The Seventh Python (Official MySpace!) can be seen at the Revelation Perth International Film Festival in Perth, Australia, July 4th and July 10th at 7:15 pm! view more
“Inspired! Hilarious!
Offers lots of fun, insider tidbits
to chuckle over on fan sites!
This movie makes you admire Innes.
It makes you like him as a person.
It makes you want to be his friend!”
--The LAist
“Charming and illuminating!”
--The Los Angeles Times
"A sweet and funny documentary!
The Seventh Python made me
want to stand up and cheer
for a good and funny man!
A must-see for any
Monty Python fan!"
--Luke Ford
Sean Connors Films, Ltd. Presents a Frozen Pictures production of The Seventh Python, a nonfiction musical feature film based on the life, work and unplanned career of musical satirist Neil Innes. The Seventh Python traces one man’s winding path of whimsy as he flirts with destiny at the edge of fame with incredibly influential and unusually lasting work that keeps one foot each planted in the worlds of comedy and rock ‘n’ roll. From the Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band to Monty Python's Flying Circus and The Rutles, to his Ego Warrior campaign and his insistence on wearing a plastic duck on his head, Neil Innes has proven to be the greatest musical comedy satirist of the past fifty years.
Not for nothing does John Cleese compare him to Steve Martin and Charlie Chaplin. It’s no coincidence that Terry Jones likens him to Paul Simon. It’s bizarre that Eric Idle and Michael Palin say he reminds them of Belgians—but they all say it in The Seventh Python.
Paul McCartney produced Neil's first (and, alas, last) hit single; he appeared in The Beatle's Magical Mystery Tour; he performed with The Pythons on television, on tour, in films-- and in The Concert for George tribute to his friend George Harrison (in which he was seen baring his arse onstage at the Royal Albert Hall); he belongs in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as Rutle Ron Nasty; he plays a mean ukulele; and he's even got a songwriting credit on a tune by Oasis, who acknowledged “appropriating" his classic, How Sweet To Be An Idiot; and did we mention he likes to wear a duck on his head?
Yes, Neil Innes wears a duck on his head and he refuses to be famous. And it is his stubborn, brave resistance to celebrity culture and consumerism that is at the heart of this film that one early reviewer has called “touching, hilarious and inventive!”
The Seventh Python is filled with concert performances from Neil Innes’ brave trip to Hollywood, the heart of celebrity culture, and includes appearances by many friends and associates, from the aforementioned Monty Pythons to music star Aimee Mann, Simpsons creator Matt Groening and a Rutle or two.
The Seventh Python premieres on June 26th at Martin Lewis’ Mods & Rockers Film Festival at the Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood. The film is directed by Burt Kearns and written and produced by Burt Kearns and Brett Hudson, the Frozen Pictures team whose recent productions include the 2006 nonfiction film, Basketball Man, the Bravo miniseries, All The Presidents' Movies narrated by Martin Sheen, the Court TV's The Secret History of Rock 'n' Roll with Gene Simmons and Adults Only: The Secret History of The Other Hollywood with Legs McNeil, the Showtime docudrama series My First Time, and Cloud 9, the 20th Century Fox motion picture comedy starring Burt Reynolds, DL Hughley, Angie Everhart and Gary Busey.
I had my marketing cap on about a week ago and with all the bad news; the Taliban in Pakistan, the looming Chyrsler bankruptcy, the new flu epidemic, etc; I decided to go with a more optimistic theme for this summer in a bumper sticker (old school). I think its working. There are currently a little more than 50 cars in the Branson area sporting this lil’ beauty. (Yes, I comped them) What do you think?
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Otis Gibson and The Rockhounds formed after their first band, Dram Booker and the Lost Dogs had an unfortunate 125 proof encounter and wandered off aimlessly. Now stronger than ever, their new tune, "Is It True?" is rising to heights not seen since yesterday afternoon.
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