At an order from Boorman, a white key light was switched on and Excalibur blazed into life, showering flakes of silvery light into the darkening afternoon. The retelling of these stories is like the rediscovery of them—it ‘catharizes’ and then gives solace.” Two of the elements in the Arthurian tales on which Boorman has laid strong emphasis in Excalibur are Merlin and the Holy Grail—the opposite poles of pri­mal pagan magic and redemptive Christian miracle. 1:42 [WATCH] Movie Excalibur 1981 Full HD. Nicol Williamson heads the cast as Merlin, the magician who weaves through the story and sets the legend in motion by passing on Excalibur to Arthur’s father. This article appeared in the March 1981 issue of American Film. The documentary is produced by Alec Moore and Lawrence Fee with Craig McCall as executive producer. The ruins of a ransacked vil­lage smoldered on a rainy hilltop, and blackened tim­bers stood in spiky silhouette against the skyline. Several years later, Arthur, Uthur's bastard son, draws Excalibur and becomes King. The film has to do with mythical truth, not historical truth; it has to do with man taking over the world on his own terms for the first time. New passions—love, ha­tred, revenge—are in play. He has enormous power and knowledge, and yet there are simple things he doesn’t grasp or understand. Boorman has cast his son as the boy Mordred and his daughter as Arthur’s mother. John Boorman’s 1981 fantastical retelling of Thomas Mallory’s Le Morte d’Arthur is, to quote Nicol Williamson’s Merlin in the film, “A dream to some. If filmmaking for me is, as I have often said, exploration, setting oneself impossible problems and failing to solve them, then the Rings saga qualifies on all counts.” He met his screenwriting collaborator Rospo Pallenberg in New York, “where he was working as an architect. 3:19. 4 étoiles et plus & plus; 3 étoiles et plus & plus; 2 étoiles et plus & plus; 1 étoile et plus & plus; Acteur. Nicholas Clay, Actor: Excalibur. On this day of shooting, though, myth gave way to nature. Excalibur (1981) A film by John Boorman based largely on Malory, features Nicol Williamson as Merlin and Helen Mirren as Morgana. Nigel Terry; Helen Mirren; Nicholas Clay; Nicol Williamson; Cherie Lunghi; Robert Addie; Corin Redgrave; Gabriel Byrne; Liam Neeson; Djimon Hounsou; Réalisateur. C’est d’ailleurs sur le tournage de ce film que Serge Gainsbourg rencontre pour la première fois Jane Birkin. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings to the screen (ironically after trying to get a filmic retelling of the Merlin myth off the ground). While space movies become more weird, whimsical, and weathered, Boorman has plunged right back into the sources of Western myth. The myth of King Arthur (Nigel Terry) brought once again to the screen. Mud-daubed actor-peasants wandered be­tween tents and market stalls eating sand­wiches and drinking tea from plastic cups; wrist-thick lighting cables snaked along the damp earth; and medieval knights and villagers traded jokes in 1980s col­loquialisms. From its first introduction in the rippling waters that bathe the ‘Lady of the Lake’ to its final scenes amidst the blood-soaked, misty ruins of war, Boorman and Thomson agreed the sword should radiate a mystic glow. Un jour en 1973, au volant de son Excalibur 35X (n°22), Guy Storr percuta un camion dans la moyenne corniche … [WATCH] Movie Excalibur 1981 Full HD. I want it to have a primal clarity, a sense that things are happening for the first time. He cures himself of that trauma, headed from isolation as a vigilante to the community of the Justice League in future films, by passing the heroic torch to Superman… Impaled in the chest by a Kryptonite spear that Batman earlier created to kill the god he only thinks is his enemy, Superman must pull himself closer to the golem to finish the beast off. “A good squire doesn’t forget his knight’s sword,” rasps Sir Ector to cue the action, whereupon the boy dashes contritely off through the market crowds to retrieve the weapon. It is an exquisite reformulation of an identical scene in Excalibur. SARUMAN: I am the cloudburst that quenches the fire! Regarder Le Roi Arthur : Le pouvoir d'Excalibur film français complet en qualité Le Roi Arthur : Le pouvoir d'Excalibur 720p Voir Le Roi