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Post by Leo of Red Keep on Jan 26, 2022 3:25:07 GMT
Of course if we are talking about historical accuracy, than i have never seen a good movie about the middle ages. I don't trust that statement. I think your memory is not what it used to be 
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Post by Leo of Red Keep on Jan 26, 2022 3:41:29 GMT
This film was a perfect example of the modern (apparent) self-flagellation of western culture and made sure I'll never watch anything by Ridley Scott again unless it is to tear it apart. These "progressive" shits who want nothing else but getting fucked by anything foreign in the name of open-arsedness can get lost.
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Post by Leo of Red Keep on Jan 26, 2022 4:25:29 GMT
I do like movies about King Arthur. King Arthur died of a flaming arrow in the head because he wore no helmet so viewers people could recognise him. True historical fact
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Post by politicidal on Jan 26, 2022 18:33:16 GMT
Monty Python? Yeah that's a good choice.
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Post by politicidal on Jan 27, 2022 0:59:07 GMT
Another example set during the Crusades.
Hokey but entertaining.
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Post by london777 on Jan 27, 2022 4:42:44 GMT
I also recommend Kingdom of Heaven. More modern ones that I really like include Braveheart and the first Elizabeth. Some classic examples that I'd recommend include the Charlton Heston movies El Cid and The Agony and the Ecstasy. There's an unofficial trilogy of swashbuckler films starring Robert Taylor that includes Ivanhoe, Knights of the Round Table, and Quentin Durward. All of which I recommend;they're excellent. For something a bit more thoughtful, I would recommend The Lion in Winter and A Man for All Seasons. And no list is complete without a Robin Hood movie. My favorites are the Errol Flynn and the Kevin Costner versions. Good list, but Elizabeth, A Man for All Seasons and The Agony and the Ecstasy are not set in the Middle Ages. For quality films I would choose two dir: Ingmar Bergman: The Virgin Spring (1960) The Seventh Seal (1957) Andrei Rublev (1966) dir: Andrei Tarkovsky Marketa Lazarová (1967) dir: Frantisek Vlácil More commercial, but accurate in many respects: The War Lord (1957) dir: Franklin J. Schaffner Plus a choice of Shakespeare histories. My favorites are: Richard III dir: Laurence Olivier Chimes at Midnight (1965) dir: Orson Welles Macbeth (1971) dir: Roman Polanski though all are wildly inaccurate historically.
Ivan the Terrible, Part I (1944) dir: Sergei M. Eisenstein Knights of the Teutonic Order (1960) dir: Aleksander Ford Mongol: The Rise of Genghis Khan (2007) dir: Sergei Bodrov Three Kingdoms (2010) Ninety-five 40-minute TV episodes, and still leaves a lot of the stories and characters out, but the best treatment of the Three Kingdoms saga. Available on YouTube. Seven Samurai (1954) dir: Akira Kurosawa Ran (1985) dir: Akira Kurosawa Kagemusha (1980) dir: Akira Kurosawa Miyamoto Musashi (1954) dir: Hiroshi Inagaki (first of a trilogy) Plus a whole host of Chinese, Japanese and Korean mediaeval stories. I have seen some very good, some less so. I will leave it to our Asian films experts to recommend some.
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Post by Penn Guinn on Jan 27, 2022 4:49:12 GMT
What constitutes the Middle Ages appears to be as flexible as what makes a Movie a Classic Movie and what is a Film Noir so .... how's about including the several versions of  |
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Post by london777 on Jan 27, 2022 4:59:39 GMT
What constitutes the Middle Ages appears to be as flexible as what makes a Movie a Classic Movie ... It is pretty cut-and-dried in England, and has been for for hundreds of years: Start: departure of Roman legions (410) End: Battle of Bosworth (1485) Although only symbolic, those two dates do make a lot of sense. Of course the dates will vary in other countries, while some, like the USA, have never had a mediaeval period (yet).
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Post by Leo of Red Keep on Jan 27, 2022 5:59:07 GMT
What constitutes the Middle Ages appears to be as flexible as what makes a Movie a Classic Movie ... It is pretty cut-and-dried in England, and has been for for hundreds of years: Start: departure of Roman legions (410) End: Battle of Bosworth (1485) Western Europe uses 476 (formal end of the Western Roman Empire) to 1453 (fall of Constantinople). I propose having the middle ages stretch up to 1996 (when I got the Internet).
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Post by Jep Gambardella on Jan 27, 2022 10:46:21 GMT
Has anybody mentioned Paul Verhoeven’s Flesh and Blood yet? I don’t remember much about the plot, but I do remember that it was very gritty and brutal, like I imagine the Middle Ages in Europe were. Definitely not sanitized for present-day audiences.
Ridley Scott’s recent The Last Duel is pretty good too.
*** Edit ***
Oops! I see that Flesh and Blood had already been mentioned.
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Post by london777 on Jan 27, 2022 13:51:08 GMT
Western Europe uses 476 (formal end of the Western Roman Empire) to 1453 (fall of Constantinople). Yes, they are good and meaningful dates too. Another, even more significant date, around the same time is 1492. A slow burner this, but eventually triggered a deluge of mercantile capitalism and colonialism..
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Post by mikef6 on Jan 27, 2022 22:20:21 GMT
"Black Death" (2010) is something of a sleeper but I thought it was excellent. Sean Bean (we all know what happens to Sean Bean in everything he appears in) is the star and there is an early major role for Eddie Redmayne. 
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