Luckily for us, they don’t think Tribeca is a silly place. Variety reported on Wednesday that the legendary British comedy troupe, Monty Python, is set to reunite for a special screening of their famed film, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, at the 2015 Tribeca Film Festival. The reunion will happen in New York for …
Is the Man Who Is Tall Happy? Written and directed by Michel Gondry USA, 2013 On first blush, a so-called “animated conversation” between a documentary filmmaker and the esteemed linguist and philosopher Noam Chomsky seems to exist solely so people can raise their eyebrows, perplexed. But then, when you realize that the filmmaker is Michel …
In 1983, the final Monty Python film, The Meaning Of Life, was released with a rather ambitious title and intent to discover, well, the meaning of life. Thirty years later, and Terry Gilliam returns to these enterprising realms with his new film The Zero Theorem, a codex volcanic in enthusiasm yet insipid at its core. Terry does good press: he barks an intriguing sound bite, citing that his latest ode to chaos is an “impossible look at nothing,” which is certain to prick the interest of existentialists everywhere.
Hitler: The Comedy Years Jacques Peretti UK, 2007 In 1939, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain asked the BBC to gather their best comedy writers to create satirical caricatures to delegitimize and discompose Germany’s leader, Adolf Hitler. With a diminutive stature, ludicrous hair and a literal comedic moustache, Hitler became instant ‘comedy gold’, and in Hitler: …
This Is Sodom Directed by Adam Sanderson and Muli Segev Written by Muli Segev, David Lifshitz and Asaf Shalmon Israel, 2010 At an arranged marriage, a Rabbi tries to break the ice by telling a joke. “Why was the first man the happiest?” he asks. No one answers. “Because he didn’t have a mother-in-law!” No …
London-based distributor Trinity announced that they will be distributing A Liar’s Autobiography, a film based on the outlandish book by Monty Python’s Graham Chapman, who died in 1989, in UK cinemas in Spring 2012. They are also co-financiers of the production, which reunites members of the Monty Python team with the exception of Eric …