Sentences with phrase «costume drama with»

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.

Both cover the «period piece costume drama with lots of flowy dresses» checkboxes that so often lead to a win in this category, and while

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.

«Vatel» is a costume drama with far more costumes than drama.

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.

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).»

Aw hell... wanted to see some costume drama with some epic fighting scenes here... where is Joachim Rønning, Espen Sandberg when you need them... well, Bandidas (2006) was hardly good but Max Manus (2008) was good, and people say Kon - Tiki (2012) is good too.

Not exact matches

If you've ever seen any of those costume dramas set in huge mansions, with posh people helping themselves from big silver hotplates on the sideboard, they will certainly have contained Kedgeree.

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.

Peploe tries to make this forgivable with stylish flourishes not often seen in today's costume dramas.

Starz, though, knows the formula for these costume - heavy action dramas from experience with shows like «Spartacus» and «Camelot.»

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.

Interspersed with these are green - tinted installments of a science - fiction side - story inspired by Flash Gordon (one iteration of which includes an apparent Star Wars parody — the Flash Gordon serials were among Ruiz's childhood favorites); a Columbo - inspired detective story set at a country manor; a black - and - white romantic costume drama; a touch of musical comedy; and a Western - style shootout inside the movie theater.

It doesn't take an important life and reduce it to domestic crisis and costume drama («A Man for All Seasons») or pop simplification («The Agony and the Ecstasy»), but deals with it on the planes that made it important.

More important, however, is «Agent Carter's» ability to mash up comic book culture with the costume drama.

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.

What they do with costume dramas is incredible.

The best men to make costume dramas seem to be Ishmael Merchant and James Ivory, the fellows that brought us Room with a View, Howard's End, and Remains of the Day.

«Ran» is a heroic saga of human destiny, a war movie with some of the greatest battle scenes in the history of the cinema, a costume drama of the utmost magnificence — and a crackling good samurai movie chock full of swordplay and palace intrigue.

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.

Throw in a jealous wife (Antje Thiele) and an ambitious father - in - law (David Thewlis) with designs on the throne, and you've got all the fixins for a convoluted, costume drama of, dare I say it, Shakespearean proportions.

Set in the early days of New England, The Witch is horror by way of costume drama; a decadent period piece with all the accompanying frills accented by true, serpentine terror.

It is a costume drama, a genre long associated with restraint and composure.

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.

The studio had been around since the twenties but found sudden popularity with the potboiler costume drama.

Full of terrific performances and stellar sets and costumes, Mrs. Henderson Presents is an eye - catching and pleasant comic drama, with musical leanings, that may not leave a lasting impression, but it is amiable enough in nature to please most audiences.

* James Ivory, who has competed three times in the directing category for his literary costume dramas «A Room With a View,» «Howards End» and «The Remains of the Day,» is officially the oldest Oscar winner ever at age 89 after winning Best Adapted Screenplay for the love story «Call Me by Your Name.»

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).

It's that fervor — along with the restraint inherent in costume dramas — that makes him a picture - perfect fit for the ornate medley of blood and lust that is «Crimson Peak.»

An urban, down low relationship forged in equal parts tenderness and violent self - hatred receives a contrastingly refined, classical chamber treatment from Nicholas Britell, who last dealt with race in the somberly effective «Free State of Jones,» Upon hearing the refined strains of «Moonlight,» you might mistakenly think you're listening to a costume drama, the kind of music that accompanies emotionally constricted aristocrat.

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

with long delayed costume drama Tulip Fever in which she dumps Christoph Waltz for Dane DeHaan because who wouldn't.

The son of the great Timothy Spall, Rafe's been working consistently for a decade, across an impressive range of genres, tackling TV costume drama in «Wide Sargasso Sea» and «A Room With A View,» and giving impressive dramatic turns in Playlist favorite «The Scouting Book For Boys» and «He Kills Coppers.»

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

It's his fourth nomination in a rich career that extends way back to the late 1950s though he's best know for the popular costume dramas he made in the 1980s and 1990s with his producer and life partner, the late Ismail Merchant (1936 - 2005).

Also, whilst driving to Kirkby Lonsdale («Hipping Hall»), Coogan mentioned his desire «to do a costume drama in these hills, just leaping, vaulting over dry stone walls with a scabbard.

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.

Davies toys with things ranging from documentary editing to startlingly intimate close ups all to create a costume drama unlike any we've seen in quite some time.

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.

Now, finally, another Thompson costume drama comes to the screen, this time with characters taken from history.

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

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.

as costume dramas really messes with my predicting metric here.

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

Lee's celebrated improvisation - based working methods pay off in «Mr. Turner» with a costume drama of unusual, lived - in texture.

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.