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Last Tango dances off with Bafta prize for 'love story about people over 35'
12 May 2013 4:06 PM, PDT | The Guardian - TV News | See recent The Guardian - TV News news »
TV awards also go to host Graham Norton, Channel 4's Paralympics coverage, Michael Palin and Clare Balding
One of the stars of BBC1's hit drama Last Tango in Halifax used the programme's Bafta win on Sunday to thank the corporation for "at last" doing a love story about people over 35.
In the face of criticism that the BBC fails to put enough women, or older people, on screen, Anne Reid, who starred with Derek Jacobi in the romantic drama written by Sally Wainwright, said: "I am so glad the BBC has decided at last to do love stories about people who are over 35."
Reid, 77, who accepted the Bafta award for best drama series, was warmly applauded by the audience of TV personalities and executives when she told them: "Some of us do have quite interesting lives when we get to 70."
Her co-star Jacobi said: "Not only the oldies »
- John Plunkett, Josh Halliday
Michael Palin, Bafta 2013 winner: 'My life has been a series of lucky accidents'
4 May 2013 4:10 PM, PDT | The Guardian - TV News | See recent The Guardian - TV News news »
The actor and presenter on winning a Bafta lifetime achievement award, life after Monty Python and why he's not finished yet
Michael Palin has a measured view of his latest prize. He's delighted to win a Bafta fellowship – of course he is; it's the most prestigious award the Academy bestows – "but my lifetime's not over yet," the 70-year-old says firmly. Palin is firmer than you would imagine, nowhere near as twinkly or boyish as he seems on the telly. "I got my first lifetime achievement award years ago [a British Comedy award in 2002], and I was very excited, but then I got a sense of: Well, can one get a second lifetime award?"
In the decade since his life's work was first honoured, he has presented six hit travel series, written a novel, published two sets of diaries and served as president of the Royal Geographical Society. Add in the preceding decades' work and you »
- Alice Fisher
This week's new film events
3 May 2013 10:00 PM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Images Of Black Women Film Festival | London Palestine Film Festival | Marcel L'Herbier: Fabricating Dreams
Images Of Black Women Film Festival, London
This festival has a clear mission: to promote women of African descent, in front of and behind the camera. The result is a spread of films from around the globe that you're unlikely to see anywhere else. Family drama Elza is the first female-directed feature from Guadeloupe; Pariah charts the coming out of a Brooklyn lesbian; and Black is a polished Senegalese action-thriller. There are docs on Nigerian women who protest against oil companies by threatening to strip naked, plus various art and children's events.
Various venues, Sat to 11 May
London Palestine Film Festival
History inevitably weighs heavily on Palestinian culture, but this festival regularly finds fresh perspectives on what feels like an age-old issue, both from the past and the present. Director David Koff revisits his once-controversial »
- Steve Rose
Samia Ghadie to set up Corrie v Emmerdale netball game
1 May 2013 4:00 AM, PDT | Virgin Media - TV | See recent Virgin Media - TV news »
Michael Palin Cbe is to be presented with the Fellowship Award at the BAFTAs. The multi-talented TV personality will receive the prestigious accolade in recognition of his influential work over the years, most famously his various roles in British series 'Monty Python's Flying Circus' alongside Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle and Terry Jones. Speaking about the prize, Michael, 69, said: ''A BAFTA Fellowship is a very high honour for anyone working in television. I'm well aware that any success I've had is down to team-work. I've been blessed throughout my career with the inspiration and support of others. The »
Monty Python Announces Us/Europe Reunion Tour
1 April 2013 1:43 AM, PDT | Obsessed with Film | See recent Obsessed with Film news »
At the recent comedy festival in Aspen, Colorado, John Cleese (who famously quit the BBC’s Monty Python’s Flying Circus and years later was given credit for ending the Python’s film career) announced, with the ashes of Graham Chapman reportedly at hand, that Python was back together for a stage tour of Europe and the United States.
Reporting has been sketchy, but we can easily assume that the comedy team will reprise classic sketches like Dead Parrot and Lumberjack. But the real question is this: will the team introduce any new material? We can only hope. Dates have yet to be announced, but we can assume that the reunion tour will resemble the live performance in Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl: a flurry of familiar sketches and musical numbers tweaked for a live audience.
