How the long lost Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch from 'Monty Python of the Holy Grail' – going up for auction in London – was discovered. Skip to main content Plus Icon Click to expand the Mega Menu ...

But, honestly, what is left for a writer to say about “Monty Python and the Holy Grail,” the seminal comedy that seemingly dropped from the heavens like one of the movie’s cartoon God hands?

Mehdi Bajestani in the movie “Holy Spider.” (Utopia) There’s an appreciably dialectical sense of purpose to this framing that goes beyond the usual cat-and-mouse genre formulations.

Whatever else it is, Holy Motors is a two-hour product reel for its prodigious, protean star. “If Denis had said no,” Carax has said, “I would have offered the part to Lon Chaney or to Chaplin.