Word: lancelot
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Lancelot's pursuit of what he calls "the Unholy Grail" leads him to commit several murders and arson. He, in turn, is committed to a New Orleans insane asylum, where he has one room with a view of Lafayette Cemetery. There he tells his story to a friend who has become a Catholic priest. But Lancelot's confession is anything but repentant. It is both a funny and a scarifying jeremiad on the modern...
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...Lancelot Andrewes Lamar is Percy's most painful case to date. A Rhodes scholar and onetime football hero, he goes to seed in classic Southern style. He takes up the law, drink and the care of a rundown showplace home near New Orleans. Only when he suspects the infidelity of his second wife, Margot, a brassy Texan worth $10 million, does Lancelot realize what he has made of his life: "I had done nothing but fiddle at law, fiddle at history, keep up with the news (why?), watch Mary Tyler Moore, and drink myself into unconsciousness every night...
Flagrante Delicto. Not any longer. Lancelot changes overnight from a catatonic lush into a quixotic detective. Proving Margot's waywardness is the least of his worries; her suspected lover is the director of a Hollywood film crew currently making a movie at Lancelot's picturesque mansion. With unlimited funds and the help of a black M.I.T. student who is an electronics wizard, Lancelot has no trouble assembling incriminating video tapes. But he wants more than to film Margot flagrante delicto. Lancelot is on the trail of evil and an affirmation that it still has meaning. Says...
Robert Bressen's Lancelot of the Lake is an ideal offering for the cineaste who revels in the romanticizing of the age of heraldry and the Round Table. Yet all the painstaking attention to detail and craftsmanship cannot save the film from deteriorating into a ponderous trek through the medieval Britain of King Arthur, a pedestrian piece of work which fails to justify the necessity of its production...