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Other classical movie choices I lean toward are also the more marginal (or less mainstream popular) ones. I find Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle (though clearly POST-classical periods), Wilde, and Jefferson, for instance, as worthy of classical movie acclaim as Amadeus, Emma, The Piano, and any number of Kenneth Branagh and Emma Thompson brilliant [re-]productions. When you think classical movie, what do you think of? Do you think black and white? Classical music? Big powdered wigs? Do you think formalities and fanciful dress? Do you think classic movie in terms of it being colossal in popularity? Or do you think classic movie is as any individual might determine it—according to accuracy, aesthetics, and appeal? I tend to include the black and white flicks with the beauties and the beaus, the comedies with the curmudgeons, the histories with the insight into who people were then…like us but with an added je ne sais quoi that we must investigate, learn about, and appreciate in as great a depth and as wide a breadth as we might. (0)