Gilliam returns; Jarmusch reigns; Connery retires

"Hollywood is run by small-minded people who like chopping the legs off creative people," says director Terry Gilliam to TIME in a feature story that relates how seven lean years after his last completed film, Gilliam is in fighting form with two visionary new works - The Brothers Grimm (opening August 26) and Tideland (which will premiere at Toronto next month).

Meanwhile, Roger Ebert interviews Jim Jarmusch (whose new film Broken Flowers won the Grand Jury Prize at this year's Cannes Film Festival, was apparently edited backwards, and opens Friday). "I'm stubborn," Jarmusch said. "I have to fight. The studios want to be your partner in the creative process. That's why I find most of my financing overseas. I don't let the Money give me notes on my scripts. I don't allow the Money on the set. I don't allow the Money in the editing room. These days, even the little independent studios, they act like Hollywood." (For more Jarmusch, check out "The Last of the Indies", Lynn Hirschberg's excellent feature story from Sunday's New York Times Magazine.)

Finally, the BBC reports that Sir Sean Connery is "fed up with the idiots... the ever-widening gap between people who know how to make movies and the people who greenlight the movies" - and hence has no plans to do any more films.