Napoleon on media

[jastaV]

I open the thread with a list of movies over the Napoleonic age.
That’s with hope to start a good discussion over Napoleon and media…..


N (Io e Napoleone)
Paolo Virzì, 2006
Daniel Auteuil, Elio Germano, Monica Bellucci, Sabrina Impacciatore , Valerio Mastandrea

It’a a nice and fun Italian movie taking moves from Napoleon exile in Elba. The brilliant use of local dialect is very cool. I liked Napoleon interpretation by French actor Daniel Auteuil.
M. Bellucci presence is just a “ beauty's presence”…… as usual!



WATERLOO
Sergei Bondarchuk, 1970
Rod Steiger, Christopher Plummer, Orson Welles, Jack Hawkins, Virginia McKenna,

A mastership! Many episodes of the battle, already reported by historians are accurately quoted in the movie. Battle scenes are great.


War and Peace
Sergei Bondarchuk, 1967
Lyudmila Savelyeva, Vyacheslav Tikhonov, Gennadi Ivanov, Irina Gubanova, Antonina Shuranova, Sergei Bondarchuk, N. Afrikyants, V. Alakhverdova, Rodion Aleksandrov, Igor Alekseyev , N. Aparin, N. Avetisova, V. Badayev, Aleksei Bakhar

It’s the most accurate and detailed movie version of War and Peace. The battle scenes are impressive. The film is quite slow compared to Hollywood movies.


Monsieur N.
Antoine de Caunes, 2003
Philippe Torreton, Richard E. Grant, Jay Rodan, Elsa Zylberstein, Roschdy Zem.

A fantasy version of the exile in St. Helen and Boney’s escape.
I did not like it at all. Poore players performance, but all!


Fuoco su di me
Lamberto Lambertini, 2006
Omar Sharif, Massimiliano Varrese, Sonali Kulkarni.

The movie deals with last weeks of Murat in 1815.
I have the DVD in my collection, but not seen it yet.


Goya's Ghosts
Milos Forman, 2006
Javier Bardem, Natalie Portman, Stellan Skarsgård, Randy Quaid, Blanca Portillo, Michael Lonsdale, José Luis Gómez

The movie is set in Spain, for most part during the Peninsular War: so in some way it gives the flavour of the age. I usually like M. Forman’s movie, not this one indeed!


Quills
Philip Kaufman, 2000
Geoffrey Rush, Kate Winslet, Joaquin Phoenix, Michael Caine.

We have a mastership here, with great actors performances. The movie is set in the First Empire age, but has few to deal with historical events. Napoleon is quoted, with exquisite irony, in a brief sequence in the opening.


Danton
Andrzej Wajda, 1983
Gérard Depardieu, Wojciech Pszoniak, Anne Alvaro, Roland Blanche, Patrice Chéreau, Emmanuelle Debever.

Danton fall in a very accurate historical movie. Liked Depardieu performance.

[Nikel]

The Duellists directed by Ridley Scott, 1977

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075968/

No battle scenes, but the movie does not need them Great ambientation and terrific cossacks

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07z9bhPLdvQ

[arsan]

The Duellists directed by Ridley Scott, 1977

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075968/

No battle scenes, but the movie does not need them Great ambientation and terrific cossacks

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07z9bhPLdvQ

Wonderful movie! One of my all time favourites. The the best and most realist duels i've even seen. With pistol, sable, sword, on horse, on foot... every kind
And the hussar hairdos are top notch too!

The Bondarchucks ones are great too. Impressive and massive battle scenes without computer tricks
i have heard great things too of the old and long "Napoleon" film by Abel Gance.
Its like 4 hours long and without sound But it seems to be a master piece.

Regards!

[pailleterie]

For spanish people "Curro Jimenez" a famous old TV serie about a spanish guerrillero

[arsan]

For spanish people "Curro Jimenez" a famous old TV serie about a spanish guerrillero

Ah! childhood memories!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4i_hxJXcNg&feature=related
I loved Curro Jimenez!! I remember myself recreating Curro adventures with my Playmobil as a child!

[Sol Invictus]

The Duellists is a movie that I must watch at least once every few months. It is an absolute classic.

[jastaV]

The Duellists directed by Ridley Scott, 1977

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075968/

No battle scenes, but the movie does not need them Great ambientation and terrific cossacks

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07z9bhPLdvQ

It's true, great movie with two great performes: Keith Carradine, Harvey Keitel!
One of my favourite: just forgot it..... but I have so many favourite titles!

[jastaV]

Wonderful movie! One of my all time favourites. The the best and most realist duels i've even seen. With pistol, sable, sword, on horse, on foot... every kind

Best duel scenes?
Silvester vs Titti?, Tom vs. Jerry?


Barry Lyndon: Stanley Kubrick, 1975.
In some way, related to 7 Years War!
It's my favourite "historical" movie!
Great age flavour, scene costumes and soundtrack!


But I'm going off topic: lets stay on Boney's age!

Regards!

[Adlertag]

i have heard great things too of the old and long "Napoleon" film by Abel Gance.
Its like 4 hours long and without sound But it seems to be a master piece.

This film Napoleon was intended to be constituted of 6 parts (of 4 hours each ?) and only one was done (raising money was the real problem for Abel Gance).
So it stopped after Campaign of Italy.

[jastaV]

This film Napoleon was intended to be constituted of 6 parts (of 4 hours each ?) and only one was done (raising money was the real problem for Abel Gance).
So it stopped after Campaign of Italy.

All that mind me of Sergei M. Eisenstein's Ivan Groznyy!

[Nikel]

Ah! childhood memories!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4i_hxJXcNg&feature=related
I loved Curro Jimenez!! I remember myself recreating Curro adventures with my Playmobil as a child!

Yes, childhood memories. In the 80s there was a TV miniserias about Goya, with some PW action.

The 2 of May in Madrid, look around minute seven, how to kill a trapped mameluke

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0a7VRb5llaw

[jastaV]

Love and Death
Woody Allen, 1975
Woody Allen, Diane Keaton.

Who said a Boney's age movie cannot be funny?

[Hindov]

Le Colonel Chabert, Yves Angelo (1994) with Gerard Depardieu and Fanny Ardant. The french cavalry charge at Eylau is very impressive.

[jastaV]

Le Colonel Chabert, Yves Angelo (1994) with Gerard Depardieu and Fanny Ardant. The french cavalry charge at Eylau is very impressive.

Thanks for the tip!
I checked at IMDB: thre's an Italian language version too.

Hope to find it in DVD!

[Hindov]

AUSTERLITZ
Abel Gance, 1960
With Pierre Mondy as Napoleon and some great actors like Claudia Cardinale, Orson Welles, Vittorio De Sica, Jean Marais