"as listed here: The Monty Python Instant Record Collection The Monty Python Instant Record Collection is actually the title of two compilation albums released by the Monty Python troupe - the first in the UK in 1977 drew from the group's first five Charisma albums, and the other in the US in 1981 which comprised tracks from their four Arista albums. It was billed as ""the pick of the best of some recently repeated Python hits again, Vol. II."" The record sleeve's original design was done by Terry Gilliam. It featured packaging that folded out into a cardboard box resembling"
"over $60 million in worldwide theatrical release. According to Box Office Mojo, his films have grossed an average of $21,602,510. Since his first feature, Gilliam has shown a propensity to work with particular actors in numerous productions. Up until the 1990s, each of Gilliam's non-Python films has featured at least one of his fellow Monty Python alumni (particularly Palin, Cleese, and Idle), and for his finished projects Gilliam has worked with the following actors at least twice (in order of first film appearance): Other recurring collaborators include Gilliam's cinematographers Roger Pratt (""Brazil"", ""The Fisher King"", ""12 Monkeys"") and Nicola Pecorini"
"Julian Doyle (filmmaker) Julian Doyle is a British filmmaker who is best known for editing ""Monty Python's Life of Brian"" and shooting the special effects for Terry Gilliam's films ""Brazil"" and ""Time Bandits"". Doyle was born in London from an Irish father, Bob Doyle, and a Spanish mother. His father fought for the Republic in the Spanish Civil War. He schooled at Haverstock School and left to join Nobel Prize winner Prof. Peter Medawar's team as a junior technician at University College London. He completed his Bachelor of Science at the University of London before going to the London Film"
"Carlos Saldanha Carlos Saldanha (; born January 24, 1965) is a Brazilian director, producer and animator of animated films who works with Blue Sky Studios. He was the director of """" (2006), """" (2009), ""Rio"" (2011), ""Rio 2"" (2014), and the co-director of ""Ice Age"" (2002) and ""Robots"" (2005). Saldanha was nominated in 2003 for an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film for ""Gone Nutty"" and in 2018 for Best Animated Feature for ""Ferdinand. Saldanha was born in Brazil, growing up in Marechal Hermes, Rio de Janeiro. Though he loved cartoons and drawing from an early age, by the"
"future Python writing partner, Chapman, in Cambridge. Outside of Python, he is best known for setting up the Video Arts group and for the sitcom ""Fawlty Towers"" (co-written with Connie Booth, whom Cleese met during work on Python and to whom he was married for a decade). Cleese has also co-authored several books on psychology and wrote the screenplay for the award-winning ""A Fish Called Wanda"", in which he starred with Michael Palin. Terry Gilliam, an American by birth, is the only member of the troupe of non-British origin. He started off as an animator and strip cartoonist for Harvey"
"Pedro Bromfman Pedro Bromfman (born 20 January 1976) is a Brazilian musician, film composer and music producer. He is known for having scored ""RoboCop"" (2014), the Netflix series ""Narcos"", Max Payne 3 (2012) ,""Elite Squad"" and ""Elite Squad II"", the highest-grossing film in Brazil's box office history. Most recently, he composed the music for ""Deep Web"", ""Thumper"", ""Narcos Season 3"", ""The Story Of Us With Morgan Freeman"" and ""Chain Of Command"". Bromfman was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil where he was introduced to music at a young age. He later moved to Boston and graduated Cum Laude from Berklee"
"José Padilha José Bastos Padilha Neto (; born August 1, 1967) is a Brazilian film director, producer and screenwriter. He is best known for directing the Brazilian critical and financial successes ""Elite Squad"" and """" and the 2014 remake of ""RoboCop"". He has won the Golden Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival for ""Elite Squad"" in 2008. He is also the producer of the Netflix original series ""Narcos"", starring frequent collaborator Wagner Moura, and directed the first two episodes in the series. Padilha was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Before making films, Padilha studied business, politics, and economics"
