THE GREEN KNIGHT
While back in my Pennsylvania hometown last weekend, I went to Phoenixville’s Colonial Theater, originally built in 1903, to see David Lowery’s THE GREEN KNIGHT (trailer here). It proved an appropriate fit—I felt transported in time by both the theater’s early twentieth-century interior and the movie’s medieval trappings. The film stars Dev Patel as Sir Gawain, a young and insecure Knight of the Round Table. If you wanted to nitpick, you could tell me that I couldn’t technically have been transported “in time” by the movie because Arthurian legend isn’t actually a historical period, but please don’t nitpick! In the role, Patel alternates between unwarranted confidence and outright fear as he journeys across a fantastical, green-and-orange-hued English countryside to secure his place in legend. I emphatically recommend if you like your movies dreamy, hazy, and messy.
—Nolan Russell, Executive Assistant
