Sentences with phrase «century costume drama»

A solar eclipse mirror ball, giant cuddly toys and an experimental 16th - century costume drama filmed on the banks of the river Tamar will all feature in new commissions celebrating 70 years of one of the UK's most important public art collections.

With a title that makes it sound like an 18th - century costume drama — perhaps a cousin to Jacques Rivette's recent Balzac adaptation, The Duchess Of Langeais — and a marketing campaign that sells it as kinky erotica, Peter Strickland's The Duke Of Burgundy risks attracting exactly the wrong crowd.

Bright Star (PG for mature themes, sensuality, smoking and mild epithets) Oscar - winner Jane Campion (for The Piano) wrote and directed this 19th Century costume drama about the three - year romance of poet John Keats (Ben Whishaw) and his neighbor Fanny Brawne (Abbie Cornish) which ended prematurely when he contracted tuberculosis and died at the age of 25.

Misguided notions about the work of Stanley Kubrick in general and his eighteenth - century costume drama Barry Lyndon persist, despite the film's growing reputation since its initial lukewarm reception, and the work of conscientious scholars and critics.

Not exact matches

Now it's the 21st century and most viewers of these costume dramas will assume this particular headache is a thing of the past.

Downton was a modestly budgeted costume drama about the life of a grand English household in the first decades of the 20th century and was expected to draw an equally modest viewership.

Inspired by Amanda Foreman's biography Georgiana: Duchess of Devonshire, a popular and a critical success, this serviceable costume drama covers 20 years in the life of a woman many today refer to as the «It Girl» of Georgian England, an 18th - century fashion - plate and influential public figure whose celebrity couldn't entirely disguise her unhappy marriage... read more

The inspiration for director Amma Asante's fascinating period costumed drama, Belle, came from quite an unusual place — in Scone Palace at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland, there hangs a painting of two young women from the 18th century.

Set in the sixteenth century and using the writings and memoirs of a number of seafarers as its raw material, this single channel film is a Brechtian costume drama which merges Shakespeare's The Tempest with true accounts of the journeys to and dreams of the «New World».