- Wed Jan 22, 2020 2:25 pm
#124972
When I was a young chap, my mum took us to meet her new mates for a New Years party. Being small I fell asleep and woke up in a spare bedroom, and flicked through the channels to find monty python and The Holy Grail on bbc2. I think that moment changed my entire life. I became obsessed for a time with the surreal comedy of python and Terry Gilliam, strange French films like la Jetee and during that time, Juenet’s City of Lost Children and Delicatessen which all drew from the same wells. Later, a chance screening of Amelie in Manchester in 2004 would be key in moving me toward where I am today. I still don’t understand why so called mainstream cinemas don’t show art house films when there should be no distinction. There are only good and bad films and most films are awful; you have to dig.
My oddball supervisor at my first real job was obsessed with Life of Brian and only ever conversed in quotes of that film, and tales of his life as a taxi driver in 70s London, and how he’d slept with half of London in his taxi. Tim’s entire life was obsessed with that film and those Pythons, and as I became bored with only Python I became bored with him and the job.
But I remained obsessed with the film world and the places it could take people. And so when Terry Jones died today, I was able to remember a decade or so through the path of comedy and of learning about the world, friends and people I no longer speak to who will probably be sad as well. And this sketch:
https://youtu.be/saY10AWXLIY
Good luck everyone
My oddball supervisor at my first real job was obsessed with Life of Brian and only ever conversed in quotes of that film, and tales of his life as a taxi driver in 70s London, and how he’d slept with half of London in his taxi. Tim’s entire life was obsessed with that film and those Pythons, and as I became bored with only Python I became bored with him and the job.
But I remained obsessed with the film world and the places it could take people. And so when Terry Jones died today, I was able to remember a decade or so through the path of comedy and of learning about the world, friends and people I no longer speak to who will probably be sad as well. And this sketch:
https://youtu.be/saY10AWXLIY
Good luck everyone