Terry Gilliam has been to Cannes with three of his own films since 1983, but one of his favorite memories of the festival takes him back to that very first time, at the 36 th edition, as the co-writer ...
In 1983, a British comedy troupe made the last film they would ever make and called an end to a career that spanned three decades and countless radio programs, three feature films and a television ...
One of the most celebrated comedy movies of the ’80s is arriving soon on Netflix. Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life came out ...
When the members of Monty Python agreed to do a run of 10 nights at London's O2 Arena, the host venue of what is their most elaborate stage production to date (and first in 35 years), it was mostly ...
“Just to be clear,” Terry Jones says. “My mortgage is not paid off.” So one of the putative reasons for last year’s 10-show farewell performance of the Monty Python troupe remains unresolved. As does ...
The Pythons’ 1980 appearance at the Hollywood Bowl is a far more technically primitive affair, and is essentially a greatest-hits compilation of sketches re-created from the famed Monty Python’s ...
The Time When John Cleese Wrote and Bet and Got Angry at a NewspaperLetters of Note has a exchange from 1982 between John Cleese and the editor of The Sun, which stemmed from a report in that paper ...