Great looking historical period films

I lied it a lot also. I don't think it looked all that good though. I supposed it was doing s now looks like then thing.

The Altman is good but Pialat's is on a whole 'nother level.

Pialat's Van Gogh is fantastic - and when Jacques Dutronc puts on a hat in the film, he looks a lot like Jandek!

I watched most of The Leopard last night. You all were right, it is stunning.

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/7f/f7/94/7ff794f6d6ca61c5d0941286a1c283ff.jpg

you don't do multiple sittings for a Leopard viewing :(

I saw The Leopard projected once with an awkwardly placed 'intermission' enforced by the venue dividing up that long dialog scene w/Lancaster and his friend up in the hills.

It was 1 am, I couldn't keep going. Finished now though. What a great film. The ball scene is just perfect.

Larrain's "NO"

No

No pun intended. But it looks like crappy video shit. By design, and I like the film, and adore the director more and more, but it doesn't look 'good'...

Has anybody seen S. Bondarchuk's "War&Peace" ?
It's supposed to be a 7h (!) masterpiece.

War & Peace was a state propaganda project. In the battle of Borodino, some 100,000 Soviet soldiers from near Moscow garrisons were lent to the production, so all of those moving masses in the distant background are Soviet battalions doing parade drills. The Russian MoD hosts [this sequence](http://eng.mil.ru/en/multimedia/video/films/more.htm?id=2045@morfVideoAudioFile) on their website.

However, Bondarchuk is fascinated with goofy/distracting camera angles (eg, at Borodino, an overhead shot taken on a 300 m zip-line traversing the melee at the Raevsky redoubt), and the editing is fairly jarring/abyssmal in court dialogue scenes. Acting is also overwrought/theatrical rather that cinematic. So while I recommend everyone see it at least once, practically obligatory for anyone interested in the Napoleonic Wars, I wouldn't say its great looking.

Anyone seen the German film Paula from last year?

Frederik B wrong re: "NO". It's shot on crappy video hence the "crappy video shit" look but it captures the look of an early '80s Latin America (in this instance Argentina) perfectly. Having spent a lot of time in early '80s Colombia I can vouch for this.

Polanski's Tess

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Yes.

NO takes place neither in Argentina nor in the early eighties...

Sorry. Chile, late '80s. A massive difference. You win.

A massive difference.

Well, yeah...

Anyways, my point was just that it's not particularly supposed to be what I'd call 'great looking'. As I said, I like the film, and I adore the crappy video look.

The Banquet/Legend Of The Black Scorpion

Aguirre: The Wrath of God definitely has that "immersed in a genuinely remote world" feel mentioned upthread.

Yes! I once remember hearing a quote from Kubrick second-hand (so I dunno if its legit, and I certainly ain't quoting it properly) about how with Barry Lyndon he wanted to make a period piece that was so accurate that watching it was like visiting an alien planet. As much as I love BL, I think Aguirre achieves that more effectively than any film I've ever seen.

Aguirre is a minor miracle, and no one involved ever topped it.

Also...

Campion's Bright Star is very pretty.
http://images3.static-bluray.com/reviews/2857_5_large.jpg

Ebiri on Bondarchuk's War and Peace, referenced above. I really can't find the time to see it at Lincoln Center, hoping I'll get to see it at home later this year.

https://www.vulture.com/2019/02/the-wild-story-behind-sergei-bondarchuks-epic-war-and-peace.html

The Favourite
Mr Turner

I haven't seen The Favourite or Farewell My Queen but I assumed the latter was a new film. Maybe it just got a boost from the association.

Leigh's new one, "Peterloo", great looking as well but not half the film "Mr Turner" was. As I was watching I wished he would just make a killer William Blake biopic - "Peterloo" captures the look and feel of Blake's England.

"Rembrandt Fecit"
"Goya In Bordeaux"

Angelique series from the 60s starring Michele Mercier - classic or dud?

Loved Portrait Of A Lady On Fire last night, especially as I've been a bit worried by how so many films look recently, this gives me a bit of hope.

I'm sure I've seen something else in the past year, maybe The Lighthouse?

Matteo Garrone's Dior advert is pretty damn nice
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYOrGvVh7mk

15 minutes mind