I just watched the first episode of the new 17th century, Louis XIV-focused TV...
Seventeenth Century
Historical costume movies & TV set in the French Bourbon era, the English Civil War / Restoration, and such.
If you’re watching Versailles, the BBC series set at the late-17th-century court of Louis XIV...
Nell Gwyn (AKAÂ Gwynn or Gwynne) (1650-1687) was one of the first English actresses —...
We’ve been eagerly awaiting the U.S. premiere of the TV series Versailles pretty much...
I first ran across Frenchman’s Creek (1944)Â when I was putting together the Man Candy...
Many lavishly produced historical costume movies are about larger-than-life figures, whether real or fictional,...
Le Roi Danse (2000) by Gérard Corbiau manages to do what Corbiau’s earlier film, Farinelli (1994),...
Recap from the first installment in this series: Orlando (1992) is based on Virginia Woolf’s 1928 novel Orlando: A Biography....
The first trailer, and first decent look, at Tulip Fever came out very recently (the movie...
Today is the 42nd anniversary of the U.K. and U.S. release of Richard Lester’s...