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Post by Lebowskidoo 🦞 on Apr 21, 2017 2:12:36 GMT
Anything from 1910-1970-ish is acceptable!
Mine:
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Titanic
The Godfather
The Artist
Moulin Rouge
Far From Heaven
Saving Private Ryan
The Purple Rose of Cairo
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Post by mikef6 on Apr 21, 2017 2:48:08 GMT
A dirty dozen:
The Man Who Wasn’t There / Coen Bros (2001) 1940s
Chicago / Rob Marshall (2002) 1920s
Road To Perdition / Sam Mendes (2002) 1930s
Un Long Dimanche De Fiançailles (A Very Long Engagement) / Jean-Pierre Jeunet (2004) 1920s/1910s (flashbacks)
The Painted Veil / John Curran (2006) 1920s
The Wind That Shakes The Barley / Ken Loach (2006) 1920s
Milk / Gus Van Sant (2008) 1970s
Vincere / Marco Bellocchio (2009) 1930s
The King’s Speech / Tom Hooper (2010) 1940s
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy / Thomas Alfredson (2011) 1970s
Phoenix / Christian Petzold (2014) 1940s
Neruda / Pablo Larrain (2016) 1940s
Riphagen / Pieter Kuijpers (2016) 1940s
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Post by mikef6 on Apr 22, 2017 1:03:26 GMT
Shakespeare in Love (1998) - John Madden 1500s lol The 1590s to be more exact. That was the original classic era, all right.  |
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Post by wmcclain on Apr 22, 2017 2:07:36 GMT
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Post by pimpinainteasy on Apr 22, 2017 4:42:38 GMT
THE WOMAN CHASER
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Post by Lebowskidoo 🦞 on May 4, 2017 13:50:10 GMT
Florence Foster Jenkins was great fun, I feel it received a lot of backlash due to Streep getting yet another Oscar nod for it. She can't help it if she's always amazing.
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Post by Lebowskidoo 🦞 on May 4, 2017 14:11:25 GMT
I agree with you. Btw, I found a link on wikipedia that has Foster singing: Florence Foster Jenkins (you might have to scroll down to her vocal career section). Very interesting. And I also added some more titles after you posted this (was still working on it, I guess). I did look up the real FFJ once, her singing was an...acquired taste.  |
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Post by Deleted on May 4, 2017 14:43:43 GMT
The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014), set in the first half the 20th century
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Post by Nalkarj on May 4, 2017 16:09:52 GMT
The large majority of my favorites--Raiders of the Lost Ark, The Godfather, The Artist, The King's Speech, especially Midnight in Paris--have already been mentioned, but if I may be allowed to add another...
Last year's Allied was, in my opinion, superb; and, though it was not panned by any means, I still found it woefully underrated. Brad Pitt's performance is only decent, but Marion Cotillard's is, as usual for that excellent actress, wonderful. The emotions are real, the characters feel real, there's genuine care and time taken with these people, the plotting is well-done, surprising, and effective, the direction is first-class (well, maybe an over-reliance on CGI, but that is, unfortunately, par for the course nowadays)... I just thought it an excellent movie by all means. Definitely my favorite of last year's releases.
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Post by koskiewicz on May 4, 2017 16:48:38 GMT
Live By Night
Once Upon a Time in America
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Post by bravomailer on May 4, 2017 17:47:09 GMT
Chinatown
LA Confidential
Hail, Caesar (not well received, but I liked it)
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Post by fangirl1975 on May 5, 2017 18:23:13 GMT
Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
L.A. Confidential
Chinatown
Gangster Squad (not well received but I enjoyed it)
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Post by Lebowskidoo 🦞 on Jun 19, 2017 20:36:35 GMT
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them did a great job of recreating 1926 NYC.
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Post by marshamae on Jun 19, 2017 21:14:30 GMT
I really am bothered by tone deaf set dressing music and fashions. Hair and makeup that's out of period really bothers me. So I'm pretty picky about period films .
Woody Allen is one director that really does period films well.