Arthur : Le pouvoir d'Excalibur illimitestreaming I was very—I would say—disturbed by the curious, mythic power the place has, the strange­ness. In a sense, that’s what re­deems the characters—their aspirations, not their deeds.” Moments later, Boorman stood intent and raptly watchful beside the camera as Arthur took his first clasp of Excalibur. The one God is driving out the many Gods.” Boorman said of it “The forces of superstition and magic are swallowed up into the unconscious.” Her trickery of Merlin into incanting the magic that will freeze him for an epoch, the bridging of the world of magic, and of men, when he is released for one last intervention, is reminiscent of Boorman and Pallenberg’s method to illustrate the duel between Gandalf and Saruman in their earlier LotR script. Excalibur (1981) Critiques sur Cinafilm.com - Un surréaliste adaptation de Sir Thomas Malory est Le Morte d'Arthur, la chronique d'Arthur Pendragon de la conception, de son ascension… They ended up giving it to Ralph Bakshi, who made his truncated animated version. Un film somptueux, épique et spectaculaire. He created a three-act saga—the dark ages and the birth of Arthur, a period of brutality and superstition; the rise of Camelot and its age of reason, law, and dawning of Christianity; and the final descent into chaos and wasteland, where a frail Arthur commands the Round Table knights to seek out the Grail. Merlin the magician helps Arthur Pendragon unite the Britons around the Round Table of Camelot, even as dark forces conspire to tear it apart. The drama of the movie is clearly the most important thing to him, but the way he sees it is incredibly painterly. Other figures who move through Boorman’s re-creation include Queen Guinevere; Sir Lancelot; the knight Perceval, seeker of the Holy Grail; and the evil Morgana, magical half-sister of Arthur. 1980 Excalibur Series IV Phaeton dans W.B., Blue and the Bean, 1989 . It’s as if it takes place in no particular time in history. My only sadness is that Paul Geoffrey and Nigel Terry, two of the main character actors, seem not to have become such household names. I want it to have a primal clar­ity, a sense that things are happening for the first time. I’m trying to suggest a kind of Middle-Earth in Tolkien terms. You are awed by great scenes in EXCALIBUR: the starving peasants wandering the barren landscape, their mummified faces out of Trending. give off a kind of fantasy about castles, whereas the real ones were terribly dull buildings. 0:56. The cine­ma’s recent sci-fi thrust has curved and brought us full circle into the depths of antiquity and myth. The total score -- even minus the Wagner and Orff material -- is as spellbinding as the movie, and it's to the discredit of the business side of the production that the soundtrack (which has excellent sound) wasn't made more widely available at the time of the movie's release. It seemed to me a won­derful idea that you could remake the world, hopefully a bit better, braver, and more beautiful than it was presented to us.”, “The characters in Excalibur,” he says, “are seeking to find their place in the world, their destiny. Excalibur, film américain anglais (Grande-Bretagne) de 1980 réalisé par John Boorman, de genre Drame, Aventure, Historique, Fantasy, avec Nigel Terry, Helen Mirren, Cherie Lunghi, —John Boorman. Uthur Pendragon (Gabriel Byrne) is given the mystical sword Excalibur by the wizard Merlin. Each, in some weird way, seems to be on its own. The design is typical of the film’s vision: a sort of organic rococo, rife with spikes and leaves and hinted natural shapes. A sword-and-sorcery fantasy about a young man's search for revenge. “Plagued with pre-production difficulties for two decades before director John Boorman was able to mount the production, the filming of Excalibur, his epic telling of the Arthurian legends based primarily on Thomas Malory’s book, Le Morte d’Arthur, took place almost entirely in the Irish countryside. When the camera pulls back as their heads part, you realize ten years have passed, and Mordred is now a young man (Robert Addie), twisted with hatred by his mother to destroy Camelot and all it stands for. “There are a lot of cool parallels in this film, and the lighting helps establish the two realities. $10.64 previous