News

(Welcome to The Daily Stream, an ongoing series in which the /Film team shares what they've been watching, why it's worth checking out, and where you can stream it.)

The Movie: "The Green Knight"

Where You Can Watch It: Showtime / FuboTV / DirecTV

The Pitch: King Arthur's nephew sets out on a picaresque yet purposeful adventure en route to the Green Chapel, where the inevitability of death by beheading awaits him.

It's sheer madness that "The Green Knight," writer-director David Lowery's lush, beguiling adaptation of the 14th-century chivalric romance "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight," did not pick up a single Academy Award nomination this...

The post The Daily Stream: The Green Knight Was One of the Best Films of 2021 appeared first on /Film.

In July of 2021, A24 and director David Lowery unleashed The Green Knight to box office success and universal acclaim. A retelling of the poetic fairy tale "Sir Gawain and The Green Knight," the story remains faithful to the source material but amps up the graphic violence, thematic elements, and darkness.

Related: 10 Movies To Watch If You Like The Green Knight

Though the movie got a lot of press, not every dark adaptation of a fairy tale has been met with the same amount of attention. In fact, several hidden gems have forever been ignored when discussing adaptations of the tales that are seemingly meant to either entertain or terrify children.

The bold new take on the 14th century medieval story of “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight”, comes home! The Green Knight arrives on 4K, Blu-ray, DVD, and Digital October 12 from Lionsgate. From acclaimed writer-director David Lowery, this fantasy re-telling of the classic 14th century medieval tale stars Academy Award® nominee Dev Patel, Academy Award® winner Alicia Vikander, Golden Globe® nominee Joel Edgerton, Sarita Choudhury, Sean Harris, Kate Dickie, and Ralph Iverson. The Green Knight will be available on 4K + Blu-ray + Digital Combo , Blu-ray + DVD + Digital Combo, and Blu-ray for the suggested retail price of $42.99, $39.99, and $29.96, respectively.

Official Synopsis

An epic fantasy adventure, The Green Knight tells the story of Sir Gawain (Dev Patel),

King Arthur’s reckless and headstrong nephew, who embarks on a daring quest to confront the eponymous Green Knight, a gigantic emerald-skinned stranger and tester of men. Gawain contends with ghosts, giants, thieves, and schemers in...

Acclaimed writer/director David Lowery joins Josh and Joe to discuss the films that inspired The Green Knight.

Show Notes: Movies Referenced In This Episode

The Green Knight (2021)

Peter Pan & Wendy (2022)

Lawrence Of Arabia (1962)

The Old Man And The Gun (2018)

A Ghost Story (2017)

Pete’s Dragon (1977)

Pete’s Dragon (2016) – Glenn Erickson’s review

Ain’t Them Bodies Saints (2013)

Ghost Story (1974)

Sword of the Valiant (1984)

Gawain and the Green Knight (1973)

Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films (2014)

Masters of the Universe (1987) – Josh Olson’s trailer commentary

Andrei Rublev (1966) – Glenn Erickson’s Criterion Blu-ray review, Dennis Cozzalio’s Muriel Awards blurb

War And Peace (1966) – Glenn Erickson’s Blu-ray review

Heaven’s Gate (1980)

The Passion Of Joan Of Arc (1928) – Charlie Largent’s Criterion Blu-ray review

The Devils (1971)

Space Jam: A New Legacy (2021)

A Clockwork Orange (1971)

The Conjuring (2013)

Jubilee (1978)

Benedetta (2021)

Dune (1984)

Dune (2021)

Hard To Be A God (2013)

Jodorowsky’s Dune (2013)

Moby Dick (1956) – Ernest Dickerson’s trailer commentary,...

I haven’t seen much so far in 2021, and much of it has been either worthy, if flawed (Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain) or flat-out incoherent and reprehensible (The Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard). But there have been five films released in 2021 so far which I have unequivocally loved.

1) As big leaps in visual storytelling go, David Lowery’s The Green Knight marks a significant one for him, out of the clutches of dead-end Malick homages (like 2013’s insufferable Ain’t Them Bodies Saints? and 2017’s emotionally effective but sometimes too precious A Ghost Story) and onto a masterful confidence that accesses a rare quality in modern movies—a sense of genuine mystery.

Lowery’s film is an adaptation of the poem “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight”, in which the nephew of King Arthur, young Gawain, played with almost sculpted perfection and empathy, sans a trace of cloying, by Dev Patel,...