"For example, when Terry Gilliam, the American Monty Python, released his film Brazil, he told to Libération that amongst his stated influences figure Goya, the American underground comics and French comics, with a rare admiration for Masse: Fabulous ! I would love to make a film with him, and he still amazes me. Similarly, in an interview with the magazine Les Inrockuptibles, Art Spiegelman quotes Masse before Crumb and Tardi by saying that what he did was incredible, his work is important and very much underestimated. In this paper, Masse's style is described as strips stripped with the steel wool"
"Harriers Running Club), a 5k race. Manoela and Sofia voiced a ""porcupine-like critter"" called ""Molehog"" in the film """", directed by their father. In ""Rio"", Sofia voiced Linda Gunderson as a child. Carlos Saldanha Carlos Saldanha (; born January 24, 1965) is a Brazilian director, producer and animator of animated films who works with Blue Sky Studios. He was the director of """" (2006), """" (2009), ""Rio"" (2011), ""Rio 2"" (2014), and the co-director of ""Ice Age"" (2002) and ""Robots"" (2005). Saldanha was nominated in 2003 for an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film for ""Gone Nutty"" and in"
"compares the Monty Python film with the actual Biblical events and comes to the conclusion that this is the most accurate Biblical film ever made. Doyle also appeared in the Monty Python film ""Monty Python and the Holy Grail"", playing the police sergeant who abruptly ends the film by putting his hand on the camera. Julian Doyle (filmmaker) Julian Doyle is a British filmmaker who is best known for editing ""Monty Python's Life of Brian"" and shooting the special effects for Terry Gilliam's films ""Brazil"" and ""Time Bandits"". Doyle was born in London from an Irish father, Bob Doyle, and"
"making of ""Monty Python and the Holy Grail"". He says he used to think of his films in terms of trilogies, starting with ""Time Bandits"": the ""Trilogy of Imagination"" (written by Gilliam) about ""the ages of man"" in ""Time Bandits"" (1981), ""Brazil"" (1985), and ""The Adventures of Baron Munchausen"" (1988). All are about the ""craziness of our awkwardly ordered society and the desire to escape it through whatever means possible."" All three movies focus on these struggles and attempts to escape them through imagination; ""Time Bandits"" through the eyes of a child, ""Brazil"" through the eyes of a man in"
"Claudio Miranda Claudio Miranda (; born March 1965 in Valparaíso, Chile) is a Chilean cinematographer best known as the Academy Award-winning director of photography on Ang Lee's film ""Life of Pi"" and as the director of photography on David Fincher's film ""The Curious Case of Benjamin Button"", the first entirely digitally filmed movie nominated for an Academy Award for Best Cinematography and an American Society of Cinematographers Award. He is the second Chilean person to win an Academy Award. Miranda first worked with David Fincher in 1995 as a gaffer on ""Seven"". He performed the same role on ""The Game"""
"Richard LaGravenese Richard LaGravenese (born October 30, 1959) is an American screenwriter and film director, best known as the writer of ""The Fisher King"". LaGravenese was born in Brooklyn, New York, the son of a taxi driver. He is of Italian descent. He graduated from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts in 1980 with a bachelor of fine arts degree in acting. LaGravenese wrote ""The Fisher King"" on spec in the late 1980s. It was acquired by Stacey Sher, Lynda Obst, Debra Hill's production company and subsequently directed by Terry Gilliam. In New York City during the early"
"Ribeirinho Ribeirinho, stage name of Francisco Carlos Lopes Ribeiro (Lisbon, 21 September 1911 – Lisbon, 7 February 1984) was a Portuguese actor and director. He started his career in theatre in 1929, and kept the connection all his life, both as an actor and as a manager. However, he is best known today for his comic roles in several films of the 1930s and 1940s, namely ""O Pai Tirano"" (""The Tyrant Father"", 1941) and ""O Pátio das Cantigas"" (""Songs' Yard"" or ""Courtyard of Songs"", 1942), which he also directed. Son of Manuel Henrique Correia da Silva Ribeiro and wife Ester"
