Showing posts with label Costume Drama. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Costume Drama. Show all posts
Sunday, 26 November 2017

Frantz, 2016

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In the aftermath of World Wa r I in 1919 Germany, Anna notice a stranger placing flowers on the grave of her fiance, Frantz. She now live...
Saturday, 25 November 2017

Period pieces 1: Miss Marple / Mapp & Lucia

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An investment for those long winter nights is a reasonably priced boxset of all 12 BBC Miss Marple stories featuring Joan Hickson as the in...
Monday, 23 October 2017

The Crown

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Slight reservations about the massive Netflix series THE CROWN , Series 1 is now a 4 dvd pack (10 one-hour long episodes), as they film S...
Wednesday, 5 July 2017

Khartoum. again.

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KHARTOUM , 1966. I had forgotten how good  KHARTOUM  is, directed by stalwart Basil Dearden, and 2nd Unit (presumably those battle scenes...
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Monday, 5 June 2017

Lists: 20 Costume films

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We love a good costume or period drama here at The Projector: Here's 20 of the best to continue our Lists : (we are not including bibl...
Thursday, 18 May 2017

An old favourite: Dance of the Vampires or ....

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Roman Polanski's 1967 spoof  DANCE OF THE VAMPIRES  or  THE FEARLESS VAMPIRE KILLERS  is still an absolute delight - and should reall...
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Tuesday, 16 May 2017

Marie Antoinette, 2006

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MARIE ANTOINETTE  Sofia Coppola’s 2006 film holds up well after a ten year gap in viewing. Is it marketed for a teen audience or does it ...
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Friday, 12 May 2017

Back to 1957 with ....

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When I was 11 in 1957, a favourite movie magazine - one of the American fan ones - was maybe called " Screen Stories ", featuring...
Sunday, 7 May 2017

Effi Briest, 1974

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I had been meaning to catch Fassbinder's 1974 drama EFFI BRIEST - but pal Martin has been raving about it, part of the Fassbinder se...
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Monday, 24 April 2017

The adventures of Gerard - 1970

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This was one of those throwaway movies we enjoyed at the time - like De Broca's THAT MAN FROM RIO , dubbed and released as a supporti...
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Sunday, 2 April 2017

Still of the day ...

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Two of our favourite blondes : Faye and Michael - Dunaway and York that is, in Richard Lester's all-star extravaganza THE FOUR MUSKET...
Tuesday, 28 March 2017

The Agony and The Ecstasy

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Here indeed is a 20th Century Fox "prestige" production, from 1965, by Carol Reed, a sumptuous film of Irving Stone's bests...
Saturday, 25 March 2017

A new LUDWIG

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I was intrigued to see a new 4-disk Bluray of Luchino Visconti's 1973 opus LUDWIG is about to be released. I already have the 2 ...
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