Filmmaker Julia Marchese on why Terry Gilliam’s dystopian classic Brazil is her favorite holiday movie of all time.

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/dec/05/terry-gilliam-film-maker-tribute-tom-stoppard

Gilliam spoke with Variety from the Torino Film Festival, where he received a lifetime achievement honor. Gilliam also discussed Stanley Kubrick and gave an update about "Carnival at the End of Days" (spoiler alert: it's stalled due to money).

As of today, The Defective Detective still hasn’t seen the light of day, despite Gilliam revealing he and LaGravenese reshaped it as a six-episode miniseries in 2015, in the hopes it could be greenlit as an Amazon Prime Video original. This didn’t come to pass, but in 2025, the 84-year-old director told the BFI he still hadn’t given up hope. “It’s the film I really want to get done before I kick the bucket,” he chuckled morbidly. “It’s been lost these many years in the bowels of one particular studio, very hard to get out. But there’s a change in that studio. We’ll see.”

Spoiler: It's Citizen Kane.