10 Essential Movies Guillermo Del Toro Demands You See

6. Time Bandits

"Terry Gilliam is a living treasure, and we are squandering him foolishly with every film of his that remains unmade." Anyone who has treasured the movies of the former Monty Python animator - or seen the revealing documentary Lost In La Mancha - will concur with Guillermo del Toro's assessment. Time Bandits, one of Gilliam's earliest forays into feature film making, sees a young boy embarking on a surreal adventure through time and space, accompanied by a troupe of dwarves. The first part of his "Trilogy of Imagination" and seen through the eyes of a child, it's a film about as spiritually close to del Toro's most personal movies as you can get. Guillermo del Toro describes Terry Gilliam as "a fabulist pregnant with images - exploding with them, actually - and fierce, untamed imagination ... He jumps with no safety net and drags us with him into a world made coherent only by his undying faith in the tale he is telling." He could just as easily be speaking about himself. Also recommended: Brazil