Word: lancelot
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Bresson's Lancelot du Lac, with a D.W. Griffith short, Sunday...
...bearded Scottish actor; following a series of strokes; in King's Somborne, England. Gruff-voiced and massive (270 lbs.), Justice appeared in more than 40 films, among them Moby Dick, Les Misérables and The Guns of Navarone. He was best known as the irascible surgeon Sir Lancelot Spratt in the British Doctor comedy series of the 1950s...
...LANCELOT OF THE LAKE is the work of Robert Bresson, a great and trying film maker. Just as one would expect from the creator of Pickpocket and The Trial of Joan of Arc, there are scenes and images here of a terrible, severe beauty: knights dying in battle or competing in joust, a mailed hand clutching the handle of a weapon, a horse's eye going wide in terror. These visions occur, however, not in an epic adventure, but as part of a moral speculation in miniature. Bresson's ascetic attentions converge on the fateful romance of Lancelot...
...know you can't do it?' I turned to my wife and told her, This guy I don't even know is swearing at me because I won't do Shakespeare.' " But Shakespeare he did, later joining the National Theater, where he has played Lancelot Gobbo in Sir Laurence Olivier's revival of The Merchant of Venice, in The Captain of Kopenick with Paul Scofield and the lead in Peter Nichols' The National Health...
...movies about them, generally adhere to a moral code so strict that it often looks sentimental. Black Eye remains unruffled about everything from homosexuality and runaway kids to mind-warping evangelism and slaughter in the name of the law. By comparison with Stone, Mike Hammer would look like Lancelot of the Lake...