EXCALIBUR

Directed by John Boorman

1981 / 140min

John Boorman’s Arthurian adaptation cast its spell on me way back in 2013, when it screened as part of Anthology’s seminal series, “The Middle Ages on Film”, co-curated by scholar Martha Driver. How could I have anticipated that, by decade’s end, I’d be hard at work on a medieval film of my very own? This series was my entry point into the tropes and triumphs of the genre, a foundational piece of curation that guided my viewing habits and research during the eight-year process of bringing REVELATIONS to life. Although my film bears little superficial resemblance to the Knights of the Round table, it shares with EXCALIBUR a central struggle between duty and dread.