Sentences with phrase «better in period pieces»

«The Seagull,» «On Chesil Beach»: Saoirse Ronan was very good as a Sacramento teenager in «Lady Bird,» but she's better in period pieces such as «Atonement» and «Brooklyn.»

Not exact matches

After a long day in the office, a Winter's walk in the cold, decorating the Christmas, an eventful day of present shopping and the many other things we are busying ourselves with over the festive period, I do believe there is nothing quite better than sitting down with a mug of tea and a piece of fruit cake.

While Costa may be the finishing piece of a great puzzle at Chelsea, Sanchez is single - handedly keeping Arsenal alive this season, and it is hard to imagine he won't prove the catalyst to a great period of success if Arsene Wenger can build a better team around him in the next couple of transfer windows, with a player of this ability deserving a solid defence and midfield behind him to allow his talent to deliver more than just fourth place.

If you spot someone holding a piece of equipment but taking longer rest periods between sets, I find that the request that sits best with members is: «may I please jump in while you rest?

Really a good piece of writing about fitness can be possible in any age.Fitness don't have the selected period of time.To be fit we have to exercise regularly.No matter in what age you start to exercise.Just hold your patience to achieve the goal.

Lastly, always by tops in one size bigger, you want pieces to last a while but also fit for a good period of time too.

Plus I think if you save up and plan over a longer period of time, it feels so good when you finally get it, rather than just buying some random designer piece in the moment.

An engrossing piece of social history, a lively, astonishingly well - documented excavation of that period between June 1969 and June 1981 when gay men in New York experienced a bacchanalian burst of sexual liberation.

Set in 1959, the period piece directly deals with the integration of suburbs in the era of the civil rights movement, although whether or not the film deals with it well is up for you to decide.

This is a period piece centering around a rugged western hero who decides to prove himself by being the first westerner to enter into a gruelling desert horse race in the Middle East, hoping ot prove that his American horse Hidalgo is just as good if not better than any of the Arabian horses he's up against.

What worked so well in the first film was that the filmmakers were able to make a superhero film work as a period piece.

Team Loving Ruth Negga deservedly secured a spot in the Best Actress race, but this once - favored period piece missed out big time everywhere else.

If, on the other hand, you enjoy a Tarantino - scripted conversation or two or five — particularly in a period piece where the characters can't make references to movies or TV shows — «The Hateful Eight» may well engage you as a darkly funny locked - door mystery that's in no hurry to show its hand.

Keira Knightley is best known for playing dynamic females in period pieces, it shall be interesting to see her take on playing a perpetual adolescent who lies to her fiancee about going on a retreat and instead spends the time hanging out with her friends instead.

A more modern period piece, the 1920s - set «The Newton Boys» (1998) reunited him with Linklater and showcased McConaughey's talent to better effect, allowing his natural twang back in the speech of Willis Newton, the brains behind a real - life band of Texas bank - robbing brothers.

Among the new pics we have our first look at Kevin Bacon as villain Sebastian Shaw and a better look at January Jones as Emma Frost, plus we are actually getting a feel for the fact that this is supposed to be a period piece set in the»60s.

Period pieces regarding the subjugation of women's agency (from Brize's A Woman's Life to Planetarium to Davies» take on Emily Dickinson featuring a career best Cynthia Nixon to the dueling personas played by Mary J. Blige and Carey Mulligan in the 40s set Mudbound) as well as the repression of sexuality in the past (BPM) and present (The Wound; The Untamed; A Fantastic Woman) makes for a rather distressing but altogether worthwhile crop of titles from the past year.

But the tide began to turn in late January when «The King's Speech,» the British period piece about George VI's struggle to overcome his stutter before being crowned king of England, began to pick up steam, winning the Producers Guild of America Award, the Directors Guild of America Award for Tom Hooper, the top Screen Actors Guild Award and the BAFTA for best film.

And Matthew McConaughey was on hand, too, to tease the gritty period piece «White Boy Rick,» in which he plays a hustler and a schemer and all - around bad, but well - meaning dad to a teenage boy who ends up becoming an undercover FBI informant.

During the Marvel Studios panel at last week's Comic - Con International, Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige announced that the upcoming Captain Marvel movie would be a period piece set in the 1990s, and that the good Captain, a / k / a Carol Danvers, would team up with a younger, two - eyed Nick Fury to battle the Skrulls.

While the end result may be admittedly more uneven in spots than [Tsui Hark's] best - known works, this lavish period piece contains enough thrills, spills and moments of cinematic grace that not only manage to push it through the rough spots but allow it to put most American action films of recent vintage to shame.

It's just that he's so incredibly talented that it looks like a period piece drama / epic love story and it gets nominated for Academy Awards, when in reality it's no more than a well - made love story with a little metaphor thrown in for good measure.

It's a relentlessly simple period piece, with Southern California not just standing in for the American East Coast, but Britain and France as well.

Head in the Clouds is a well - made, visually distinctive period piece that's nevertheless a complete bore almost from start to finish.

A poignant period piece about a pair of practically - saintly role models well - deserving of their iconic status in the annals of American jurisprudence.

Veteran actress Maggie Smith, who plays Violet Crawley, the Countess of Grantham in the PBS period piece «Downton Abbey,» won as best supporting actress in a TV series.

