Your favorite period pieces please?

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Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1988386/

[Anonymous]

I have a couple more to add to the list! Alias Grace, even though it is not English, Anne with an E is terrific! Also, Rebecca, Bramwell and Middlemarch! I actually can't believe how many of these I have watched. Poldark is one of my favorites!

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Anonymous wrote:I have a couple more to add to the list! Alias Grace, even though it is not English, Anne with an E is terrific! Also, Rebecca, Bramwell and Middlemarch! I actually can't believe how many of these I have watched. Poldark is one of my favorites!

I really really liked Anne with an E, a very good modern adaptation of the familiar stories that keeps the essence but also keeps it interesting and relevant!

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Has anyone seen Belgravia? Any thoughts?

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Anonymous wrote:A definite recommend for 2005 version of Bleak House (also Andrew Davies)

I was going to say this. I love it so much.

I also recommend North and South, the 2004 BBC miniseries. (not quite the same after learning more of the uncomfortable contextual history but still a good story)

And now that I think about it, I think Enola Holmes counts. I love that movie, and its sequel.

NP. PP, can you explain the bold? Uncomfortable context as in the actual historical events, or the writing of the Gaskell novel, or the making of the TV miniseries? Not sure what you mean but I'm interested.

Agree re: the two Enola Holmes movies; they're a hoot for adults as well as tweens.

Bleak House was excellent, as was the tV version of Little Dorrit (the Matthew MacFadyen/Claire Foy miniseries--the feature film isn't good). As a big fan of Dickens novels, I'm pretty tough on adaptations but both of those were worthy!

My No. 1 TV recommendation is one many don't seem to know, not sure why: The Way We Live Now. Miniseries with David Suchet, a very young Cillian Murphy, many others. Incredible adaptation of the Trollope novel, and extremely topical here and now, in its excoriation of greed and what we'd now call a Ponzi scheme.

For films, my top recommendation: The Personal History of David Copperfield, the 2019 feature film with Dev Patel, Tilda Swinton, Hugh Laurie. Ravishing to look at, ingeniously told, superbly cast, and completely embracing the spirit of Dickens. We all were teary at the end.

I also am a fan of the TV miniseries (only four episodes so very easily bingeable) of Emma, with Romola Garai and Jonny Lee Miller. I enjoyed the newer feature film and it's beautiful to look at, but for a more naturalistic story and more dimensional performances, the miniseries is my favorite. The earlier film version with Gwyneth Paltrow has some good performances (hers, not among them, for me--too arch and knowing), but the Garai/Miller version is more down-to-earth and affectionate than any other, IMHO. Hey, OP, maybe you need to see 'em all and do your own Emma film festival and do a review for us!

You and I almost share the same brain. I love Little Dorrit and The Way We Live Now. So good.

I am not a huge fan of the 2019 David Copperfield, but I love the miniseries with Daniel Radcliffe as young David and Sally Field as Betsey Trotwood.

Persuasion with Amanda Root and Ciaran Hinds.

Far from the Madding Crowd with Carey Mulligan. So excellent.

If you want something racy and can get your hands on it, Tipping the Velvet with Keeley Hawes and Anna Chancellor.

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Anonymous wrote:Has anyone seen Belgravia? Any thoughts?

Entertaining miniseries. If you liked Pride & Prejudice (2005), you will enjoy it. Beside P&P, highly recommend Persuasion (1997).

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Anonymous wrote:All Creatures Great and Small

I second this one, both versions (the 1970s-80s original series as well as the new version which does depart somewhat from the stories but still is so well done).

My husband enjoys Miss Scarlet and the Duke though I'm not as into it.

On a totally different tack, if you like your period piece mysteries a bit weird and a tad grisly, PBS streams a series called Vienna Blood. It's not THE best thing ever but it's fascinating to see the Vienna settings and the two leads are very interesting as a team--a proto-psychiatrist (early days of Freudian analysis) teams with a police detective.

Forfmilms, not sure if anyone has mentioned the brilliant adaptation of Sense and Sensibility, the version Emma Thompson scripted and Ang Lee directed.

