Period Pieces.

Just saw "Public Enemies" and enjoyed recognizing all the Chicago places. http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/movies/chi-0702-public-enemies-location.ar0jul02,0,7141288.story

Easy Virtue was excellent. Good casting, too! Kristin Scott Thomas, Colin Firth, et al were especially terrific.

I checked it against a summary of Coward's original plot (play, ca. 1923) and though some changes were made, the alterations feel right through the course of the film.

We saw Public Enemies last night. What could have been a fairly entertaining film was ruined as they seemingly ran out of money and left the filming to a drunken epileptic with a cheap video camera.
If you rely on a shaky hand-held camera to give a sense of immediacy and action then you're doing something wrong. It was a shitty idea back in the days of LAPD Blue and it's still a shitty idea now.
As for the parts shot on what appeared to be Hi-8; there's no excuse. we were baffled by it. Some if it looks like Blair Witch in colour.
I left the cinema feeling ill.

Oh that's a shame, Public Enemies looked like it might be quite good! (ahem, well, it's got Johnny Depp and 1930s stuff, so I admit I'm being biased there).

I keep meaning to go and see Coco Before Chanel. Audrey Tautou is wonderful and Amelie was great.

I loved Gosford Park! I ended up writing about it for some of my degree dissertation, which was on Agatha Christie and heritage culture.

Helen Highwater wrote:

Oh that's a shame, Public Enemies looked like it might be quite good! (ahem, well, it's got Johnny Depp and 1930s stuff, so I admit I'm being biased there).

Yup, a great shame. I think even without the inexplicable camera shennannigans it would still have been only OK. If they'd have done it properly the end would have been a tear-jerker in the same way that Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid's demise was blub-inducing but no. Nothing. Just a sinking feeling of "Oh, was that it?"

I enjoyed it.

It would have been better w/o the hand-held camera work but it was a good film.

The Good German was really good, as was Eight Men Out, The Notorious Bettie Page, and Goodnight and Good Luck.

I am looking forward to Inglorious Bastards and the knew Sherlock Holmes!

For my money, nobody does period pieces as well as the BBC.

Julie and Julie half-qualifies. The Julia scenes were gorgeous.

I understand from some of my writers' lists that the book is F-this and F-that; I'm glad they left that out of the movie. I'm no prude, but I prefer vocabulary to swearing. (Not that the occasional explosion doesn't make a statement, you understand.)

The casting was very good all 'round, and I adored Meryl Streep and Stanley Tucci as the Childs. The sets and costuming were excellent as well!

I'm going to see the new Almodovar this weekend. Extra points because Penelope Cruz's character is an actress with Audrey Hepburn overtones - should be interesting! I've read a bad review and a good review, so I shall make my own opinion.

I just saw a really great movies call "A Small Circle of Friends." It follows a group of friends through their college years in the late 60's, early 70's ('67-'71). I thought the story line was great, and they did a good job on accuracy in portraying life during that period. Not like the stereotypical imagery of the 60's. (One would think that everything was like the Haight-Ashbury district, if left up to most modern films of the era.)

Definitely worth checking out.