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Fav Period Dramas <3

Well, @nightmaredaisy asked me about this and so I made a little list :D these are some of my favorite period dramas. Be aware that some of these are biographical films and/or short television serials, mostly produced by BBC and thus can be quite long XD

Andersen, Life Without Love (2006) [biographical fiction film based on the life of H.C Andersen]

Jane Eyre (2006)

Chéri (2009) [My personal fave <3]

Les Miserables (1998)

Mary Reilly (1996)

A Little Chaos (2015)

The Piano (1993)

Bright Star (2009) [biographical fiction film based on the life of John Keats]

Modigliani (2004) [biographical fiction film based on the life of Amedeo Modigliani]

Creation (2009) [biographical fiction film based on the life of Charles Darwin]

North & South (2004) - [My mom’s favorite :3]

Neverland (2004) [biographical fiction film based on the life of James Barrie]

Amadeus (1984) [biographical fiction film based on the life of W.A.Mozart]

Girl with a Pearl Earring (2003)

The Scarlet Letter (2015)

The English Patient (1996)

Far from the Madding Crowd (2015)

The Great Gatsby (1974) [I like the Robert Redford movie better than the Di Caprio one.]

The Scarlet Pimpernel (1982)

Elisabeth the Golden Age (2007) [biographical fiction film based on the life of Queen Elisabeth I]

Goya’s Ghosts (2006) [biographical fiction film -partially- based on the life of Francisco Goya]

Special mentions even if these aren’t ‘real’ period dramas:

Midnight in Paris (2011)

The Theory of Everything (2014) [biographical fiction film based on the life of Stephen Hawking]

Summer of Love 💛

Tunes For The Signs | Sun & Venus

🌞 Aries: Let’s Live For Today - The Grass Roots | Wild Child - The Doors |  The House Of The Rising Sun - The Animals | Help! - The Beatles | Venus - Shocking Blue

🌞 Taurus: Nights In White Satin - The Moody Blues | Lay, Lady, Lay - Bob Dylan | Daydream Believer - The Monkees | Happy Together - The Turtles | The Letter - The Box Tops

🌞 Gemini: Here Comes The Sun - The Beatles | My Generation - The Who | I Get Around - The Beach Boys | I’m Alive - The Hollies | Brown Eyed Girl - Van Morrison

🌞 Cancer: Groovin’ - The Young Rascals | Dedicated To The One I Love - The Mamas & The Papas | All Day And All Of The Night - The Kinks | Ain’t No Mountain High Enough - Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terell | Penny Lane - The Beatles

🌞 Leo: I’m A Believer - The Monkees | Gimme Some Lovin’ - The Spencer Davis Group | Respect - Aretha Franklin | Can’t Buy Me Love - The Beatles | Be My Baby - The Ronettes 

🌞 Virgo: Purple Haze - Jimi Hendrix | Heart Full Of Soul - The Yardbirds | Sunny Afternoon - The Kinks | For What It’s Worth - Buffalo Springfield | Love Is All Around - The Troggs

🌞 Libra: All You Need Is Love - The Beatles | Dream A Little Dream Of Me - The Mamas & The Papas | Somethin’ Stupid - Frank Sinatra & Nancy Sinatra | Something - The Beatles | Do You Believe In Magic - The Lovin’ Spoonful

🌞 Scorpio: Black Magic Woman - Fleetwood Mac | I Can See For Miles - The Who | Sunshine Of Your Love - Cream | I Had Too Much To Dream (Last Night) – The Electric Prunes | Riders On The Storm - The Doors

🌞 Sagittarius: Tuesday Afternoon - The Moody Blues | Born To Be Wild - Steppenwolf | Summer Wine - Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood | Light My Fire - The Doors | Ruby Tuesday - The Rolling Stones

🌞 Capricorn: I’m A Man - The Spencer Davis Group | Paint It Black - The Rolling Stones | Strange Brew - Cream | Break On Through (To The Other Side) - The Doors | A Day In The Life - The Beatles

🌞 Aquarius: Strawberry Fields Forever - The Beatles | People Are Strange - The Doors | Good Vibrations - The Beach Boys | Visions Of Paradise - The Moody Blues | If 6 Was 9 - Jimi Hendrix

🌞 Pisces: San Francisco - Scott McKenzie | California Dreamin’ - The Mamas & The Papas | Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds - The Beatles | Spooky - Classics IV | All Along The Watchtower - Jimi Hendrix

I’ve been baking (:

Il materiale di origine: @lilygavin, @montassaralaia @rupertfriend, @emmanuelle.seigner (Instagram) / Photos from the set of At Eternity’s Gate filmed in Arles, Provence, and Saint-Rémy, France. (2017) #myedit

If You Are Interested in GLOW

I highly, highly recommend checking out the documentary GLOW: The Story of the Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling. I stumbled across it a few years ago and really enjoyed it.