"Gore Verbinski Gregor ""Gore"" Verbinski (born March 16, 1964) is an American film director, screenwriter, producer and musician. He is best known for directing the first three films of the ""Pirates of the Caribbean"" film saga, ""The Ring"", and ""Rango"". Verbinski is a graduate of UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television. His most recent film, ""A Cure for Wellness"", was released in 2017. Verbinski won the Oscar for Best Animated Feature, the BAFTA Award for Best Animated Film and the Golden Globe Award for Best Animated Feature Film in 2012 for his animated action-comedy western ""Rango"". His films have"
"College of Music. Pedro Bromfman worked as a session musician, arranger and music producer before moving to California to study film scoring at UCLA. He's released his first solo album, Pé-de-Moleque, in 2000. Pedro started his career as a media composer creating music for trailers and commercials before he began composing for films. Pedro Bromfman Pedro Bromfman (born 20 January 1976) is a Brazilian musician, film composer and music producer. He is known for having scored ""RoboCop"" (2014), the Netflix series ""Narcos"", Max Payne 3 (2012) ,""Elite Squad"" and ""Elite Squad II"", the highest-grossing film in Brazil's box office history."
"Python (film) Python is a 2000 made-for-TV horror movie directed by Richard Clabaugh. The film features several cult favorite actors, including William Zabka of ""The Karate Kid"" fame, Wil Wheaton, Casper Van Dien, Jenny McCarthy, Keith Coogan, Robert Englund, Dana Barron, David Bowe, and Sean Whalen. The film concerns a genetically engineered snake, a python, that escapes and unleashes itself on a small town. It includes the classic final girl scenario evident in films such as ""Friday the 13th"". It was filmed in Los Angeles and Malibu, California. ""Python"" was followed by three sequels: ""New Alcatraz"" (2002), ""Pythons 2"" (2002),"
"episodes, where the protagonists are the things that are in a house: the mop, the toothbrush, the glasses, the vacuum cleaner etc. The series was honored with several international awards. José Miguel Ribeiro José Miguel Ribeiro (Amadora, Portugal, 18 January 1966) is a Portuguese film director. José Miguel Ribeiro was born on 18 January 1966 in Amadora, Portugal. Just studying Fine Arts at the School of Belas-Artes from Lisboa and started working as a draftsman in 1990. Start making a short animation in 1994 among the highlights ""O Banquet dóna Rainha"" and ""O Ovo"". In 1999 done ""A Suspeita"", short"
"Charles McKeown Charles McKeown ( ; born 1946) is a British actor and writer, perhaps best known for his collaborations with Terry Gilliam. The two met while shooting ""Monty Python's Life of Brian"", while McKeown was doing bit parts in the film. McKeown co-wrote the screenplay for ""Brazil"" (1985) with Gilliam and Tom Stoppard, for which they were collectively nominated for an Academy Award. In ""The Adventures of Baron Munchausen"" (1988), McKeown again co-wrote the screenplay with Gilliam. After nearly twenty years apart, the two collaborated on the screenplay for ""The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus"". He is the writer for"
"Ronald Víctor García Ronald Víctor García is an American cinematographer and film director. He is known for directing 1970s horror and exploitation films, such as ""The Toy Box"" and ""Inside Amy"", as well as his later work on television series, including directing ""Silk Stalkings"", and working as the director of photography on series such as ""Hawaii Five-0"", ""Numb3rs"", ""Gilmore Girls"", and the pilot of ""Twin Peaks"". In 1991, García received the CableACE Award for Direction of Photography for a Dramatic or Theatrical Special/Movie or Miniseries for his work on the film ""El Diablo"". In addition, he received 2 Primetime Emmy"
