Sentences with phrase «from costume dramas»

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

From costume dramas to beloved sitcoms, from murder mysteries to musical comedies, there's something here for everyone who loves watching TV's best couples.

From costume dramas to beloved sitcoms, from murder mysteries to musical comedies, there's something here for everyone.

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].

A super-concentrated packet whose features have the precision of an X-Acto knife, Natalie Portman literally and figuratively blasted out of the box as a pubescent punkette assassin in The Professional (1994) and hasn't taken a breather since, working with the top stratum of directors in a carousel of genres ranging from costume drama (The Other Boleyn Girl) to space opera (the Star Wars prequel trilogy), to mirror - splintering psychodrama (Black Swan, for which she won the Academy Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role).

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.

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

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.

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.

The second episode airs tomorrow night, but we have an exclusive clip, courtesy of Starz, from the episode for you now, because... c'm on, lady - centric history, Queens, costume drama.

A costume drama starring Song Kang - ho from The Attorney as the face reader himself, its protagonist's fate and that of everyone around him is sealed when he gets drawn into the intrigues of the Joseon Dynasty court.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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).»

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.

On paper, the costume drama The Duchess couldn't be any more different from British director Saul Dibb's previous cinematic outing, the urban gun - crime drama Bullet Boy.

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.

Paul Thomas Anderson's latest is a departure from his recent sprawling epics of American history and psychosis (There Will be Blood, The Master, Inherent Vice) and a return to the oddball romance of Punch - Drunk Love, albeit in disguise as a tasteful costume drama.

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

Even if I did not particularly learn anything from it, I was completely engrossed by Elizabeth, which not only makes the traditionally stuffy and aloof British costume drama accessible, but entertaining and exciting as well.

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.

The inspiration for director Amma Asante's fascinating period costumed drama, Belle, came from quite an unusual place — in Scone Palace at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland, there hangs a painting of two young women from the 18th century.

As expected from a BBC Films costume drama, the production design is exquisite, with faultless, lavish production values.

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.

A new batch of photos have been unearthed from the set, which offer a glimpse at the costumes used in this drama, set in the early 1950s after World War II.

She is the recipient of an Academy of American Poets award and grants from The Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation and The Lojo Foundation.Her husband is a costume designer, filmmaker, and tenured drama professor.

South Philadelphia's vibrant pre-Cinco de Mayo procession El Carnaval de Puebla showcases folk traditions from the Mexican state (which is the home of many Philadelphians) through a colorful parade and street fair featuring dancers in ornate costumes and oversized masks representing historical figures and folk dramas.