Hi, Lisa here, delurking. Actually I thought the absolute BEST version of Sherlock Holmes was the Russian Sherlock Holmes, a series filmed in the late 70's and early 80's in Russian with subtitles. They got hte dress right and the sets and scenes are amazing. Of greatest improtance, however, is that they actually got the STORIES right, unlike the Jeremy Brett versions, which usually sacrificed the literary story, as well as giving his HOlmes a rather malicious demeanor, I thought. Jeremy Brett is my LEAST favorite HOlmes ever. I thought the Robert Downey movie was ok, but really dragged on; however, visually, at least, it was good.
Try googling "Russian Sherlock HOlmes". I don't know if there is way to get them on DVD, I have recorded them off my TV where they are on Channel 451, MHZ International Mysteries. on Sunday and Tues nights, along with other international series. Yours in cosutming, Lis aA On Sat, 23 Oct 2010 01:09:19 -0700 Patricia Dunham <[email protected]> writes: > not due to be on until Sunday night, the 24th, here in Oregon, the > first one... "Study in Pink". It's been set up in the recorder for > several days now! We enjoyed the Downey/Law movie of last year, a > lot; otherwise Jeremy Brett is our fav' (right, except for the > "Private Life of SH" movie, 1970, which is all-time favorite of my > husband's) > > chimene > > On Oct 22, 2010, at 10:04 PM, Lavolta Press wrote: > > > Has anyone seen it, and how does it come across to fans of the > original books and the various movies set in the Victorian and > Edwardian eras? I've only seen a newspaper review. > > > > I've always thought that if Holmes were alive today, he'd be a > computer geek, probably developing viruses and cracking passwords > just to see if he could, but never releasing the viruses or using > the hacked material for anything evil. I think it was a neat touch > that in the original version, Watson was a veteran of an Afghanistan > campaign--and in the updated version, he still is. > > > > On the other hand, I'm not sure I would like seeing a modernized > version . . . > > > > Fran > > Lavolta Press > > Two new books of 1880s clothing patterns! > > www.lavoltapress.com > > _______________________________________________ > > h-costume mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume > > > _______________________________________________ > h-costume mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume > > _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
