I first ran across Frenchman’s Creek (1944)Â when I was putting together the Man Candy...
Seventeenth Century
Historical costume movies & TV set in the French Bourbon era, the English Civil War / Restoration, and such.
Many lavishly produced historical costume movies are about larger-than-life figures, whether real or fictional,...
Le Roi Danse (2000) by Gérard Corbiau manages to do what Corbiau’s earlier film, Farinelli (1994),...
Recap from the first installment in this series: Orlando (1992) is based on Virginia Woolf’s 1928 novel Orlando: A Biography....
The first trailer, and first decent look, at Tulip Fever came out very recently (the movie...
Today is the 42nd anniversary of the U.K. and U.S. release of Richard Lester’s...
Faye Dunaway gets campy in this 17th-century tale complete with bed-hopping, cross-dressing highway robbery,...
Finnish-Swedish production The Girl King (2015) has finally opened in the U.S., and I’m...
Thanks to the Mill Valley Film Festival, I was able to see The Girl...
We’ve posted before about Versailles, the currently-in-production 10-part TV series about Louis XIV and...