It’s currently on Netflix, so if you’ve finished binging the new series inspired by the ladies of 80s wrestling, give the documentary a look and hear from the real women who hopped into the ring… including some of the in-ring personas that were clearly the source material for the characters that made it onscreen like Mountain Fiji (“Machu Picchu”), Colonel Ninotchka (“Zoya the Destroya”),  Americana (“Liberty Belle”), The Housewives (“The Beatdown Biddies”) and more.

Russian fairy tales :

Tale of the Dead Tsarevna and the Seven Bogatyrs (1951)

The Scarlet Flower (1952)

The Snow Maiden (1952)

Sister Alenushka and Brother Ivanushka (1953)

The Magic Bird (1953)

The Twelve Months (1956)

The Snow Queen (1957)

Vasilisa the Beautiful (1977)

♡ costumes in the sissi trilogy  –  39/50 ♡

sissi’s floral white dress

What would you recommend to someone who is just starting to watch horror movies?

Oh hell, yeah!! I love giving recs and I LOVE when people start getting interested in horror. I’ll give you recs in a few different categories so that you don’t watch anything you wouldn’t enjoy:

Early Horror Movies (Most Are Black and White, 1900′s-1950′s):

Nosferatu (1922) (silent film)

Cat People (1942)

Freaks (1932)

White Zombie (1932)

The Man who Laughs (1928)

M (1931)

Rear Window (1954)

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920) (silent film)

Metropolis (1927) (silent film)

Frankenstein (1931)

The Wolf Man (1941)

Dracula (1931)

Bride of Frankenstein (1935)

Dead of Night (1945)

The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957)

Strangers on a Train (1951)

Personal Favorites From the 1960′s (Suspenseful):

Eyes Without a Face (1960)

Rosemary’s Baby (1968)

Night of the Living Dead (1968)

Psycho (1960)

The Birds (1963)

Must-Sees of the 70′s (The Beginning of the Golden Era):

Carrie (1976)

The Exorcist (1973)

Suspiria (1977)

Jaws (1975)

The Omen (1976)

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)

Alien (1979)

Halloween (1978)

1980′s Cult Classics (The decade of good special-effects make up):

Re-Animator (1985)

The Shining (1980)

A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)

An American Werewolf in London (1981)

The Evil Dead (1981)

The Thing (1982)

Hellraiser (1987)

Children of the Corn (1984)

Friday the 13th (1980)

The Lost Boys (1987)

Silver Bullet (1985)

Poltergeist (1982)

Horror-Comedies:

What We do in the Shadows (2014)

Shaun of the Dead (2004)

Deathgasm (2015)

Tucker and Dale vs. Evil (2010)

Zombieland (2009)

The Trouble With Harry (1955)

The Killer Condom (1996)

Dead Alive (1992)

Young Frankenstein (1974)

Little Shop of Horrors (1986)

The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)

Idle Hands (1999)

Dead Snow (2009)

Eight-Legged Freaks (2002)

American Psycho (2000)

The Faculty (1998)

Drag Me to Hell (2009)

Slither (2006)

Best of 2000′s-now:

The Loved Ones (2009)

Battle Royale (2000)

Trick R Treat (2007)

American Mary (2012)

The Babadook (2014)

Let the Right One in (2008)

Ginger Snaps (2000)

Martyrs (2008) (very gory, New French Extremity film)

The Hole (2001)

The Eyes of My Mother (2016)

Funny Games (2007)

The Descent (2005)

Excision (2012)

A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (2014)

Inside (2007) (very gory, New French Extremity film)

High Tension (2003) (very gory, New French Extremity film)

Other Favorites (AKA 90′s horror):

La Ceremonie (1995)

Scream (1996)

Nightbreed (1990)

Jacob’s Ladder (1990)

The Sixth Sense (1999)

The Blair Witch Project (1999)

Audition (1999)

Fashion icons in 1960′s film

Audrey Hepburn as Holly Golightly in Breakfast at Tiffanys (1960) 

Jean Seberg as Patricia in Breatless (1960)

Anne Bancroft as Mrs. Robinson in The Graduate (1963)

Natalie Wood as Helen in Sex in the Single Girl (1964)

Anna Karina as Marianne in Pierrot Le Fou (1965)

Sharon Tate, Patty Duke, and Barabara Parkins as Jennifer, Neeley, and Anne in Valley of the Dolls (1967)

Jane Fonda as Corie in Barefoot in the Park (1967)

Faye Dunaway as Bonnie in Bonnie and Clyde (1967)

Catherine Deneuve in Belle De Jour (1967)

Jane Birkin as Penelope in La Piscine (1969)

three waves: Katsushika Hokusai. “Under the Wave off Kanagawa (Kanagawa oki nami ura),” also known as “the Great Wave,” from the series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjūrokkei), ca. 1830–32.

Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis. “Finale”, from cycle Sonata of the Sea, 1908.

Ivan Bilibin. Illustration for the picture book, “The Tale of Tsar Saltan”, 1905.