This is on Portuguese telly right now strangely enough. It certainly seems strange to me, I was flicking through the channels and when I saw a knight on a motorbike I knew instantly what it was as I had read the description on wikipedia after seeing Suspended's breathless mini-review above. I remember thinking "that sounds incredibly stupid but I'll almost certainly never know cos I aint gonna search it out and it sure as hell won't be on Portuguese telly" - and yet four weeks later here we are, the universe having gone out of its way to prove me totally wrong and make me look like an utter fool once again.Knightriders. Very good. Great flick. Recommend it to anyone. Men on motorcycles jousting. Arthurian sense of honor. Cult complexes. Great man transition of power. Succession and apprenticeship and code of conduct. Idealism and pragmatism. 60s and corruption, decadence, rock n roll. Great greenery quiet idyll knighthood by the misty lake. Guinevere Guinevere.
I don't think it ever gets explained, but I think it's riffing on 60s desire to start new mini societies (or "cults" if you're cynical) that have their own rules and norms outside the corruptions and degeneracy of mainstream society. Hence you get that whole rock'n'roll decadence scene with the bikers who go off with the agent to be pro.This is on Portuguese telly right now strangely enough. It certainly seems strange to me, I was flicking through the channels and when I saw a knight on a motorbike I knew instantly what it was as I had read the description on wikipedia after seeing Suspended's breathless mini-review above. I remember thinking "that sounds incredibly stupid but I'll almost certainly never know cos I aint gonna search it out and it sure as hell won't be on Portuguese telly" - and yet four weeks later here we are, the universe having gone out of its way to prove me totally wrong and make me look like an utter fool once again.
Anyway, I'm kinda half watching it but I missed the bit where it explained why grown men are riding around on bikes talking in a very half-arsed medieval style (ie throwing in a "thou" or "Good Sir" every five minutes or so when they remember) - is it some kind of collective delusion? A weird situation in which they all somehow reinforce each other in their mental illnesses? Although fair enough it did sort of explain why there is a guy going round calling himself Morgan La Fay (cos he's a twat in short).
I was just being silly don't worry. I wasn't really expecting them to spell that right out for us - although I did hope that you were gonna wade in and claim I'd missed the start bit where they fell through a rift in time of space that took them from Camelot to present day US and so they had carried on living the only way they knew how riding the mysterious mechanical steeds of the future and searching desperately to find a way back home.I don't think it ever gets explained, but I think it's riffing on 60s desire to start new mini societies (or "cults" if you're cynical) that have their own rules and norms outside the corruptions and degeneracy of mainstream society. Hence you get that whole rock'n'roll decadence scene with the bikers who go off with the agent to be pro.
it's about Joe Heaney, a sean-nos singer from near Galway, Ireland. It's quite hard to describe tbh. Moments of profound beauty and horror and sex and comedy and awe all the good shit.Tell us more, I never heard of it
disqualified as a man of culture as i've never heard of Hong San-Soo but thanks anyway gus
1996 | The Day a Pig Fell into the Well | Yes | Yes | ||
1998 | The Power of Kangwon Province | Yes | Yes | ||
2000 | Virgin Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors | Yes | Yes | ||
2002 | On the Occasion of Remembering the Turning Gate | Yes | Yes | ||
2004 | Woman Is the Future of Man | Yes | Yes | ||
2005 | Tale of Cinema | Yes | Yes | ||
2006 | Woman on the Beach | Yes | Yes | ||
2008 | Night and Day | Yes | Yes | ||
2009 | Like You Know It All | Yes | Yes | ||
2010 | Hahaha | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
Oki's Movie | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||
2011 | The Day He Arrives | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
2012 | In Another Country | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
2013 | Nobody's Daughter Haewon | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
Our Sunhi | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||
2014 | Hill of Freedom | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
2015 | Right Now, Wrong Then | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
2016 | Yourself and Yours | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
2017 | On the Beach at Night Alone | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
Claire's Camera | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||
The Day After | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||
2018 | Grass | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
Hotel by the River | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||
2020 | The Woman Who Ran | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
2021 | Introduction | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
In Front of Your Face | Yes | Yes | Yes | Screened in the Cannes premiere | |
2022 | The Novelist's Film |