Sentences with phrase «costume dramas in»

It's the lustiest costume drama in years.

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.

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.»

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.

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.

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

If the makers of Downton Abbey want to capitalize on the popularity of costume dramas, they might look for their next Lady Mary in Mary Shelley, the author of Frankenstein.

Although offered many roles in Hollywood, he preferred to work in Europe on the sort of glitzy costume dramas that highlighted his attention - grabbing physique.

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.

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

The Knick isn't simply a lush costume drama, a gory medical history, or a lesson in social studies.

The line between truth and illusion is blurred so persuasively that for a moment or two, you may even believe that a romantic costume drama could stand up to all those special - effects blockbusters in the dog days of summer.

He jokingly terms his first journey into this world «the Trainspotting version of the English costume drama»; in which case this could be his Sunshine - more ambitious, more complex but perhaps a little muddied.

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

He played future British Prime Minister Charles Grey and Keira Knightley's lover in the costume - drama The Dutchess (2008), followed by a supporting role in the Oscar - nominated An Education (2009), for which he shared a Screen Actor's Guild nomination for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture.

Bruce really wanted this to be real life that was happening in present day, so that it wouldn't alienate the audience and so that it wouldn't feel like a costume drama.

Positioning its elements on a glitzy stage to boot, the image promises precisely what the trailer does in all those shots of swirling sparks and beating fans: a slick and swoony costume drama of almost goofy proportions.

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

At first blush a decorous literary costume drama, Campion's account of the love affair between John Keats and Fanny Brawne offers us total immersion in a world that's both familiar and fascinating, intimate and infinitely strange.

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

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.

Darkest Hour does have its flaws, mostly in that it arrives on the back of so many other haughty, costume - heavy WWII dramas before it.

In recent years, her works have been hot property for costume dramas.

James McAvoy — Skillfully avoiding the fate of many a British male export, eternity in period costume drama hell, McAvoy built on his devastating turn in 2007's Attonement by showcasing another side to his game starring opposite Angelina Jolie's lips in the gloriously silly assassin saga Wanted.

«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.

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.

I hope I don't sound illiberal in admonishing Mankiewicz for attempting, like so many of his peers had, a costume drama, but it's only in artists» minds that we demand range and versatility from them.

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.»

Known for long elaborate takes, lush imagery, and eye for lighting, his work in Karenina shows that he's the real deal when it comes to photographing costume dramas.

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.

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.

Matthias Schoenaerts has not been unduly stretched since his previous detached lead role in Alan Rickman's recent costume drama, A Little Chaos, and again appears reluctant to navigate his character beyond specific emotional boundaries, but does inject just enough pathos into Gabriel Oak to consider him a plausible suitor for the headstrong but fragile Bathsheba.

You do see some overlap between the NBR awards and the Oscars, of course — the awards in 1980 and 1982, to name but two years, were pretty close to those of the Academy, and the Board gave their award for Best Picture of 1989, the year of «Do the Right Thing,» to «Driving Miss Daisy,» for crying out loud; like the Oscars, they have a weakness for White Elephant - type biopics and costume dramas — but there are more years when the winners (not the nominees!)

Amazon Prime gets the new costume drama The Collection which already premiered in the UK and another series Patriot premiering at the Berlin Film Festival, but Netflix has the new original series Santa Clarita Diet, three premiere movies and a major Valentine's Day special for streamers this month.

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

I can't imagine Jean - Marc Vallee's sleepy costume drama cornering the British vote, given its tepid UK reception way back in March, so what does Hammond know that we don't?

William Oldroyd's costume drama has a truly killer line in corsets, while Lone Scherfig offers a very different take on Dunkirk

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.

The difference about A Promise is that this is a costume drama set in a rigidly hierarchical society.

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.

It's quite a transformation from her roles in romantic comedies and costume dramas.

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.

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.

Filmmaking legend Roberto Rossellini brings his passion for realism and unerring eye for the everyday to this portrait of the early years of the reign of France's «Sun King,» and in the process reinvents the costume drama.

«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

Not your father's costume drama (unless it's the one hidden in his sock drawer)-- refreshingly subversive and calmly twisted, The Handmaiden wraps you up in its tentacles until you squeal in delight.