Tag: The Green Knight
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‘The Green Knight’ Director David Lowery Explains Dev Patel’s Sex Scenes: ‘I Didn’t Want To Shy Away From Lustiness’
“The Green Knight” is dense, to say the least.Based on an anonymously written poem from the 1400s now known as “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight,” David Lowery’s film weaves together myths of lords and ladies who love little mind games, beheaded young women who may or may not turn into foxes and, of course,…
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Mini-Water Cooler: ‘Shang-Chi’, ‘Hard Boiled’, ‘The Green Knight’, ‘The Virgin Suicides’, and More
On the August 23, 2021 episode of /Film Daily, /Film senior writer Ben Pearson is joined by news editor Hoai-Tran Bui to talk about what they’ve been up to at the virtual water cooler. Opening Banter: At The Water Cooler: What we’ve been Doing: Hoai-Tran saw Chris (!) and blew out her voice doing karaoke.…
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‘The Green Knight’ Will Be Available to Rent Online This Week
Fans of Dev Patel, Arthurian legends, talking foxes and more are in for a treat.A24 has announced that “The Green Knight” will be available to rent on digital platforms starting Thursday. It will be on Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV, Google Play, YouTube, Vudu, Fandango Now, Redbox and more.“This Thursday, August 19th, David Lowery’s acclaimed…
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‘The Green Knight’s David Lowery Almost Adapted One of Stephen King’s Creepiest Stories
Stephen King is known as the Master of Horror for a reason. Yes, he created Pennywise the Dancing Clown, introduced us to a possessed Plymouth Fury, and made Saint Bernards scary for a whole generation of horror fans, but one of the creepiest stories he has ever written has yet to be adapted. It’s called…
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Korea Box Office: ‘Escape From Mogadishu’ Overpowers ‘The Suicide Squad’
“Escape From Mogadishu” held on to its place at the top of the South Korean box office for the second weekend. It comfortably overcame the challenge from newly released “The Suicide Squad.”“Mogadishu” earned $4.26 million in its second weekend of release, down only 14% compared with its first session, in which it took $4.96 million.…
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Dev Patel: ‘The allure of the job is to change’
From Slumdog’s quick-witted hero to a medieval warrior in The Green Knight, Dev Patel has always sought to be an everymanDev Patel was enjoying the ride, but people were saying the horse was too small. It was the winter of 2019. Patel was in Ireland, preparing for his latest film, The Green Knight, in which…
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“The Horse is Constantly Looking at the Technocrane”: Dp Andrew Droz Palermo on The Green Knight
In The Green Knight, King Arthur’s hedonistic nephew Gawain (Dev Patel) leaves the comforts of Camelot for an epic quest to confront the titular verdant specter. Based on the anonymously authored 14th Century poem, the latest film from David Lowery invites a multitude of interpretations. I construed it as a journey from the imagined invincibility…
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David Lowery Almost Quit Filmmaking Before ‘Green Knight’ Release: ‘It Was a Very Existential Year’
[The following post contains spoilers for “The Green Knight.”]Ten years ago, David Lowery was a virtually unknown Texan filmmaker pushing his short film “Pioneer” at Sundance. Since then, he has gone on to work on studio projects like Disney’s “Pete’s Dragon” and the upcoming “Peter Pan and Wendy,” as well as the Robert Redford romance…
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Ain’t Them Bodies (Decapitated) Saints: Director David Lowery on a Scene From ‘The Green Knight’
What do a decapitated Christian saint and the 1984 Star Wars TV movie Caravan of Courage: An Ewok Adventure have in common? They were both influences on writer-director David Lowery, whose commentary in a new video explains how these two seemingly disparate things came together to inform a scene in his new movie The Green…
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After ‘The Green Knight’, Revisit David Lowery’s Previous Quiet Triumph: ‘The Old Man & the Gun’
David Lowery’s The Green Knight, releasing in U.S. theaters today, may be receiving all the attention as the most exciting and downright weirdest display of all the filmmaker’s particular sensibilities…but what about his previous movie? Originally billed as legendary actor Robert Redford’s swan song before retirement (until Marvel and the Russo brothers came calling for…