The eponymous mythical entity in David Lowery’s Arthurian reinterpretation “The Green Knight” was as tactile on set as it appears on screen. Imposing and oaken, this embodiment of the unknown (death and nature) is played by actor Ralph Ineson (“The Witch”) with masterful prosthetics from seasoned makeup effects artist Barrie Gower (“Game of Thrones”) and his team at Bgfx, the London-based company he co-founded with his wife Sarah Gower.

Gower was unfamiliar with the tale of “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight” before Lowery approached him. The director provided visual references that likened the character to the anthropomorphic trees known as Ents in ‘The Lord of the Rings” saga. Other sources of inspiration were sculptures conceived out of reclaimed wood from shipwrecks.

“He basically said this character needed to be almost regal but he wanted it to look like he was created from the natural world, as if he...

Photo: ‘The Green Knight'/A24 At long last, one of the year's most feverishly anticipated releases has fought its way onto movie screens around the world. David Lowery, director of ‘A Ghost Story’ (2017) and ‘Pete’s Dragon’ (2016), has returned to cinemas with a surreal yet rapturous retelling of the famed 14th century chivalric romance of Arthurian lore; “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight”. Audiences expecting the epic scale of ‘The Lord of the Rings’ or steadfast moral fortitude of typical Camelot fare will find themselves decidedly bewildered by the introspective asymmetry of ‘The Green Knight’ (2021) The latest masterclass in subversion from A24, the titans of modern experimentalism responsible for films like ‘The Lighthouse’ (2019) and ‘Moonlight’ (2016), ‘The Green Knight’ ultimately feels more akin to ‘The Last Temptation of Christ’ (1988) than it does ‘The Sword in the Stone’ (1963). Related article: ‘In the Heights’ – Behind the Scenes and Full Commentary/Reactions from Cast & Crew...

[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 “The Old Man and the Gun.” Through it all, Lowery has remained an innovative and unpredictable storyteller whose work is steeped in awe-inspiring moments that retain an intimate quality irrespective of their scale. Having made the lo-fi hit “A Ghost Story” after “Pete’s Dragon,” Lowery continues to build a body of work that tips in and out of big-budget filmmaking as his signature blend of sensitivity and enigmatic storytelling deepens each time out.

That trajectory continues with “The Green Knight,” his most ambitious project to date, and an adaption of the 14th-century poem of the same name. The A...

Ralph Ineson as the Green Knight. Photo credit: Eric Zachanowich. Courtesy of A24

The Green Knight is writer/director David Lowery’s (A Ghost Story) imaginative re-telling of the Arthurian tale “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight,” but those expecting a straight-forward adventure story will be surprised, as the mystical and symbolic abound here, as does a sly, dark humor, all framed in a visually lush world of green mossy forests and windswept winter peaks and told through a young man’s voyage of self-discovery.

Although the Green Knight is featured in the title, it is Gawain who is the focus, a young man who is untested and unformed. Gawain (Dev Patel) is King Arthur’s nephew and a member of the Round Table but not yet a knight. Gawain has not yet had any knightly adventures but plenty of nightly adventures, specializing in carousing with paramour Essel (Alicia Vikander...

The arthouse fantasy “The Green Knight” begins with a word from an off-camera narrator who disappears right after he repositions the Christian allegory of “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight” as a secular fairy tale.

In this pompous introduction, which sounds like a stuffier version of Mako’s preface to “Conan the Barbarian,” Gawain (Dev Patel) is compared with his uncle King Arthur (Sean Harris), though we are told that Arthur’s legend is a story for another time. Gawain is also a different kind of seeker, and the limits of his vision will come to define not only the meaning of his story but how it is told.

In “The Green Knight”, Gawain’s pilgrimage is illustrated by a series of fussily composed vignettes that hint at mysteries that Gawain and his movie’s creators are only superficially interested in. And while parts of this movie are certainly attractive,...

It’s tempting to think of the first “Star Wars” movie as ground zero for the new era of popular culture. But part of the primal power of George Lucas’s sci-fi landmark is that it represented a kind of dawn-of-the-digital-age, joystick-happy recycling of many, many things from the past. It drew on the ramshackle movie serials of the ’40s and ’50s. It drew on classic films as serious as John Ford’s “The Searchers” and Akira Kurosawa’s “The Hidden Fortress.” And, of course, there would have been no “Star Wars” without J.R.R. Tolkien’s “The Lord of the Rings”.

