Sentences with phrase «as costume dramas»

Having both Cinderella and The Danish Girl as costume dramas really messes with my predicting metric here.

as costume dramas really messes with my predicting metric here.

Look at her adaptation of Vanity Fair again, and notice how the costume design and art direction is as frilly and lovely as any costume drama, but she likes to show how the clothes get dirty and the cuffs grow frayed.

Presented more as a costume drama than a film with any modern relevance, Milk «s power to move is largely dependent on the viewer's ability to watch Sean Penn make hammy faces at the camera.

An unashamed crowd - pleaser, Masquerade should at least appeal as a costume drama and a showcase for a cast led by Byung - hun Lee, who, this critic hopes, will make a dramatic debut in American cinema someday soon.

Not exact matches

Julie Walters thanks her costume designer during her BAFTA acceptance speech for her role as Mo Mowlam in aChannel 4 drama.

She appeared in a number of series, including the popular crime drama Cracker and such costume extravaganzas as Jane Eyre and Emma.Morton became known to an international film audience in 1997, when she won wide acclaim for her wrenching, fearless portrayal of a young woman driven to promiscuous behavior by the death of her mother in Carine Adler's Under the Skin.

The bulk of Gunpowder is a reasonably exciting costume drama combining history and suspense, with fine performances by Sherlock's Mark Gatiss as the King's vindictive secretary of state and Peter Mullan (Top of the Lake, Ozark) as Henry Garnet, a Jesuit priest sympathetic to Catesby's efforts.

The danger in making a costume drama is that all of it will be as lifeless as wax figures.

Starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Rebecca Hall as Sylvia and Christopher Tietjens, BBC2's five - part adaptation has apparently moved Andrew Davies, the so - called king of costume drama, to read the novels that Parade's End is based on.

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.

The screenplay is by BBC costume - drama king Andrew Davies, and the strong cast includes Matthew Macfadyen, Ray Stevenson and Luke Evans as the Musketeers, plus Christoph Waltz, Juno Temple, Orlando Bloom and, natch, Milla Jovovich.

mmm... a protagonist who complete dominates a long film to the detriment of context and the other players in the story (though the abolitionist, limping senator with the black lover does gets close to stealing the show, and is rather more interesting than the hammily - acted Lincoln); Day - Lewis acts like he's focused on getting an Oscar rather than bringing a human being to life - Lincoln as portrayed is a strangely zombie character, an intelligent, articulate zombie, but still a zombie; I greatly appreciate Spielberg's attempt to deal with political process and I appreciate the lack of «action» but somehow the context is missing and after seeing the film I know some more facts but very little about what makes these politicians tick; and the lighting is way too stylised, beautiful but unremittingly unreal, so the film falls between the stools of docufiction and costume drama, with costume drama winning out; and the second subject of the film - slavery - is almost complete absent (unlike Django Unchained) except as a verbal abstraction

And sure enough, what begins as a clarion call settles into a somewhat familiar period costume drama spiced up now and again with racy sequences nonetheless sobered by the memory of the delirious hedonism of that opening, wherein we get Dracula's backstory as a hero of a holy war, repulsing Muslim invaders in Romania, turning to blasphemy when the vengeful Turks fool his wife Elisabeta (Winona Ryder) into believing that her beloved has died on the battlefield, and gleefully chewing artificial scenery with toothy relish.

Miike clearly enjoys shaking up movie genres, and the first half of this film is an impeccable samurai costume drama, as we learn about the characters and the politically charged situation through encounters that add increasing levels of urgency, plus a few grisly Miike touches.

July 17th The first signs that this isn't your average fussy costume drama is the way the servant Laborde (watchful intriguing Lea Seydoux) slips and falls as she races around Versailles to serve the whims of her fickle queen Marie Antoinette (a brilliantly distracted Diane Kruger).

(p. 37) Yet, whereas Daire sees Mauprat as a dynamic, complex, and ostensibly queer studio film (the gender play he notes in the biography), Keller sees the film as a «costume drama [that] lacks almost entirely the vigour described by Epstein about the effects of cinema on an audience.»

These generic tropes work together as the passion of the melodrama pushes against the constraints of the costume drama, often...

Paul Thomas Anderson's 1950s London chamber drama was expected to receive at least three of those six, for Jonny Greenwood's score, Mark Bridges» costumes and Daniel Day - Lewis» lead performance as a petulantly exacting couturier named Reynolds Woodcock.

A costume drama starring Song Kang - ho from The Attorney as the face reader himself, its protagonist's fate and that of everyone around him is sealed when he gets drawn into the intrigues of the Joseon Dynasty court.

As the fictional landscape designer Sabine de Barra, hired to create the Rockwork Grove amphitheater at Versailles, she stands in defiance of social and aesthetic convention even while the film itself never bursts its staid costume - drama seams.

While it ticks all the boxes of what many deem to be a typical costume drama, e.g. upper class backdrop, domestic intrigue, suppressed lust, elaborate sets and, of course, costumes, The Young Victoria (2009) is a more valid commentary on the burden of extreme wealth and duty as barrier to happiness.

One of the joys of Asante's filmmaking is how she subverts audience expectations to make observations on politics, race and gender: As Sophie Mayer observes in her review for Sight & Sound, «in a clever twist on the Bechdel test, Asante shows that it is through talking about marriage and men that the female protagonists of costume drama are able to articulate a political philosophy.»

