13 thoughts on “Top Five Films I Have Been Meaning to Watch But Haven’t Managed It Yet

  1. I am not a costuming expert, so I am sure I would be wrong in anything I would say about the costumes – but we saw “The Man Who Invented Christmas” and really enjoyed it. I mean, Jonathan Pryce, Christoper Plummer, Simon Callow…. and of Course Dan Stevens…. it was touching, actually. Any aficionado of the book will be constantly going, “Aha!” as we see Dickens acquiring inspirations for characters and lines. It made my season.

  2. Hot damm! Marie Antoinette actually looks like Marie Antoinette in that picture!!
    WHAT is the name of that docudrama, pray tell?

    I may even beg a little.

  3. Looking forward of the death of Louis XIV and the biopic of Elisabeth Vigée le Brun. Both look cool casting and costume wise, too. I’m a huge anti-Dickens fan, so bleh about that and the others look farby, snark week worthy as you stated :(

  4. As a lover of all things Louis XIV and his great-grandson’s wife Marie Antoinette, I would list the docudrama on Vigee Le Brun and The Death of Louis XIV followed by Dickens Fair – oops – TheRe’s Who Invented Christian.

  5. Well, I went from this article to watching the documentary on Elisabeth Vigee Le Brun and I can tell you that while the main actress has decent costumes, the extras are pretty awful. Back-lacing, ill-fitting, and a decade out of date are the norm for them. The hairstyles are also very questionable, but I’m as far from an expert on this as you can get.

    1. AND one of the main chemise a la reine’s that main actress wears for about 10 years is, I believe, zipped up the back.

      That said, this series has given me a burgeoning love of this woman and a whole new appreciation for artwork from this era. Apparently she basically invented the trope of paintings where men look into the distance stoically – and she did so purely because she was so tired of male subjects staring at her while she worked that she deliberately directed them to look elsewhere. I’m going to spend my winter break reading as much about her as I can.

  6. Dicken’s Festival has also eaten my soul. Last weekend alone I baked 3280 chocolate chip cookies, made 124 gallons of hot coco, and 200 gallons of mulled cider. I did this in full late 1830’s/early 1840’s garb including a proper corset and pinner apron. I cannot wait until after Christmas when I can get the smell of cookies out of my nose.

  7. Yes, Koroleva Margo is based on Dumas novel. I’m Russian, and I also couldn’t watch it when it was on TV. I don’t know much about costumes of that period so can’t judge… but it’s just done badly (like most Russian TV series). And then, both Margot and La Mole are so bleak and unlikeable. But I used to watch Grafinya Monsoro (The Countess of Monsoreau), also a mini-series from 1997-1998, and it seemed beautiful to me then.

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