One of the reasons the “Lord of the Rings” films became such a massive cultural phenomenon is that they were, in effect, the true prequels to “Star Wars.” (It didn’t matter that they unfolded in a more primitive world; they took you over the hills and far away.

Writer/Director David Lowery’s adaptation of the anonymously written, 14th-century poem “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight” makes for one epic feast of a movie. Lowery deconstructs it, creating an intensely robust sword and sorcery feature thematically, visually, and narratively. The Green Knight doesn’t just ensnare you in its captivating spell piecemeal; it consumes you wholly from the opening […]...

A key sequence in David Lowery’s “The Green Knight” took more than a year to work on in the editing room. Not only did the director-editor have to define the movie’s character arcs, but he had to build tension and set up the epic quest that propels the story.

Lowery, who also directed and edited “A Ghost Story,” takes on ghosts again in his latest film, which bows in theaters July 30. But this time he adds giants, thieves and even talking foxes as he puts a fantastical, visionary spin on King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table.

Dev Patel stars as the young Sir Gawain, the king’s nephew who sets out on a quest to confront the title character. Joel Edgerton and Alicia Vikander co-star. Based on the epic 14th-century poem “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight,” it’s a coming-of-age tale that Lowery transforms into a striking odyssey.

"The Green Knight" is director David Lowery's medieval 'dark fantasy' feature based on the 'Athurian' poem of "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight", starring Dev Patel, Joel Edgerton, Barry Keoghan, Ralph Ineson, Alicia Vikander and Sean Harris, opening July 30, 2021:

"...'Sir Gawain' (Patel)...

"...the reckless nephew of 'King Arthur'...  "...embarks on a quest to confront... "...the gigantic green-skinned 'Green Knight'..."

Click the images to enlarge...

Over the years "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" has seen its fair share of adaptations but few have been as exciting as David Lowery's upcoming adaptation The Green Knight.

This retelling of the epic poem stars Dev Patel as Gawain, Arthur's knight who takes up the challenge posed by the Green Knight: strike him down and keep his axe but in one year's time, the knight who takes up the challenge must accept a return blow. And so, nearly a year to the day of cutting off the Green Knight's head, Gawain sets off to fulfill his end of the bargain.

Alongside Patel, the movie also stars Joel Edgerton, Sean Harris, Alicia Vikander, Kate Dickie, and Sarita Choudhury.

This trailer is not quite as mysterious as the first and while we see quite a bit more of the worl...

A24 has launched a new trailer for its medieval David Lowery feature ‘The Green Knight’ starring Dev Patel in the lead.

The film is a retelling of the medieval tale of ‘Sir Gawain and the Green Knight,’ the fantasy epic sees Dev Patel playing the knight of King Arthur’s Round Table who accepts the challenge of beheading the Green Knight. He must wait a year and a day to receive a blow in return.

Directed by Lowery, the film stars Alicia Vikander and Joel Edgerton alongside Patel.

Also in trailers – Tense final trailer drops for the rescheduled ‘A Quiet Place II’

The film is released in US cinemas on July 30th.

The post “What do you hope to gain?” Dev Patel stars in Amazing new trailer for David Lowery’s ‘The Green Knight’ appeared first on HeyUGuys.

"The Green Knight" is director David Lowery's medieval 'dark fantasy' feature based on the 'Athurian' poem of "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight", starring Dev Patel, Joel Edgerton, Barry Keoghan, Ralph Ineson, Alicia Vikander and Sean Harris, opening July 30, 2021:

"...'Sir Gawain' (Patel)...

"...the reckless nephew of 'King Arthur'...  "...embarks on a quest to confront... "...the gigantic green-skinned 'Green Knight'..."

Click the images to enlarge...

A24 has released the first trailer for “The Green Knight,” a medieval fantasy with giants, talking foxes and a brave knight played by Dev Patel.

Directed by David Lowery, the upcoming fantasy film will tell the story of Sir Gawain (Patel), King Arthur’s headstrong nephew and Knight of the Round Table, who embarks on a quest to confront the eponymous Green Knight (Ralph Ineson), a gigantic green-skinned stranger.

Based on the 14th-century poem “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight,” Gawain will come face-to-face with ghosts, giants, thieves and schemers, all while learning to define his own character and prove his worth in the eyes of his family and the kingdom.

“And what do you hope to gain in facing all of this?” Joel Edgerton’s kingly character named Lord asks of Sir Gawain in the trailer.

“Honor,” Gawain answers. “That is why a knight does what he does.”

“The Green Knight...