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	Encyclopedia: Sir Lancelot (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Lancelot is a popular character, and has been the subject of many poems, stories, plays, and films as a famous figure in the Arthurian cycle of romances.
		Lancelot, however, is not an original member of the cycle, and the development of his story is still a source of considerable disagreement between scholars.
		The Lancelot story, in its rise and development, belongs exclusively to the later stage of Arthurian romance; it was a story for the court, not for the folk, and it lacks alike the dramatic force and human appeal of the genuine “popular” tale.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Sir-Lancelot (2483 words)

	Lancelot
		Lancelot 3 References Lancelot in the Arthurian Legend It is interesting to note that Lancelot does not appear in the ea...
		Lancelot Andrewes Lancelot Andrewes (1626), English divine, was born in 1555 in Suffolk family; his father, Thomas, was...
		Lancelot du Lac (film) Lancelot du Lac is a stylistic Chretien de Troyes.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /topics/lancelot.html (153 words)

	filmjourney.org : Lancelot du Lac
		Throughout the film, conflicts between charaters hinge on these syntactic interchanges where a word such as faire or vous becomes the pivot of the discourse as it is played on, changed, rhymed, or denied.
		A sense of imminent doom pervades the film and serves as a creeping metaphysical antagonist.
		The film is often characterized as a "despairing" film in Bresson's late oeuvre, but in fact, it's more of an elegiac lamentation (as opposed to a nostalgic or mythologized portrait), beautifully rendered in loving, rhythmic care.
	filmjourney.weblogger.com /2004/05/19 (1300 words)

	Lancelot du Lac (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Lancelot du Lac is a stylistic 1974 French film of the fall of Camelot directed and written by Robert Bresson.
		It is based on Arthurian myth and the Arthurian romances told by Chretien de Troyes.
		It tells the story of Lancelot and Guenevere's love as the Round Table falls apart.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lancelot_du_Lac_(film) (101 words)

	[ robert-bresson.com \| Bresson in Print \| Lancelot du Lac pressbook ]
		Lancelot du Lac (French, 1974) — This is the original 20 cm x 30 cm French pressbook from 1974 with art by Savignac and stills from the film and photos from the set of the film.
		From then on, Lancelot will have to accomplish tour de force after tour de force, miracle upon miracle, nothing will stop the machine that is on the move.
		Lancelot, Guinevere and around fifty knights, friends of Lancelot, take refuge in a castle that is besieged by Arthur.
	www.mastersofcinema.org /bresson/Words/LancelotDuLac_pressbook.html (1308 words)

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	The Films of Robert Bresson
		The film had just opened with the sound of church bells on the sound track, and the shot evokes a ringing bell: the fl clothes recall the body of the bell, and the shoe that emerges and is hidden again evokes the clapper of a bell.
		This depiction of social leadership as being corrupt and murderous is one of the social critiques of the film.
		Lancelot du lac / Lancelot of the Lake
	members.aol.com /MG4273/bresson.htm (2196 words)

	lancelot du lac by robert bresson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		all of his films have been austere and understated, but at the core of his earlier films was an element that could be recognized as genuine emotions of spiritual nature--deep sadness, intense loneliness and isolation, a sense of cosmic persecution, an idea of freedom, of human warmth and dignity, of redemption and salvation.
		lancelot, dying, lifts his head one more time; he can't escape death but that final gesture against death--to resist the weight of fate--distinguishes him from the robotic existence of much of humanity.
		perhaps closest lancelot du lac among bresson's films is joan of arc, also a medievalist legend, where the legend is brought down to human level only to elevated toward a higher, albeit lonely and unofficial, level.
	www.totalblowhole.com /new-522826-4674.html (2889 words)

	French Culture \| Cinema \| Robert Bresson: Lancelot of the Lake (Lancelot du Lac) (1974) / New Yorker DVD release (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Lancelot of the Lake (Lancelot du Lac) (1974)
		Lancelot (Luc Simon) is portrayed as a ruthless and ignoble opportunist who returns from his impossibly futile mission to locate the Holy Grail, only to callously rekindle his affair with Guinevere (Laura Duke Condominas).
		The emotional impact of the film is that of pure shock: the Arthurian ideal turns out to have little chance in the real world, and as there may be nothing worse than a hollow dream, the Knights of the Round Table descend into selfishness.
	www.ambafrance-us.org /culture/cinema/releases/bresson/lancelot.html (193 words)

	cinejunkie » LANCELOT OF THE LAKE (1974)aka LANCELOT DU LAC, LE GRAAL, THE GRAIL
		Lancelot has returned and awaiting him is Guinevere, who wants to rekindle their love affair.
		Lancelot believes that God has commanded him to end this adulterous relationship and begs Guinevere to set him free, but she refuses and Lancelot’s will weakens.
		For many, this film is the cinematic equivalent of having their eyes rubbed with sandpaper.
	www.cinejunkie.com /index.php?p=31 (586 words)

