Behind the Scenes
Director
Terry GilliamTerry Gilliam, an expatriate American living in England, who's earned a reputation for strange bits of animation unlike anything anyone has ever seen, earned his stripes as a member of...
Screenwriter
Terry Gilliam and Michael PalinWe cover Gilliam over in the "Director" section, so we're going to focus on his tag team partner here. Michael Palin started out at the University of Oxford, but he l...
Production Studio
HandMade FilmsOver in the "Director" section, we talk about Gilliam—and his fellow members of Monty Python—being kind of like rock stars. That's our sneaky way of getting to this bit. You see,...
Production Design
35mm FilmTime Bandits was produced by HandMade Films, and that's an accurate name in more ways than one. It was made the old-fashioned way, on 35mm film, and when the time came to edit it, the film...
Music (Score)
Mike MoranGeorge Harrison wrote the closing theme song, but the actual job of scoring the film went to Mike Moran, not a name most movie buffs have heard of—he's only got a handful of movies to h...
Fandoms
Time Bandits is one of those movies with more admirers than fans. Sure, it's got the Monty Python thing going for it, and with plenty of outlandish images and wild costumes, you'd think it would be...