Experience Terry Gilliam’s 1980 fantasy-adventure film classic Time Bandits in 35mm! An 11-yeard old boy, Kevin (Craig Warnock), with a big imagination and preoccupied parents has the adventure of a lifetime and it all starts when a knight on horseback breaks through his closet door one night. The next night a group of six dwarves (based on the Monthy Python comedy group, of which Gilliam was part of) come out of the door, carrying a very important map, which we find out they stole from the Supreme Being. Looking for an escape, the dwarves find that Kevin’s wall can be pushed, exposing an empty void, which they all jump into. They travel through spacetime and meet Napoleon Bonaparte, Robin Hood and King Agamemnon (Sean Connery).
“It’s amazingly well-produced. The historic locations are jammed with character and detail. This is the only live-action movie I’ve seen that literally looks like pages out of Heavy Metal magazine, with kings and swordsmen and wide-eyed little boys and fearsome beasts.” – Roger Ebert
“Gilliam fills the screen with bizarre images, and directs with a breathless ingenuity.” – Time Out
“Time Bandits is a cheerfully irreverent lark – part fairy tale, part science fiction and part comedy.” – Vincent Canby, The New York Times
On Mentalfloss.com, read 15 Fun Facts About Time Bandits.
