Films/DVD Asylum

Posted by Bambi B (A) on June 10, 2006 at 08:52:35

In Reply to: Two Hustons ("A Walk with Love and Death", " The Dead") and one Ford ("The Quiet Man"); some Lean ("Ryan´s Daughter".. posted by orejones on June 10, 2006 at 02:27:30:

orejones,

A very good list.

And how could we leave out Merchant/Ivory movies- which I think must all be all period settings.

A couple more that your list made me think of:

"Ghandi"
"Lawrence of Arabia"
"Death in Venice" -Visconti
"The Taming of the Shrew"- for a filmed Shakespeare play very real
"Treasure of the Sierra Madre"
"Shackleton"- Branaugh's best work too!
"Alien" - good hardware design!
"Master and Commander"- a friend who is a Patrick O'Brien cultist hated this amalgam of three novels as a sin of disrespect to literature, but the depiction of early 19th C. shipboard life in "M&C" is admirable- and I ducked in my seat when the splinters from cannon impact were flying!
"I Claudius"
"Capote"- the period atmosphere is not made a big feature- but seems natural and real.

I shall have to look around for Kawalerowicz´s "Faraon" which I'd not heard of.

It been a long while since I saw Browning's "Freaks" but that is a powerful movie and would add another "trials of the different" movie that really impressed me, "The Station Master"- piles of obvious subtlety.

The one I'm waiting for now is the upcoming "Crwyth Lwhyth" (Barry Sonnenfeld) the tender story of the guy (Mel Gibson) that sold the stones to the builders of Stonehenge at extremely high interest rates, taunts them about their Sun/Moon religion and ends up in the foundations under a 40 ton rock.

Cheers,

Bambi B