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PMA Films: "Summer of '75": Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)

  • Portland Museum of Art 7 Congress Square Portland, ME, 04101 United States (map)

SCREENING IN THE BERNARD OSHER FOUNDATION AUDITORIUM


[A]s 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

92 minutes. Rated PG. Directed by Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones. In English. DCP.

Grossing the highest box-office of any British film in the US when released in 1975, this "cult classic" comedy from the Monty Python team loosely follows the legend of King Arthur (Graham Chapman), along with his squire (Terry Gilliam) and his Knights of the Round Table (John Cleese, Eric Idle, Terry Jones and Michael Palin), as they embark on a fearless quest in search of the elusive Holy Grail. A hysterical, historical tour-de-force from Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones. 

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