Sentences with phrase «costume dramas»

The cast - list might suggest otherwise, but this utterly forgettable costume drama really is one you should make a point of missing.

Although it features many of the characteristics of the typical period piece, this innovative costume drama is different in its premise.

It should be said that this is an old - fashioned costume drama that has spared no expense.

This could be a case study for when we talk about how there's nothing on at the cinema, it's all the same kind of middle - brow costume drama or whatever.

Each cable TV network apparently needs its own scary costume 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.

«The director Chris Columbus essentially made costume dramas in an effort to be really faithful to the books,» he says.

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

I don't recall Tarantino's camp mounting a fake documentary for the Sci - Fi Channel to drum up interest in a period costume drama with a weak Grimm Fairy Tale concept; I don't recall Tarantino's camp scolding the press to suppress the ending; and I certainly don't recall Tarantino essentially barring non-mainstream press from his screenings.

I recommend watching it if you like costume dramas like «Downton Abbey».

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

Kapur's gift for costume drama epics, displayed most recently in Elizabeth, suffers here for the lack of a Cate Blanchett anchoring the soap melodrama.

Freed from costume dramas, Keira Knightley proves quite adept at playing a modern character.

There is very little that compels us about this vision that is chiefly attributed to screenwriter Jason Fuchs (a contributor to Ice Age: Continental Drift) and director Joe Wright, a Brit who comes to this project having primarily made costume dramas like Atonement, 2012's Anna Karenina, and 2005's Pride & Prejudice.

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.

Saoirse Ronan and Margot Robbie, two actresses at the top of their game right now, are teaming for the lavish historical costume drama Mary Queen of Scots.

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.

Danish director Nikolaj Arcel brings us a sumptuous costume drama relating a remarkably engrossing piece of Denmark's history for his fourth feature, A Royal Affair.

I think that most critics would agree that they made the best costume dramas of the eighties and nineties (though their last film, a non-costume drama named A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries, failed to turn heads).

It transforms stuffy costume drama into strange situationist comedy while delicately knocking an icon of history from his vaunted pedestal.

British actress Carey Mulligan is learning to embrace her role as a leading lady of literary costume drama after signing up for another period piece...

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...

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.

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

Poldark: Series 1 (Acorn), the 1975 British costume drama based on the novels of Winston Graham, arrived on American shores via «Masterpiece Theatre» in 1977 and immediately became one of the most popular British TV imports of its era.

Swedish actor Alicia Vikander makes a splash in two new costume dramas, «A Royal Affair» and «Anna Karenina.»

A classic British memoir gets the full costume drama treatment with this beautifully crafted World...

And then there's Effi Briest, a black - and - white costume drama based on Fontane's great 1894 novel, a tale of a young woman married off to an older man.

Is there any part of you that worries you might get type cast into costume dramas?

From that rich repository of documentaries, docudramas — and of course the ever popular costume drama — wherein names like Ken Burns and Alistair Cooke reign supreme, come two names that, hitherto, might elicit a blank stare even to those of us who warmly remember their shows with great fondness.

She also appeared opposite Rufus Sewell in two episodes of the popular BBC costume drama Charles II: The Power and The Passion, playing the king's French mistress Louise de Kérouaille.

This handsomely mounted costume drama combines elements of The King's Speech and the self - help television show «Dr. Drew» with one of the most notorious episodes in Denmark's past into a captivating package that should appeal to those both inside and outside its borders.

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.

«Turns the heartbreak and bloodshed of Indian partition in 1947 into a lush costume drama full of political intrigue and melodramatic romance in this not - entirely successful mix of Bollywood and Merchant - Ivory conventions» — KT

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.

The Age of Innocence (Criterion, Blu - ray, DVD) The Age of Innocence (1993) is not the only costume drama or historical picture that Martin Scorsese made but it is his only classical literary adaptation from the filmmaker that, all these years later, we still remember for edgy violence and cinematic energy.

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).»

Like most costume dramas, The House of Mirth progresses at a slow pace, but it's difficult to imagine the effect being quite as strong if it were tightened; ultimately, each passing minute equates to another cruel twist of the knife, and the audience can not help but be riveted.

You can feel Joel and Ethan Coen, consummate auteurs, practically laughing aloud at the absurdity of a studio head sticking a cowboy picture star like Hobie Doyle (Alden Ehrenreich) in a tux and shoving him onto the soundstage of a prestigious costume drama helmed by an artiste.

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

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.

Vikander's breakthrough does indeed recall the American actor's multi-pronged screen assault in 2011; the Swedish ingenue was sufficiently dazzled by Chastain in The Tree of Life to see it twice in cinemas — a year before the Oscar - nominated Danish costume drama A Royal Affair, followed in short order by a film - stealing English - language debut as Kitty in Joe Wright's diorama - style Anna Karenina, brought Vikander to the attention of international viewers.

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 The Danish Girl doesn't have much of any non-Alicia Vikander momentum, it's more of a prestige film than Cinderella is.

One of the better costume dramas last year was The Duchess, with Keira Knightley as the put - upon Georgiana Spencer, an 18th - century ancestor of Princess Di.

Based on a true story, director Amma Asante's «Belle» has every element that costume drama fans love, but it elevates a standard love story by adding larger historical implications and giving us a new perspective on the era.

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.