Undefended is posted every Friday. All FilmFisher writers are given a prompt and respond with a list of five items, none of which are explained or rationalized. This week… the top five period pieces of all time.

Thomas Banks

1.The Painted Veil

2.Ben Hur

3.The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex

4.Robin Hood (Errol Flynn version)

5.The Searchers

 

Joshua Gibbs

1. The Remains of the Day

2. The Bostonians

3. The Age of Innocence

4. Dangerous Liaisons

5. Last of the Mohicans

 

Sean Johnson

1.There Will Be Blood

2.The Untouchables

3.The Talented Mr. Ripley

4. American Hustle

5.The Grand Budapest Hotel

James Banks

1. Horseman on the Roof

2. Dangerous Liaisons

3. The Last of the Mohicans

4. Wings of a Dove

5. A Room with a View

 

Timothy Lawrence

1. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

2. A Man For All Seasons

3. Inside Llewyn Davis

4. The General

5. Gone With The Wind

 

Remy Wilkins

1. There Will Be Blood

2. Miller’s Crossing

3. Marie Antoinette

4. Raiders of the Lost Ark

5. The Last of the Mohicans

Joseph Gross

1. Andrei Rublev

2. Henry V (1989)

3. O Brother, Where Art Thou?

4. Good Night and Good Luck

5. Who Framed Roger Rabbit?

 

Justin Spencer

1. Lawrence of Arabia

2. The Sandlot

3. A River Runs Through It

4. The Man from Snowy River

5. Days of Heaven