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Knightriders [1981] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
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Flawed but still cool cult classic.
Review date: 2008-03-29 Rating: 8 out of 10
First saw this when it featured on Alex Cox's peerless "Moviedrome" showcase on BBC2... the same place I saw countless excellent movies like "Repo Man" "They Live!" "Sid and Nancy" "Assault on Precinct 13" "Jabberwocky" and a whole bunch of others. All of them "cult" films from the wrong side of the tracks - beautiful, flawed monsters with low budgets and genre intentions.
This captures an American subculture - The Rennaissance Fayre - also captured in Michael Crichton's "Westworld." But more than that it is a commentary on the nature of "selling out" - then besetting the remnants of the counter culture, and the need to live authentically. It is an existentialist biker movie about an ertsatz Camelot with a genuine core - wonderfully performed by Ed Harris. See also "Walker".
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Product Details/Specifications
Actor(s):
Albert Amerson
John Amplas
Cynthia Adler
Judith Barrett
Brother Blue
Creators:
Cynthia Adler (Primary Contributor)
Albert Amerson (Primary Contributor)
Michael Gornick (Cinematographer)
Donald A. Rubinstein (Composer)
Recording label: Anchor Bay
Manufacturer: Anchor Bay
EAN: 0013131549997
Binding: DVD
Number of items: 1
Format: Colour, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC,
Release date: 2007-12-18
Universal product code (UPC): 013131549997
Aspect ratio: 1.85:1
Region code: 1
Running time: 145 minutes
Theatrical release date: 1981
Language: English (Original Language)