Re: [h-cost] Movies-things that make you cringe!

2006-04-26 Thread Lena
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I never could figure out why everyone was so crazy about Sound of Music, especially costume historians! So I'm not the only one. Considering the amount of comments in the journal, you are most certainly not alone. Personally I just love them escaping _towards_

Re: [h-cost] Movies-things that make you cringe!

2006-04-26 Thread Marie Schnoor
REBECCA BURCH wrote: This is why I prefer video/DVD - nobody cares when I yell at the screen at home. It took several years, but I finally quit taking costume notes at live theater. I still notice - I just don't write it down anymore. --- kelly grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: but because

Re: [h-cost] Movies-things that make you cringe!

2006-04-25 Thread stilskin
Our favourite thing to make us yell at the screen... I have been known to sit up back during The Sound of Music and, at the appropriate moment, shout, They're behind the tombstone...! -C. This email was sent from Netspace

Re: [h-cost] Movies-things that make you cringe!

2006-04-25 Thread Elizabeth Walpole
- Original Message - From: kelly grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Historical Costume [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 25, 2006 9:07 PM Subject: [h-cost] Movies-things that make you cringe! but because of my DH the entire family is known to yell at the screen in any movie historical

Re: [h-cost] Movies-things that make you cringe!

2006-04-25 Thread AlbertCat
In a message dated 4/25/2006 7:13:23 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I think it's because the public is becomming better educated about costume history, I also think that it will get better in the future too. Costume Literature has jumped tenfold since I left

Re: [h-cost] Movies-things that make you cringe!

2006-04-25 Thread AlbertCat
In a message dated 4/25/2006 7:35:33 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Our favourite thing to make us yell at the screen... *** I hate it when someone gets shotin the arm or leg or shoulder and then runs around for the rest of the film as if

[h-cost] Movies-things that make you cringe!

2006-04-25 Thread Julie
I've just been having a costume-a-thon at my house (coronation is Saturday and we have to dress the queen G). As we're sewing we've been watching movies and of course snarking the costumes. We watched Kiss Me Kate. My daughter wants the red dress the shrew wore. It was Hollywood Italian

Re: [h-cost] Movies-things that make you cringe!

2006-04-25 Thread Lena
In the spirit of these movie related threads: I would like to draw your attention to History Spork, where two (or sometimes) three historians spork historical movies. In the archives are Braveheart, Sound of music, The patriot, and many more. http://history-spork.livejournal.com/ In the same

Re: [h-cost] Movies-things that make you cringe!

2006-04-25 Thread AnnBWass
In a message dated 4/25/2006 4:02:18 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: three historians spork historical movies. In the archives are Braveheart, Sound of music, The patriot, and many more I never could figure out why everyone was so crazy about Sound of Music,

Re: [h-cost] Movies-things that make you cringe!

2006-04-25 Thread REBECCA BURCH
This is why I prefer video/DVD - nobody cares when I yell at the screen at home. It took several years, but I finally quit taking costume notes at live theater. I still notice - I just don't write it down anymore. --- kelly grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: but because of my DH the entire