Word: grails
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Monty Python and the Holy Grail...
Lancelot du Lac and Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Two very different treatments of the Arthurian legend, although both are concerned with deromanticizing the Once and Future King. Monty Python is funnier. Bresson's film, savaged by the critics, has some good moments and some scenes of positively unearthly beauty...
Monty Python and the Holy Grail...
...heavy limbs, through his fidgetting torso, up to his frowning puzzled pucker. He seems a combination between what Kael described in Brando--his emotions originating deep in his chest, then reverberating slowly to the extremities and finally to the face--and John Cleese in Monty Python and the Holy Grail, a dull-witted ignorant peasant baffled by the witch problem...
...used to be called "roughing it" or "getting back to nature." Contemporary seekers speak of "environmental awareness" or "the whole-earth experience." By whatever name, the grail of the great outdoors lures more and more thousands of Americans each year to an increasingly jampacked yonder where too often the awareness is of crowded humanity and the call of the wild has become the bawl of a transistor radio...