I just stumbled over something incredible, almost completely by accident. I had never watched ‘A liar’s Autobiography’ before, and indeed had barely heard of it, but as it was on bbc four tonight and had something to do with Monty Python, I thought I would give it a watch. I just expected the usual mix of Python gags, and to go to bed chuckling. I quickly saw that it was an animation, of course, but the first ten minutes or so did not strike me as all that funny. However, I then realised something I did not expect: the animation styles were changing. It was jumping between animation styles, interspersing them with snippets of live action, in a way I had never seen before. It was as if film style itself was being played with, juxtaposed to fit the mood of the scene. It struck me as completely original. Moreover, it soon became clear that, while it was a film about a comic group and had many comic moments, the film itself was actually quite dark, telling the story of Graham Chapman’s life, including his fight with alcoholism, for example. I quickly became very impressed; I just watched an astounding, serious piece of film, very interestingly constructed, which would be well worth a second viewing.