What follows after Gawain steps up for this challenge is his quest for honor and self-worth. It’s a sprawling, quiet tale that extends beyond the translations of the poem in imaginative ways. Nerdist ...

Would you lie to save your own life? This moral dilemma is the big reveal in one of my favorite poems. In an anonymous alliterative verse text of the late 14th century that only survives in one ...

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The Green Knight hits theaters on July 30. Arthurian legends have long been translated into sweeping dramas or sword-and-shield action epics, but there's never been any adaptation so surreal and ...

It is Christmas, and King Arthur (Sean Harris) is in his court, his queen Guinevere (Kate Dickie) to one side, and to the other, his nephew Gawain (Dev Patel) — who, just that morning, woke up in a ...

Some of the details between the film and its source material are, of course, different, but the themes at their respective hearts remain consistent. Eric Zachanowich / A24 Toward the beginning of the ...

After being pushed back from its original May 2020 release, The Green Knight is finally set to hit theaters next month, and A24 has now shared a mini-documentary titled Legends Never Die: An Oral ...

David Lowery’s new film, “The Green Knight,” is an adaptation of the Arthurian poem of “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight,” but it’s no more about medieval life and chivalrous norms than Martin Scorsese ...

The arthouse fantasy “The Green Knight” begins with a word from an off-camera narrator who disappears right after he repositions the Christian allegory of “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight” as a ...