I’m a bit of a history buff, and I’m curious about what "period piece" movies you guys like.
Some of my favorites are:
Elizabeth (1998)
Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
Gladiator (2000)
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003)
Legends of the Fall (1994)
The Last Samurai (2003)
Lincoln (2012)
The Pianist (2002)
There Will Be Blood (2007)
Glory (1989)
Peggy Sue Got Married
11/22/63
Pleasantville
Even though these are fantasy, this is the period I love....
The Mad Men variety. I love the clothes, the cars, the music!
Another is Catch Me If You Can (2002)
Interesting question. While I also love history and often enjoy watching a period piece movie, it doesn't seem they're among my favourites. The only ones I own are Karakter (1997) and Sleepy Hollow (1999).
I love Burton's Sleepy Hollow!
shareI thought "From Hell" was decent. I liked the whole atmosphere.
shareI like it too. It's the only Hughes Brothers movie I like. Menace II Society is like Boyz n the Hood Lite, Dead Presidents has it's moments but seems really amateur, and Book of Eli is so on the nose. From Hell is the only time I thought they nailed it.
shareMy only complaint is that they botched the Opium scene at the beginning. They should have hired an expert on the subject if they wanted to authentically portray it.
Boardwalk Empire for example, hired Steven Martin in Season one for a scene that lasted only a couple minutes. That show went to great lengths to make sure its research on the time period were flawless.
Boardwalk Empire is a great period piece
shareI can understand that. :) Sleepy Hollow is a great one!
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Barry Lyndon
True Grit (Coens)
The Master
Phantom Thread
Spartacus
Spartacus is an amazing movie, and I really enjoyed True Grit. I haven't seen the others, but I'll make it a point to check them out.
shareBarry Lyndon is the most beautifully photographed movie ever made, many scenes shot with only candlelight due to the lenses Kubrick adapted for use with his cameras. It's also highly entertaining, sort of dry, but darkly comedic.
shareAmadeus is my favorite.
Also, Marie Antoinette was pretty good.
Amadeus as above ^
The Sting is one of my all time favorites.
Oh I forgot Cleopatra. With Liz Taylor and Richard Burton. Love it
shareSame here! Gorgeous movie.
shareI never have understood why it was supposed to have bombed. Maybe just because it cost so much to produce.
It's a wonderful film. The scenes with Taylor and Burton were amazing. One scene in particular, reasonably early on, before they got together and in her palace (?) was downright electric.
It cost so much, and maybe the business it did wasn't what the studio wanted given that price tag. Box office is virtually irrelevant to my enjoyment of a movie, not to mention the fact that I wasn't alive then, so I have no perception of its reception at the time.
shareThat's the only thing I can figure, and perhaps the reviewers of the time were influenced by that. As best I remember, it's often been referred to as having been panned. But that *can't* be on its merit, it just can't.
shareThe Last of the Mohicans
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