Starring: Graham Chapman, Eric Idle, John Cleese Watch all you want for free. Without much of an idea of what they were going to do, they were given a series by the BBC to do it in, and after hunting around for a name -- “Owl-Stretching Time” and “A Horse, a Spoon, and a Basin” having been bruited and vetoed -- they settled on “Monty Python’s Flying Circus.”The 40th anniversary of this event is being marked by an excellent six-hour documentary series, “Monty Python: Almost the Truth (The Lawyer’s Cut),” which begins tonight on the Independent Film Channel.The group’s communal creative life span stretched from 1969 to 1983, but once a Python always a Python: Not only did the five surviving members -- John Cleese, Eric Idle, Michael Palin, Terry Jones and Terry Gilliam (Graham Chapman died from throat cancer in 1989) -- consent to talk for the camera for the new film, but they also reunited onstage last week in New York for a public “conversation” at the premiere of a feature-length “theatrical cut.”Despite its equivocal title, “Almost the Truth” beats any Python documentary yet made for comprehensiveness and depth. “We’d been obeying conventions we didn’t really agree with for a very long time,” Cleese says in the film of the new comic possibilities. The small act of protest spurred a reckoning.Devo cofounder Mark Mothersbaugh spent weeks in Cedars-Sinai hospital, hooked up to a ventilator, his mind wracked by violent hallucinations. Jones co-wrote an opera, of all things, “Evil Machines.” Idle -- who spun “Monty Python and the Holy Grail” into “Spamalot!” and recently staged “An Evening Without Monty Python” (Python sketches played by others) -- says in the film, “People say, ‘Let’s get the Beatles back together. (If the Beatles were a rock band with the instincts of a comedy troupe, Python was a comedy troupe with the dynamics of a rock band.) Absolutely not.”Robert Lloyd has been a Los Angeles Times television critic since 2003.Health officials warn the reopenings come with warnings as the virus remains widespread in the community.When the dust has settled and the TV cameras are gone, will white solidarity with black lives endure? The documentary is composed of six parts. Monty Python: Almost the Truth (Lawyers Cut) is a 2009 television documentary series in six parts that covers 40 years of the surreal comedy group Monty Python, from Flying Circus to present day projects such as the musical Spamalot. It never really established itself as the primary thing we were going to do with our lives. We were going to give up in ’72. They did three-hour interviews and I thought, ‘My God, how on Earth can you talk about Python for three hours?’“But it went surprisingly quickly, and we got into areas that I don’t think we’d necessarily been into before, about ‘What was it like when you were growing up?’ and ‘What was your relationship with your father?’ I found it absolutely fascinating hearing Mike talking about his parents and Eric talking about his mother and being sent away to school.”Born between 1939 (Cleese, who turns 70 this month) and 1943 (Idle and Palin), the Pythons are about the same age as the Beatles, with a similar involvement with their time.

. We like to see old friends end as friends.“Is it a good thing to go over all this stuff?” Palin wondered aloud. Probably. They are doing other things -- acting, directing, writing books and newspaper pieces, this, that. Nobody said, ‘Let’s deal with the Spanish Inquisition now’ or ‘Let’s do Freemasons today.’ I remember Python as always being made and produced and acted on the edge of laughter.”“I thought it was important to see them laughing, to see them enjoying themselves and enjoying their memories as well,” said Bill Jones, by (yet another) phone from the U.K. (As to growing up the son of a Python in the 1980s, “At my school there was another dad who was in a children’s TV series called ‘Grange Hill’ -- he was the famous dad and my dad was just some old bloke.”)“I think we caught them all at a really good time,” Timlett added (on the same line as Bill Jones). The 90-minute documentary, directed by BAFTA award winning Roger Graef OBE, follows the stars of Monty Python as they reform and stage a marathon ten shows at The O2, London. Cleese is a busy character actor and sometime lecturer at Cornell. John Cleese was incredibly happy, even though he’d just got divorced. It is at its heart the story of six men and their sometimes contentious, sometimes gleeful relationship to one another, their work and their culture, as told by themselves, the people they worked with and the people they influenced.

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