News: The Story of The Costume Drama

After a whole year of discussing historical movies and period dramas here on the blog we now have the pleasure to announce a new TV series that is bound to appeal to us and all our visitors,
Starting December 1 on ITV 3 The Story of Costume Drama will provide an overview of the genre focusing [...]

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Waiting for… Australia !

 
Australia’s premiere was three days ago, the 18th but only in… Australia. The US will have to wait until the 26th and the rest of the world will be able to see the movie around Christmas time (with few exceptions – see release dates).
There’s mixed reviews about the movie, as you can see above:

http://weblogs.variety.com/hal/2008/11/the-first-austr.html
http://www.awardsdaily.com/?p=3983

(who says Hugh [...]

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The Duchess

This movie has people inevitably comparing the life of Diana Spencer to the life of one of her descendants, Georgiana Spencer, Duchess of Devonshire. Both fashion icons, married to one of the most important families in the United Kingdom, made disastrous unions with ever present mistresses. This is not a movie about the former Princess [...]

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Actor Spotlight: Keira Knightley

 

Born in March 26th 1985, Keira Knightley was a precocious little girl who demanded her own agent when she was just 3 years old. She had to wait till she was 9 to fufill her wish but, starting so early, it’s no shock that she became a big movie star before reaching twenty. Her first historical [...]

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News: The Danish Girl

It has been announced that Nicole Kidman and Charlize Theron will be the leading actresses in the upcoming movie The Danish Girl. Kidman will play Einar Wegener, the Danish artist that shocked the world in the 1930s by becoming the first case of sex reassignment surgery. Einar passed as a woman for several years, modeling [...]

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News: Easy Virtue

A new movie with one of our favourite leading men, Colin Firth. Called Easy Virtue this new period drama is a comedy set in the 1920s about an american widow who marries a young englishman in a moment of passion. He brings her home to meet the parents but these have a hard time accepting her [...]

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Nicolas Le Floch

Inspired by Jean-François Parot books, Nicolas Le Floch is the new successful historical series in French TV.
The main character, Nicolas, is a young police chief in the Paris of Louis XV (1715-1774). These are troubled times for France… With the end of the Seven Years War, the growing conflicts over the colonies and the games [...]

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Actor Spotlight: Richard Armitage

Richard Armitage was born on August 22nd 1971. He seems to have decided early what he wanted to do as a grown up and at 17 left for Budapest to get his Equity card. He attended LAMBDA (London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art) and has appeared on stage on several productions of the Royal [...]

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Actor Spotlights

 

Have you noticed how some actors seem to show up in every other period drama? Maybe because they have a preference for that type of work or maybe because physically they fit the bill and they mostly get these kinds of offers. The fact is that there are some people we keep seeing, and appreciating [...]

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Recycling – Fashionable Even in Period Dramas

One of the things most mentioned when we’re talking about period dramas is the costumes. In fact period dramas are sometimes known as costume dramas so you can see how important that department is. We still remember the news earlier this year when a fire destroyed part of Tess of The Uberville’s wardrobe and they [...]

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