Forty years after Life of Brian was first released, Nicholas Barber looks at why the Monty Python film was banned – and went on to become a box office hit. It may not be true that all publicity is ...

Michael Palin has said that Monty Python’s religious satire film Life of Brian wouldn’t get made today because he believes comedy is being watered down. Palin, 82, who co-founded the comedy troupe ...

Terry Gilliam has been to Cannes with three of his own films since 1983, but one of his favorite memories of the festival takes him back to that very first time, at the 36 th edition, as the co-writer ...

On Aug. 17, 1979 — 45 years ago Saturday — the British comedy troupe Monty Python released a film in the U.S. poking fun at religious institutions, involving a man who is repeatedly mistaken for Jesus ...