price $10.64 + shipping. tonifv. Voir la fiche du film et la filmographie de John Boorman sur le site IMDB. Almost all little children are drawn to the fantasy that they were foundlings and that their real parents come from some extraordinary background. Boorman placed his camera on a tracking rail at the edge of the encampment, gave final orders for the gas jetted village bonfires to be lighted and for the horsed knights in the background to begin their jousting, and then cried, “Action!” The market scene suddenly blazed and bab­bled into life: women carrying groaning baskets of eggs and vegetables, a little boy carrying an outsize sheep, pigs and goats rooting noisily in the mud, bonfires roaring, smithy clanking, and Arthur weaving and buffeting his way through the human surge and flux. Though it was only a seasonal change, it’s a very startling one, and then I panned around with the camera, and you see that all this encampment you’re looking at to­day has grown up and around it. Boorman issued swift answers, solved the technician’s problems, and sent him out a calmer man. You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. Boorman explains, “It’s very basic to adolescent fantasy—look at Star Wars—to have the notion of the young boy who is suddenly chosen, picked out to be a leader or a king. We’re building everything our­selves, interiors and exteriors of castles, and obviously we’re using models and mattes a lot for the longer, wider shots so that we can make up what we want.” Boorman adds, “There aren’t any old castles really. Excalibur 1981 F.U.L.L Movie. John Boorman strode between scene and camera, priming and polishing this tableau, plucked from the myth-encrusted prehistory of Britain. That’s a passage of eighteen years in one cut, and it gave the story enormous dynamic power.” As Arthur, a mere squire, casually draws the blade for his “brother” whose own was stolen, their father reveals the truth of Arthur’s provenance, and a distant Merlin slowly comes into frame walking towards them, a sense of destiny foreshadowed now forthcoming. In the shimmering bower of a forest, peasants sitting on bleachers cheered as jousting steel-clad knights smote each other with sword and lance, striking sparks into the air. But the film has a tendency to drift into soft focus and impenetrable fogs. Crops fail and pestilence spreads. Film streaming en ligne gratuit et complet en 720p sur illimitestreaming . Boorman’s whole movie career might be seen as leading to this point—the ig­niting of the mythical spark in a story which has long been his most cherished movie project. Local Travelers, hardened to an outdoor life, portray Arthur’s people, fallen on hard times. “We’re using green gels in the forest exteriors,” Boorman explains, “to give a kind of luminous quality, and to empha­size the moss and the leaves. Excalibur (1981) - El rei Artur és ordenat cavaller. “Excalibur is all images flashing by—ravishing images—and though we can’t retain them, we drink them in. Jeschazeynab. Regarder Le Roi Arthur : Le pouvoir d'Excalibur . Excalibur, un film de John Boorman | Synopsis : La légende du roi Arthur et des chevaliers de la Table ronde à la quête du Graal. But in this case I asked him to go away and think about the script and try to see if he could come up with any ideas about the structure. In that scene Arthur has sprouted a beard, and you suddenly see him behaving very much like his father, Uther. It has the ability to take you back to the time it depicts, without using sentimentality or rose tinted spectacles. They’re either in ruins or they’ve been modernized over the years. Excalibur dans les films et séries télé - Page 3/4 [ Précédente | Suivante] Options d'affichage: 1980 Excalibur Series IV Phaeton dans Murder, She Wrote, 1984-1996 . Mark Wright wrote and directed the title which features interviews with Neeson, Byrne, Mirren and Stewart. Tennyson’s Idylls of the King, for instance, or Burne-Jones and the Pre-Raphaelites described and painted the twelfth-century Arthurian tales in terms of their era. I brought him to my home in Ireland and we spent six months delving with dwarfs, wallowing with the Gollum, tramping Middle-Earth with Bilbo, but, most of all, Gandalf filled my life. “Look—only seven colors. Directed by John Boorman. Set