"was a flop at the box office, was nominated for four Academy Awards and won three BAFTA Awards, among several other Prizes in Europe. ""The Fisher King"" (1991), his first film not to feature a member of the Monty Python troupe, had a budget of $24 million and grossed more than $41 million at United States box office. ""12 Monkeys"" grossed more than US$168 million worldwide. ""The Brothers Grimm"", despite a mixed critical reception, grossed over US$105 million worldwide. ""The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus"", with a budget of $30 million, has been an international success at the box office, grossing"
"as Goldcrest, HandMade Films and Merchant Ivory Productions. Handmade Films, which was partly owned by George Harrison, was originally formed to take over the production of ""Monty Python's Life of Brian"", after EMI's Bernard Delfont (Lew Grade's brother) had pulled out. Handmade also bought and released the gangster drama ""The Long Good Friday"" (1980), produced by a Lew Grade subsidiary, after its original backers became cautious. Members of the Python team were involved in other comedies during the decade, including Terry Gilliam's fantasy films ""Time Bandits"" (1981) and ""Brazil"" (1985), and John Cleese's hit ""A Fish Called Wanda"" (1988), while"
"The Fisher King The Fisher King is a 1991 American comedy-drama film written by Richard LaGravenese and directed by Terry Gilliam. Starring Robin Williams and Jeff Bridges, with Mercedes Ruehl, Amanda Plummer, and Michael Jeter in supporting roles, the film tells the story of a radio shock jock who tries to find redemption by helping a man whose life he inadvertently shattered. The film was released in the United States by TriStar Pictures on September 20, 1991. It was a critical and commercial success, grossing $42 million on a $24 million budget. Jack Lucas, a narcissistic, misanthropic shock jock, becomes"
"Don Bluth Donald Virgil Bluth (; born September 13, 1937) is an American animator, film director, producer, writer, production designer, video game designer and animation instructor. He is known for directing animated films, such as ""The Secret of NIMH"" (1982), ""An American Tail"" (1986), ""The Land Before Time"" (1988), ""All Dogs Go to Heaven"" (1989) and ""Anastasia"" (1997), and for his involvement in the LaserDisc game ""Dragon's Lair"" (1983). He is also known for competing with former employer Walt Disney Productions during the years leading up to the films that would make up the Disney Renaissance. He is the older"
"Kevin Lima Kevin Lima (born June 12, 1962) is an American film director who has directed a number of Disney films including his debut film ""A Goofy Movie"" in 1995, ""Tarzan"" (1999), ""102 Dalmatians"" (2000), and ""Enchanted"" (2007). He is married to Brenda Chapman, the head of story of ""The Lion King"" (1994) and co-director of ""The Prince of Egypt"" (1998) and ""Brave"" (2012). Kevin was born in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. His grandparents were both Portuguese. Lima studied film and animation at the California Institute of the Arts, during the mid-80's. After graduation, he went to Taiwan for half a"
"Each member has pursued various film, television, and stage projects since the break-up of the group, but often continued to work with one another. Many of these collaborations were very successful, most notably ""A Fish Called Wanda"" (1988), written by Cleese, in which he starred along with Palin. The pair also appeared in ""Time Bandits"" (1981), a film directed by Gilliam, who wrote it together with Palin. Gilliam directed ""Jabberwocky"" (1977), and also directed and co-wrote ""Brazil"" (1985), which featured Palin, and ""The Adventures of Baron Munchausen"" (1988), which featured Idle. ""Yellowbeard"" (1983) was co-written by Chapman and featured Chapman,"
"Award nominations for other projects and was honored with a lifetime achievement award from the American Society of Cinematographers. Ronald Víctor García Ronald Víctor García is an American cinematographer and film director. He is known for directing 1970s horror and exploitation films, such as ""The Toy Box"" and ""Inside Amy"", as well as his later work on television series, including directing ""Silk Stalkings"", and working as the director of photography on series such as ""Hawaii Five-0"", ""Numb3rs"", ""Gilmore Girls"", and the pilot of ""Twin Peaks"". In 1991, García received the CableACE Award for Direction of Photography for a Dramatic or"
