In the Mood for Love seems an easy Hong Kong choice
― devvvine, Tuesday, 7 February 2017 13:42 (seven years ago) link
The Leopard
See also Senso and Ludwig. I assume we could probably put Visconti's complete catalog under this heading?
― Diana Fire (j.lu), Tuesday, 7 February 2017 13:47 (seven years ago) link
Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975)
http://www.cinestylography.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Picnic-at-Hanging-Rock-movie-11.jpg
― my neurons made me do it (Sanpaku), Wednesday, 8 February 2017 00:00 (seven years ago) link
Multiple periods and genders: Orlando (1992)
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― my neurons made me do it (Sanpaku), Wednesday, 8 February 2017 00:26 (seven years ago) link
Picnic at Hanging Rock is a great call up thread - watched it recently and it's one of the most evocative movies I've ever seen visually. Many scenes in the school are packed with almost occult symbolism (including lots of mirrors). A treat for the eyes really.
― Everything Moves Towards The Sun (Ross), Wednesday, 8 February 2017 00:44 (seven years ago) link
really love Monty Python & The Holy Grail's mucky, foggy medieval England.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 8 February 2017 00:55 (seven years ago) link
The Duellists
https://iknowwhereimgoing.files.wordpress.com/2013/06/vlcsnap-2013-06-25-15h51m02s99.png
― jmm, Wednesday, 8 February 2017 00:56 (seven years ago) link
Duelists is good. But better if you fantasize about the young Keitel.
http://silverscreenmodes.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Duellists-screen-2-672x372.jpg
― my neurons made me do it (Sanpaku), Wednesday, 8 February 2017 00:59 (seven years ago) link
The Conformist
― Iago Galdston, Wednesday, 8 February 2017 01:57 (seven years ago) link
Getting into fantasy again, Duke Of Burgundy and Morgiana have a really great look. Tale Of Tales too.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Wednesday, 8 February 2017 02:00 (seven years ago) link
Barry Lyndon is such a great choice not just cos it looks great and has good costume design, it was shot with natural light, meaning it more or less looks exactly how it would have looked before the electric light.
i like Amadeus's glam baroque style
https://media.giphy.com/media/z6CuYOlY3h2aA/giphy.gif
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 8 February 2017 02:07 (seven years ago) link
FrockFlicks, a stirringly opinionated site on these films, has a few choice words on Amadeus
Admittedly, I probably wouldn't have nearly as great an interest in period film if it didn't provide an excuse for heaving bosoms on film. Does this make me a bad person?
― my neurons made me do it (Sanpaku), Wednesday, 8 February 2017 02:36 (seven years ago) link
Barry Lyndon is great because it was shot with an amazing camera that gives "natural light" which, because light is a quantity in all films, doesn't look like natural light on film.
― mh 😏, Wednesday, 8 February 2017 02:38 (seven years ago) link
Not so much a camera, but a f/0.7 lens originally made for the NASA Apollo lunar program to capture the far side of the moon in 1966. Basically it lets in 8 times as much light as a typical lenses around f/2.0.
As someone who cherishes a Summilux and craves a Nocticron, I would gawk at a Noctilux and worship the Zeiss f/0.7.
― my neurons made me do it (Sanpaku), Wednesday, 8 February 2017 02:55 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmSDnPvslnA
― my neurons made me do it (Sanpaku), Wednesday, 8 February 2017 02:59 (seven years ago) link
I geek out over all those lenses and considered, being a photographer who *could* improve his craft on the cheapest lens, how to get a noctilux.
it's a great look but really given any camera and a focused directorial vision you could do a historical look. lots of smoky inside times back then, the uncorrected nearsightedness, and the subjectiveness of time
really the light limit was on film able to capture it all on top of the lens
― mh 😏, Wednesday, 8 February 2017 03:17 (seven years ago) link
The Godfather is obviously a great looking recreation of the '40s--can't vouch for its accuracy, but I think you can see a Jake LaMotta poster at some point in the film.
Was trying to think of a relatively recent film that gets the '50s or '60s right, and nothing immediately jumped to mind. (American Graffiti's close enough to its historical period to make it fairly easy.)
― clemenza, Wednesday, 8 February 2017 13:16 (seven years ago) link
Maybe Something in the Air for the '60s?
― clemenza, Wednesday, 8 February 2017 13:17 (seven years ago) link
(I hate 97% of all costume dramas...I'm trying to hijack the thread.)
