The Adventures Of Baron Munchausen

1988. Terry Gilliam's weird and wonderful ode to the tall story features an all star cast and a roller-coaster ride of adventures that take us all over the world (and even to the moon) with some of the more hard-to-believe characters of not-quite history.

If you can remember sitting in bed listening to fairy tales - this is even better, with Gilliam's Pythonesque grasp of the ridiculous, and a darker twinge of doom and foreboding. The more stories the Baron tells, the more impossible his adventures, the younger and more vibrant he becomes - just like his audience.

Look out for one of the truly great screen entrances (Uma Thurman, as Venus). Decide for yourself if beautiful lies are better than the awful truth.

Next Showing:

Saturday, December 6 at 1:30pm

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