Monty Python And The Holy Grail

Image Not Available Director: Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones Dvd Release: 4th March, 2002 Number Of Discs: 1 Format: PAL, Widescreen, Region 2 Encoding

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Monty Python & the Holy Grail is a comedy film from 1974. It was written, performed & directed by Monty Python, an Anglo/American comedy group, during a gap between the third & final series of their popular BBC television series Monty Pythons Flying Circus. The groups first film & Now For Something Completely Different, had been a compilation of sketches from the television series; in contrast, Holy Grail was composed of wholly original material. Based loosely on the legend of King Arthur s quest to find the Holy Grail, the film was a success on its initial run & retains a large-scale cult following today. Monty Python were famous for parodying the conventions of television & motion picture formats, often including fake continuity announcements or using the opening & closing credits as part of the humour.

Terence Vance Gilliam is a film director. Terry Gilliam started off as an American animator & strip cartoonist; one of his early photographic strips featured John Cleese. Moving to England, he animated features for Do Not Adjust Your Set & later joined Monty Pythons Flying Circus, of which he was the only American member. He was the principal artist-animator of the surreal cartoons with which Monty Pythons television series was frequently interspersed. He also appeared in several sketches & played parts in the films. Gilliams distinctive animation style utilized antique photographs - mostly from the Victorian era - & featured portions of the photos moving. The style was copied decades later in the childrens television cartoon Angela Anaconda & in a series of television commercials for Guiness Beer. Terry Gilliam has gone on to become a film director. Posters Of The Adventures Of Baron Munchausen

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Terence Graham Parry Jones is a British comedian & writer. Jones was born in Colwyn Bay, Wales & attended the Royal Grammar School in Guildford, where he was head boy ; he graduated from St. Edmund Hall, Oxford. He appeared on At Last the 1948 Show with Michael Palin & John Cleese & wrote for The Frost Report & several other of David Frost s programmes on British television. He was a member of the team of writers & performers that made Monty Pythons Flying Circus. He co-wrote with Michael Palin Ripping Yarns & wrote the screenplay for Labyrinth. He has also written several books on mediæval history & numerous works for children. Douglas Adamss Starship Titanic - 1997, a novel based on the computer game of the same name by Douglas Adams. with Brian Froud Lady Cottingtons Pressed Fairy Book - 1994. The Goblin Companion. A Field Guide to Goblins - 1996. Strange Stains & Mysterious Smells. Quentin Cottingtons Journal of Faery Research - 1996. Chaucers Knight. The Portrait of a Medieval Mercenary - 1980,. Foreword to The Quest for King Arthur by David Day - 1995. Who Murdered Chaucer?.

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