The Seventh Python has picked up a major prestigious film festival award as it begins a new round of screenings across the country.
The musical nonfiction film about legendary pop satirist and Monty Python collaborator Neil Innes has been named winner of the 2009 Las Vegas International Film Festival’s Golden Ace Award.
The festival judges announced [...]
The Seventh Python
A whole movie about Neil Innes
Aboot
This is a movie about Neil's life and work and avoidance of fame, centered on two concerts in Los Angeles that were arranged by your webmasters Bonnie & Laurie. Filmmakers Burt Kearns and Brett Hudson filmed the shows, the rehearsals, and general Neil going around stuff, and then spent a long time raising the money to make it even bigger and turn it into a film. They wound up interviewing all the living Pythons (except Terry Gilliam, who went missing when they were England) as well Bonzos and Rutles and artists who were influenced by Neil. They even went to Neil's house in England and filmed him there, as well as Phill Jupitus and John Halsey (aka Barry Wom) at his pub in Cambridge. Then they got me (Bonnie) to do some animation it and VOILA! The Seventh Python is finished. Never thought I'd live to see the day!
