From Ronald Bergan's 1997 biography "Sergei Eisenstein: A Life in Conflict":

From the studio-enforced re-editing of "Brazil" and the severe budget cuts of "Baron Munchausen" to the ill-fated "Don Quixote" film whose implosion was recorded in the documentary "Lost in La Mancha", director Terry Gilliam seems to have unusually bad luck when it comes to making movies. His most recent film "The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus" may be fated to go into history as "Heath Ledger's last performance", but with the help of Johnny Depp, Jude Law and Colin Farrell, the former Python is doing his best to salvage a typically imaginative project, now due for release next year. Over the weekend, Gilliam leaked a teaser trailer for the new film, and then just as mysteriously pulled it down. It didn't show much – in fact, there was more footage from Gilliam's earlier films than anything else.  If Gilliam, who has been vocal in criticizing the way Warner Brothers promoted Ledger's posthumous "Dark Knight" performance, has his way, "Parnassus" will be more than just a sad footnote to one actor's too-brief career. How he's going to pull it off - the teaser had close-ups of some cast members, but none of the Ledger surrogates - remains a mystery.

The film's no-frills website is here: (http://www.doctorparnassus.com/)

This "Stardust" melody is hardly the memory of love's refrain. But the British film ought to be available.

"Traitor" is a thinking person's thriller.

Michael Moore gives the power directly to the people with his new downloadable film.

A special monochrome/monotone edition of the Musical Clip of the Week. (And "Mamma Mia" is only a hint.)