by Baal_T'shuvah: 15 October 2006 - 09:52 PM