free, he plots revenge against Thulsa Doom. 1981 Dodger Infield Ron Cey Lopes signed 8X10 photo picture poster autograph RP. Boorman now put his LotR prep to good use with Pallenberg in honing their Excalibur script. And he says it himself—he says to Morgana, ‘Our time is passing and the time of man is coming. Several years later, Arthur, Uthur's bastard son, draws Excalibur and becomes King. He’s both less human and more human than or­dinary people. Voir ce film sur . After one take, a not-quite-satisfied Boorman asked for still more bustle. Keep track of everything you watch; tell your friends. On the nearby hill, the king-making sword stood rooted in a mossy stone. (1981). You can rearrange or ex­tend or elide the order of events quite liberally without destroying the meaning. Though the film is also a portrait of one of the most influential British filmmakers of the last 40 years, most of all it is a story of a father and daughter finding their way back to each other through the language of film. “In a sense, making movies is itself a quest,” Boorman declares during a break in his lighting conference. All rights reserved. I shot the first in Winter; then I shot it again in Spring, when all the trees were in leaf. At the beginning of the film, there’s a speech that Merlin makes about Excali­bur which ends with the line, ‘It was forged when the world was young, and bird, beast, and flower were one with man, and death was but a dream.’ That’s a very poignant line because it describes the longing, the yearning for that golden age, that time of harmony.”. Excalibur also forbears and stands apart from the trend for more purely escapist swords and sorcery and fantasy films in the 1980s, being nearer to an arthouse film cloaked in the trappings of blockbuster spectacle. Neither actor wanted to work with the other, because, according to Boorman, each stated they wanted to sleep with the other on the set of Macbeth, and were rebuffed. Thomson’s imaginative use of lighting on Excalibur earned him Best Cinematography nominations for an Academy Award and a BSC Award.” —Kenneth Sweeney. This is intercut with Percival’s vision of locating the Grail. Une épopée, une saga, une légende…, faite de Bricks et de “Brooks” ! One was to have Uther Pendragon, Arthur’s real father and the ‘primogenitor’ of the whole saga, if you like, drive the sword into the stone, rather than Merlin, as in Malory. Navarre, traveling with his spirited hawk, plans to kill the bishop of Aquila with help from Gaston. The DVD/Blu-ray of the film is available at Amazon and other online retailers. Mais sa passion pour Ygraine, l'épouse du duc de Cornouailles, ruine les espoirs de paix de Merlin. Other quick cuts suggest more passage of time–a scene of young Arthur (Nigel Terry) and Guinevere (Cherie Lunghi) cuts straight to a now bearded and older Arthur meeting Lancelot (Nicholas Clay) for the first time in combat, acting rashly and proudly like Uther, breaking Excalibur upon Lancelot’s armor. “And what we see in the story,” Boorman continues, “is the horror and dis­sension of man, and his warring, feuding, and brutality—his inability to really at­tain his higher aims and ideals. Vulnerable, cross, funny, wild and wise, Boorman chronicles his adventures in Hollywood, but also talks with great honesty about his childhood, his marriages, his passion for nature, his need for danger and why film is the only thing he ever truly loved. Amazon.fr: Petits prix et livraison gratuite dès 25 euros d'achat sur les produits Mauvais Genres. SÃO PAULO, SP - 14.05.2017: PALMEIRAS X VASCO - The protagonist of the movie Excalibur, the actor Charlie Hunnam, participates in marketing action with the mascots of Palmeiras, before the game between the teams, SE Palmeiras and CR Vasco da Gama, during a match valid for the first round of the Brazilian Championship, Series A, at the Allianz Arena Park. Les fils de Brook Steven débutèrent alors une série 1 améliorée sur les châssis restant. To donate, please visit our donation page, or donate directly below: Get Cinephilia & Beyond in your inbox by signing in, © 2017 Cinephilia & Beyond. Elon Musk. The myth of King Arthur (Nigel Terry) brought once again to the screen. 