An iconoclast in the worlds of independent film and journalism who embodied — and celibrated — Texas individualism, Carson died October 20 in Dallas following a long battle with osteoporosis and other illnesses. He was 73.
A Dallas native whose career took him to Austin, Houston, New York, Los Angeles and many places far afield and in between, Lewis Minor Carson was best known as co-author with Sam Shepard of the Wim Wenders film Paris, Texas (Carson’s official credit was for “adaptation”), which won the Palme d’Or at Cannes in 1984. Known universally as Kit, after his Texas Ranger grandfather, he is credited with helping create the”mockumentary” genre for writing and playing the title role in David Holtzman’s Diary, the Jim McBride film about a navel-gazer who decides to film every moment of his unmomentous life. The 1967 film anticipated such disparate touchstones as the film This Is Spinal Tap and the...
A Dallas native whose career took him to Austin, Houston, New York, Los Angeles and many places far afield and in between, Lewis Minor Carson was best known as co-author with Sam Shepard of the Wim Wenders film Paris, Texas (Carson’s official credit was for “adaptation”), which won the Palme d’Or at Cannes in 1984. Known universally as Kit, after his Texas Ranger grandfather, he is credited with helping create the”mockumentary” genre for writing and playing the title role in David Holtzman’s Diary, the Jim McBride film about a navel-gazer who decides to film every moment of his unmomentous life. The 1967 film anticipated such disparate touchstones as the film This Is Spinal Tap and the...
- 10/29/2014
- by Jeremy Gerard
- Deadline
Blu-ray & DVD Release Date: Feb. 12, 2013
Price: DVD $24.99
Studio: Virgil
A Liar's Autobiography offers a colorfully animated look at Monty Python's late Graham Chapman.
The 2012 sort-of documentary comedy film A Liar’s Autobiography: The Untrue Story of Monty Python’s Graham Chapman offers a humorous examination of the life of you-know-who, a member of the legendary British TV comedy troupe Monty Python’s Flying Circus.
The late Chapman, the man who co-wrote Python’s immortal “Dead Parrot” sketch, became himself “demised” in 1989 at the age of 48 from throat cancer. But in seeming preparation for this event, Chapman years earlier recorded himself reading from his book A Liar’s Autobiography Vol. VI, a fictionalized account of his life published in 1980. Now, directors Bill Jones (son of Python member Terry Jones), Jeff Simpson and Ben Timlett, with help from animators at 14 studios, have turned those tapes into a look at the very creative and very complicated Chapman.
Price: DVD $24.99
Studio: Virgil
A Liar's Autobiography offers a colorfully animated look at Monty Python's late Graham Chapman.
The 2012 sort-of documentary comedy film A Liar’s Autobiography: The Untrue Story of Monty Python’s Graham Chapman offers a humorous examination of the life of you-know-who, a member of the legendary British TV comedy troupe Monty Python’s Flying Circus.
The late Chapman, the man who co-wrote Python’s immortal “Dead Parrot” sketch, became himself “demised” in 1989 at the age of 48 from throat cancer. But in seeming preparation for this event, Chapman years earlier recorded himself reading from his book A Liar’s Autobiography Vol. VI, a fictionalized account of his life published in 1980. Now, directors Bill Jones (son of Python member Terry Jones), Jeff Simpson and Ben Timlett, with help from animators at 14 studios, have turned those tapes into a look at the very creative and very complicated Chapman.
- 1/28/2013
- by Laurence
- Disc Dish
A Gay Old Time: Documentary/Animation Hybrid a Loving, Original Tribute
Co-directors Bill Jones, Jeff Simpson, and Ben Timlett (two of which were involved with a 2009 documentary series on Monty Python) have managed to create a stupendously odd and entertaining 3D animated film, A Liar’s Autobiography, that’s both an homage to and grossly exaggerated glance at the life of Graham Chapman, renowned member of Monty Python’s Flying Circus. While Chapman passed away in 1989 from throat cancer, this animated feature utilizes his voice from tapes he made in 1986 from the narration of his own book “A Liar’s Autobiography: Volume VI” (taped in Harry Nilsson’s studio).
We’re introduced to an animated version of Chapman, performing as Oscar Wilde on stage opposite close friend and colleague, John Cleese. Forgetting his next line, a spaceship beams through the roof and scoops him up into a newly animated form,...
Co-directors Bill Jones, Jeff Simpson, and Ben Timlett (two of which were involved with a 2009 documentary series on Monty Python) have managed to create a stupendously odd and entertaining 3D animated film, A Liar’s Autobiography, that’s both an homage to and grossly exaggerated glance at the life of Graham Chapman, renowned member of Monty Python’s Flying Circus. While Chapman passed away in 1989 from throat cancer, this animated feature utilizes his voice from tapes he made in 1986 from the narration of his own book “A Liar’s Autobiography: Volume VI” (taped in Harry Nilsson’s studio).
We’re introduced to an animated version of Chapman, performing as Oscar Wilde on stage opposite close friend and colleague, John Cleese. Forgetting his next line, a spaceship beams through the roof and scoops him up into a newly animated form,...
