Fashion and culture from the 1700s.
Posted Jun 24, 2007 at 19:53 CEST in Marie Antoinette, Movies and television, People, and Photos.
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Marie Antoinette (1938)
I really liked this movie. It focuses mostly on the revolution and the latter part of Marie Antoinette’s life, and everything before is kind of rushed by. The second half of the movie is also the best part. I would have really loved it if they put as much focus on the “happy” part of her life as well since that is my favourite part, but the sad part kind of makes up for it.
I loved Norma Shearer as Marie Antoinette, she behaved very much like I imagine the real Antoinette. And I think she looked a bit like the original as well. She was really the best thing about the movie. I felt the portrayal of Louis XVI was a bit too comical in comparison to the rest of the movie, his acting didn’t fit in with the others.
The costumes are not that historically correct for the most part, but I don’t really care because they’re absolutely gorgeous. It’s a very beautiful movie. More pictures after the cut.
Posted Jun 24, 2007 at 16:15 CEST in Fashion, Movies and television, People, and Photos.
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The Madness of King George is a good movie, but fashion wise it’s not extremely interesting. There are only a few scenes with lavish court dress, and the rest is pretty much the king in his underwear. It’s still worth seeing for those few bits of court fashion though, lots of big hair! And Lady Pembroke is really gorgeous.
A few more pictures after the cut.
Posted Jun 24, 2007 at 15:32 CEST in Drawings and prints, Events, Fashion, Georgiana, Movies and television, Paintings, and People.
Posted Jun 3, 2007 at 20:29 CEST in Fashion, Movies and television, and Photos.
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Lasse Hallström’s Casanova is not fantastic, but it’s fun and charming and I liked it. Costume wise it’s pretty horrible, lots of outfits that look like cheap masquerade costumes and many ugly wigs. But there’s one exception and that’s Victoria, played by Natalie Dormer. Her outfits are beautiful and she was also by far my favourite character in this movie. I loved her. Some more pictures behind the cut.
Posted Jun 1, 2007 at 14:28 CEST in Movies and television and Photos.
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Barry Lyndon
I have attempted to watch this movie twice on TV, never getting past the first half hour before completely losing interest as I find it violently boring. After seeing pictures from the movie and reading about it, thinking “how could a movie with this stuff in it possibly be boring?!”, I was determined to watch it in its entirety.
Now I’ve watched it, and I still found it the most boring movie ever. Not only boring, but I disliked pretty much every character, especially Barry himself. I couldn’t concentrate on it all and had to do other stuff while watching it to get through it at all. The first part of it is all country people and military men, which doesn’t interest me at all, but later in the movie there are some very nice costumes. I have to say they’re not interesting or plentiful enough to watch a movie this boring though.
On the other hand I know many people love this movie and consider it a masterpiece , so don’t take my word for it being horrible. See some more film stills after the cut.
Posted Jun 1, 2007 at 11:44 CEST in Fashion, Links, Movies and television, and Photos.
The costumer’s guide to movie costumes
A site with pictures of 18th century costumes from movies.
Muxa’s gallery
Lots of pictures from and related to Sofia Coppola’s Marie Antoinette movie.
Posted May 31, 2007 at 21:33 CEST in Movies and television, People, and Photos.
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Amadeus by Milos Forman may not be all that accurate when it comes to costuming, or anything else for that matter, but really, who cares in this case. To me it’s one of the best movies ever, with amazing actors, and the overall feel and look is fantastic. There are four more pictures after the cut.
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