1980 Excalibur Series IV Phaeton dans Troop Beverly Hills, 1989 . It certainly seemed to start many careers on the right path and many of the actors are very well known now. The boy wound through the seething bodies, dashed into the tent, and found, as the legend required, no sword. Should they cover themselves for a runover in shooting by having the same casting call for extras tomorrow? Now over 80 years old, the director of Hell in the Pacific, Excalibur, Point Blank, Deliverance and The Emerald Forest is one of the last great mavericks. Films; Moyenne des commentaires client. EXCALIBUR KING ARTHUR LEGEND SWORD IN THE STONE 8X10 PHOTO. But I think the moving thing about it is the attempts that people make to try to reach those things. Lancelot unhorses Arthur, then approaches him still on horseback with his lance held out, Legacies Boss Addresses Season Premiere Death, Rafael's Big Discovery, Liam Neeson Looks Back at His Breakout Excalibur Role 40 Years Later, Marvel Reportedly Wants Multiple X-Men Teams In The McU. The sword is cast back in the lake to be reforged, and is returned to the humbled king by the Lady of the Lake (more nepotism—Telsche Boorman). Greg Bole . That’s a passage of eighteen years in one cut, and it gave the story enormous dynamic power.” “At other times,” Boorman continues, “instead of a time lapse cut on a land­scape, I’d make the transition happen on a character’s face. The chicken, knowing its big moment had come, promptly gave an exultant squawk and amid a shower of feathers laid an egg. Original Excalibur Movie Poster fantasy 1981. Excalibur (1981) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. And then I went to the west of England, to Glastonbury, and spent some time there making a film for the BBC. A young wizarding apprentice is sent to kill a dragon which has been devouring girls from a nearby kingdom. Camelot grows and develops into a shining beacon of prosperity and knowledge—little details in the background also suggest this, such as a puppet show re-enacting an earlier law (“It’s to show the passage of time,” says Boorman, “and to show Arthur’s reign passing from fact into legend.”), and an Orrery, with the stars and planets revolving around Camelot. “We had a script that we felt was fresh and cinematic, yet carried the spirit of Tolkien, a spirit we had come to admire and cherish during those months… The valley in the Wicklow hills outside of Dublin where my house sits is as close to Middle-Earth as you can get in this depleted world.” During this time United Artists, who intended to make the film, suffered several financial setbacks and got cold feet. “Then I started to read John Cowper Powys,” he says, “and I was fascinated by him and his book A Glastonbury Romance, which is all about the Grail legend threading its way through contemporary Glastonbury. $13.99 + shipping. There’s a point when I go from the young Arthur with Guinevere straight to a scene, years later, in which he meets Lancelot. And these emotions are beyond him.”. 1980 Excalibur Series IV Phaeton … The movie, an Orion production, is scheduled for release in April. Excalibur, film américain anglais (Grande-Bretagne) de 1980 réalisé par John Boorman, de genre Drame, Aventure, Historique, Fantasy, avec Nigel Terry, Helen Mirren, Cherie Lunghi, Excalibur [Full Movie]@: Excalibur Film Excalibur Film Stock Photos Excalibur Film Stock Images Alamy Film Beautiful Fairies Image Excalibur Excalibur 1981 Rotten Tomatoes Excalibur Helen Mirren Characters Morgana Film Excalibur 1980 Director John Boorman 10 April 1981 Stock Photo Picture And Rights Managed Image Pic Mev 12472720 Agefotostock Excalibur Room … Elon Musk has become the world’s richest person as Tesla’s stock rallies. