period drama
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Carol
For his 6th feature film queer filmmaker Todd Haynes returns to the 1950’s and re-visits the theme of repressed sexuality that he captured so brilliantly in his Oscar-nominated “Far From Heaven” in 2002. Last time he worked from his own script, but this time around British/American playwright Phyllis Nagy has adapted Patricia Highsmith’s controversial novel…
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The Cut
The third part of Turkish-German filmmaker Fatih Akin’s trilogy ‘Love, Death and the Devil’ is a slow-winding powerful globe-trotting epic that follows Nazaret Manoogian (French actor Tahar Rahim) an Armenian blacksmith on his journey to reunite with his family after war has torn them apart. It starts in 1915 when the Turkish Army carry out…
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Mr. Holmes
It turns out that the deerstalker hat and pipe were fictitious embellishments that Dr. Watson added to his tales of the world’s greatest detective, but it’s all a little irrelevant as since he has long to get married and Sherlock Holmes is now in his dotage and retired to live in the peace and quiet…
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Peter and John
Peter and John, a period costume drama set in Nantucket in I827, is loosely based on a novel by the 19th Century French author Guy de Maupassant. It’s an odd time in the island’s history as the Civil War has just ended and many of the residents are now struggling financially since the whaling industry…
