#periodfilmedit

[dirbenaffleck]

BRANDON SKLENAR as SPENCER DUTTON 1923 ‧ Created by Taylor Sheridan

[floencepugh]

“Well selfish people like to talk about themselves.”

LITTLE WOMEN (2019) dir. Greta Gerwig

[batfleckgifs]

BEN AFFLECK as CAPT. RAFE MCCAWLEY Pearl Harbor (2001) | Dir. Michael Bay

[nowadayz]

CHRISTIAN BALE as Laurie Laurence Little Women (1994) dir. Gillian Armstrong

[binickandros]

The Green Knight (2021), dir. David Lowery

Chiaroscuro (kjaro'sku:ro) lit. "light-dark," chiaroscuro is the Renaissance composition style where lightness and darkness are used in stark, frequently startling contrast. Popularized by Caravaggio (1571-1610) to such an extent that in later Baroque art it became known as caravaggism or, alternatively, tenebrism, the style immediately draws the eye to the main subject, who is often highlighted by just one light source.

Tenebrism is characterized by a flat, black background, while chiaroscuro usually builds some depth into a darkened, but still slightly detectable, field. Edges are softened, and the subject seems to melt into the surrounding shadows—a more intense version of Leonardo da Vinci's (1452-1519) smokier, dreamier sfumato technique. (x, x, x, x)

[timotheescloset]

Little Women (2019) dir. Greta Gerwig

Who will be interested in a story of domestic struggles and joys? It doesn’t have any real importance, does it? Maybe it doesn’t seem important because people don’t write about them...

[estelle-sim]

I... I... I... didn't say anything. Make sure you... you... stay alive.

[keiraonfilm]

Keira Knightley in promotional Anna Karenina "Love" poster series (2012)

[theseventhveil1945]

Heat and Dust (1983) dir. James Ivory

[snqa303]

BRIGHT STAR (2009) dir. Jane Campion

Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art—  Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night

[screen-studies]

Kristin Scott Thomas as Brenda Last in A Handful of Dust (1988) dir. Charles Sturridge

[dirbenaffleck]

BRANDON SKLENAR as SPENCER DUTTON 1923 ‧ Created by Taylor Sheridan

[floencepugh]

⋆ ★ THE MARCH SISTERS ★ ⋆

[brontes]

pride and prejudice (2005) dir. joe wright

You are too generous to trifle with me. If your feelings are still what they were last April, tell me so at once. My affections and wishes are unchanged; but one word from you will silence me on this subject for ever.

[nowadayz]

TIMOTHEE CHALAMET as LAURIE Little Women (2019) dir. Greta Gerwig

[binickandros]

Then, there’s the yellow cloak that Patel wears as he embarks on his odyssey, which serves as one of the film’s most striking and symbolic visual features, and a rare splash of color within cinematographer Andrew Droz Palermo’s moody palette of grays and dusky, mottled greens. “The cloak was described as yellow on the script, but we were looking for the right shade of yellow,” says Turzanska. “We ended up picking one that is essentially the color of gorse, this invasive Irish plant that was all over the place. So it was kind of nice that we were connecting the landscape to the costumes in that way. What I also love about the cloak is that it is quilted in a shape of a magnified thumbprint, so it goes back to that idea of the individual and free will.” (x)

      The Green Knight (2021), dir. David Lowery, costumes Malgosia Turzanska