Word: camelot
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...Camelot is alive and well, on motorcycles-in Pittsburgh. The redneck revenge movie has found a new hero-in Shelby, N.C. Teen-age actors play at deadly gang wars-in Boston. The radical political spirit of the northern frontier is put on film-in Crosby, N. Dak. A company of actors turn 30, and another young man makes a movie about it-in North Conway, N.H. Tab Hunter and a 300-lb. transvestite named Divine enact a suburban passion play-in Baltimore...
...perfervid shockers has always been poised between a scream and a giggle. Now, with Knightriders, Romero has taken a bigger risk: he blends Arthurian legend with modern-day bikers-Excalibur meets Easy Rider-and dares the audience to laugh at the noble exploits of working-class jousters. The Camelot caravan juggles lofty ideals and hand-to-mouth reality as it journeys from one small town to another, exhibiting swordsmanship in battles where fellowship precariously reigns and only feelings get hurt. They are the most benign of outlaws; they embody the spirit of regional cinema...
...carnographic brio of the E.C. horror comic books of the '50s, has gone classic-or, at least, Classics Comics. Even his talent for visceral editing is restrained: the big tilts are flaccidly cut, and the final battle is confusingly anticlimactic. Romero has tried to fashion a post-industrial Camelot, and ended up putting a square peg in a Round Table...
...Grail. Alex Thompson's garish cinematography gives every scene a fantastical fiery glow and Anthony Praff's production design is, by inappropriate turns, marvelous and ridiculous. For instance, most of his medieval castles have a finely detailed primordial look, but his contrast to these palaces, the new and civilized Camelot, is a high-tech Xanadu full of glass and chrome and parapets that look like they're made of aluminum...
...winning Excalibur and the conception of Arthur--the film slows down and Boorman's pacing remains erratic for the next two hours. Boorman gives us almost the entire legend: young Arthur's gaining Excalibur: Merlin's education of the young king: Arthur's courting of Guenevere: the establishment of Camelot: the love triangle of Arthur. Guenevere, and Lancelot: the search for the Holy Grail: the power struggle between Arthur and his half-brother/son (through incest) Mordred. Alas, the film stumbles between episodes, failing to connect the careful pattern of events coherently. The numerous battle scenes--exciting...