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, distributors and financiers were eager to cash-in on the fantasy cinema boom heralded by the Star Wars franchise and its injection of finance into British studios, producing a wave of sword-and-sorcery films such as Hawk the Slayer (d. Soon, the afternoon’s shooting about to begin and the rain let­ting up, the director left the tent. I shot the first in winter; then I shot it again in spring when all the trees were in leaf. Sir Percival is hung up to die by Mordred on a tree and is saved by another Knight’s spur slowly, agonizingly, sawing through the rope. 1980 Excalibur Series IV Phaeton dans The Hitchhiker, 1983-1991 . Photographed by Arnaud Sélignac & Robert Willoughby © Orion Pictures, Columbia-EMI-Warner. They both stand out in the film and to my mind have made it what it is, brilliant. Merlin, portrayed by Nicol Williamson, and Helen Mirren’s Morgana are very interesting characters. The action first takes place in the backlot of Ardmore Studios. He was recruited to join the team of best starfighters to defend their world from the attack. cofarotad. In the beginning, Uther (Gabriel Byrne) is driven by lust for Igrayne (played by Katrine Boorman, the director’s daughter), the wife of Gordois, Duke of Cornwall, and lays siege to his castle. I tell the actors that they are not reenacting a legend. Merlin has agreed to his demands, on condition Merlin can take the resulting child, Arthur. “The thing about Boorman is he’s one of those rare guys who combines drama and being a visualist. At the end of Boorman’s film, Arthur must painfully slide up the lance that impales him, to Mordred, his evil son created by an incestuous mating with his sister. They’re the most redolent ones really, because they. The thief Gaston escapes the dungeon of medieval Aquila through the latrine. Of course, it’s very unfashionable today to talk of destiny. $9.75 + shipping. So the first trap to avoid is to start worrying about when or whether Arthur existed. Let's start with the good. So I got Rospo in. He went on to later pay tribute in several ways in his Warner Bros/DC film Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice. Want to share IMDb's rating on your own site? HELEN MIRREN IN THE 1981 FILM "EXCALIBUR" - 8X10 PUBLICITY PHOTO (ZZ-777) $7.98. To suggest an air of magic in the forests around his home in Ireland where he filmed, green gel filtered lights gave it a luminous, dream-like quality, especially any time the magical blade Excalibur is drawn, or during Arthur’s discovery of Guinevere and Lancelot’s adulterous entwined naked figures, symbolically impaling Excalibur in the mossy bed between them and walking away emasculated. Whether flying over visionary peaks and canyons in Exorcist II: The Heretic or swirling down-river in Deliverance, he’s always been a filmmaker dedicated to keeping his feet off the ground. osmany-raad. L'ascension d'Elon Musk, devenu l'homme le plus riche du monde. John Boorman—in interview, by Harlan Kennedy. Arising out of this a final battle commences for the soul of the land and the people, a sense of renewal with a promise of a new age to come. “When Uther thrusts the sword in the stone and then dies, we cut straight to the same scene eighteen years later. Boorman believes myths like that of Arthur and others endure be­cause they are stories that withstand retelling. Arthur himself is played by the British actor Nigel Terry, moving from boyhood to old age. The scene to be filmed has the young boy Arthur, squire to his elder brother Sir Kay in the jousting, sent by his father, Sir Ector, to fetch Kay’s sword, negligently left behind in their tent. Was this review helpful to you? Lands and nature and human emotions are all fresh.”, The film almost plays like a screen Opera—it is a heightened reality, a world anew. Film Review: Excalibur (1981) Nigel Honeybone 05/18/2018 Cult Films. Mirren’s Morgana is of course a sensuous, scheming vamp, but subtly so within the world around her—she sees Merlin’s ways as a means for a woman to have power in a man’s world. Excalibur is exquisite, a near-perfect blend of action, romance, fantasy and philosophy, finely acted and beautifully filmed by director John Boorman and cinematographer Alex Thomson. Commandez EXCALIBUR Photos de film x10 21x30 - 1980 - Nigel Terry, John Boorman. It’s awesome how surreal all this stuff is.” The stages of the film’s look suggest a war between design and nature, one age struggling to be born from another, a golden age from murky, earthy nature, and the eventual corruption of that. Screenwriter must-read: Rospo Pallenberg & John Boorman’s screenplay for Excalibur [PDF]. Soldiers are about to kill him when Navarre saves him. At his death, Uthur buries the sword into a stone, and the next man that can pull it out will be King of England. Excalibur Eliot’s The Waste Land and went on to read Jessie L. Weston’s book about the Grail