Posts Tagged ‘anachronistic’

Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)

16Oct
16 Oct 2009 23:12
Monty Python and the Holy GrailGenres: Adventure | Comedy
Countries: UK
Directors: Terry Gilliam
Actors: Graham Chapman | John Cleese | Eric Idle | Terry Jones | Michael Palin | Connie Booth | Carol Cleveland | Neil Innes | Bee Duffell | John Young | Rita Davies | Avril Stewart | Sally Kinghorn | Mark Zycon
The movie starts out with Arthur, King of the Britons, looking for knights to sit with him at Camelot. He finds many knights including Sir Galahad the pure, Sir Lancelot the brave, the quiet Sir Bedevere, and Sir Robin the Not-Quite-So-Brave-as-Sir Lancelot. They do not travel on horses, but pretend they do and have their servants bang coconuts to make the sound of horse's hooves. Through satire of certain events in history (witch trials, the black plague) they find Camelot, but after literally a quick song and dance they decide that they do not want to go there. While walking away, God (who seems to be grumpy) come to them from a cloud and tells them to find the Holy Grail. They agree and begin their search...
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Blazing Saddles (1974)

15Apr
15 Apr 2008 15:22
Blazing SaddlesGenres: Comedy | Western
Countries: USA
Directors: Mel Brooks
Actors: Cleavon Little | Gene Wilder | Slim Pickens | David Huddleston | Liam Dunn | Alex Karras | John Hillerman | George Furth | Jack Starrett | Harvey Korman | Madeline Kahn | Carol Arthur | Richard Collier | Charles McGregor
The Ultimate Western Spoof. A town where everyone seems to be named Johnson is in the way of the railroad. In order to grab their land, Hedley Lemar, a politically connected nasty person, sends in his henchmen to make the town unlivable. After the sheriff is killed, the town demands a new sheriff from the Governor. Hedley convinces him to send the town the first Black sheriff in the west. Bart is a sophisticated urbanite who will have some difficulty winning over the townspeople.
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George and the Dragon (2004)

26Feb
26 Feb 2008 12:08
George and the DragonGenres: Action | Adventure | Comedy | Fantasy | Romance | Sci-Fi
Countries: Germany | UK | USA
Directors: Reeve Bailey
Actors: James Purefoy | Piper Perabo | Patrick Swayze | Michael Clarke Duncan | Jean-Pierre Castaldi | Rollo Weeks | Paul Freeman | Stefan Jürgens | Phil McKee | Caroline Carver | Joan Plowright | Simon Callow | Carl Chase | Bill Treacher
The first crusade to free the Holy Land has ended. A mass of weary knights, squires, soldiers of fortune and priests are making their way home across a Europe that has changed forever. George, a handsome English knight, unsettled by the horrendous bloodletting he witnessed in Palestine, desires to hang up his sword and settle down to a quiet, peaceful life. On returning to England, George heads north where he's heard the land is good and the population sparse and of a kindly King named Edgaar. He finds King Edgaar in a terrible state. His beautiful daughter, Lunna has recently disappeared. In return for a small plot of land, George agrees to search for Princess Lunna. With Edgaar's faithful servant, Elmendorf, George sets out. George discovers both the princess and the truth behind her strange disappearance. The quest now set before them ends in a love, a lie and a legend that has lasted a thousand years.
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Knight's Tale, A (2001)

05May
05 May 2007 21:29
Knight's Tale, AGenres: Action | Adventure | Comedy | Romance
Countries: USA
Directors: Brian Helgeland
Actors: Heath Ledger | Rufus Sewell | Shannyn Sossamon | Paul Bettany | Laura Fraser | Mark Addy | Alan Tudyk | Bérénice Bejo | Scott Handy | James Purefoy | Leagh Conwell | Christopher Cazenove | Steve O'Donnell | Jonathan Slinger | Nick Brimble
Inspired by "The Canterbury Tales," as well as the story of Ulrich von Lichtenstein, this is the story of William, a young squire with a gift for jousting. After his master dies suddenly, the squire hits the road with his cohorts Roland and Wat. On the journey, they stumble across an unknown writer, Chaucer. William, lacking a proper pedigree, convinces Chaucer to forge genealogy documents that will pass him off as a knight. With his newly-minted history in hand, the young man sets out to prove himself a worthy knight at the country's jousting competition, and finds romance along the way.
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Moulin Rouge! (2001)

05May
05 May 2007 16:18
Moulin Rouge!Genres: Drama | Musical | Romance
Countries: Australia | USA
Directors: Baz Luhrmann
Actors: Nicole Kidman | Ewan McGregor | John Leguizamo | Jim Broadbent | Richard Roxburgh | Garry McDonald | Jacek Koman | Matthew Whittet | Kerry Walker | Caroline O'Connor | Christine Anu | Natalie Jackson Mendoza | Lara Mulcahy | David Wenham | Kylie Minogue
Christian, a young wannabe Bohemian poet living in 1899 Paris, defies his father by joining the colorfully diverse clique inhabiting the dark, fantastical underworld of Paris' now legendary Moulin Rouge. In this seedy but glamorous haven of sex, drugs and newly-discovered electricity, the poet-innocent finds himself plunged into a passionate but ultimately tragic love affair with Satine, the club's highest paid star and the city's most famous courtesan. Their romance is played out against the infamous club - a meeting place of high life and low, where slumming aristocrats and the fashionably rich mingled with workers, artists, Bohemians, actresses and courtesans.
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Shrek (2001)

05May
05 May 2007 13:50
ShrekGenres: Adventure | Animation | Comedy | Family | Fantasy | Romance
Countries: USA
Directors: Andrew Adamson | Vicky Jenson
Actors: Mike Myers | Eddie Murphy | Cameron Diaz | John Lithgow | Vincent Cassel | Peter Dennis | Clive Pearse | Jim Cummings | Bobby Block | Chris Miller | Cody Cameron | Kathleen Freeman | Michael Galasso | Christopher Knights | Simon J. Smith
Shrek is a big ogre who lives alone in the woods, feared from all the people in the land of Duloc. When Lord Farquaad, the ruler of Duloc, exiles all the fairy-tale beings in the woods, Shrek looses his peaceful life and his home becomes a refugees camp. So, he sets to find Lord Farquaad and convince him to take the fairy-tale beings back where they belong, and leave him alone. Lord Farquaad accepts, under one condition. Shrek must first go and find the beautiful young princess Fiona, who will become Farquaad's bride. So, the big Ogre begins his quest, along with his newfound donkey friend...
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