In the decade - plus since the delightful Catch Me If You Can, Spielberg's made good starchy period pieces (Lincoln), dull starchy period pieces (War Horse) and a few old - school adventure pictures that still can't shake a certain sedateness (War of the Worlds, The Adventures of Tintin).

Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Series went to John Lithgow for Netflix's The Crown, the period piece that saw him play Prime Minister Winston Churchill in his later years.

His best - known films of this realist sort include those in the series Six Moral Tales, Comedies and Proverbs, and Tales of the Four Seasons, although Rohmer was also a fascinating formalist when it came to period pieces, whether in his intentionally artificial interpretation of an Arthurian legend, Perceval (1978), or in his technically progressive take on the French Revolution, The Lady and the Duke (2001), an early film to utilize computer - generated imagery for its backdrops.

Who we want to win: Though it could be a close one between Tim Burton's cinematic realization of the beloved stage show Sweeney Todd and the staid period piece Atonement in the category of Best Costume Design, there's no getting around how much we're still thrilled by Burton's wacky designs after all these years.

World Premiere Notable: Period piece featuring Amanda Sternberg best known for roles in «The Hunger Games» and the TV series «Sleepy Hollow» and «Mr. Robinson

Might as well bookend things with another period piece set in the 1800s, this time focusing on a group of settlers heading west, but this one particularly grabs my attention, as it comes from the mind of Shaun Cassidy, who — at least in my estimation — has yet to attach his name to any TV series that hasn't at least proven interesting.

Now she's set for her most stellar period yet with leading roles in two major BBC series: Peter Moffat's military period piece The Last Post, which startson Sunday on BBC1, and an upcoming adaptation of The Woman in White, as well as a much - praised big - screen turn in an atmospheric crime thriller, Beast, which will screen at the London Film Festival's First Feature Competitionin October.

Star War: The Last Jedi is the definitive IMAX experience (and critics can't get enough of it) you're not going to want to miss; Saoirse Ronan gives one of the best performances of the year in the comedy / drama Lady Bird; and Shape of Water and Call Me By Your Name are visually stunning period pieces that will transport you into a beautiful past filled with love, adventure, and romance.

So maybe it's just the low expectations talking, but Café Society struck me as Allen's best movie in nearly 20 years: a perfectly pleasant period - piece trifle that slowly transforms into a melancholy meditation on time's unstoppable passage.

with Bradley Cooper, Sienna Miller, Lily James, and Alicia Vikander, as well as in Roschdy Zem's French - language period piece

She captures the essence of that fascinating city in her new book, while also creating a well - written period piece set in the last days of the Weimar Republic.

The object collection includes locally made furniture from Louisiana's colonial period, as well as French pieces that illustrate the ties of the sophisticated planter with his family in France.

The shop features reproductions of Hearst Castle ® art pieces, as well as gifts and home furnishings reflective of the time period décor in the Castle.

Andre's first major exhibition in Britain for over 10 years, it features eight sculptures made between 1967 and 1983, as well as some of his typed - out poems from the same period (their words are arranged to form bold patterns on the page, almost like little pieces of sculpture).

On view are many never before exhibited works, including watershed pieces from the AfriCOBRA period, as well as works reflective of the epiphany Williams had when first visiting Africa for Festac» 77, the Second World Black and African Festival of Arts and Culture, plus multi-media pieces created throughout the 1980s, 90s and early 2000s during the artist's time in Asia and Europe, along with select contemporary works.

This eye - opening show covers a 30 - year period and encompasses works on paper exploring the line in space, as well as more elaborate trailing structures and interlaced pieces.

She has had the chance to install large, site - specific pieces in many prominent Bay Area spaces recently including the brand new SWIM Gallery (Luggage Store Annex), the Lab, Palo Alto Art Center, Guerrero Gallery, Incline Gallery, and most notably, Johansson Projects in Oakland, which was a solo show as well as a kind of a residency in the gallery, where she installed her largest immersive installation to date over a one - month period.

There are also older pieces like a Christ figure from the Renaissance period as well as a print of Albrecht Dürer's «Melancholia,» depicting a woman with her head in her hands, plagued by her own thoughts.

In Picasso's iconic Still Life With Chair Caning (1912), perhaps the most famous work of this period, the artist playfully renders a tabletop still life by incorporating everyday elements like newspaper and rope, as well as a trompe - l'oeil piece of mass - produced oilcloth printed with a chair - caning pattern.

Evolution is random like weather, sensitive to minor perturbations, but adaptive through adaptive emergent properties, and difficult to understand in totality, but well understood in pieces and in short periods of time, sequentially linked, sometimes haphazardly to form a somewhat cohesive story.

Evolution is random like weather, sensitive to minor perturbations, but adaptive through adaptive emergent properties, and difficult to understand in totality, but well understood in pieces and in short periods of time,

Berwick, whose recent politically forced departure from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is lamented in this NYT piece, says he is now in «a contemplative period» and remains on a mission to help health care get better globally.

It seems to me that this piece of short - sighted legislation is setting up a registrant to violate a fundamental tenet of REBBA — acting in the best interests of their Buyer client — by knowingly allowing their Buyer client to provide a deposit that could be held back by a disgruntled Seller for a long period of time.

Even if it's something that you intend to implement over a long period of time, with my 3 - D plan and instructions in hand, you'll be set to pull the pieces together bit by bit, or all at once, whichever works best for you.