quest, From Ritual to Romance. I’m trying to take it as far from an identifiable reality as pos­sible. Uthur Pendragon (Gabriel Byrne) is given the mystical sword Excalibur by the wizard Merlin. Boorman was determined to squeeze as much of the legend into his film’s running time as possible, chopping and condensing characters, and switching acts around. The path to Camelot was paved with rape and pillage. A powerful aid to that feeling is the superb score which utilizes music such as Siegfried’s Funeral March by Wagner, and O Fortuna, a medieval poem set to music by Carl Orff. Uther then has Merlin transform him into the likeness of Gordois so he can have Igrayne (ravished in full armor, in front of a raging fire!) At his death, Uthur buries the sword into a stone, and the next man that can pull it out will be King of England. View production, box office, & company info. Arthur slays his son and rescues England from the barren misery he has created, as does Superman rid Earth of his similarly genetic miscreant… It is the Man of Steel who redeems Batman, lifting the solution to the problem of the golem from the very film Bruce Wayne never got to see as a child.”. Excalibur is a cautionary tale. 1:00:00. Guided by Merlin, Arthur marries Guenevere (Cherie Lunghi) and gathers the Knights of the Round Table. Get a sneak peek of the new version of this page. Aidé par Merlin, initié par lui, il tente de réaliser l'union des seigneurs et se fait d'abord armer chevalier par l'un des opposants. The green filters placed over the arc lamps bathed the landscape in a lyric vernal glow. Excalibur: Behind the Movie is a retrospective documentary that looks back at the making of director John Boorman’s 1981 movie, Excalibur.Self-described as the toughest film he ever made, Excalibur told the tale of King Arthur and the Sword in the Stone and helped start the careers of actors Liam Neeson, Gabriel Byrne, Helen Mirren and Patrick Stewart. The other was to progress the story in several bold jumps forward in time.”, Boorman offers an example. EXCALIBUR's best moments live -- doesn't drop you quite so precipitously & so frequently back to the soil with a thud. “I’ve always been absolutely obsessed with the whole Grail story,” he says, “and I’ve used the iconography and also the structures—the ‘quest’ structures particularly—in the various films I’ve done. https://cinephiliabeyond.org/, To donate with credit/debit cards, please, ‘The Seventh Seal’: An Enthralling Philosophical Work of Art Made By One of the Truly Greatest, Hitchcock’s ‘Vertigo’: The Unrelenting Male Gaze that Blurs the Lines Between Possession and Obsession, ‘The Verdict’: Sidney Lumet and David Mamet’s Masterpiece as a Blend of a Courtroom Drama and a Personal Redemption Story, ‘A Woman Under the Influence’: Cassavetes’ Intense and Emotionally Exhausting Slice of Life, The Future is Now: Alfonso Cuarón’s ‘Children of Men’ Paints a Bleak Picture of a World Devoid of Humanity, ‘Point Blank’: John Boorman’s Amalgamation of American, British and French Filmmaking Styles, 40 Years of Hurt, Face-Hugging Dreams of Breathing: Ridley Scott’s ‘Alien’, ‘JFK’: Oliver Stone’s Emotionally Accurate and Masterfully Crafted Trip Down the Rabbit Hole, Approaching Menace: The American Pathology of Martin Scorsese’s ‘Taxi Driver’, ‘The Devil Needs a Fix’: Ian Ebright’s Sophomore Film Proves His Debut Was No Coincidence, ‘The Line’: Luke Wallace’s Gripping Crime Drama With a Terrific Cast, ‘Cool Hair’: William Orozco-Cubbon’s Bonnie-and-Clyde-Like Thriller that Leaves Us Wanting More, Rats In the Attic: William Friedkin’s ‘The Exorcist’, Subject to the Requirements of the Service: Peter Weir’s ‘Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World’, Scorsese On the Ropes: The ‘Kamikaze’ Film-Making of ‘Raging Bull’, ‘And the Sea Will Grant Each Man New Hope, As Sleep Brings Dreams of Home’: John McTiernan’s ‘The Hunt for Red October’, The Greater the Truth, the Greater the Damage: ‘The Insider,’ Michael Mann’s White-Collar Thrill Ride of Corporate Malfeasance, Play for Play: How The Color of Money’s ‘One For Them’ Assignment Reignited Martin Scorsese’s Hunger for the Work, To the Wonder: The Lyrical Appeal and Influence of Richard Donner’s ‘Superman’.

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