― clemenza, Wednesday, 8 February 2017 13:18 (seven years ago) link
Carol for the fifties? Wong Kar-wai for the sixties.
― Frederik B, Wednesday, 8 February 2017 13:22 (seven years ago) link
Rossellini's The Taking of Power by Louis XIV is very lush for a tv movie. I love the court scenes at the end where he has risen to such olympian status that people even have to courtesy his food as it is wheeled past them.
― calzino, Wednesday, 8 February 2017 13:37 (seven years ago) link
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Did Far From Heaven get the 50s right? I do know it looked gorgeous.
― Diana Fire (j.lu), Wednesday, 8 February 2017 14:56 (seven years ago) link
I thought "The Founder" did a good job of evoking the '50s.
― Acid Hose (Capitaine Jay Vee), Wednesday, 8 February 2017 15:01 (seven years ago) link
^^^ I was going to suggest Far From Heaven yesterday. I don't know if the film gets much love around here, but yeah I think its hyper-stylized Sirkism looks beautiful. xp
― Fake posts from a failing poster (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 8 February 2017 15:03 (seven years ago) link
Ed Wood does good 50s
― Bongo Herbert (Ward Fowler), Wednesday, 8 February 2017 15:03 (seven years ago) link
Far From Heaven definitely got Sirk right... But it's quite stylized and pastichy. Carol more inspired by photography, somehow seemed more 'right' to me. Both films good, Carol better.
― Frederik B, Wednesday, 8 February 2017 15:04 (seven years ago) link
yes FFH struck me as an accurate representation of what '50s cinema looked like.
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 8 February 2017 15:10 (seven years ago) link
favorite period evocative:
Hard to be a GodWinstanleyPuce Moment
beautiful 60's, though otherwise flawed:
A Single ManLlewyn DavisThe Dreamers
And Lean's Zhivago and Lawrence
― by the light of the burning Citroën, Wednesday, 8 February 2017 15:22 (seven years ago) link
I'm not the greatest fan of Llewyn Davis, but as an evocation of time and place, its impeccable.
― some sad trombone Twilight Zone shit (cryptosicko), Wednesday, 8 February 2017 16:29 (seven years ago) link
Flowers of Shanghai also. I mean, every Hou, but Flowers of Shanghai especially. Pure visual opium.
― Frederik B, Wednesday, 8 February 2017 16:39 (seven years ago) link
I think what Deleuze writes about Visconti in his chapter on crystal images is some of the best writing on historical cinema ever, btw. So evocative. The whole idea is hit and miss, I still don't really understand what Ophuls and Renoir has to do with anything, but borrow the book, and just read that couple of pages.
― Frederik B, Wednesday, 8 February 2017 16:40 (seven years ago) link
Was trying to think of a relatively recent film that gets the '50s or '60s right, and nothing immediately jumped to mind.
That Thing You Do! does some good 60s. (Shot by Tak Fujimoto.)
― Lauren Schumer Donor (Phil D.), Wednesday, 8 February 2017 16:42 (seven years ago) link
A Field in England
― Number None, Wednesday, 8 February 2017 18:41 (seven years ago) link
most of these films just make me wonder what the poor people of the time were doing/looked like
Field in England is gorgeous
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 8 February 2017 18:43 (seven years ago) link
(specifically referring to European elite costume dramas listed)
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 8 February 2017 18:44 (seven years ago) link
A Serious Man evokes a very different '60s feel too
― Number None, Wednesday, 8 February 2017 18:45 (seven years ago) link
to Llewyn Davis I mean
― Number None, Wednesday, 8 February 2017 18:46 (seven years ago) link
They filmed scenes in my (downscale) neighborhood grocery as it hadn't been updated since the 60s.
― by the light of the burning Citroën, Wednesday, 8 February 2017 18:48 (seven years ago) link
Berlin Alexanderplatz
― devvvine, Wednesday, 8 February 2017 18:48 (seven years ago) link
another Kubrick: Paths of Glory
perfectly captures an era still caught between 19th & 20th centuries
― Dominique, Wednesday, 8 February 2017 18:56 (seven years ago) link
Les Enfants du ParadisLola MontesThe Scarlet EmpressForever Amber maybe?
