DVD: Excalibur

DVD

Title:	Excalibur
Publisher:	Warner Home Video
Country:	UK
Format:	DVD
Date:	2000
Region Code:	Region 2
Classification:	15
Barcode:	7321900220187
Cat#:	Z1 22018
Genre:	Fantasy, Adventure
Rating:	Rate
Collection:	I Own It I Want It
Community:	1 Owns, 1 Wants
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Notes

Languages:

English, French, Italian

Subtitles:

English, French, Italian, Dutch, Arabic, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Romanian, Bulgarian.

For The Hearing Impaired: English - Italian

Excalibur
Released	1981
Director	John Boorman
Writer	Thomas Malory
Selected Cast	Nigel Terry as King Arthur
	Helen Mirren as Morgana Le Fay
	Nicol Williamson as Merlin
(Information from Cinema World)

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Description: Excalibur - Front Cover

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Description: Excalibur - Cover (Open - Complete)

Comments and Reviews


Magic Marmalade 27th Apr 2016		Here's the official release of the accompanying Soundtrack, but the versions on that release are ot the versions used in the film itself. -good versions though!-



Magic Marmalade 12th Dec 2015



Magic Marmalade 22nd May 2015		Review This is one of those weird early cases made of card, with a plastic tray seated in it with a plastic hook over clasp... I don't know what they are called. This is still the best film of Arthurian Legend by a long stretch. Any attempt, as has been tried a few times recently on both TV and Cinema, to place King Arthur as a historical figure entirely misses the point of the legend that was created, and accrued it's essential elements over a couple of centuries (from 13th -15th). ... as such, they lack the power to act on the imagination they way they his legend intended to. Anyone wanting get into Arthurian Legend should start here, as it has successfully used the strange dialects and language style found in those mediaeval books, justmade slightly more intelligible for a modern audience. It is best to learn the legend backwards, with the more recent, and complete legend as this summarises, and then go to the various components. My recommended reading list: T. H White: The Once And Future King (Comprised of Three Books, the first of which: The Sword In The Stone, was the basis for Disney's animation. Suitable for early teens, it is largely contemporary with The Lord Of The Rings, and The Chronicles Of Narnia, and philosophically deals with ideas of justice, society, and Good Leadership... some of the most brilliant writing I've ever read too, as Arthur is transformed into various animals by Merlin to teach him about their social structures through experience... also mentioned in X-Men) then: Sir Thomas Malory: Le Morte D'Arthur (The Death Of Arthur) (Which White drew from, and was the first to bring all the elements together in one narrative) Geoffery Of Monmouth: History Of The Kings Of Britain (Bit of a charlatan and mischief maker... Merlin And Arthur stories small parts of the book, and are separate from each other, yet linked... set in motion the popularisation of Arthur among the British) Cretien De Troyes: Arthurian Romances Wolfram Von Eschenbach: Parzival (Cretien's Book has a few stories about knights from the round table on quest, including the unfinished book The Story Of The Grail (Perceval), which Eschenbach retold, and concluded. Percival is the original finder of the grail, as Gallahad had not yet been created by Malory in his stead) Robort De Boron: Various tales Gawain And The Green Knight The Mabinogion The High Book Of The Grail Further reading: Alfred Lord Tennyson: Idylls Of the King (From which Kate Bush drew: "The Ninth Wave") Edmund Spenser: The Fairie Queen (Arthur appears occasionally to help the knights on quest) And from there, the endless array of Arthurian literature that exists. But you won't find any historical evidence! Bede The Venerable: Ecclesiastical history of the English People mentioneth him not, but works like this can prove useful in building a picture of the truth. 1 person found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?