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Being a gay man who lived through the time period examined in this tedious documentary, I was eager to see how the subject matter was handled.
This film only concerns itself with the period within New York City, ignoring the rest of the country.
A true period piece of The Trippy Sixties, and it left me depressed.
I guess oldsters during the 1970s were probably tired of all the period pieces made then about the 1930s and 1940s.
The only good period piece I liked was "Freaks and Geeks".
Henry May Long is a very well-acted, dimly lit, depressing turn-of-the-century period piece about a friendship between a fatally ill man and a melancholy, indebted junkie.
I recall the excellent attention to detail of the period costumes, automobiles, etc.
This is supposed to be based on Wilkie Collins' _The_Woman_In_White_, but the only resemblance it bore to that story were the characters' names, the time period, and the settings.
Not so lengthy it gives the directors the possibility to explore it's many levels, a good actor can play the role of his lifetime, the film has deep meaning in any historical period.
Polanski's version comes quite close but it insists too much on the medieval period.
So to all you Australian aspiring film-makers out there, don't bother putting thought into your film or choosing people who can actually act, or even getting your facts right - just write a script about some poor family trying to make ends meet, or someone of a foreign race coming to Australia and having to deal with racial prejudice and stereotypes, or, if you want to take a leaf out of these people's book, some ethnic gang fighting some other ethnic gang that isn't actually plausible in the period the film is set, and your film will win five academy awards regardless of how pathetic it is!
An interesting period picec showing us what was amazing in 1938.
He selected these writers as the popular favorites of the first half of the Victorian period, and he explained their strengths and weaknesses (as he saw them) to the reading public.
It was really hard to tell over what period of time the present time took up.
The first warning signal sounds from the fussiness of the period re-creation, which screams "1928" in banner type.
Much can usually be forgiven in period pieces that ask us to recall important historical events and spice them with enough love interest to keep the story going.
Earnest effort which achieves some success to adapt the classic Odyssey story to a '30's nostalgia period piece.
The madcap antics of the film, typical of the period, are great.
The movie is hard to sit through - period.
From every period, every director and any kind of budget available.
As a professor at a New Jersey State college, let me assure you that I am familiar with the history of the period covered in the film.
What they really mean is that the movie is set in this time period but is fiction and everything that happens is just a jumble of standard scenes from other war films.
Not to mention the set design/costumes were so distractingly wrong for the time period (it spans the years from the late 70s up until 2006 or so).
It's enjoyable to view Seattle, Victoria and Salt Lake City of 1970's, and the period cars and clothing.
I guess that's not too surprising for a B movie of this period.
They were the work of Jack Gaughan, a very able sf illustrator of the period, and some fans, including me, found them more apt, and more attractive, than the covers on the rival set.)
period the end!
PERIOD!! Yes, it's worse then Dolph Lundgren's (1989) Punisher.
Carole Lombard stars in this transition period film.
Most of the "streets of New York" scenes have a sterile, unreal look with no sense of the period.
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