Bullets over Broadway - set dressing a marvel, from Cusak cold water flat to Olive's Deco horror to Helen's 6 - room upper east side palace.
Radio Days- more 40's but traveling across class and ethnicity in New York.
Purple Rose of Cairo
Midnight in Paris - many historical periods visited all done wellm
And of course his wonderful choice of tunes for the score, the twisty little guitar tune in Midnight in Paris, Jeff Daniels Surprise Vocals on Alabama Bound and I Love My Baby, the music supports the period feel so well
Quiz Show was a smorgasbord of 50's experiences, the crinolines, big lapels, flowered table cloths, excellently done.
Godfather and Godfather II - some breakdowns in hair styles at the wedding but mostly really excellent. Kudos to Diane Keaton who was almost unrecognizable in that strange hair but it was perfectly period.
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Post by marshamae on Jun 19, 2017 22:28:29 GMT
Just read the thread
So agree about The King's Speech
Goodfellas had a nice 50's vibe. I didn't get the men's shirts. They had very unusual long pointed collars , very starched. I remember men's dress shirts with startched collars and collar bars( before Ivy League button downs were popular) My friends in this era dressed more preppy .there was a lot that was clearly Jersey and mob wear, the pointy shoes, narrow suits , etc. I especially loved the scene at The swim club where Ray Liotta looked completely out of place .
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Post by wanton87 on Jun 25, 2017 4:00:36 GMT
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Post by Lebowskidoo 🦞 on Jun 25, 2017 13:36:40 GMT
The large majority of my favorites-- Raiders of the Lost Ark, The Godfather, The Artist, The King's Speech, especially Midnight in Paris and Phoenix--have already been mentioned, but if I may be allowed to add another... Last year's Allied was, in my opinion, superb; and, though it was not panned by any means, I still found it woefully underrated. Brad Pitt's performance is only decent, but Marion Cotillard's is, as usual for that excellent actress, wonderful. The emotions are real, the characters feel real, there's genuine care and time taken with these people, the plotting is well-done, surprising, and effective, the direction is first-class (well, maybe an over-reliance on CGI, but that is, unfortunately, par for the course nowadays)... I just thought it an excellent movie by all means. Definitely my favorite of last year's releases. Just saw Allied, along with a few other MC movies, like La vie en rose. She is great and the movie is a grand, old fashioned tearjerker. |
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Post by Lebowskidoo 🦞 on Jun 25, 2017 13:43:18 GMT
Some more I thought of:
Flyboys
The Great Waldo Pepper
King Kong (2005)
Evita
Hitchcock
Also, I always thought that the TV series Boardwalk Empire did a great job of recreating 1920's Atlantic City.
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Post by koskiewicz on Jun 26, 2017 15:52:36 GMT
Allied
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Post by joekiddlouischama on Jun 27, 2017 4:28:38 GMT
The large majority of my favorites-- Raiders of the Lost Ark, The Godfather, The Artist, The King's Speech, especially Midnight in Paris and Phoenix--have already been mentioned, but if I may be allowed to add another... Last year's Allied was, in my opinion, superb; and, though it was not panned by any means, I still found it woefully underrated. Brad Pitt's performance is only decent, but Marion Cotillard's is, as usual for that excellent actress, wonderful. The emotions are real, the characters feel real, there's genuine care and time taken with these people, the plotting is well-done, surprising, and effective, the direction is first-class (well, maybe an over-reliance on CGI, but that is, unfortunately, par for the course nowadays)... I just thought it an excellent movie by all means. Definitely my favorite of last year's releases. is an outstanding film—"very good," in my view, and at least one of the seven best films among 2016 releases, possibly one of the five best. For the second straight year, director Robert Zemeckis delivered a marvelous movie that the Awards establishment ignored, meaning that he might be the most underrated filmmaker in Hollywood right now. The film is visually sumptuous, remarkably suspenseful, and wonderfully calibrated while offering quite a powerful—if oblique—statement about war. ... great citation. |
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