Giamatti is, of course, no stranger to costume drama - mini-series John Adams helped take his career to even higher heights just a couple of years back - but since he's currently playing the Rhino in The Amazing Spider - Man 2, we feel this qualifies as mixing it up.

Though it might have been imagined as a murder - mystery for movie buffs, what the picture succeeds in being is a flat and slightly off - putting costume drama for director Bogdanovich.

As much as we love a high - toned costume drama like Phantom Thread — not to mention summer's big «n» dumb blockbusters — there's nothing like a horror film to get the juices flowinAs much as we love a high - toned costume drama like Phantom Thread — not to mention summer's big «n» dumb blockbusters — there's nothing like a horror film to get the juices flowinas we love a high - toned costume drama like Phantom Thread — not to mention summer's big «n» dumb blockbusters — there's nothing like a horror film to get the juices flowing.

The Crown — As the first major costume drama to premiere post Downton Abbey, it's automatically assumed that The Crown will be a major contender, but just how popular will it be?

I'm very interested in costume drama, and if one commandeers it, the film needs to establish itself as different from costume drama on television and in cinema, which is all about the interior [of characters].

Other examples of historical characters in biographies in the 1930 - 40s included Norman Taurog's children's dramatic film Young Tom Edison (1940) about the famed inventor (Mickey Rooney), The Story of Alexander Graham Bell (1939), the historical drama Marie Antoinette (1938) about the famous Austrian princess who married future King Louis XVI, Michael Curtiz» costume drama The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939), and Mervyn LeRoy's oft - nominated Madame Curie (1943) with Greer Garson as the title character researching radioactivity with her husband Pierre (Walter Pidgeon).

As Chris writes in his review, it's «an old fashioned, admirably episodic costume drama with superb performances, intricate direction, and enough simmering, bottled - up righteous fury to keep you hooked from beginning to end (give or take an episode or two).»

The Sundance film festival has sold itself for 40 years as the champion of cutting - edge, radical independent cinema; not a natural habitat for the stiffly costumed and perfectly spoken habits of the literary - inflected costume drama.

It might not sound like your typical costume drama, but Thomas Hardy's tale is a surprisingly contemporary tale, following Miss Everdene (her surname inspiring The Hunger Games» heroine), as she inherits her father's estate, only to find herself the target of three suitors.

And then there is the really off - beat stuff like a post-apocalyptic-vampire-western-road movie, Stake Land (which is magnificent), a naughty DIY costumed hero flick from James Gun called Super and starring Ellen Page and Kevin Bacon, an Eva Green starring ethereal cloning drama from Hungary, but in English, called Womb, and a film that will make you completely reassess how you feel about Santa Claus and his elf posse when the jolly fat man is portrayed as a 25 meter tall horned demon encased in a block of ice under a Finnish mountain.

Always a bit partial to films based on a true story, I would have to label this as a fictionalized historical period piece, and a step above most costume dramas (though the costumes here are quite stunning).

According to Indiewire,» «The West Wing» by way of a costume drama, it tracks the abolition of slavery as a series of negotiations with major ramifications only transparently stated in the final scenes.

It often seems as if the one thing that every Hollywood actor wants to do is make at least one costume drama.

Paul Thomas Anderson's latest is a departure from his recent sprawling epics of American history and psychosis (There Will be Blood, The Master, Inherent Vice) and a return to the oddball romance of Punch - Drunk Love, albeit in disguise as a tasteful costume drama.

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

What made the sharp - witted author so brilliant and timeless is strangely absent here; instead, we're served up another bland, passionless costume drama as stuffy and oxygen - depriving as its corsets.

As drama teacher Miss Bagoli, Carol Kane is wasted with a silly costume and oddball antics.

As a Golden Age Hollywood costume drama with the Czech Republic posing for North Carolina, «Serena» is a hauntingly photographed but emotionally aloof love story.

Star of the titular role, Rupert Friend's previous performances have included charming gentlemen in costume dramas like The Young Victoria (2009) and Pride and Prejudice (2005), though he is probably best - known for his role as Quinn, a professional assassin in Showtime series Homeland (2011 --RRB-.

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.

Cornish does about as well as could be expected, considering her character 1) appears to be permanently heavily sedated, 2) spends most of her time on screen window shopping, and 3) is totally unbelievable, a woman with a storyline from a Victorian costume drama rather than 1998 New York, never displaying a hint of backbone or inner life.

Not since Tom Jones has a costume drama been as ambitious, indeed audacious, stylistically as this film is.

As a wuxia film (a particular type of fantastical drama / action film involving Chinese martial artists and set in deep history), its loveliest resonances are found its finely executed martial arts sequences, costuming and period setting, as well as the still charisma of Shu Qi's performancAs a wuxia film (a particular type of fantastical drama / action film involving Chinese martial artists and set in deep history), its loveliest resonances are found its finely executed martial arts sequences, costuming and period setting, as well as the still charisma of Shu Qi's performancas well as the still charisma of Shu Qi's performancas the still charisma of Shu Qi's performance.

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.

As expected from a BBC Films costume drama, the production design is exquisite, with faultless, lavish production values.

Any costume drama with Helena Bonham Carter in a main role probably is worth at least a look for her performance, and she commands attention as the story's most beguiling character, Miss Havisham, even though the way she's utilized feels borne more from the tradition of Gothic horror than customary.

The Golden Globes love awarding high - brow soaps like The Affair and two - time winner Homeland, as well as meticulously accurate costume dramas like Boardwalk Empire and three - time winner Mad Men.