	Bright Lights Film Journal \| Bresson’s Man Escaped and Lancelot of the Lake
		These films come from different decades and are in fact very different films that share a particular interest in the body as constantly under siege, threatened by forces determined to destroy it and, in the process, the spirit that lies within it.
		Classical film technique would dictate an approach that lets the viewer know who is fighting, showing their faces, certainly, and situating them in the filmic space in a way that makes the fast, violent action of battle as intelligible as possible.
		Lancelot is littered with images of the knights’ life’s blood pouring out onto their glittering armor, images that echo the failure to find the Grail (which reputedly contained the blood of Christ).
	www.brightlightsfilm.com /47/bresson.htm (2242 words)

	Robert Bresson / films / director / biography / filmography
		Although this film earned him considerable prestige his following film, Les dames du Bois de Boulogne, based on a classic story by Diderot, was ill received by the public and was a commercial failure.
		After a 5 year haitus, Bresson returned to film making with the 1950 film Journal d'un curé de campagne, a film that established Bresson as one of the greatest living film directors.
		Other enduring themes in Bresson’s films are an individual’s entrapment by a pre-ordained destiny — the best example of this being his shocking final film L’Argent — and the unyielding capacity of the human spirit to endure unjust physical hardship (Le procès de Jeanne d'Arc and Au hasard Balthazar).
	frenchfilms.topcities.com /nf_rbresson.html (526 words)

	Lancelot of the Lake (Lancelot du Lac) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Lancelot Of The Lake is a relentless, implacable demythologization of the story of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table.
		At one point, Arthur leads Lancelot and Gawain into the fort’s central chamber and gestures around the table, ticking off all the seats that are empty, naming all the knights who have died in service of a goal Bresson quite clearly sees as foolish and futile.
		It is not enough that Lancelot’s fellow knights have died for nothing; to Bresson, even his protagonist’s love must be devalued, neutered, debunked.
	www.culturevulture.net /Movies9/Lancelot.htm (477 words)

	Lancelot du Lac / Lancelot of the Lake / Le Graal / The Grail / 1974 / film review / Robert Bresson
		Lancelot is torn between his duty to his king and his love for the queen, whilst Mordred is determined to use his infidelity to destroy him
		Most films which recount the exploits of Arthur and his gallant knights reduce the story to a fantasy fable of heroism and adventure.
		One of the reasons for the film's impact is Bresson’s own inimitable approach to film making, famous for its austerity and total lack of theatricality.
	frenchfilms.topcities.com /nf_Lancelot_du_lac_rev.html (366 words)

	The Medieval World in Film: The Medieval Knight
		Sword of Lancelot Guinevere rejects Lancelot at the end of the film.
		Lancelot du Lac Robert Bresson film which portrays the affair as the reason for the kingdom's downfall, and Lancelot as repentant for his sins.
		The Thirteenth Warrior is another film commentary on the medieval knight and is a film version of Beowulf.
	www.faculty.de.gcsu.edu /%7Edvess/ids/medieval/film/knight.html (833 words)

	Arthurian Film (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Lancelot attempts one final assignation with the queen, but changes his mind at the last minute thus foiling a plot by Mordred to catch the two in the act of adultery.
		Lancelot is killed in that rebellion, the last word from his lips being "Guinevere." This moody film--generally either loved or loathed by the critics--is Bresson's personal meditation on the downfall of the Middle Ages.
		Lancelot declares his love for the queen, and Elaine dies of a broken heart after penning the story of her unrequited love for Lancelot.
	www.lib.rochester.edu /camelot/acpbibs/harty.htm (11005 words)

	Lancelot (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Lancelot du Lac'', a film by Robert Bresson.
		The High History of the Holy Grail (An English translation of the Perlesvaus grail romance in which Lancelot figures prominently and Lancelot's love for Guenevere is a major theme.)
		Lancelot of the Laik (A Middle English adaptation of part of the French Prose Lancelot.)
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/lancelot (2510 words)

	Robert Bresson
		And many film directors from Godard to Tarkovsky, from Fassbinder to Scorsese, have cited him as a major influence on their work.
		Filmed mostly in his country home in 1965, ROBERT BRESSON - WITHOUT A TRACE is a revealing discussion with Bresson.
		Ranging over topics from the inspiration behind his films, to his ideas on the use of sound, actors, editing and music, and the state of (the then) contemporary cinema (from James Bond to the New Wave), Bresson describes his singular approach to filmmaking.
	www.frif.com /new2002/bres.html (625 words)

	notcoming.com \| Lancelot of the Lake
		In this film, he applies his rigorous technique to the Arthurian legend, resulting in what is perhaps his most austere (and possibly most opaque and inaccessible) film of all.
		The film begins, startlingly, with a seconds-long swordfight — filmed in a close-up so tight as to crop the knights’ bodies almost entirely out of the frame — that results in a decapitation that spews forth geysers of blood.
		What complicates the film is that Bresson provides no answer to the question; his goal is merely to raise it and to explore how human beings (even mythical ones) go about attempting to answer the question for themselves.
	www.notcoming.com /reviews.php?id=126 (476 words)