- 11/4/2012
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Montreal’s Festival Du Nouveau Cinema (10.10 – 10.21) announced their line-up today for their 41st edition and among the smorgasbord of subtitle offerings dating back to this year’s Rotterdam, Berlin, Cannes, Locarno, Venice and Tiff editions, we’re knee-deep in avant-garde world cinema from the established auteurs Assayas, Vinterberg, Ozon, Sang-Soo, Joao Pedro Rodriguez, Larrain, Loach, Reygadas, Ghobadi, Mungiu and Miguel Gomes. Heavy on offerings from Quebec and France, the fest also manages to offer a stellar snapshot of the up-and-comers from all corners of the globe. Among the notable titles in the (Competition category) International Selection we’ve got Pablo Berger’s Blancanieves, Ursula Meier’s Sister, Brian M. Cassidy and Melanie Shatzky’s Francine (which received its theatrical release earlier this month) and Rodrigo Plá’s La Demora. Loaded in Cannes items, the Special Presentations is the fest’s A-list selections (see filmmakers named above) and the one pic...
- 9/25/2012
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
We all love Monty Python (if you don’t, just pretend you know what I’m talking about and keep going). And by that standard, anything with the name in the title must be gloriously brilliant. It’s going to break comedic ground by its ability to comment on the highest level of societal discussion. At the same time, it’s going to be the silliest piece of nonsense you’ve ever found yourself gut-splitting, on the floor, laughing at — while crying, as well. A Liar’s Autobiography: The Untrue Story of Monty Python’s Graham Chapman, however, is not a Monty Python film. It is an act of self-indulgent nostalgia by a group of men who love their colleague. In 1986, three years before his death from cancer, Graham Chapman decided to conduct an experiment by taping an audio book that would serve as a fictional telling of his life. It...
- 9/9/2012
- by Andrew Robinson
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Monty Python is a name that continues to ring synonymous with sketch comedy, long after members of the troupe have died, retired, or moved on to other careers. Before his death, a member of the group, Graham Chapman, wrote a fake memoir titled A Liar’s Autobiography (Volume VI). Last year, news emerged that an animated adaptation of the book was in the works, with 14 different animation studios each tackling one part of the book. But the real coup occurred at the casting level, with former Monty Python members Terry Gilliam, John Cleese, Terry Jones, and Michael Palin all lending their voice to the movie, along with recordings made by Chapman prior to his demise. Directed by Bill Jones, Ben Timlett and Jeff Simpson, the minds behind Monty Python’s Flying Circus, the film now has a trailer, which can be seen below.
- 9/5/2012
- by Deepayan Sengupta
- SoundOnSight
Graham Chapman played many key parts as a member of the British comedy group Monty Python. On their BBC sketch show, Flying Circus, a dry demeanor made him a perfect straight man. On film, it was a quality that shaped his reluctant Christ figure in The Life of Brian — and his befuddled King Arthur in Monty Python and the Holy Grail — just two of the countless roles he took on before an untimely death in 1989. Now, 23 years later, his life is (kind of) the subject of the animated 3D comedy A Liar’s Autobiography: The Untrue Story of Monty Python’s Graham Chapman.
Directed by Bill Jones, Jeff Simpson, and Ben Timlett, A Liar’s Autoiography presents a fictionalized account of the comedian’s life. Based on the his published memoirs, the film uses recently discovered audio tapes of Chapman to create the narration. Pythons John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones,...
Directed by Bill Jones, Jeff Simpson, and Ben Timlett, A Liar’s Autoiography presents a fictionalized account of the comedian’s life. Based on the his published memoirs, the film uses recently discovered audio tapes of Chapman to create the narration. Pythons John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones,...
- 9/4/2012
- by jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
- The Film Stage
John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Michael Palin and Terry Jones will turn late actor's memoir into animated 3D film
He found himself laughed at, misunderstood and nailed to a cross while the crowd looked on the bright side. Now Graham Chapman, Monty Python mainstay and title star of Life of Brian, is set to rise again in a 3D animated biopic.
Adapted from the actor's 1980 memoir A Liar's Autobiography: Volume VI, the film will blend contributions from the surviving Pythons with audio of Chapman reading from his book, recorded shortly before his death from cancer in October 1989. According to the New York Times, the picture is the brainchild of producers Ben Timlett, Jeff Simpson and Bill Jones, the son of former Python Terry Jones. It is set for a theatrical release in the UK next spring.
Educated at Cambridge, Chapman was a founding member of Monty Python's Flying Circus, the groundbreaking...
He found himself laughed at, misunderstood and nailed to a cross while the crowd looked on the bright side. Now Graham Chapman, Monty Python mainstay and title star of Life of Brian, is set to rise again in a 3D animated biopic.
Adapted from the actor's 1980 memoir A Liar's Autobiography: Volume VI, the film will blend contributions from the surviving Pythons with audio of Chapman reading from his book, recorded shortly before his death from cancer in October 1989. According to the New York Times, the picture is the brainchild of producers Ben Timlett, Jeff Simpson and Bill Jones, the son of former Python Terry Jones. It is set for a theatrical release in the UK next spring.
Educated at Cambridge, Chapman was a founding member of Monty Python's Flying Circus, the groundbreaking...
- 6/29/2011
- by Xan Brooks
- The Guardian - Film News
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