Excalibur (Blu-ray) R
Forged by a god. Foretold by a wizard. Found by a king.
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 2 hours, 21 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: March 8, 2011
- Originally Released: 1981
- Label: Warner Home Video
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Helen Mirren & Nigel Terry | |
Performer: | Nicholas Clay, Cherie Lunghi, Paul Geoffrey, Nicol Williamson, Liam Neeson & Clive Swift | |
Directed by | John Boorman | |
Edited by | John Merritt & Donn Cambern | |
Screenwriting by | Rospo Pallenberg & John Boorman | |
Composition by | Trevor Jones | |
Director of Photography: | Alex Thomson |
Entertainment Reviews:
Give Boorman credit for the loopy grandeur of his imagery and imaginings, for the sweet smell of excess, for his heroic gamble that a movie can dare to trip over its pretensions -- and still fly.
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TIME Magazine
Rating: 2.5/4 --
What a wondrous vision Excalibur is! And what a mess.
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Chicago Sun-Times
Well, if there's anything wrong with [John] Boormans' version, it's just fancy and obviously in bad taste. [Full review in Spanish]
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El Pais (Spain)
The result is almost always the handsomest of films to behold. Storywise it has its moments, too, although it never quite achieves the difficult blend of grandeur and madness for which it strives.
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Sky Cinema
There is humor here (in the form of a vaudeville Merlin, played by Nicol Williamson) as well as a diminution of scale that seems intended to help audiences through the thornier byways of Boorman's vision.
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Chicago Reader
For all its audacity, a misguided folly.
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Time Out
Rating: 4/5 --
As a plunge into the feeling, rather than the denotative qualities, of medieval literature, it's a great pleasure.
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Product Description:
Director John Boorman's passionate adaptation of Sir Thomas Malory's LE MORTE D'ARTHUR stars Nigel Terry as the faithful King Arthur. Necromancer Merlin (Nicol Williamson) offers the magic sword Excalibur to the warlike Uther Pendragon (Gabriel Byrne) in exchange for a promise that he'll make peace with his enemy, the duke of Cornwall (Corin Redgrave). He agrees but breaks his word after catching sight of Cornwall's wife, Igraine (Katrine Boorman). With the magician's help he makes love to the woman in the guise of her husband. She bears a child, Arthur, who is taken by Merlin as payment for his assistance and left in the care of Ector (Clive Swift). Years pass, and the boy, now a humble squire, pulls Excalibur from the stone in which Uther had sunk it--a task no other could accomplish. With Merlin's counsel, he marries the stunning Guenevere (Cherie Lunghi), finds a champion in Sir Lancelot (Nicholas Clay), subdues the skirmishing knights, and builds the Round Table to unite them. Yet his half-sister, Morgana (Helen Mirren), lurks in the shadows, preparing to poison her brother's reign. Perhaps the best film made in this genre, EXCALIBUR benefits from an extraordinary cast, including appearances by Byrne, Patrick Stewart, and Liam Neeson early in their celluloid careers. Counterpointing ethereally filtered sex scenes against scenes of graphic blood-and-guts swordplay, Boorman's sumptuous production galvanizes the familiar mythology, as he charts the transition from an age of magic to one of reason.
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- UPC: 883929167982
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