There was a posting of bad repro looks, and it made me think of good repro looks. The first movie that came to mind was [I]Swing Kids[I], about German youth in 1930's Germany pre-WWII. Period clothes, music and the hairstyles seemed pretty authentic to me.
What other movies would you all think have a good repro look?
“Things are never so bad they can't be made worse.” -Humphrey Bogart
For the most part, Out of Africa.
Road to Perdition and even though not golden era, Capote.
'Course I'm respectable. I'm old. Politicians, ugly buildings, and whores all get respectable if they last long enough.
Aviator
Cheers,
Ray
Francis Coppola's The Cotton Club (1984). Much, much better "repro looking" than The Godfather, Part I.
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I agree Marc. Here is a clip from The Cotton Club. The first 1:30 min are the best illustration of your point. Both male and female hairs are spot on, IMHO. Later, in the cab scene, Geer is wearing a killer Homburg.Originally Posted by Marc Chevalier
Looking for my Norma Desmond,--JACK
The Great Debaters. Im not too sure about the mens fashions there, but the women's were real well done.
LD
Good, or bad- have a watch of "The Pianist", the Polanski film, with Adrian Brody, as the Polish-Jewish pianist in post-Blitzkrieg Poland. I have never seen so many of those mid '30s style German suits; with the double scalloped, yoked, inverted pleat back, vented, patch pockets, etc., in one place before. It seems like every second suit is in that style. I like that style a lot. But maybe, just maybe, there are too many of them in Poland in 1939...
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Looking with my good ear peeled.
Yeah, I watched the Pianist last night, I loved the costumes (but I don't know how accurate it was..)
Also, it's not a film, but the Granada Holmes with Jeremy Brett was an excellent portrayal of Victorian London.
I find the Poirot films with David Suchet look period accurate of the 1930s. Not counting Poirot himself as he dressed far more extravagantly than anyone else, but all the other characters appear to be wearing the right sort of suits, hats, dinner jackets and even bathing suits.
Mr Alan
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