Sentences with phrase «costume drama filmed»

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.

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Beautifully filmed while adhering closely to period costume, architecture, and environment (1910 Russia) the drama examines both....

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.

Oliver Parker's film versions of An Ideal Husband and The Importance of Being Earnest didn't manage it: he tended towards the costume drama, with uncomfortable intimations of other influences.

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

Here's the 8 questions we're answering today including but not limited to favorite (male) stars, awesome film sets, horror flicks, and costume dramas...

In the land of the costume drama, truly, films about Marie Antoinette are Queen, promising lavish sets, romantic intrigue and shocking decadence — but they don't always deliver.

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

It's the kind of costume drama that BAFTA usually eats up, about an important historical event, and an excellent film to boot, except of course, it's about a black woman, and directed by a black woman, so why would it be nominated?

Upon entering I thought that I could very well be walking into yet another costume drama that takes no time whatsoever to work on an able story (i.e. Valmont), but instead I was treated to a beautifully layered film that is probably the second best I've seen so far this year.

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.

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.

Resembling a children's movie for grown - ups while reining in Del Toro's worst tendencies, its hybrid form holds clear appeal for another year when the highest - grossing films replace humans with costumed superheroes and animated creatures, our postmodern costume dramas.

(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.»

is misleading because while draped in Darius Khondji's luxuriant, golden - hued cinematography like the silks of Lady Liberty's gown, and decked in loving period costume and detail, the film is really a small - scale human drama in which those Gray staples, a love triangle and a love / hate brother-esque relationship, play out beat by minutely observed beat.

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

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.

Describing the film already seems like it's doing a disservice to those who are not ready to geek out on history lessons and fancy costume dramas.

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 flowing.

Superb in every sense of the word, acting, script, costume design, attention to detail.An old fashioned drama real quality film making at it's best.

The film is far more earthy than a typical costume drama, which will either please or put off viewers depending on their inclinations.

Soon after, she filmed a new costume drama to be called «Downton Abbey,» in which she played Gwen Dawson, a maid with dreams of moving out of service and becoming a secretary.

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].

I was expecting more from this film (after watching the engaging trailer, and knowing the screenplay is by Nick Hornby), so I got a little disappointed... It is a very decent film, the acting is flawless (Saoirse Ronan can definitely carry a film), the colours, the sets and locations, the costumes are all beautiful and the story does grab your attention... and then it ends: when it seemed the real drama would happen.

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).

Hell, it's a point I've made multiple times over the years, and since Harris includes in the latter category the sort of costume dramas and comparatively straightforward historical narratives that more or less dominated the upper ranks of Slant's top 25 films of the year — namely A Quiet Passion, Phantom Thread, and The Lost City of Z — we self - servingly agree.

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's a plush and strangely ornate film despite the hellish setting and there's always the sense that Shortland is perhaps more interested in making a crimped, up - market costume drama in the mould of Jane Campion's Bright Star than she is a bona fide survival movie with dirt under its fingernails.

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.

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.

Not that horror films were suddenly treated with the same respect afforded costume dramas, biopics, musicals and other prestige projects.

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).

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.

It may be a film that some find slow, but for those who enjoy intelligent films or costume dramas, you'll be hard pressed to find anything to dislike in the entire production.

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 performance.

When it came to making a drama thriller about a perfectionist fashion designer, filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson reached out to his longtime costume designer of seven films Mark Bridges for Phantom Thread.

If you've ever found yourself watching some stuffy costume drama or family - friendly adventure movie and thought to yourself, gee, this film...

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.

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.»

Full of the lavish sets and extravagant costumes becoming of a royal family period drama, the film, steeped in monarchy, feels buoyant and vibrant in no small part thanks to the actors» ability to humanize such aristocratic characters.

«The film is a visual feast with just enough shocks to ensure you don't mistake this for some well - mounted costume drama.

In the way that Mad Men won awards for attention to detail in their set and costuming, this film perfectly captures a slice of life in 1947 as well as the drama of the events that unfold.

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».

The stone - walled kitchen garden produces a variety of fruit and vegetables which is served in the Strode House restaurant, and to celebrate the success of the BBC drama series Wolf Hall (which was filmed here) eight costumes are displayed in the rooms where the filming took place.