Re-release Brian!

Here's news to brighten up everyone's day. Monty Python's Life of Brian is to be re-released in the USA (and let's hope elsewhere too) to celebrate its twenty-five year anniversary. Thanks to Helenann Hartley for this link:

Python film to challenge Passion
Monty Python's film The Life of Brian is to return to US cinemas next month following the success of The Passion of the Christ.

The Biblical satire will be re-released in Los Angeles, New York and other US cities to mark its 25th anniversary.

Adverts will challenge Mel Gibson's blockbuster with the lines "Mel or Monty?", "The Passion or the Python?" . . . .

. . . . . Rainbow president Henry Jaglom said: "We decided this is an important time to re-release this film, to provide some counter-programming to The Passion."

He said the surviving members of the Monty Python comedy team "all agreed this was a good time" to bring back the film and would help promote it.

Mr Jaglom, whose partner John Goldstone produced the original film, said trailers for the comedy would start to appear in cinemas on Good Friday.

And the news also appears in today's Guardian:

Life of Brian comes back to bait Mel
Dan Glaister in Los Angeles

And this articles features some favourite lines from the film. The fact that the mere quotation of a handful of lines can raise a smile is a testimony to its greatness.