“Jim Henson Idea Man” chronicles the late Muppet creator’s life and work with a mix of archival material, animated and musical flourishes, and interviews.
Until they met with Ron Howard a couple of years ago, Jim Henson’s four surviving children — Lisa, Cheryl, Brian, and Heather — had been reluctant to participate in a documentary about their father.
“You could see a kind of aesthetic thread throughout, a wit and satirical undercurrent, and his tremendous imagination,” Howard says of Henson’s work. “Almost immediately I wanted to channel Jim's sensibility and aesthetic through the stuff that we would create.” When Jane gave birth to Lisa, pausing her professional creative work to begin a family, Jim kept up his breakneck pace, building a small team of puppeteers, which included Oz, to make Muppets-based commercials inside a Manhattan workshop. Over the next decade, Jim’s production increased, with the puppeteer developing a repertoire of characters and making experimental films and television specials — “early works that are super revealing of my dad as an artist,” Brian says.
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