The Fabulous Baron Munchausen served as an influence for Terry Gilliam, who was then making his own version of the Munchausen stories, "The Adventures of Baron Munchausen". According to Gilliam: British magazine Home Cinema Choice voted "The Fabulous Baron Munchausen" the best digitally restored film of 2017, defeating such films as "The Thing", "The Wages of Fear" and "Mulholland Drive". The Fabulous Baron Munchausen The Fabulous Baron Munchausen () is a 1961 Czechoslovak romantic adventure film directed by Karel Zeman, based on the tales about Baron Munchausen. The film combines live-action with various forms of animation and is highly stylized, often evoking the engravings
Uma Thurman and the December 1985 and May 1986 covers of British "Vogue". She made the transition to acting with her film debut, the teen thriller "Kiss Daddy Goodnight", which was released in 1987. Thurman was subsequently cast in three 1988 films — "Johnny Be Good", "The Adventures of Baron Munchausen" and most notably, "Dangerous Liaisons". In the comedy "Johnny Be Good", she played the girlfriend of a top high school quarterback prospect, and in "The Adventures of Baron Munchausen", she made a brief appearance as goddess Venus; during her entrance she briefly appears nude, in an homage to Botticelli's "The Birth