Word: excalibur
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...EXCALIBUR Directed by John Boorman Screenplay by Rospo Pallenberg and John Boorman...
...almost any new movie, and you will find its spirit fettered in realism, soldered to the everyday. When a film attempts to soar into the oneiric, with voluptuous imagery and italicized feelings, it is likely to be grounded by those air-traffic controllers of popular culture, the critics. Excalibur is such a film. Viewers are advised to decide for themselves if John Boorman's retelling of the Arthurian romance is a dove or a dodo...
...followed, but Boorman has not clipped his wings with Excalibur: it is extravagantly conceived, and it sprints like a deer through the thickets of legend...
...century; tales of his exploits developed, from oral history to moral imperative, over the next thousand years. No visual style could capture his moment with historical accuracy. What is needed-and what Boorman and Production Designer Anthony Pratt deliver -is a ripe and consistent graphic vision. Excalibur is the handsomest film since Terence Malick's Days of Heaven, and is as alive to the subtle textures of earth, water and sky. The land leans gracefully toward the horizon to embrace Camelot, a fairy castle in Eden. The sword that will give Arthur his power rises suddenly, majestically, from...
...intramural championship, four years in a row. But members of the house may soon be clinging to memories; entering the spring season and the final stage of the Cup competition, Kirkland House appears to be in an excellent position to dethrone its reigning neighbor and seize The Winthrop House Excalibur, the Straus...