	slant // magazine.com: DVD Review - Lancelot du Lac
		Compared to John Boorman's Excalibur, Lancelot du Lac is a relatively uneventful interpretation of Arthurian myth, told over the course of a short period of time during Lancelot and Guinevere's love affair.
		One could say that Lancelot du Lac is about nothing more than the clanging of armor or the movements of legs, but the fact that he cares about the way situations look and feel, its textures and emotional tones (even as filtered through the singular Bressonian personality) is exceedingly important—and exceedingly cool.
		Like A Man Escaped, this DVD edition of Lancelot du Lac was struck from a PAL master, but you'd have to have the eyes of a hawk to pick up on the speed-up and ghosting effects that do happen as a result.
	www.slantmagazine.com /dvd/dvd_review.asp?ID=371 (697 words)

	lancelot, from Arthur, the rightful king by Mystic Realms
		R.S.Loomis Lancelot's family tree starts with a heathen king Evalach and his brother in law Seraphe.
		Lancelot (du Lac) - Queens champion - raised by the Ladies of the Lake - His mother Argante (echo of Arianrhod, who inhabits island.)
		"Three Knights of Battle were in the court of Arthur: Cadwr the Earl of Cornwall, Launcelot du Lac, and Owain the son of Urien.
	www.lundyisleofavalon.co.uk /arthur/lancelot.htm (330 words)

	Combustible Celluloid film review - Lancelot of the Lake (1974), Robert Bresson, Luc Simon, Laura Duke Condominas, dvd ...
		Released about the same time as Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Lancelot du Lac (1974) is its diametric opposite.
		Lancelot has a fling with Guinevere, raising the ire of the rest of the knights.
		Bresson preoccupies himself with watching the movement of the men within the heavy, clunky armor; none of his films spend as much time on walking.
	www.combustiblecelluloid.com /classic/lancelot.shtml (281 words)

	tastyspoon.com > Worst Ever Film (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Lancelot Du Lac is by far the WORST movie I have ever seen, and it's gotten so many good reviews.
		And people often say that films are the worst ever just because they didn't like them when there are hundreds of much worse ones.
		The only indication that there was a wider story going on in the entire film was at the end when the Count Dookoo and Darth Sidious were together and the Darth said "Everything is going according to plan," The only redeeming feature of this movie was the lightsaber battle between the Count and Yoda.
	www.tastyspoon.com /forum/lofiversion/index.php/t3637.html (1975 words)

	French culture \| cinema: Lancelot of the Lake, by Robert Bresson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		One of Bresson's most beautiful and inventive films updates the King Arthur legend, not by bringing it into modern times but by the timeless modernism of the artist's treatment.
		The focus is on the adulterous love of Lancelot and Guinevere, viewed in its moment-the end of the Arthurian dream.
		Long stretches of the film are without dialogue, and offscreen sound and dialogue-when a person is heard but not seen-is the aural counterpart of a visual scheme in which hands, knees, and legs are seemingly disembodied from their armored owners.
	www.info-france-usa.org /culture/cinema/festival/bresson/lancelot.html (169 words)

	Sir John of Steinbeck (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Lancelot had been loved by two Elaines: the daughter of King Pelles and mother to Galahad, and the Lily Maid of Astolat who died of passion for him.
		It became difficult to tell the restless and guilt-ridden Lancelot from his chronicler, and for his chronicler most of all.
		For all his visions of the floating Chalice of Chalices, Lancelot could not pass the door to the chapel where the holy vessel slept.
	www.tearsofllorona.com /steinbeck.html (3142 words)

	CMRS Goes to the Movies!: Video Picks of the Month
		A film western, with elements of the biker flic, Knightriders features contemporary motorcycle stunt riders staging medieval fairs, jousting, and attempting to apply the code of conduct exemplified by the once and future King Arthur.
		Terry Jones, the film's co-director, knows what he is about: he is the author of a scholarly study of the character of the knight in medieval literature" (Harty, "Cinema Arthuriana").
		Beautifully produced, the film is entertaining and serious (despite occasional liberties with the plot, such as the identification of Modred as "Arthur's brother." Get the popcorn ready.
	www.humnet.ucla.edu /cmrs/cinema/vidoct99.htm (437 words)

	The Resolute Æsthetic: Bresson's Lancelot du Lac
		In the film's prologue, the knights are shown killing and pillaging unrepentantly.
		Bresson instills this notion of transmutation in the core of the film.
		Being a Bresson film, this is of course a misnomer: the scene is neither climactic nor focused on battle.
	www.sensesofcinema.com /contents/05/36/lancelot_du_lac.html (780 words)

	RYLE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Lancelot du Lac: Bresson's masterpiece is set in the last days of the age of chivalry.
		Told in Bresson's austere style, with rich colors and stark images, the film becomes a hypnotic study in the loss of faith, in which reality stands in sharp relief to the spiritual.
		A masterpiece of sentimentality that is consistently listed as one of the greatest films of all time, with a musical score composed by the director and star himself.
	www2.truman.edu /~nsanders/ryle (1241 words)

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