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...Monty Python and the Holy Grail at midnight on Friday and Saturday and 12:30 p.m. on Saturday...
...Monty Python and the Holy Grail:Friday,Feb. 28-Sunday, March 1. Friday-Saturday atmidnight. Sunday at noon...
Props also play a significant role in the creation of new environments. In one scene reminiscent of a Monty Python skit, a huge canvas unfurls with a list of sundry things on it. An actor proceeds to call them out, and they fall from above. This is a great moment, but it relies almost completely on props...
...thought it was pretty cool," said onlooker Jamie W. Billett '95. "But I was a little disappointed because I thought they should have had slabs like in Monty Python, so they could whack their heads as they marched," he added...
This is all catnip to Terry Gilliam, deviser of the Monty Python animations and co-director of Monty Python and the Holy Grail. On his own he directed one commercial hit (Time Bandits) and one cult smash (Brazil). Critics, this one included, went crazy for Brazil; but not many citizens felt at home amid all the astringent whimsy. And the director's next phantasmagoria, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, was a $50 million flop...