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18th Century Quest: The Libertine (2000) Kendra June 14, 2023. The Libertine (2000) is a French comedy movie about Denis Diderot, 18th-century writer of... Jeanne du Barry (2023) video review. Eighteenth Century.Jan 25, 2024 · But the 1840s and to a lesser extent the 1850s are meek, demure, and plain. It’s the epitome of sad trombone. This is intentional because the fashionable idea of “femininity” in the 1840s was demure and restrained. The style was a distinct reaction against the perceived “excess” of the 1830s. The big sleeves collapsed, and all the ... Kendra January 5, 2015. 12 1077. Stanley Kubrick’s Barry Lyndon (1975) is a key 18th-century costume movie for a lot of people, both costumers and film geeks. And, I have put it off for YEARS. Not because it doesn’t look visually very appealing, but because I had been warned that it is SLOW and LONG. I can have a really hard time with art ...It’s very specifically set in 1903, being the year leading up to the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair. Costume designer Irene Sharaff tried hard to give a turn-of-the-last-century look to everything worn by the four Smith sisters. It’s really the hair and makeup that trademark it as 1940s. Judy Garland, as the second-oldest daughter, Esther ...Mar 28, 2016 · MCM: Julian Sands. Julian Sands in historical costume movies can play quirky romantic or that hot kind of jerk. He charmed Helena Bonham Carter ‘s character (and all of us!) in A Room With a View, but he’s played a ton of baddies in some really schlocky horror movies and had bit parts in a fair number of frock flicks as the snarky second ...

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Kendra October 26, 2020. 17 186. Waaaaaay back when quarantine began, I thought that I should start binge-watching something to pass the time. Optimistically, I remembered how often Jane Austen adaptations have been my comfort object, and having just seen the new feature film Emma, decided to fire up the 1972 BBC TV version of Emma.Watch this video to find out how to brighten up dark wood paneling in a room by painting over it, including wall prep and filling seams. Expert Advice On Improving Your Home Videos...

SNARK WEEK RECAP: The King’s Favorite aka Diane de Poitiers (2022), Ep. 2, Pt. 2. Kendra January 25, 2024 3 133. Support Frock Flicks with a small donation! During Snark Week and beyond, we’re grateful for your... Snark Week. TBT: Possession (2002) This is a classic case of ‘not every book can be adapted to film. Possession by A.S. Byatt won the Booker Prize in 1990, and while it’s full of juicy plot that entwines, essentially, a detective story of two modern-day literary scholars with the romantic lives of two Victorian poets, the novel is also a lyrical tour ...Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (I am already sick of typing that long title) is an adaptation of a recent novel that mashed-up Jane Austen’s novel Pride and Prejudice with zombie/horror (spawning what seems likely to be increasingly less successful copies like Sense and Sensibility and Seamonsters or Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter ).Effie White. This fictional character was actually the first I thought of for a top five single ladies in frock flicks, even though the movie Dreamgirls (2006) skirts our historical time period since it starts in 1962 but ends in 1975. Because Jennifer Hudson is fucking ON FIRE in this role and really goes the gamut from wanting to be with a ...Energize Ventures, an early and growth-stage venture fund, has announced the closing of its second fund with total capital commitments of $330 million. Fund II will be used to help...

Dangerous Liaisons (1988) is one of the best 18th century-set films, particularly from a costume design/historical accuracy perspective (although the story, acting, script, set …

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Anne Boleyn (2021) Trystan L. Bass April 19, 2022. 7 297. Everyone has fixated on one thing about this three-part miniseries Anne Boleyn (2021) — that Jodie Turner-Smith in the title role is Black and the historical figure she portrays is not. But I’m pretty sure that folks complaining about that haven’t watched the …Answering Your Most Pressing Questions: the Fifth. Kendra November 13, 2023. 21 210. One of our favorite past times here at Frock Flicks HQ is to take a glance a the search terms that people use to land on our website. Not surprisingly, a lot of it is searching for a specific film, or actor, but quite a few searches are a good bit more ...Oct 26, 2023 · We Interrupt This Blog For Loki “1893”. Sarah Lorraine October 26, 2023. 10 444. You know me and how much I love merging my superhero fixation with my historical costume fixation, so when the latest episode of Loki (2021-) came out last Thursday, I saw yet another golden opportunity to do just that! The Buccaneers (2023), Episodes 1-4. Trystan L. Bass November 21, 2023. 9 947. Oh dear. Another literary classic gets unnecessarily updated. But not really updated because the story still supposedly set in its original historical period, but everything else — the dialog, the manners, some of the plot, and many …August 25, 2017 at 9:47 am. Yep, that goes back to the casting forcing whatever the current fashionable body ideal is into all movies / TV shows. We get why it happens, just like modern hairstyles & makeup being used in historical movies / TV bec. it’s fashionable (or worse, to be “relatable”), but it’s not cool.August 25, 2017 at 9:47 am. Yep, that goes back to the casting forcing whatever the current fashionable body ideal is into all movies / TV shows. We get why it happens, just like modern hairstyles & makeup being used in historical movies / TV bec. it’s fashionable (or worse, to be “relatable”), but it’s not cool.The government's ambitious growth estimate has been debated and ridiculed. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) doesn’t quite agree with the Narendra Modi government’s growth fore...

