To obstinately hope of winning

As a quick follow-up to yesterday's post about Tideland, just wanted to say that if you see it on DVD, watching the extras is especially recommended. There's three different "featurettes" (two on the making-of, one specifically on SFX) and deleted scenes, but best of all is an 11-minute interview with Gilliam.

Gilliam is always fun to listen to talk. But here he says some especially interesting things about:

• The way most adults think of childhood


• Why it was important to him to have women in key positions behind the scenes on the film.


• And why he thinks men and women have perceived it differently.

Secondary recommendation over. Except just to add:


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"The squirrels made it seem less lonely?" Best Tagline ever.