For now, here’s a quick roundup of the surviving members »
- James Kirk
TV highlights 27/03/2013
27 March 2013 12:00 AM, PDT | The Guardian - TV News | See recent The Guardian - TV News news »
Live Elite League Speedway | Terry Pratchett – Facing Extinction | Pompeii: The Mystery Of The People Frozen In Time | Lightfields | Prison Dads | Seduction In The City – The Birth Of Shopping | Danny Boyle: Man Of Wonder – A Culture Show Special | Are You Having A Laugh? – Comedy And Christianity
Live Elite League Speedway
7.30pm, Sky Sports 1
Sky Sports' coverage of the 2013 speedway season begins with a local ding-dong at the Perry Barr Stadium between the Birmingham Brummies and Coventry Bees. It's a rivalry given extra intensity by the Brummies' plundering of Bees stars Ben Barker and Josh Auty in the off-season. Coventry, though, will hope that the installation of former world champion Gary Havelock as manager will signal a change in fortunes, after failing to even reach the play-offs last time around. Gwilym Mumford
Terry Pratchett – Facing Extinction
9pm, BBC2
Having vowed to continue with life his way despite a diagnosis of Alzheimer's »
- Gwilym Mumford, Mark Jones, Andrew Mueller, Hannah Verdier, Hannah J Davies, John Robinson, Ali Catterall, Martin Skegg
Watch: Terry Gilliam's Debut 1968 Short Film 'Storytime'
13 March 2013 9:49 AM, PDT | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »
Terry Gilliam went on to direct such great films as “Monty Python and the Holy Grail,” “Brazil” and “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas” (to name just a few), but he began his career primarily as an animator. Before moving to England he was a strip cartoonist on Help! magazine, and then after making his trip across the pond one of his first gigs was as an animator for sequences on the children’s TV show “Do Not Adjust Your Set” which starred future Pythons Michael Palin, Eric Idle and Terry Jones, as well as other future comedy icons like David Jason. It was during the same period that Gilliam directed the first of his two pre-'Holy Grail' animated shorts, “Storytime.” The film contains three loosely connected animated segments – “Don the Cockroach,” “The Albert Einstein Story” and “The Christmas Card” – with the latter actually originally created specially for the "Do »
- Joe Cunningham
Exclusive clip from ‘A Liars Autobiography’
19 February 2013 9:42 AM, PST | Blogomatic3000 | See recent Blogomatic3000 news »
A Liars Autobiography: The Untrue Story of Monty Python’s Graham Chapman, which is out in cinemas now and DVD and Blu-ray, is an animated account of the highs and lows of the extraordinary life story of Monty Python’s Graham Chapman. Starring as himself and reunited with Monty Python’s John Cleese, Michael Palin, Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones for the first time in 23 years, we discover Chapman, from his childhood days as a pipe-smoking baby and student at Cambridge University, to becoming a Python, discovering his homosexuality and battling alcoholism, via moving to La where he parties to excess, and right up until the moment when he rather selfishly drops dead in 1989.
Click here to view the embedded video.
Using ground-breaking animation and complete with a healthy dose of profanity, blasphemy and gratuitous name-dropping, A Liar’S Autobiography is a biopic on Chapman’s bizarre life and search for self-knowledge. »
- Phil
Tide-Turning WWII Battle ‘Dunkirk’ Getting Screen Treatment From Working Title UK
13 February 2013 4:44 PM, PST | Deadline New York | See recent Deadline New York news »
Exclusive: Working Title UK has acquired Dunkirk, a spec script by Gavin Scott that has Oliver Parker attached to direct. The script chronicles the courage of British civilians, men and women who used small boats to cross the English Channel and rescue 200,000 British troops and 140,000 French troops from the advancing Germans. Dunkirk was one of the battles that changed the course of WWII. Scott wrote the script and brought to Parker, whose credits include Dorian Gray, and Johnny English Reborn. Scott’s script work includes Small Soldiers and The Borrowers and series that include Young Indiana Jones. He’s currently teamed with Terry Jones on an adaptation of Good Omens, the Neil Gaiman/Terry Pratchett comic novel. He and Jones also scripted Absolutely Anything, which Jones is directing with his Monty Python mates and Robin Williams. Scott is repped by Original Artists in the Us and Linda Seifert Management in the UK, »
- MIKE FLEMING JR
Jennifer Saunders blasts Viva Forever! critics and Psycho was a comedy
12 February 2013 9:51 AM, PST | The Guardian - TV News | See recent The Guardian - TV News news »
Also this week, Mrs Brown's Boys causes a heart attack and Harry Hill comes to the rescue
This week's comedy news
Johnny Vegas has claimed that Daniel Kitson made him quit standup – but is vowing to return and find "closure". "Kitson is the reason I stopped stand-up," the comedy website Chortle quotes Vegas as saying at the Leicester comedy festival. "I did three gigs with him. On the first, I thought, 'This is brilliant, I've got to pull my socks up and get my act together.' On the second, I felt I'd gone 15 rounds with the comedic Mike Tyson. And on the third, I felt I'd seen comedy take its next evolutionary step … I thought I would never have the talent to match that." Vegas also addressed his unease with fame, saying that "the most fun I had was with gigs where I was a complete unknown and »
- Brian Logan
Jennifer Saunders blasts Viva Forever! critics and Psycho was a comedy
12 February 2013 9:51 AM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Also this week, Mrs Brown's Boys causes a heart attack and Harry Hill comes to the rescue
This week's comedy news
Johnny Vegas has claimed that Daniel Kitson made him quit standup – but is vowing to return and find "closure". "Kitson is the reason I stopped stand-up," the comedy website Chortle quotes Vegas as saying at the Leicester comedy festival. "I did three gigs with him. On the first, I thought, 'This is brilliant, I've got to pull my socks up and get my act together.' On the second, I felt I'd gone 15 rounds with the comedic Mike Tyson. And on the third, I felt I'd seen comedy take its next evolutionary step … I thought I would never have the talent to match that." Vegas also addressed his unease with fame, saying that "the most fun I had was with gigs where I was a complete unknown and »
- Brian Logan
The Terry Gilliam Retrospective Part 2: Escaping the Shadow
11 February 2013 11:29 PM, PST | Flickeringmyth | See recent Flickeringmyth news »
Paul Risker continues his Terry Gilliam retrospective...
