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44 Years Ago, This Medieval Epic Kicked Off the Dark Fantasy Craze

Collider 15 Jan 2025
John Boorman's Excalibur. Backed by a legendary cast that includes Helen Mirren, Patrick Stewart, and Liam Neeson, Excalibur is an ...
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30 years on, Interview with the Vampire director says casting Tom Cruise as Lestat was ...

Games Radar 09 Nov 2024
"You ask yourself the question ... The cities change ... Jordan follows his childhood in north Dublin, surrounded by both faith and superstition, through to his work with John Boorman on Excalibur, and onto the films he both directed and frequently wrote.
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‘Rumours’: Cate Blanchett Channels Angela Merkel in Her Weirdest Movie Yet

The Daily Beast 16 Oct 2024
It’s a groaningly obvious dig at the movie’s themes ... Oct ... Scene from Rumours ... It feels almost strange for such a farcical movie to have the kind of scenery that wouldn’t be out of place in John Boorman’s Excalibur (minus the giant brain) ... .
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60 Most Anticipated Shows of Fall 2024

The Wrap 30 Aug 2024
(This project feels particularly indebted to Snyder’s north star, John Boorman’s “Excalibur.”) There was originally an animated spinoff of Snyder’s “Army of the Dead” planned for Netflix.
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‘I didn’t discover rationality until I went to England’: Neil Jordan on Tom Cruise, sandwich-boarding and seeing his dad’s ghost

The Observer 13 Jun 2024
But it turns out the director saved the biggest twist for himself ... “It was like a physical shock.” ... After sandwich-boarding, Jordan returned to Ireland and was apprenticed under John Boorman during the making of Excalibur, the 1981 Arthurian epic ... .
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3 underrated Netflix movies you should watch this weekend (April 26-28)

Digital Trends 26 Apr 2024
When it was released, the Jerry Zucker-directed movie had to combat snickers over the casting of Richard Gere as Lancelot as well as the long shadow cast by John Boorman’s superb 1981 movie, Excalibur, which also tackled the King Arthur legend.
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Zack Snyder Reveals His 4 Favorite Movies

Coming Soon 25 Dec 2023
Credit. Lucasfilm ... Episode IVA New Hope, All That Jazz, Excalibur, and Blue Velvet ... Star Wars ... Excalibur was directed by John Boorman and released in 1981, while Blue Velvet came out in 1986 and was helmed by David Lynch ... .
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Zack Snyder Has Comic-Book Fatigue, Too

The Atlantic 21 Dec 2023
pugnacious, macho, in-your-face ... A big bet ... fun ... Outside was a shipping container that Zack had turned into his private gym, filled with complicated exercise equipment I didn’t recognize and a poster for John Boorman’s Arthurian fantasy film Excalibur .
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‘Rebel Moon’ Review: An Epic Trilogy Begins With An Epic Blunder

New York Observer 19 Dec 2023
Courtesy of Netflix ... As video essayist Patrick Willems explored to great comic effect in 2022, Zack Snyder’s aesthetic is extrapolated almost entirely from Frank Frazetta paintings and John Boorman’s Excalibur ... Not only is Rebel Moon — Part One ... .
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Tim Smith: ‘I feel bad for people who would love to see us live. I’m saying sorry for that’

The Irish Times 04 Dec 2023
Harp ... Photograph. David Zung. Ed Power ... Harp’s debut, Albion, might be the first in the history of alternative pop to owe more to John Boorman’s Excalibur than to Lou Reed’s Velvet Underground. “Excalibur is amazing,” the Texan enthuses over the phone ... .
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The last bohemian of Luggala: ‘We won’t see the likes of those lives again’

The Irish Times 19 Nov 2023
Another time and place, the summer of 1980 when John Boorman was shooting part of his medieval fantasy Excalibur within the vast 5,000-acre estate, wildly positioned in the Wicklow Mountains ... Boorman did not hold it against him for long.
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Making Exorcist movies has always been a nightmare, but they’ve all been great

Polygon 06 Oct 2023
But director John Boorman ( Excalibur ) disliked Goodhart’s script and brought in Rospo Pallenberg ( Excalibur ) to do rewrites ... Boorman may not have gotten across exactly the psychology intended, but he certainly nailed the scares.
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How the Tripwire Mechanism of the Mind Prevents the Free-Flow of Reason and Logic and ...

The Unz Review 28 Aug 2023
Only then could the human mind move freely in the directions necessary to arrive at a closer approximation of the truth ... D.W ... As Merlin said in EXCALIBUR, it is truth that is most essential. D.W ... John Boorman conveyed as much in ZARDOZ and EXCALIBUR ... ....
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How Tai Ji Men Dizi Can Regain Their Stolen Youth

Bitter Winter English 22 Aug 2023
So that in the years ahead, you can say, ‘I was there that night, with Arthur, the King!’ For it is the doom of men that they forget.” These lines are pronounced by the character of Merlin in British ...

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