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togansweep · 3 months

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me seeing matthew macfadyen in a marvel movie:

#mattmac please go back to british period dramas no one's ever heard of‚ this isn't you #the tomification of mattmac #matthew macfadyen #deadpool 3 #vi's stuff

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nymphastral · 1 year

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“Gentlemen. I find it strange. You are poets, each one of you and speak of your muse in the feminine. And yet you appear to feel neither tenderness nor respect towards your wives, nor towards females in general.”

Orlando (1992) directed by Sally Potter

#orlando #orlando 1992 #sally potter #women directors #british cinema #mine #cinematv #weloveperioddrama #periodedit #period drama

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ratuszarsenal · 4 months

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very funny to me that every polish person who watched 1670 on here is writing posts begging non-polish people to watch it. including me.

#the translation in subtitles is genuinely good I specifically paid attention to see what it's like #adding this in tags because I don't want the post to come off as bitter:#you see posts along the lines of 'we Need more non-western period dramas' or 'enough with the british and french people in period films'#but when we actually get those no one is watching <3 #I'm not upset about that it's just very funny to me. RIP 1670 I don't have high hopes for your foreign reception #1670 #echo

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istanblogs · 9 months

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Deep and sad eyes of lovers..

Pride and Prejudice - Mr Darcy

Atonement - Robbie Turner

War and Peace - Andrei Bolkonsky

Peaky Blinders - Thomas Shelby

Anna Karenina - Alexei Vronsky

Anna Karenina - Konstantin Levin

Victoria - Prince Albert

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matthew-macfadyen-gifs · 4 months

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#little dorrit #matthew macfadyen #arthur clennam #amy dorrit #claire foy #tvedit #tvgifs #perioddrama #perioddramaedit #period drama #tv #perioddramagifs #british actors

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keiraonfilm · 6 months

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Keira Knightley as Vera Philips in The Edge of Love. (2008)

#keira knightley #vera philiips #the edge of love #british actress #period costume #perioddramaedit #costume design #britishladiesdaily #actressdaily #actressedit #period film #period drama #femalestunning #flawlessbeautyqueens #flawlessfemale #kknightleyedit #keiraknightleyedit #breathtakingqueens

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thebarroomortheboy · 1 month

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LESLIE HOWARD and WENDY HILLER in PYGMALION (1938) | dir. Anthony Asquith, Leslie Howard

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edwardian-girl-next-door · 9 months

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Agatha Christie's Poirot, S9Ep3, "Death on the Nile"

#agatha christies poirot #agatha christie's poirot #hercule poirot #poirot #agatha christie #david suchet #emma griffiths malin #screen caps #period drama #murder mystery #british television #on love #love quotes #edwardian-screen-caps-next-door

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oceancentury · 5 months

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Trailer: Mary & George (2024) - Julianne Moore and Nicholas Galitzine.

#Nicholas Galitzine #julianne moore #red white and blue who?#red white and royal blue #mary and george #british history #period drama #gay #gay history #king james i #king james vi and I #king james vi #duke of buckingham #mary & george #oceancentury #tv and film

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hussyknee · 2 months

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Somewhat put off by the spoilers I've read about Mary and George. There's no doubt nearly all relationships in the British court were some level of sordid, but King James, to all intents and purposes, had genuine feelings for his three male favourites, most especially George Villiers. He was no Henry VIII. I don't know why they wanted to reduce the most famous and open homosexual relationship in European royal history to a comedy between a "cock-struck" old lech and a conniving courtier that led him by the nose and then betrayed and murdered him.

All evidence points to George at least being loyal to James (if you discount his love letters as simply sucking up to his benefactor) and even had a fond relationship with his Queen and his son Charles. He was in fact in France when James died, and reportedly cried when he heard the news.

It's even a little heartbreaking because this is right after Nicholas Galitzine played the closeted gay Prince Henry in Red, White and Royal Blue, who in the book is proud of the open and unashamed love between his ancestor and his lover, and the way even James's son Charles I honoured Villiers for accompanying him to the Spanish Court to ask for the hand of the Infanta.

“Actually . . . you remember how I told you about the gay king, James I?”

“The one with the dumb jock boyfriend?”

“Yes, that one. Well, his most beloved favorite was a man named George Villiers. ‘The handsomest-bodied man in all of England,’ they called him. James was completely besotted. Everyone knew. This French poet, de Viau, wrote a poem about it.” He clears his throat and starts to recite: ‘One man fucks Monsieur le Grand, another fucks the Comte de Tonnerre , and it is well known that the King of England, fucks the Duke of Buckingham.’” Alex must be staring, because he adds, “Well, it rhymes in French. Anyway. Did you know the reason the King James translation of the Bible exists is because the Church of England was so displeased with James for flaunting his relationship with Villiers that he had the translation commissioned to appease them?”

“You’re kidding.”

“He stood in front of the Privy Council and said, ‘Christ had John, and I have George.’’

“Jesus.”

“Precisely.” Henry’s still looking up at the statue, but Alex can’t stop looking at him and the sly smile on his face, lost in his own thoughts. “And James’s son, Charles I, is the reason we have dear Samson. It’s the only Giambologna that ever left Florence. He was a gift to Charles from the King of Spain, and Charles gave it, this massive, absolutely priceless masterpiece of a sculpture, to Villiers. And a few centuries later, here he is. One of the most beautiful pieces we own, and we didn’t even steal it. We only needed Villiers and his trolloping ways with the queer monarchs. To me, if there were a registry of national gay landmarks in Britain, Samson would be on it.”

Henry’s beaming like a proud parent, like Samson is his, and Alex is hit with a wave of pride in kind.

He takes his phone out and lines up a shot, Henry standing there all soft and rumpled and smiling next to one of the most exquisite works of art in the world.

“What are you doing?”

“I’m taking a picture of a national gay landmark,” Alex tells him. “And also a statue.”

Like all white liberals, Casey McQuiston tends to romanticise the crime against humanity that is royalty and also that house built by bunch of slave owners that has since housed a progression of genocidal war criminals. There's very little to like about any British monarch. But the relationship between James and Villiers is a significant part of gay history and there's no need to smear it even more than it's already been smeared the last four hundred years, contrary to the actual known facts.

Idk man. I'm sensitive to this stuff Ig. Maybe I'd be a little more positive about it if I watched it, but the trailer gave me "tee hee they're gay" vibes so Idk if I want to.

Edit: so it seems the trailer is misleading and the story is more complex than a "tee hee gay" comedy. I might watch it after all, even if the starkly visible age difference makes me a bit queasy. How tf is Galitzine nearly thirty and a babyface with those razor cheekbones?? Perfect to show how uncomfortable it looks for a middle aged man to get with a kid of twenty.