A still from Ron Howard's documentary for Disney+, emJim Henson: Idea Man/em.
The Big Picture Jim Henson might be the most famous puppeteer ever, as the man behind The Muppets, Sesame Street, Labyrinth, and all sorts of other wild projects that essentially turned his cast of characters into their own celebrities. Yet as we learn early on in Ron Howard’s latest documentary, Jim Henson Idea Man, puppets were a means to an end.
Release Date May 31, 2024 Director Ron Howard Cast Fran Brill , Jennifer Connelly , Dave Goelz , Brian Henson Runtime 111 Minutes Ron Howard Focuses on Jim Henson as an Experimental Filmmaker and Creator Howard primarily sets his documentary in a cube-like room, a reference to a rarely-seen Henson teleplay known as The Cube, which only aired twice on television. It makes sense, as Howard wants us to see Henson’s work through the almost absurdist lens everything Henson worked on filtered through.
But Howard also makes sure to give the audience plenty of behind-the-scenes looks at Henson’s Muppets shows, whether it’s watching Oz and Henson goofing off while playing Bert & Ernie, or the uphill climb it was to get someone to take him seriously enough to make The Muppet Show. For someone who never grew up with puppets himself, Henson took to the medium fully, playing with the various ways one could tell a story through just a coat sleeve and a ping pong ball cut in half.
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