In both the book and the glorious 1995 adaption of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, the character of Elizabeth Bennet is the traditional heroine. She’s smart, witty, plucky, attractive, and, of course, the story revolves around her “prejudice” against her eventual love interest, Mr. Darcy, and his “pride,” and the …Orlando From 1600 to 1650. Sarah Lorraine July 7, 2016. 24 445. Orlando (1992) is based on Virginia Woolf’s 1928 novel Orlando: A Biography. Directed by Sally Potter and starring Tilda Swinton as Orlando, the story floats dreamily across 300 years of Orlando’s life, first as a man, and then as a woman. Orlando never appears to age, …18th Century Quest: The Libertine (2000) Kendra June 14, 2023. The Libertine (2000) is a French comedy movie about Denis Diderot, 18th-century writer of... Jeanne du Barry (2023) video review. Eighteenth Century.Jan 13, 2022 · A Discovery of Witches Season 2 (2021) Kendra January 13, 2022. 2 168. A Discovery of Witches (2018-) is a TV adaptation of a book trilogy by Deborah Harkness. In the first book/season, a modern historian discovers a magical book at an Oxford University library, which leads to her embracing the fact that she is a witch, as well as meeting other ... 9 199. Alias Grace — the 2017 Netflix miniseries adaptation of the Margaret Atwood novel — is probably more interesting for its story and historical context than for the costumes. It tells the (based on a true) story of Grace Marks, convicted of a double murder in the 1840s, and the psychologist who is trying to figure out if she is …Watch this video to find out how to brighten up dark wood paneling in a room by painting over it, including wall prep and filling seams. Expert Advice On Improving Your Home Videos...

Frock Flicks note: This is a guest post by Deb Fuller. She’s a horse-crazy independent costume historian in the Washington, DC, area. She started riding at 9 and hasn’t stopped, nearly 40 years later. Sidesaddle, where to start? Like all things historical, sidesaddle riding on the screen is often inaccurate or used for effect.Support Frock Flicks with a small donation!During Snark Week and beyond, we’re grateful for your monthly pledges for exclusive content via Patreon or your one-time contributions via Ko-fi or PayPal to offset the costs of running this site. You can even buy our T-shirts and merch.Think of this like supporting public …

Apr 21, 2016 · Ever After (1998) occupies a special place in the hearts of most costumers that I know. Probably because my costuming cohort came into their own in the early-to-mid ’90s, and along with the sudden technical leap forward with the World Wide Web around that time, Ever After became one of the best-known and best-loved of contemporary costume flicks. Frock Flicks Guide; Frock Flicks POV; Trailers & Previews; Tangential but Interesting! Upcoming Movies & TV; Podcasts. Collect Them AllThe latest tweets from @FrockFlicks6 days ago · Frock Flicks Free-for-All March. March 1, 2024 5 300 . Hotel Portofino (2022-) February 29, 2024 8 386 . WCW: Julie Delpy. February 28, 2024 ... Three Little Birds (2023) Trystan L. Bass February 23, 2024. 2 54. The Windrush Generation is when Black immigrants from around the Commonwealth countries came to the United Kingdom, the first folks having arrived on the HMT Empire Windrush in 1948. A recent series takes a look into the lives of female immigrants in Three Little Birds (2023 ...British actress Jean Simmons (1929-2010) was one of THE leading ladies of her era,...OK, now where to watch…. 1. Google That Frock Flick! Meaning, go to your preferred internet search engine and type in “where can I watch [name of movie/TV show].”. It’s just that basic. Google has lots of hits for The Hollow Crown (2012-16). Older movies can be harder to find, but some are out there, like Some Like It Hot (1959).

SNARK WEEK RECAP: The King’s Favorite aka Diane de Poitiers (2022), Ep. 2, Pt. 2. Kendra January 25, 2024 3 133. Support Frock Flicks with a small donation! During Snark Week and beyond, we’re grateful for your... Snark Week.