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Please run, do not walk, and rent or buy "The Importance of Being Earnest," the version starring Coiln Firth and Rupert Everett. It is purest gold, hilarious and spot on.

Then watch another Wilde adaptation, "An Ideal Husband," with Rupert Everett, Cate Blanchett and Julianne Moore. Also beautifully made. I cannot recommend those two movies highly enough. Both directed by Oliver Parker, who seemed to "get" Wilde and who cast just the right actors in both movies. "Ideal" is less of a romp than "Earnest" but is also a funny play.

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Anonymous wrote:I have a couple more to add to the list! Alias Grace, even though it is not English, Anne with an E is terrific! Also, Rebecca, Bramwell and Middlemarch! I actually can't believe how many of these I have watched. Poldark is one of my favorites!

Agree, Alias Grace is good

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Gosford Park

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Anonymous wrote:
Please run, do not walk, and rent or buy "The Importance of Being Earnest," the version starring Coiln Firth and Rupert Everett. It is purest gold, hilarious and spot on.

Then watch another Wilde adaptation, "An Ideal Husband," with Rupert Everett, Cate Blanchett and Julianne Moore. Also beautifully made. I cannot recommend those two movies highly enough. Both directed by Oliver Parker, who seemed to "get" Wilde and who cast just the right actors in both movies. "Ideal" is less of a romp than "Earnest" but is also a funny play.

Agreed

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Anonymous wrote:A definite recommend for 2005 version of Bleak House (also Andrew Davies)

THIS IS AMAZING. I didn't know it was Andrew Davies - makes sense.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A definite recommend for 2005 version of Bleak House (also Andrew Davies)

I was going to say this. I love it so much.

I also recommend North and South, the 2004 BBC miniseries. (not quite the same after learning more of the uncomfortable contextual history but still a good story)

And now that I think about it, I think Enola Holmes counts. I love that movie, and its sequel.

NP. PP, can you explain the bold? Uncomfortable context as in the actual historical events, or the writing of the Gaskell novel, or the making of the TV miniseries? Not sure what you mean but I'm interested.

Agree re: the two Enola Holmes movies; they're a hoot for adults as well as tweens.

Bleak House was excellent, as was the tV version of Little Dorrit (the Matthew MacFadyen/Claire Foy miniseries--the feature film isn't good). As a big fan of Dickens novels, I'm pretty tough on adaptations but both of those were worthy!

My No. 1 TV recommendation is one many don't seem to know, not sure why: The Way We Live Now. Miniseries with David Suchet, a very young Cillian Murphy, many others. Incredible adaptation of the Trollope novel, and extremely topical here and now, in its excoriation of greed and what we'd now call a Ponzi scheme.

For films, my top recommendation: [b]The Personal History of David Copperfield, the 2019 feature film with Dev Patel, Tilda Swinton, Hugh Laurie. Ravishing to look at, ingeniously told, superbly cast, and completely embracing the spirit of Dickens. We all were teary at the end.
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I also am a fan of the TV miniseries (only four episodes so very easily bingeable) of Emma, with Romola Garai and Jonny Lee Miller. I enjoyed the newer feature film and it's beautiful to look at, but for a more naturalistic story and more dimensional performances, the miniseries is my favorite. The earlier film version with Gwyneth Paltrow has some good performances (hers, not among them, for me--too arch and knowing), but the Garai/Miller version is more down-to-earth and affectionate than any other, IMHO. Hey, OP, maybe you need to see 'em all and do your own Emma film festival and do a review for us!

You and I almost share the same brain. I love Little Dorrit and The Way We Live Now. So good.

I am not a huge fan of the 2019 David Copperfield, but I love the miniseries with Daniel Radcliffe as young David and Sally Field as Betsey Trotwood.

Persuasion with Amanda Root and Ciaran Hinds.

Far from the Madding Crowd with Carey Mulligan. So excellent.

If you want something racy and can get your hands on it, Tipping the Velvet with Keeley Hawes and Anna Chancellor.

I much enjoyed the 2019 Dev Patel movie - having just read the novel helped me understand and enjoy it a lot. It's a long story and is greatly condensed in the movie of course with big story lines addressed with a single scene or just a line. Loved it. Very creative

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This thread is making me happy.