Tag: The Green Knight
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And the winner isn’t … where the Academy Awards nominations got it wrong
Arthurian fantasies, Brazilian thrillers and scatological comedies – our critics celebrate the films that were unjustly snubbed for this year’s OscarsHow on earth did The Green Knight get passed over for any Oscar nominations? This visionary drama, directed by David Lowery, stars Dev Patel and Alicia Vikander and is incidentally co-produced by the achingly trendy…
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Music From ‘No Time to Die,’ ‘Encanto’ Takes Top Honors at Society of Composers & Lyricists Awards
In a possible preview of what may take home Oscars for music, “No Time to Die” songwriters Billie Eilish and Finneas O’Connell and “Encanto” composer Germaine Franco won Society of Composers & Lyricists awards Tuesday night at Los Angeles’ Skirball Center.Franco’s Colombian-flavored music for “Encanto” took the award for outstanding original score for a studio…
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Is Barry Keoghan the Right Choice for Batman Foe [Spoiler]? Watch His Haunting Performance in This Indie
Spoiler Alert: Do not read if you have not yet watched “The Batman.”Although Barry Keoghan is an established character actor who has put in memorable performances in several high-profile movies, such as “Dunkirk,” “Eternals” and “The Green Knight,” it’s his brief cameo at the very end of “The Batman” that could elevate him into a…
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Here’s Why The Green Knight Is A Proper Christmas Movie
It’s that time of year again. The hot cocoa is brewing, the tree is decorated, and the annual Twitter fights are breaking out. It wouldn’t be the holiday season without a rousing debate about what constitutes a Christmas movie. Thankfully, this year we’ve got a great new potential Christmas classic to debate, in the form…
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The 50 best films of 2021 in the UK, No 2: The Green Knight
Dev Patel goes on an extraordinary quest in sensationally beautiful film adaptation inspired by a 14th-century poemMore on the best culture of 2021Christ’s sacrifice and the erotic death wish of earthly glory: these are the components of this freaky folk horror from writer-director David Lowery, a mysterious and sensationally beautiful film inspired by the 14th-century…
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‘When There Is Magic Present, Anything Goes,’ Says ‘The Green Knight’ Dp Andrew Droz Palermo
Before shooting David Lowery’s medieval fantasy “The Green Knight,” which screens this week at EnergaCamerimage Film Festival, cinematographer Andrew Droz Palermo watched every King Arthur movie he could find, he tells Variety.“To me, these films always tend to be gray, desaturated. But we wanted to make something modern, also when it comes to the casting…
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5 Things We Learned About The Green Knight From The New Blu-Ray
A24’s “The Green Knight” Blu-ray dropped this week, and it’s got two fantastically fun featurettes that dive deep into the creation of the movie. In the featurettes “Boldest of Blood and Wildest at Heart: Making the Green Knight,” and “Practitioners of Magic: Visual Effects,” the cast and crew of writer/director David Lowery’s sprawling Arthurian epic shared some…
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The Green Knight review – a rich and wild fantasy
Dev Patel works his subtle magic in David Lowery’s enthralling take on the medieval tale of the questing GawainWhat a strange and peculiarly powerful film this is. An ambitious adaptation of the chivalric poem about the adventures of an Arthurian knight, written in Middle English by an unknown author (and most famously translated in the…
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The Green Knight Arrives On 4K, Blu-Ray, DVD, And Digital This October
Your quest is nearly at an end: “The Green Knight” Blu-ray will soon be within your grasp. David Lowery’s fantasy drama, one of the very best movies of the year, is headed to home media in October. So if you were hesitant to head back to movie theaters, haven’t felt like renting the film digitally, or…