"Gerald Potterton Gerald Potterton (born 8 March 1931) is a British–Canadian director, producer and animator. He is best known for directing the cult classic ""Heavy Metal"" and his animation work on ""Yellow Submarine"". Potterton has been nominated three times for an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film: as director on the National Film Board of Canada animated shorts ""My Financial Career"" and ""Christmas Cracker"", and as producer for ""The Selfish Giant"". Born in London, Potterton attended the Hammersmith Art School. He emigrated from England to live in Canada in 1955. Potterton currently lives in Cowansville, Quebec, Canada, where he"
"Norman J. Grossfeld Norman J. Grossfeld (born December 15, 1963 in New York) is an American director, television producer, screenwriter and executive. From February 1994 to December 2009, he was the president of 4Kids Productions, a former subsidiary of 4Kids Entertainment and Leisure Concepts. He produced the English adaptations of the first eight seasons of the ""Pokémon"" TV series and six seasons of ""Yu-Gi-Oh!"". He produced five seasons of the new ""Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles"", five ""Pokémon"" movies, one ""Yu-Gi-Oh!"" movie and he also produced the 3 Seasons of ""Winx Club"" on 4KidsTV. In addition to producing and executive producing,"
"Norman J. Grossfeld Norman J. Grossfeld (born December 15, 1963 in New York) is an American director, television producer, screenwriter and executive. From February 1994 to December 2009, he was the president of 4Kids Productions, a former subsidiary of 4Kids Entertainment and Leisure Concepts. He produced the English adaptations of the first eight seasons of the ""Pokémon"" TV series and six seasons of ""Yu-Gi-Oh!"". He produced five seasons of the new ""Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles"", five ""Pokémon"" movies, one ""Yu-Gi-Oh!"" movie and he also produced the 3 Seasons of ""Winx Club"" on 4KidsTV. In addition to producing and executive producing,"
"John Cleese John Marwood Cleese (; born 27 October 1939) is an English actor, voice actor, comedian, screenwriter, and producer. He achieved success at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and as a scriptwriter and performer on ""The Frost Report"". In the late 1960s, he co-founded Monty Python, the comedy troupe responsible for the sketch show ""Monty Python's Flying Circus"" and the four Monty Python films: ""And Now for Something Completely Different"", ""Monty Python and the Holy Grail"", ""Life of Brian"" and ""The Meaning of Life"". In the mid-1970s, Cleese and his first wife, Connie Booth, co-wrote and starred in the British"
"Franklin J. Schaffner Franklin James Schaffner (May 30, 1920July 2, 1989) was an American film director. He won the Academy Award for Best Director for ""Patton"" (1970), and is also known for the films ""Planet of the Apes"" (1968), ""Nicholas and Alexandra"" (1971), ""Papillon"" (1973), and ""The Boys from Brazil"" (1978). Schaffner was born in Tokyo, Japan, the son of American missionaries Sarah Horting (née Swords) and Paul Franklin Schaffner, and was raised in Japan. He returned to the United States and graduated from Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, where he was active in drama. He studied law"
"""Mobile Suit Gundam"" and """". Western films also served as an influence, most notably George Roy Hill's ""Slaughterhouse-Five"" (1972), ""The City of Lost Children"" (1995) and the works of Terry Gilliam (particularly ""Time Bandits"" (1981), ""Brazil"" (1985) and ""The Adventures of Baron Munchausen"" (1989)). In addition to Gilliam, he also blogged about watching Monty Python. He was fond of the works of Akira Kurosawa, and worked in a reference to him in ""Paprika"". However he claimed to be largely unfamiliar with Japanese film in general. Satoshi Kon had an impact on a number of influential directors. American filmmaker Darren Aronofsky"