Costume film suggestions
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frualeydisI'm home sick to day too. I have made the suggested changes in the summary and now I plan to sew and watch the 1980s Sense and Sensibility series. It's not very good, but I have watched Pride and Prejudice and the 1970s Emma so often recently that I need some variation. And I don't have the Emma Thompson Sense and sensibility or Persuasion.
In general I need more costume films. I have Elizabeth and Shakespeare in love but I'm tired of both.
Any suggestions? I'm not really fond of the 18th century, unless it's extremely late. I would love some more 16th and 19th century.
In general I need more costume films. I have Elizabeth and Shakespeare in love but I'm tired of both.
Any suggestions? I'm not really fond of the 18th century, unless it's extremely late. I would love some more 16th and 19th century.
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Date: 2006-05-31 07:21 am (UTC)http://www.discshop.se/shop/ds_produkt.php?lang=&id=45627&lang=se&subsite=movies&&ref=
Tipping the velvet is a wonderful 1890s costume film i think. went to viewing on stockholm queer film festival a few years ago. i just bought it, but my computer refuses to run it!
have not seen fingersmith, just read the book amd it is OK.
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Date: 2006-05-31 07:23 am (UTC)Eva
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Date: 2006-05-31 07:58 am (UTC)Eva
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Date: 2006-05-31 01:58 pm (UTC)What little I did manage to see of it I was impressed with.
The Samantha Morton "Jane Eyre" is VERY good! (she was Harriet in the Kate Beckinsale version of "Emma"). Definitely worthwhile getting that one. And Emma of course!
I have "Elizabeth R" on DVD - I think this one does have subtitles. I've also got "Anne of the Thousand Days". The costumes, though more early 1540s rather than late 1520s/1530s, are very very good (some of which appear in Elizabeth R!).Genevieve Bujold as Anne Boleyn is brilliant! Absolutely perfect as Anne. She plays her as the brilliant courtier that Anne was but who did NOT want the King. The film clearly shows Anne as innocent. The music is from the period and the sets are fantastic. Ignore the relatively few historical errors - they do not detract from the storyline and essence of the history itself. Well worth getting.
Not yet on DVD but still quite good is Mary, Queen of Scots with Vanessa Redgrave as Mary and Glenda Jackson reprising her role as Elizabeth.
This one is very interesting as the team that did Anne of the thousand days also made this film. Therefore the costumes are very good (done by the same costumer - Margaret Furze) and there are WONDERFUL references to the first film, in particular to a song that Robert Dudley plays to Elizabeth and states that her father played it to her mother (when he was courting her) and that Henry has asked Anne what she thought of it. Her reply was that she asked how his wife liked it! This line of dialogue was in Anne of the thousand days yet is talked of in Mary, Queen of Scots!
Of course there is an attempt to put M, Q of S in a good light but really she does come out as rather a silly, though well meaning person. Elizabeth really does come out better even though they tried to show her in a less pleasant light! The main grumble I have is that Mary and Elizabeth are shown to meet which never happened but again I can put up with that one.
Amazon.co.uk sell the DVDs for the first two and the video for the last one. Definitely well worth getting.
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Date: 2006-05-31 08:58 am (UTC)I was wondering about Elizabeth R. It doesn't have swedish subtitles, which is all right, but I wonder if it has english subtitles. With the noise level with three children it sometimes very nice to have the subtitles ot help you.
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Date: 2006-05-31 09:05 am (UTC)http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0007N1BBC/qid=1149066000/sr=8-1/ref=pd_ka_1/202-1688883-4935869
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Date: 2006-05-31 01:23 pm (UTC)And then there's this one, which I saw recently, He Knew He was Right, which is really good and not as predictable as it first seems to be.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00065GVIO/qid=1149081618
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Date: 2006-05-31 03:46 pm (UTC)The Three and Four Musketeers (70's version with Michael York, Oliver Reed, Racquel Welch etc)
Queen Margot (my version is French with English subtitles)
Elizabeth R
Flesh and Blood - early 16th century Germanic
Mad Love - early 16th century Spanish
Anne of the Thousand Days
Hamlet (the one with Mel Gibson)
Dangerous Liaisons
Dangerous Beauty
Restoration
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Date: 2006-05-31 04:00 pm (UTC)I think I will have to buy Anne of the Thousand days.
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Date: 2006-06-01 08:37 pm (UTC)Racquel's costumes were designed to display her best ahem features, but the others were excellent IMHO. I really like the Queen's dress when she presents the ring to York at the end of the 3 Musketeers.
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Date: 2006-05-31 05:38 pm (UTC)La Reine Margot is a very good movie, though the costumes are not aimed to be perfect. Zeffirelli's Romeo and Julie and The Taming of the Shrew both have gorgeous costumes, and are good movies.
For the 19th century I like Gone With the Wind, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Middlemarch and Jane Eyre with Timoty Dalton. The TV-series Little Dorrit</> and Vanity Fair is good too.
And I can chime in and say that Stage Beauty is very good- though 17th century, as ii Charles II with Rufus Sewell.
Hope you feel better soon!
*hugs*
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Date: 2006-06-08 06:05 pm (UTC)Firstly - the worst - absolutely dire in fact - Robin Hood Prince of Thieves with Kevin Costner - dreadful costumes - nothing remotely authentic or medieval - complete (and poor) fantasy.
Best for Fantasy - well Lord of the Rings is for me unbeatable and is jointly for me on the same level as the 3 most recent Star Wars. (I have a copy of the Star Wars Costume book which is as good as the costumes it illustrates.)
Historical - BBC's adaptation of Ivanhoe (1997) - yes you've guessed it - lots of wide sleeves! (Evenb on the fallen Saxon Princess who went mad!).
Some of the earlier series made of Cadfael have good costumes in them.
Although not my period, the BBC's adaptation of Pride and Prejudice is also really good. The fact too that it had wonderful music specially composed for it helped to make itso good too.
There definately isn't enough period films and dramas in film or TV. Whenever they do come out, they are locked in either Victorian England or Henry VIII and Elizabeth I. Nothing much medieval except Kingdom of Heaven which I've on DVD but not had time to watch yet.
Paul