Jabberwocky sits as an important entry in Gilliam’s canon, representing the realisation of his directorial aspirations. It afforded him a solo directing credit, as well as the opportunity to pursue what he considered to be the aesthetic vision of a professional director he found difficult to pursue previously.
From the animator who dreamt of directing, to the co-director who aspired to achieve a solo directorial credit, Jabberwocky was a comedy whose narrative compromised of sketches, and starred three Pythons: Michael Palin, Terry Jones and Terry Gilliam. If that was not detrimental enough the more than noticeable Pythonesque humour would cost Gilliam the earlier opportunity to break free from his identity as the sixth Python, to finally assert: I am Terry Gilliam.
Though perhaps I have interpreted this wrong, and perhaps I am not alone. Jabberwocky should be defined not as an exit »
- Flickering Myth
Monty Python Reteams for Sci-Fi Comedy Absolutely Anything
6 February 2013 1:20 PM, PST | GeekTyrant | See recent GeekTyrant news »
I've always enjoyed the comedic entertainment that Monty Python has brought us over the years. I'm excited to report that the classic comedy group is coming back together to bring us a sci-fi comedy called Absolutely Anything!
The movie will be a combination of CGI and live action. Terry Jones (Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Life of Brian) is set to direct the movie, and Mike Medavoy (Life of Brian, Black Swan) will produce. It's set to go into production in the UK this spring!
According to Variety, "the Pythons [will be] voicing key roles as a a group of aliens who endow an earthling with the power to do "absolutely anything" to see what a mess he'll make of things -- which is precisely what happens. There's also a talking dog named Dennis who seems to understand more about the mayhem that ensues than anyone else does. Robin Williams will voice the character. »
- Joey Paur
'Monty Python' Returns … with Aliens … and Robin Williams
6 February 2013 8:08 AM, PST | NextMovie | See recent NextMovie news »
As the old adage goes, you can never have too much "Monty Python." (Ok, so maybe it's not a proper adage, per se, but that doesn't make it any less true.) Which is why we were pretty jazzed to hear that there's a new Python flick in the works. Pause for a moment of silent reflection.
So what is this next installment all about anyway? Aliens. Duh. The film will be a science fiction story in which the Pythons play extra-terrestrials who grant wishes to humans… just to see what happens. What could go wrong?
Oh, also: comedy genius Robin Williams has signed on to play a talking dog.
Yes, a talking dog. He'll join John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Michael Palin and Terry Jones (who will also direct). In other words, this is pretty much every Python fan's ultimate fantasy. Well, except that Eric Idle has yet to officially hop on board, »
- Elizabeth Durand
New Monty Python film will not be a Monty Python film
5 February 2013 10:43 PM, PST | QuietEarth.us | See recent QuietEarth news »
The remaining members of the Monty Python troupe are reuniting to make a new film, slated to shoot this spring. While Terry Jones states "It's not a Monty Python picture," he also adds that it ".. certainly has that sensibility." The crew will play mischievious aliens who grant an earthling the power to do anything he wants just to see what kind of mess ensues. Robin Williams will provide the voice for a talking dog. [Continued ...] »
The Terry Gilliam Retrospective Part 1: Ironic Origins
5 February 2013 2:23 AM, PST | Flickeringmyth | See recent Flickeringmyth news »
Paul Risker begins a retrospective on the films of Terry Gilliam...
Before we begin I’d like to take the opportunity to briefly talk a little about the history of this ‘Retrospective’ feature series.
