Cinema

Mario Monicelli in 2007

Master of cinema Mario Monicelli died yesterday at the San Giovanni hospital in Rome, where he was admitted a few day ago for a prostate cancer: he wanted to choose the moment of his death so he took his own life jumping from a window.

Terry Gilliam at 2009 Comic-Con

Terrence Vance Gilliam was born on November 22, 1940 in Medicine Lake, Minnesota, USA. In 1968 he took British citizenship. In 1996 renounced his American citizenship.
During the ’70s and ’80s Terry Gilliam worked as screenwriter and director for various movies produced with the Monty Python. He directed several more movies.