Quartet (1981) short review
An early Merchant Ivory film about an English couple (one half of which is Maggie Smith) living in 1920s Paris who become enmeshed with a local woman... Read more →
Brideshead Revisited (1981) short review
A really well-told story of nostalgia set in the 1920s-1940s, with Jeremy Irons as the man who becomes emotionally entangled with an aristocratic... Read more →
Sense and Sensibility (1981) short review
It’s hard not to compare this with the 1995 adaptation, which I’ve seen probably 200 times (all before viewing this one) — apologies! ... Read more →
Pride and Prejudice (1980) short review
Okay, realize that this review comes from having watched the 1995 PandP Over and Over and Over. Surprisingly quite good! Elizabeth Garvie does a good... Read more →
My Brilliant Career (1979) short review
Such a fabulous movie based on a fabulous book. Judy Davis plays Sybylla Melvyn, a literate tomboy growing up in the Australian outback who yearns... Read more →
The Europeans (1979) short review
An early Merchant-Ivory period film. The plot is somewhat tedious and the production looks a bit dated now, but I liked the 1840s... Read more →
The Story of Adele H. (1975) short review
Yet another tragic Isabelle Adjani performance, this time as Adele Hugo, the daughter of poet Victor Hugo. She leaves her home in France to follow... Read more →
The King and I (1956) short review
It’s the classic! I never fail to cry during the big climax. See where many Victorian costuming myths come from, plus some impossibly huge... Read more →
Pride and Prejudice (1940) short review
I always resisted seeing this version because of the misguided costuming (although the novel is set during the Regency era, the costumes are 1830s).... Read more →
Marie Antoinette (1938) short review
So you have to like “classic” film and be able to deal with the hand-staple-forehead melodrama of it. And the costumes are definitely... Read more →
