Word: logan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...CLARK LOGAN West Hartford, Conn...
Unfortunately, there is nothing royal about Camelot's carious screen version. It has been brought crunchingly down to earth by the churlish touch of Director Joshua Logan. To be sure, the film is a re-creation of the triangled plot involving King Arthur (Richard Harris), Queen Guenevere (Vanessa Redgrave) and Lancelot (Franco Nero), the interloper-knight who gives his rivals at the Round Table their joust desserts, thereby arousing the lady's passions. The King ignores their affair until the appearance of his bastard son Mordred (David Hemmings), who sunders the kingdom with slander and rumor...
...Logan also spoke on the necessity of communication in art. Writing to please oneself is "a form of masturbation. Art is intercourse," he said...
...freedom of expression and a more sophisticated audience response to film were the two most important developments, according to Logan. Mrs. Crist attributed the change in audience reaction to the audio-visual orientation of modern society. The younger generation was "weaned with television," she said. The "magic" of stuntmen and special effects has been destroyed. However she added that this technical appreciation did not imply a more sophisticated criticism of intellectual content...
...panelists deplored the commercial pressures of Hollywood. Logan called it "a pretty immature place," where an arist is "only as good as his last film...