Top Ten: Costume Dramas

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18, May 2011Top Ten

This week’s Top Ten Tuesday looks at Top Ten Costume Dramas. By definition, a costume drama is set within a particular period in history in which elaborate costumes, sets and props are featured in order to capture the ambiance of a particular era.

>> My Selections

1. The New World (Malick, 2005)

2. Andrei Rublev (Tarkovsky, 1966)

3. Fanny and Alexander (Bergman, 1982)

4. The Age of Innocence (Scorsese, 1993)

5. Ugetsu Monogatari (Mizoguchi, 1953)

6. There Will Be Blood (Anderson, 2007)

7. Atonement (Wright, 2007)

8. Gosford Park (Altman, 2001)

9. Barry Lyndon (Kubrick 1975)

10. The Leopard (Visconti, 1963)



>>Your Selections

1. Gone with the Wind (Fleming 1939) 45%

2. Amadeus (Forman, 1984) 36%

3. Dangerous Liaisons (Frears, 1988) 36%

4. Barry Lyndon (Kubrick 1975) 36%

5. The Draughtsman’s Contract (Greenaway, 1982) 22%

6. Ran (Kurosawa, 1985) 22%

7. Elizabeth (Kapur, 1998) 22%

8. The Leopard (Visconti, 1963) 18%

9. The Seventh Seal (Bergman 1957) 18%

10. Marie Antoinette (Coppola, 2006) 18%

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  • Anonymous

    A lot of disparity between these two lists. Not surprising I suppose; it’s a pretty vague category. I do love the inclusion of AMADEUS and THERE WILL BE BLOOD especially. I really need to check out A NEW WORLD, hopefully before checking out TREE OF LIFE

  • Anonymous

    A lot of disparity between these two lists. Not surprising I suppose; it’s a pretty vague category. I do love the inclusion of AMADEUS and THERE WILL BE BLOOD especially. I really need to check out A NEW WORLD, hopefully before checking out TREE OF LIFE

  • http://twitter.com/NextProjection Christopher Misch

     I think like everyone else, I’m trying to revisit all of Malick’s previous work in preparation for The Tree of Life.

  • http://twitter.com/ChrisBeaubien Christopher Beaubien

    Those are excellent films you have on there, Christopher.

    For my own list I will resist including any of yours (even though “There Will Be Blood” (2007), “Barry Lyndon” (1975) are such gimmes!) so I don’t end up making a replica. There’s just so much to choose from that deserves mention.

    1. The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover (Greenaway, 1989)
    2. Beauty and the Beast (Cocteau, 1946)*
    3. Last Year at Marienbad (Resnais, 1961)
    4. Gone with the Wind (Fleming, 1939)
    5. The Earrings of Madame de… (Ophuls, 1953)
    6. Black Narcissus (Powell and Pressburger, 1947)
    7. The Thief of Bagdad (Korda, 1940)
    8. The Rules of the Game (Renoir, 1939)
    9. The Music Room (Ray, 1958)
    10. Sleepy Hollow (Burton, 1999)

    *A good argument could be made for including the 1991 Disney animated version.

    I hope you have a great time with Malick’s previous masterworks.

  • http://twitter.com/NextProjection Christopher Misch

    If you can believe it or not, I’ve actually never seen #BlackNarcissus.

  • http://twitter.com/NextProjection Christopher Misch

    For some reason I overlooked Greenaway’s The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover as a costume drama.

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