― MrDasher, Wednesday, 8 February 2017 19:06 (seven years ago) link
loads of Ken Russell films, esp The Devils, Lisztomania + Savage Messiah
― soref, Wednesday, 8 February 2017 19:37 (seven years ago) link
A Room With a View
and, I assume but haven't seen, other Merchant-Ivory films
― scattered, smothered, covered, diced and chunked (WilliamC), Wednesday, 8 February 2017 19:44 (seven years ago) link
Partie De Campagne
― Acid Hose (Capitaine Jay Vee), Wednesday, 8 February 2017 20:21 (seven years ago) link
Pialat's "Van Gogh"!
― Acid Hose (Capitaine Jay Vee), Wednesday, 8 February 2017 20:22 (seven years ago) link
(I can watch that one over and over)
I never saw that one - I watched the Altman Van Gogh which came out roughly at the same time. Might have to check that one out.
― calzino, Wednesday, 8 February 2017 21:07 (seven years ago) link
Is Altman's Van Gogh flick worth a look? The biopic is generally my least favourite film genre but, although it directly preceded The Player (officially his big 90s comeback, after a decade spent in the wilderness), I do remember it getting a good deal of praise at the time.
― some sad trombone Twilight Zone shit (cryptosicko), Wednesday, 8 February 2017 23:28 (seven years ago) link
I liked it a lot at the time. The Gauguin character is probably more spot on than Roth's Van Gogh. But it still seemed quite moving at the time. It's more about his caring brother's essential patronage and his mental illness than the overwrought genius stuff.
― calzino, Wednesday, 8 February 2017 23:57 (seven years ago) link
I lied it a lot also. I don't think it looked all that good though. I supposed it was doing s now looks like then thing.
― Heavy Doors (jed_), Thursday, 9 February 2017 01:30 (seven years ago) link
Aguirre: The Wrath of God definitely has that "immersed in a genuinely remote world" feel mentioned upthread.
― Hideous Lump, Sunday, 9 July 2017 23:28 (seven years ago) link
Yes! I once remember hearing a quote from Kubrick second-hand (so I dunno if its legit, and I certainly ain't quoting it properly) about how with Barry Lyndon he wanted to make a period piece that was so accurate that watching it was like visiting an alien planet. As much as I love BL, I think Aguirre achieves that more effectively than any film I've ever seen.
― some sad trombone Twilight Zone shit (cryptosicko), Monday, 10 July 2017 03:29 (seven years ago) link
Aguirre is a minor miracle, and no one involved ever topped it.
Also...
Campion's Bright Star is very pretty.http://images3.static-bluray.com/reviews/2857_5_large.jpg
― полезные дурак (Sanpaku), Monday, 10 July 2017 03:37 (seven years ago) link
Ebiri on Bondarchuk's War and Peace, referenced above. I really can't find the time to see it at Lincoln Center, hoping I'll get to see it at home later this year.
https://www.vulture.com/2019/02/the-wild-story-behind-sergei-bondarchuks-epic-war-and-peace.html
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 20 February 2019 16:45 (five years ago) link
The FavouriteMr Turner
― glumdalclitch, Wednesday, 20 February 2019 16:47 (five years ago) link
I haven't seen The Favourite or Farewell My Queen but I assumed the latter was a new film. Maybe it just got a boost from the association.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 2 March 2019 10:17 (five years ago) link
Leigh's new one, "Peterloo", great looking as well but not half the film "Mr Turner" was. As I was watching I wished he would just make a killer William Blake biopic - "Peterloo" captures the look and feel of Blake's England.
― Carly Jae Vespen (Capitaine Jay Vee), Saturday, 2 March 2019 13:41 (five years ago) link
"Rembrandt Fecit" "Goya In Bordeaux"
― Carly Jae Vespen (Capitaine Jay Vee), Saturday, 2 March 2019 13:43 (five years ago) link
Angelique series from the 60s starring Michele Mercier - classic or dud?
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 19 July 2019 21:24 (five years ago) link
Loved Portrait Of A Lady On Fire last night, especially as I've been a bit worried by how so many films look recently, this gives me a bit of hope.
I'm sure I've seen something else in the past year, maybe The Lighthouse?
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 16 October 2020 19:37 (three years ago) link
Matteo Garrone's Dior advert is pretty damn nicehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYOrGvVh7mk
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 13 February 2021 21:49 (three years ago) link
15 minutes mind
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 13 February 2021 21:50 (three years ago) link