As it turns out, the coexistence of two movies dedicated to the exploits of the fictionalized eighteenth-century German adventurer Baron Munchausen far from exclude one another from narrative authority. So for Mike’s birthday episode, why not just just do a double episode treating them like parts of an anthology that took a couple of centuries to make? We do just that with Karel Zeman’s 1962 The Fabulous Baron Munchausen and Terry Gilliam’s The Adventures of Baron Munchausen of 1989. It’s Zeman’s brilliantly stylized suturing of live action and handmade animation vs. Gilliam’s inventive production design set against some over-the-top character work by an international cast of all-stars.

If you’d like to watch ahead for next week’s film l, we will be discussing and reviewing Nathaniel Hornblower et al’sThe Beastie Boys Video Anthology (2000).