I originally started out intending only to re-evaluate the career of ‘Master of Horror’ John Carpenter, an idea that was first implanted into my mind by a close friend who exclaimed in our local watering hole one summer night, “John Carpenter’s career deserves a re-evaluation.”
So many years later with the support of EatSleepLiveFilm’s editor-in-chief and managing editor, I was afforded the opportunity to rant across seven weeks, composing what was my love letter to the cinema of John Carpenter. Sadly, Eslf closed its doors in November, though the site remains live, functioning as an archive for the expansive work of the Eslf editorial staff and contributors.
Approaching the end of the Carpenter feature series, »
- flickeringmyth
DVD Release: A Liar’s Autobiography: The Untrue Story of Monty Python’s Graham Chapman
28 January 2013 11:22 AM, PST | Disc Dish | See recent Disc Dish news »
Blu-ray & DVD Release Date: Feb. 12, 2013
Price: DVD $24.99
Studio: Virgil
A Liar's Autobiography offers a colorfully animated look at Monty Python's late Graham Chapman.
The 2012 sort-of documentary comedy film A Liar’s Autobiography: The Untrue Story of Monty Python’s Graham Chapman offers a humorous examination of the life of you-know-who, a member of the legendary British TV comedy troupe Monty Python’s Flying Circus.
The late Chapman, the man who co-wrote Python’s immortal “Dead Parrot” sketch, became himself “demised” in 1989 at the age of 48 from throat cancer. But in seeming preparation for this event, Chapman years earlier recorded himself reading from his book A Liar’s Autobiography Vol. VI, a fictionalized account of his life published in 1980. Now, directors Bill Jones (son of Python member Terry Jones), Jeff Simpson and Ben Timlett, with help from animators at 14 studios, have turned those tapes into a look at the very creative and very complicated Chapman. »
- Laurence
A Liar’S Autobiography: The Untrue Story Of Monty Python’S Graham Chapman Trailer
28 January 2013 8:53 AM, PST | Filmofilia | See recent Filmofilia news »
Phew! Even if there wasn’t a ‘Monty Python’ in the headline, you could tell it’s them just by the size of the title, heheh. In any case, the rumor about the new Monty Python film has been around for a while now, but ever since the last October’s trailer and clip and some photos, there has been nothing much around to keep our attention, unfortunately.
This trailer/clip for A Liar’s Autobiography: The Untrue Story of Monty Python’s Graham Chapman is animated in old-French-cartoons style (at least it reminds me of those I’ve seen), and it is titled ‘Commisioned to Write’ (thanks to Fandango):
Synopsis:
Drawing inspiration from the late Graham Chapman’s intentionally fictitious memoir A Liar’s Autobiography (Volume VI, filmmakers Jeffrey Simpson, Ben Timlett, and Bill Jones employ 15 teams of animators to tell the outlandish and surreal life story of »
- Vesna Sunrider
This week's new film events
18 January 2013 10:00 PM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
The Queen Of Versailles + Q&A | Nick Abrahams | Slapstick 2013 | Loco London Comedy Film Festival
The Queen Of Versailles + Q&A, London
Few recent documentaries have summed up the craziness of our times as well as Lauren Greenfield's The Queen Of Versailles. It focused on the wealthy Siegel family and their matriarch Jackie, whose attempts to build one of the largest private homes in America were stalled by the sub-prime meltdown. The film-makers and the Siegels apparently fell out, too. But what happened next? This one-off screening is the chance to find out, with both Greenfield and Jackie Siegel attending the Q&A.
Ritzy Picturehouse, SW2, Wed
Nick Abrahams, London
He recently received an award for his gorgeous Sigur Rós short film (in which Aidan Gillen, pictured, is guided by a talking snail), but Abrahams has been experimenting visually for the coolest bands for decades, including Huggy Bear, Stereolab, Leftfield, »
- Steve Rose
The 300 Greatest Films Ever Made (Part 10)
10 January 2013 10:40 PM, PST | Cinelinx | See recent Cinelinx news »
Continuing our daily January countdown, here is the 10th out of 30 in our list of the 300 Greatest Films Ever Made. These are numbers 210-201.
210) Mean Streets (1973) Martin Scorsese USA
209) A Shot In The Dark (1964) Blake Edwards USA
208) Raise The Red Lantern (1991) Zhang Yimou China/ Hong Kong
207) Do The Right Thing (1989) Spike Lee USA
206) A Christmas Story (1983) Bob Clark USA
205) Meet John Doe (1941) Frank Capra USA
204) Breathless (1959) Jean Luc Goddard France
203) Jules & Jim (1961) Francois Truffaut France
202) The Life Of Brian (1979) Terry Jones British
201) Das Boot (1981) Wolfgang Petersen Germany
Numbers 200-191 coming next.
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- feeds@cinelinx.com (Rob Young)
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