Sentences with phrase «british costume drama»

Poldark: Series 1 (Acorn), the 1975 British costume drama based on the novels of Winston Graham, arrived on American shores via «Masterpiece Theatre» in 1977 and immediately became one of the most popular British TV imports of its era.

Even if I did not particularly learn anything from it, I was completely engrossed by Elizabeth, which not only makes the traditionally stuffy and aloof British costume drama accessible, but entertaining and exciting as well.

While Russell largely fails to make dramatic connections and bring us into the inner world of his characters» conflicted desires, he succeeds mightily in making a film of often breathtaking beauty that balances the conventions of the British costume drama with his experimental proclivities.

But even with all the cinematic zigs and zags, we've yet to be treated to JGL in a British costume drama.

Nostalgists lament the demise of single plays like Ken Loach's Cathy Come Home or Mike Leigh's Abigail's Party, but drama series like The Jewel in the Crown, Edge of Darkness, Our Friends in the North, State of Play, the original Upstairs Downstairs or Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy will surely loom larger in history's rear - view mirror, while perhaps Julian Fellowes» surprise hit, Downton Abbey, heralds a new wave of the classic British costume drama.

And don't say you didn't get a little weepy when good old Matthew Crawley met his untimely death due to a lack of seatbelts and a desire to leave British costume drama behind.

Paterson Joseph: Black actors belong in British costume drama.

Like Butterfly Kiss, it includes moments of visual shock which are a far cry from the conventions of British costume drama.

Its literary origins might seem to suggest a film entrenched in the traditions of British costume drama.

Making its American debut Sunday via the PBS series «Masterpiece Mystery,» 201 years after Elizabeth Bennet finally said yes to Mr. Darcy, it's a highly satisfying riff on the original work, as well as a credit to the modern British costume drama.

It's easy to forget, amid the endless British costume dramas, that other countries have royal families, too.

The heavy corsetry and thick, wide linens of British costume dramas have been her area of expertise, including her Oscar - winning work for 1986's A Room with a View, starring a young Maggie Smith, Helena Bonham Carter, and Simon Callow, and her other nominated films including The King's Speech and Gosford Park.

Not exact matches

Somebody really needs to tell the British film industry there's more to film than just costume dramas and gangster movies.

He played future British Prime Minister Charles Grey and Keira Knightley's lover in the costume - drama The Dutchess (2008), followed by a supporting role in the Oscar - nominated An Education (2009), for which he shared a Screen Actor's Guild nomination for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture.

James McAvoy — Skillfully avoiding the fate of many a British male export, eternity in period costume drama hell, McAvoy built on his devastating turn in 2007's Attonement by showcasing another side to his game starring opposite Angelina Jolie's lips in the gloriously silly assassin saga Wanted.

I can't imagine Jean - Marc Vallee's sleepy costume drama cornering the British vote, given its tepid UK reception way back in March, so what does Hammond know that we don't?

Its sumptuous visual qualities and extravagant production values give us the sense that we are watching one of those upscale costume dramas that the British excel at.

Jane Eyre - Sure, it looks like yet another British period costume drama, but the story and its adaptation are solid enough.

The British channel ITV announced Sunday that it has commissioned a fifth season of the popular television show, a costume drama about a British aristocratic family and their servants in the 1910s and 1920s.

On paper, the costume drama The Duchess couldn't be any more different from British director Saul Dibb's previous cinematic outing, the urban gun - crime drama Bullet Boy.

A classic British memoir gets the full costume drama treatment with this beautifully crafted World...

A classic British memoir gets the full costume drama treatment with this beautifully crafted World War I drama, although it never quite transcends the «beloved book» tone, remaining so worthy that it only rarely springs to life.

Commonly they are British period costume dramas of manners where women are tempestuous, men are either be cruel or intensely romantic, and prevalent themes of station, class, character and morality are bandied about.

Not all British TV shows are stodgy costume dramas...

It sometimes feels that the British film industry only makes about three or four different kinds of movies: dreadful gangster films that rarely get a release abroad, gritty social realism pictures, period costume dramas, and semi-quirky comedies with a tearjerking side, exemplified by something like «Billy Elliot» or «The Full Monty,» but more often turning out like «Calendar Girls» or «Song For Marion.»