Excalibur

[biggunsbob]

It was on so I watched it again.. I know it had mixed reviews but I really liked it and still do to this day. For me it is just one of those movies that i always watch when it is on....Looking back at the John Boorman piece it is amazing all the great actors that are in it. Shot entirely on location in Ireland and employing Irish actors and crew, the film has been acknowledged for its importance to the Irish filmmaking industry and for helping launch the film careers of Neeson, as well as Gabriel Byrne, Neil Jordan and Ciar?n Hinds.

Anyway that short clip prepare for battle always gets me and I really don't know why.. I guess that is the art of movie making... Music and images and acting.. maybe Valverde could use that music as he enters the field...LOL

Nigel Terry as King Arthur
Helen Mirren as Morgana Le Fay
Nicol Williamson as Merlin (died 2011 at age 75)
Paul Geoffrey as Perceval
Nicholas Clay as Lancelot (died of Liver cancer in 2000 at age 53)
Cherie Lunghi as Guenevere
Corin Redgrave as Cornwall
Patrick Stewart as King Leondegrance
Keith Buckley as Uryens
Clive Swift as Sir Ector
Liam Neeson as Gawain
Gabriel Byrne as Uther Pendragon
Robert Addie as Mordred (adult) (died of lung cancer in 2001 at age 43)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excalibur_(film)

 

[biggunsbob]

Boorman has had some damn good movies..


Catch Us If You Can..........1965
Point Blank......................1967
Hell in the Pacific..............1968
Leo the Last.....................1970..........Also Writer
Deliverance......................1972..........Also Producer
Zardoz.............................1973.........Also Writer/Producer
Exorcist II: The Heretic.......1977.........Also Producer
Excalibur..........................1981........Also Writer/Producer
The Emerald Forest............1985........Also Producer
Hope and Glory..................1987.......Also Writer/Producer
Where the Heart Is.............1990......Also Writer/Producer
Beyond Rangoon................1995......Also Producer
The General......................1998......Also Writer/Producer
The Tailor of Panama..........2001......Also Writer/Producer
In My Country...................2005.......Also Producer
The Tiger's Tail.................2006

 

[biggunsbob]

His academy award nominated movies were Deliverance (3), Excalibur (1), and Hope and glory (5)

In 1972 To bad Deliverance came out the same year as The Godfather.
In 1981 Excalibur was nominated for best cinematography but lost to Red's.
In 1987 Hope and Glory had 5 nominations.
Lost best picture to The Last Emperor
Lost best original screen play to Moonstruck.
Lost best cinematography to The Last Emperor.
John lost best director to Bernardo Bertolucci – The Last Emperor
Lost art and direction to The last Emperor.


Close buy no cigar... Like the Tigers as of late..