Waverly Midnights
Monty Python Midnights
Friday, October 16 - Saturday, December 5, 2009
And now for something completely different! Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones and Michael Palin ignited a comedy revolution when they brought “Monty Python’s Flying Circus” to BBC television forty years ago. We’re celebrating their achievement with a late-night presentation of the best of their big-screen antics. Our tribute includes all five of the Pythons’ features, plus three films directed by Python alumnus Terry Gilliam — JABBERWOCKY, starring Michael Palin; BRAZIL, also featuring Palin; and TIME BANDITS, co-written by Gilliam and Palin and starring Cleese.
IFC Center’s tribute to Monty Python is presented in conjunction with Monty Python: Almost the Truth (The Lawyer’s Cut), a six-part documentary premiering on IFC TV October 18-23, and the channel’s Python-a-thon of all things Monty Python, including episodes of “Monty Python’s Flying Circus.” An exhibition of original Monty Python movie posters from around the world is on display in the Posteritati at IFC Center gallery on our second floor.
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Friday, October 16 - Saturday, October 17, 2009"The Python troupe's version of the legend of King Arthur and the search for the holy grail, with no apologies at all to Malory though it manages to send up the legend, courtly love, fidelity, bravery,... more...
Life of Brian
Friday, October 23 - Saturday, October 24, 200930th Anniversary! "Terry Jones's Sunday-school travesty follows the career of the unintentionally messianic Brian of Nazareth. It's a hearty burlesque in which the three wise men signal their presence... more...
Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl
Friday, October 30 - Saturday, October 31, 2009"Here they all are -- Mr. Cleese, Graham Chapman, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Terry Gilliam and Michael Palin -- doing a number of new sketches, redoing some that are already familiar from their records...... more...
And Now for Something Completely Different
Friday, November 6 - Saturday, November 7, 2009"Five stars! The British troupe's first foray into film (HOLY GRAIL came second), shot in 1971. The Pythons (Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones and Michael Palin) had two... more...
The Meaning of Life
Friday, November 13 - Saturday, November 14, 2009"THE MEANING OF LIFE is a monumental revue, the Ben Hur of sketch films... [it] recalls the format of Monty Python's Flying Circus, those wonderfully irreverent television shows -- collections... more...
Jabberwocky
Friday, November 20 - Saturday, November 21, 2009"The time is the mythic long-ago, a period after the eclipse of Camelot, but not yet the time of recorded history. The place is the kingdom of Bruno The Questionable, who is not a bad tyrant under the... more...
Time Bandits
Friday, December 4 - Saturday, December 5, 2009"An extraordinarily inventive fantasy in which schoolboy Warnock is rescued from a dull suburban existence by a band of renegade dwarfs, who emerge from his wardrobe and whisk him off on an incredible... more...
