Sentences with phrase «historical costume drama»

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.

Audiences looking for a French historical costume drama should look elsewhere, but those who enjoy...

It has the added bonus of being a magical historical costume drama - set in 1920s New York City.

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It's the kind of costume drama that BAFTA usually eats up, about an important historical event, and an excellent film to boot, except of course, it's about a black woman, and directed by a black woman, so why would it be nominated?

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.

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).

Hell, it's a point I've made multiple times over the years, and since Harris includes in the latter category the sort of costume dramas and comparatively straightforward historical narratives that more or less dominated the upper ranks of Slant's top 25 films of the year — namely A Quiet Passion, Phantom Thread, and The Lost City of Z — we self - servingly agree.

Instead of settling for being a pleasant, diversionary costume drama, the series uses the personal life of its historical queen to explore more modern - day issues of gender and politics.

Supported by powerful, but understated, costume and production designs, the historical romance drama authentically showed the effects of what happens when people rule by emotion, instead of political motivations.

Always a bit partial to films based on a true story, I would have to label this as a fictionalized historical period piece, and a step above most costume dramas (though the costumes here are quite stunning).

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.

i do believe that DA is a beautifully crafted drama with exceptional acting, gorgeous costuming, historical relevance, and intelligent / witty dialog.