The BEST era films ever made...

[pajarita_deDios]

What's your absolute favorite era film?

I love A&E's Pride and Prejudice. It's almost verbatim to the book.

Sophia Coppola's Marie Antoinette is wonderful. The colors in this film will blow you away, literally.

Two of my favorites.

[Ransom v. Unman]

Roman Polanski's The Pianist brought the colours and vibrancy of the World War II era to life in a way few films would dare to. It was also equally heart-wrenching watching as the colour drained away from Warsaw as events progressed.

Amadeus I believe is where my love for late-Georgian fashion derives. I have always been amazed with the richness of the costuming of that time period and in that movie.

Gladiator made ancient Rome seem like a very real place. It was spectacular and stunning, and filmed in a truly superb way. The cinematography in that film was truly groundbreaking, and everything else they did to emulate existence in that world was vibrant and wonderful. I ♥ Ridley Scott.

Oh, and then there's This is England. Best movie to treat a particular misunderstood English subculture in the early 80s ever. They nailed the look of everything to a "t". :D

[kshsj777]

Umm... *knocks timidly at the door* what is meant by an era film?

[Ransom v. Unman]

A film set in a certain era different from that in which it was made, also known as a "period piece".

E.g. Pride & Prejudice is set in the early Victorian era, Dr. Zhivago is set in the World War I/Revolutionay Era of Russia, Braveheart is set in the Medieval era.

And on and on and on...

[kshsj777]

Okay. Let me think.

Does Princess Bride count?

[lynnmosher]

Ummm, Ransom, didn't you mean "piece"? he-he!

[Ransom v. Unman]

Ummm, Ransom, didn't you mean "piece"? he-he!

What on Earth are you talking about?

:D

@ Kshsj - Sort of... Period pieces are also usually meant to realistically depict a specific place and point in history. Princess Bride probably took a few too many liberties with the Medieval setting to really be a period piece, not that this diminishes its awesomeness in any way...

[kshsj777]

Okay, good! I'm glad that you like Princess Bride.

Let me think of another one...

Little House on the Prairie? Or no?

[lynnmosher]

Ha-ha! Very funny! You're as bad as my husband! So, you like Princess Bride, too? Cool!

[kshsj777]

Lynn, are you talking to me or to Ransom?

[lynnmosher]

Sorry, Kellie. You and I posted at the same time. I meant Ransom!

[kshsj777]

Okay. I thought it might be, but I wasn't sure.

[pajarita_deDios]

Roman Polanski's The Pianist brought the colours and vibrancy of the World War II era to life in a way few films would dare to. It was also equally heart-wrenching watching as the colour drained away from Warsaw as events progressed.

Polanksi is a poet with a camera. The Pianist is an amazing film. You should check out the DVD he put out with his film school projects on it, they're so entrancing.


Princess Bride probably took a few too many liberties with the Medieval setting to really be a period piece, not that this diminishes its awesomeness in any way...


Oh yes, the awesomness that is The Princess Bride. It cannot be matched.

[ProfessorAlan]

I'd vote for what is also my favorite novel: Hardy's Tess of the D'Urberville's, which Polanski made for the theatres and was also a 4-hour (6?) TV mini-series a few years ago.

[wgjones3]

There's nothing particularly spectacular about the cinematography, but I always liked the way the '40s were depicted in Tucker. And I love the cars.

[Ransom v. Unman]

Little House on the Prairie? Or no?
LHotP would be a prime example of a "period" or "era" production.

[lynnmosher]

Love Little House!

[Cymrugirl]

Amadeus just about takes the cake for me, but I adore Shakespeare's Henry V, even though Derek Jacobi runs around the battlefield of Agincourt in a black trenchcoat. It's my all time favorite film. Other period films I love, The Gathering Storm, Spartacus (though it isn't accurate), Cinderella Man, Shadowlands, Sense & Sensibility, Patton, Open Range, Tombstone, and a zillion more. I love historical films.

But yeah, Amadeus pretty well reigns supreme for me in terms of capturing an era - it was really the first film to do the research and get it right.

A&E's Ivanhoe was pretty good.

[Tamera]

The Scarlet and the Black
Little House on the Prarie
The Gladiator

[Xenia]

Ivanhoe!
Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte
The Passion of the Christ
The Diary of Anne Frank
Sense and Sensibility
Star Wars
Kingdom of Heaven
Gunsmoke (not really a "film" but...)

...just to name a few. I also loved the Pianist and Pride and Prejudice...Yes!