The Gilded Age (2023), Eps. 1-4. Trystan L. Bass December 5, 2023. 7 1011. I recapped the entire first season of The Gilded Age (2022-), Julian Fellowes’ soap-opera about 1880s New York high society. With season two out on HBO, I’m not as excited but I’m still watching! I’m going to give a light two-part look at the …

Frock Flicks. 23,439 likes · 1,684 talking about this. The place for historical costume fans who have a love/hate relationship with historical costume movi. The housing market maintained its 2020 hot streak in the first week of the new year. By clicking "TRY IT", I agree to receive newsletters and promotions from Money and its partners...Sarah Lorraine March 10, 2022. 8 118. Everything Taika Waititi touches seems to turn to gold, and this time he’s turned his touch to the Golden Age of Piracy in the new series Our Flag Means Death (2022). The first three episodes dropped last week on HBO Max and the fourth is set to come out today, with new episodes debuting …Jan 23, 2023 · Support Frock Flicks with a small donation! During Snark Week and beyond, we’re grateful for your monthly pledges for exclusive content via Patreon or your one-time contributions via Ko-fi or PayPal to offset the costs of running this site. You can even buy our T-shirts and merch. Think of this like supporting public broadcasting, but with ... It’s really difficult to not compare the two films since the themes are virtually the same: Handsome Italian Musician goes to a foreign court and becomes a sensation, then falls from grace when the king grows bored with him. Epic tantrum ensues. HIM repudiates his oldest ally and friend. Some weak-sauce sex is thrown in for good measure.18th-Century Menswear in Our Flag Means Death, Part 1. The Frock Flicks Team June 17, 2022. 7 656. Frock Flicks note: This is a guest post by Vincent Briggs, a part-time alterations tailor and part-time dinosaur cartoonist who is very fond of 18th-century menswear and has been sewing for over a decade. He …Becoming Elizabeth (2022) – The Start. Trystan L. Bass June 28, 2022. 30 660. The resounding “meh” I felt when I previewed Becoming Elizabeth (2022) last year …Costumes in Shogun (2024), Episodes 1 and 2. The Frock Flicks Team March 7, 2024. 9 138. Frock Flicks note: This is a guest post by Lisa Joseph, who’s been a Japanese history nerd for two decades. Known as Saionji no Hana in the Society for Creative Anachronism, she was elevated to the Order of the Laurel for …The Swans (2024) hats aren't just for losers inspired by a true story Jacqueline West Killers of the Flower Moon (2023) Leah Katznelson Lou Eyrich Marci Rodgers …

Medicine Matters Sharing successes, challenges and daily happenings in the Department of Medicine Over the past two years, the need for a more defined clinical leadership infrastru...It’s a freakin’ classic and some fine eye-candy! Studio boss Jack Warner bought the rights to the Broadway hit musical My Fair Lady, intending to make a big-budget film version. His purchase required that he use Cecil Beaton — the play’s costume designer — to oversee all design aspects of the film, but Warner didn’t want to use the ...How to watch online, stream, rent or buy Frocks and Divas in New Zealand + release dates, reviews and trailers. Initially a small event to empower women and bring their community together, Tarnished Frocks and Divas grew in popularity to become a nationwide event across Aotearoa, as depicted in this documentary.Instagram:https://instagram. sig sauer wilsonville jobsunscramble statuetunscramble chinerstraight baits twitter The Frock Flicks Team December 5, 2014 . 9 1275 . This version of Little Women gets it nearly perfect, from a script that stays close to the Louisa May Alcott book to beautifully accurate costumes designed by Colleen Atwood. We discuss costumes, characterizations, casting, and a little bit of Transcendentalism and feminist theory.18th Century Quest: The Libertine (2000) Kendra June 14, 2023. The Libertine (2000) is a French comedy movie about Denis Diderot, 18th-century writer of... Jeanne du Barry (2023) video review. Eighteenth Century. nearest kfc restaurant to mestarting salary at menards Even More Frock Flicks. Iconic Historical Movie Costumes of the 2000s. February 13, 2024 4 166 . Rustin (2023) February 12, 2024 118 . Top 5 Single Ladies in Frock Flicks. February 9, 2024 165 . TBT: Ripper Street (2012-16) February 8, 2024 ... isobel jesper jones feet Kendra July 17, 2019. 16 303. Joanna of Castile, aka Juana la loca, was Queen of Castile (in central Spain) from 1504 and Aragon (ditto) from 1516. She became heir to the thrones of her parents, Isabella of Castile and Ferdinand of Aragon, after the deaths of her elder brother and sister. She married Philip “the Handsome,” Archduke, Duke of ...Frock Flicks Guide; Frock Flicks POV; Trailers & Previews; Tangential but Interesting! Upcoming Movies & TV; Podcasts. Collect Them All18th Century Quest: The Libertine (2000) Kendra June 14, 2023. The Libertine (2000) is a French comedy movie about Denis Diderot, 18th-century writer of... Jeanne du Barry (2023) video review. Eighteenth Century.