Sentences with phrase «costume dramas like»

The Golden Globes love awarding high - brow soaps like The Affair and two - time winner Homeland, as well as meticulously accurate costume dramas like Boardwalk Empire and three - time winner Mad Men.

Star of the titular role, Rupert Friend's previous performances have included charming gentlemen in costume dramas like The Young Victoria (2009) and Pride and Prejudice (2005), though he is probably best - known for his role as Quinn, a professional assassin in Showtime series Homeland (2011 --RRB-.

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.

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

And anyway, I'd rather have real trash than phony costume drama like The Current War (Grade: C --RRB-.

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.

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Look at her adaptation of Vanity Fair again, and notice how the costume design and art direction is as frilly and lovely as any costume drama, but she likes to show how the clothes get dirty and the cuffs grow frayed.

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

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.

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

Like any respectable period drama, Brideshead boasts striking scenery, pleasing photography, and chipper costumes.

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.

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.

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!)

Like Butterfly Kiss, it includes moments of visual shock which are a far cry from the conventions of British costume drama.

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.

Leigh may sound like a peculiar casting choice for a costume drama, but her trademark mannerisms and mumbly elocution are a perfect fit for the insecure, awkward Catherine.

And for all his comments about specific actions, line readings, and so on made by the actors, he sheds no light on how he arrived at such offbeat casting choices; after all, the likes of Anderson, Dan Aykroyd, Anthony LaPaglia, and Eric Stoltz aren't exactly the names that immediately come to mind for a costume drama.

Nostalgists lament the demise of single plays like Ken Loach's Cathy Come Home or Mike Leigh's Abigail's Party, but drama series like The Jewel in the Crown, Edge of Darkness, Our Friends in the North, State of Play, the original Upstairs Downstairs or Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy will surely loom larger in history's rear - view mirror, while perhaps Julian Fellowes» surprise hit, Downton Abbey, heralds a new wave of the classic British costume drama.

It might not sound like your typical costume drama, but Thomas Hardy's tale is a surprisingly contemporary tale, following Miss Everdene (her surname inspiring The Hunger Games» heroine), as she inherits her father's estate, only to find herself the target of three suitors.

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.

Jane Eyre - Sure, it looks like yet another British period costume drama, but the story and its adaptation are solid enough.

It's a costume drama that feels like the world's darkest, dour - est, most inappropriate thriller serial, placing a series of increasingly complicated and unpleasant revenge - scenarios in chronological order and reminding of, if anything, just how bad Nolan's Memento makes you feel.

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.

It may draw in costume - drama loving audiences that like dance numbers and theatrical stage productions.

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.

Kline and Martin both wear the costumes and try the bad French accents, but it's like the high school production of something you saw at Steppenwolf, with the most gifted students in drama class playing the John Malkovich and Joan Allen roles.

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.»

This costume drama proves compelling enough, primarily because nobody knew such a scenario could possibly have unfolded in a Southern state like Mississippi supposedly marked by segregation and intolerance.

The Grimbles» Last Game - a sketch for teenage drama students Great to explore ensemble cast work with a number of speaking roles Mask work and «games» are included Physical theatre Challenging and creative A dark, surreal and comic tale For the PERILOUS TALES collection of surreal and slightly dark cautionary tales by Offbeat Theatre's Barbara Hockley An excellent opportunity to use bizarre costumes and masks A dance number is required at the end - anything you like... Dark, surreal and completely off the wall Ed and Molly Grimble play computer games all the time - in fact, they do little else.

Assigns the tasks of teaching various elements of drama like play writing, play direction, stage makeup, stage craft and costume craft