movies I want to see: period pieces
Note: I may change which category I choose for my reviews after I've seen these movies. For now, I'm making my best guesses.
action/adventure /
action comedy /
animated /
anime /
B-movies /
CGI /
classics /
comedy /
coming-of-age /
comix /
crime /
DC /
disaster /
documentaries /
drama /
dystopian /
family /
fantasy /
film noir /
giant monsters /
Halloween /
holiday /
law /
martial arts /
musicals /
mystery /
period /
romantic /
rom-com /
scary /
sci-fi /
Scooby-Doo /
serio-comedy /
short /
spies /
sports /
supernatural /
surf /
teen /
thrillers /
true story /
video games /
war /
weird /
westerns
20th Century Women
Across the Universe
The Age of Innocence (Criterion)
Allied
Amadeus
American Graffiti
Anna Karenina
The Beguiled (2017)
Brighton Beach Memoirs
Bullets over Broadway
Café Society
Circle of Friends
Cleopatra
Corrina, Corrina
The Crucible
Dangerous Liaisons
Days of Being Wild
Never saw it, but I want to see it and its quasi-sequels "In the Mood for Love" (Criterion) and "2046."
Dead Poets Society (Council of Geeks; WAW)
Saw it on TV once, but I don't remember anything specific about it. Beyond one or two catchphrases.
Diner
Doctor Zhivago
Emma. (2020)
The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain (Great but Forgotten)
Saw it once. Don't remember it well, but I wouldn't mind seeing it again.
Far From Heaven
Farewell My Concubine
Fences
Gangs of New York
Gosford Park
Great Expectations (2012)
The Great Train Robbery (Great but Forgotten)
Hamlet
I've never seen any version of "Hamlet," but I should probably see more than one someday. This is from 1990; there's a 1996 version by Kenneth Branagh that I should also check out.
Henry V
Howards End (Criterion)
The Illusionist
Indignation
Inside Llewyn Davis (Criterion)
JFK
The King of Masks
I'm pretty sure I saw this in the theater in 1999. If it's the move I'm thinking of, I'd like to see it again.
Lady Macbeth
Lassiter
I may have seen this on TV once, but I don't really remember anything about it.
The Last Picture Show (Criterion)
Life Is Beautiful
The Lion in Winter
Little Women (2019; Council of Geeks)
Live by Night
Lolita
I should probably see the original 1962 film first.
Love & Friendship
The Lover
Lust, Caution
Magic in the Moonlight
Mansfield Park
I believe I saw this, but I don't remember it well. I'd like to see it again someday. (I've also seen a TV version.)
Mulan (2020)
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Saw this once. Wouldn't mind seeing it again. Maybe wanna get the soundtrack.
Of Mice and Men
Oliver Twist
Ophelia
Othello
The Piano (Criterion)
The Prestige
Pretty Baby
Pride & Prejudice
Quills
Ran (Criterion)
The Remains of the Day
Road to Perdition (Amblin)
Robin and Marian (Great but Forgotten)
A Room with a View (Criterion)
Rules Don't Apply
Sense and Sensibility
Sirens (Great but Forgotten)
Splendor in the Grass
Swing Shift
The Taming of the Shrew
Twelfth Night
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Criterion)
The Virgin Suicides (Criterion)
Xiu Xiu: The Sent Down Girl
The Year of Living Dangerously
period index
Note: I may change which category I choose for my reviews after I've seen these movies. For now, I'm making my best guesses.
action/adventure /
action comedy /
animated /
anime /
B-movies /
CGI /
classics /
comedy /
coming-of-age /
comix /
crime /
DC /
disaster /
documentaries /
drama /
dystopian /
family /
fantasy /
film noir /
giant monsters /
Halloween /
holiday /
law /
martial arts /
musicals /
mystery /
period /
romantic /
rom-com /
scary /
sci-fi /
Scooby-Doo /
serio-comedy /
short /
spies /
sports /
supernatural /
surf /
teen /
thrillers /
true story /
video games /
war /
weird /
westerns