Cinema Savant: Select Films of Terry Gilliam

This October, FilmScene celebrates a visit by visionary director Terry Gilliam with a special month-long series, featuring four of his most-loved films: "Monty Python and the Holy Grail," "Brazil," "The Fisher King," and "12 Monkeys." PURCHASE A SERIES PASS for admission to all four films weekends in October + bonus free admission to "Time Bandits" for The Picture Show series and "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" for Bijou After Hours.

Individual, regularly priced tickets for each film are also available for purchase.

MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL

"GRAIL is as funny as a movie can get, but it is also a tough-minded picture -- as outraged about the human propensity for violence as it is outrageous in its attack on that propensity." -Richard Schickel, TIME Magazine

"A marvelously particular kind of lunatic endeavor." -Vincent Canby, The New York Times

"Silly, sophomoric, and slapped together -- but would you want it any other way?" -Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader

Monty Python is on a medieval quest in their first feature film MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL. England 932 A.D and King Arthur (Graham Chapman) accompanied by his trusty servant Patsy (Terry Gilliam) is seeking Knights to join his Round Table at Camelot.

A comedic send-up of the grim circumstances of the Middle Ages as told through the story of King Arthur and framed by a modern-day murder investigation. When the mythical king of the Britons leads his knights on a quest for the Holy Grail, they face a wide array of horrors, including a persistent Black Knight, a three-headed giant, a cadre of shrubbery-challenged knights, the perilous Castle Anthrax, a killer rabbit, a house of virgins, and a handful of rude Frenchmen.