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Post by lune7000 on Jul 14, 2021 15:38:38 GMT
Last night I watched A Tale of Two Cities (30's version) w/o realizing the date. What are some other French Revolution movies? (not Napoleon)
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Post by mattgarth on Jul 14, 2021 16:01:10 GMT
ORPHANS OF THE STORM (1921) by D.W. Griffith with the Gish sisters
THE SCARLET PIMPERNEL (1934) with Leslie Howard
REIGN OF TERROR (1949) -- historical Noir directed by Anthony Mann, with Robert Cummings and Richard Basehart (portraying 'Robespierre')
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Post by marshamae on Jul 14, 2021 16:09:35 GMT
Marat Sade - film of play starring Patrick McGee and Glenda Jackson. Marquis de Sade directs inmates at an insane asylum in a play about the murder of PAUL Marat.
Start the Revolution Without Me - Gene Wilder and Donald SUtherland play mix matched twins.
Scarlet Pimpernel- a lovely performance by Leslie Howard as a master of disguise trying to save aristocrats doomed to the Guillotine. He demonstrates great comic ability and athleticism. With Merle Oberon and Raymond Massey.
Marie Antoinette Norma Shearer as the little Austrian, and a perfectly cast Robert MORELY as her inept husband . John Barrymore in almost a cameo as Louis XV, and Tyrone Power as Count Axel Ferson
. Not especially accurate but full of beautiful tableaux , and very well played.
A pretty revolution hit - Valmont , the lovely Milos Forman version of the Laclos play. With Meg TILLY , Annette Benning and Fairuza Balk as the ladies and Colin Farrel, Jeffrey Jones and Henry Thomas , in his first adult role, and a perfect Fabua Drake as the old countess who hosts them all to a house party before the wedding of Marie Antoinette. It is a perfect Watteau painting , full of the elegant beauty and corruption that brought on the revolution.
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Post by jervistetch on Jul 14, 2021 16:13:30 GMT
HISTORY OF THE WORLD: PART I is probably the most accurate.   |
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Post by Isapop on Jul 14, 2021 16:16:02 GMT
Last night I watched A Tale of Two Cities (30's version) w/o realizing the date. What are some other French Revolution movies? (not Napoleon) Introduced by Orson Welles:
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Post by bravomailer on Jul 14, 2021 16:23:36 GMT
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Post by bravomailer on Jul 14, 2021 16:25:43 GMT
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Post by teleadm on Jul 14, 2021 17:28:48 GMT
Jean Renoir's Le Marseillaise 1938, at the start of what became the French Revolution, as seen through different eyes.   |
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Post by marshamae on Jul 14, 2021 17:59:47 GMT
HISTORY OF THE WORLD: PART I is probably the most accurate.
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Post by TheGoodMan19 on Jul 14, 2021 19:08:23 GMT
HISTORY OF THE WORLD: PART I is probably the most accurate. It's good to be the King
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Post by claudius on Jul 14, 2021 22:13:42 GMT
The 1980 Tv version of A Tale of Two Cities (Chris Sarandon, Alice Krige, Peter Cushing, Billie Whitelaw) shows scenes of Mob brutality on the Aristos (a ball gets crashed with nobles flung off the balcony).
The Rose of Versailles (1979-1980) an Anime series on France spanning from Marie Antoinette’s entry for marriage to the Bastille battle (with an epilogue on everyone’s fate) seen through the eyes of her bodyguard the cross dressing Lady Oscar (a woman raised as a male soldier). There was also an English adaptation Lady Oscar (1979).
The 1982 tv version of The Scarlet Pimpernel with Anthony Andrews, Jane Seymour, and McKellan.
The French Revolution (1989) A Two part French German Italian UK Canadian film starring Andrezj Seweryn as Robespierre, Klaus Maria Brandauer as Danton, Jane Seymour as Marie Antoinette and Christopher Lee as the Guillotine executioner.
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Post by marshamae on Jul 15, 2021 3:12:44 GMT
Klaus Maria Brandauer kinda looks like Danton
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Post by politicidal on Jul 15, 2021 16:35:55 GMT
BROTHERHOOD OF THE WOLF (2001) has an opening scene that takes place during the French Revolution.
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Post by Rufus-T on Jul 18, 2021 0:06:40 GMT
Both 1938 & 2006 Marie Antoinette movies.
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