Sentences with phrase «in a period piece»

Everything feels authentic and somewhat vibrant, which does not always happen in these period pieces.

«Aside from the obvious case of demons impersonating movie stars, are any of the characters in your period pieces based on actual people?

The 28 - year - old actress, who married Klaxons frontman James Righton in France in May, was last seen in period piece Anna Karenina.

This will be a rather challenging role for Redmayne who has earned his chops in period pieces such as THE OTHER BOLEYN GIRL and television mini-series THE PILLARS OF THE EARTH and TESS OF THE D'URBERVILLES.

Chastain starred in the period piece crime drama Lawless in 2012 and the romantic drama art - house trilogy The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby in 2013, both of which were distributed by The Weinstein Company.

Serena will be Jennifer Lawrence and Bradley Cooper's third outing together in a period piece focused around a timber magnate (Cooper) and the complications that arise when it is learned that his wife, Serena (Lawrence), can not bear children.

Keira Knightley is best known for playing dynamic females in period pieces, it shall be interesting to see her take on playing a perpetual adolescent who lies to her fiancee about going on a retreat and instead spends the time hanging out with her friends instead.

Fox Searchlight has debuted a second trailer for the new romantic thriller My Cousin Rachel, starring Rachel Weisz in a period piece based on Daphne Du Maurier's novel of the same name.

I can see her in a daft sexy comedy alongside someone like Tom Hanks but just not in a period piece like this.

But when dealing with race, and, in conjunction, racism, in a period piece no less, what place does subtlety have exactly?

Alcohol / Drug Use: Characters smoke frequently in this period piece.

You know how in every period piece these days there's that CGI shot of the city in ye olde times, with mud streets and famous buildings under construction and smoke rising from chimneys and old fashioned carriages and steam boats on the river?

She achieves that most important goal for actors in a period piece, and even all of film acting for that matter: she makes us forget about Cate Blanchett.

Can we have nothing but Hayley Atwell in period pieces from now on, though?

Trading blue and red tights for a leather jumpsuit, Reeve plays an emotionally and physically wounded pilot for the burgeoning air mail industry in this period piece, which pairs the star with Rosanna Arquette for maximum discomfort.

«Love and Friendship» Lowdown: Whit Stillman takes on Jane Austin in this period piece starring Kate Beckinsale, Chloë Sevigny, Xavier Samuel and Stephen Fry.

If, on the other hand, you enjoy a Tarantino - scripted conversation or two or five — particularly in a period piece where the characters can't make references to movies or TV shows — «The Hateful Eight» may well engage you as a darkly funny locked - door mystery that's in no hurry to show its hand.

The notion of Keri Russell, still fixed in the minds of so many as the namesake star of small screen college drama «Felicity,» playing a deep - cover Russian operative in a period piece spy drama like «The Americans» always seemed like something of a stretch.

As fun as they are, Dave Franco and Aubrey Plaza suffer from what I call «The Mila Kunis Effect» where his California cackle and modern looks and her New York cadence just don't play convincingly in a period piece.

Smoking and alcohol use are frequently depicted in this period piece.

The Man Who Invented Christmas (Nov. 22): Bharat Nalluri directs Dan Stevens as Charles Dickens in this period piece.

Around midway through, it suddenly becomes a horror movie, and then a shockingly violent death is played as if it's a dreamy passing of tuberculosis in a period piece.

Upon his arrival to L.A. and his work with Tarantino, he's Joey in «No Way Home,» the prisoner Charles Ferry in «Everyone Says I Love You,» Dutch Schultz in «Hoodlum,» and the lead in the period piece «The Legend of 1900.»

Breaking Bad's Jesse Plemons actually makes the biggest impression at the onset, his freckled face perfect in the period piece.

Kate Beckinsale and Chloe Sevigny reteam with Stillman, whose skill at witty banter and romantic mores shines as brightly in a period piece as in his contemporary stories

Blake Rayne is the»50s rocker followed into his Elvis - on - the - toilet dotage in this period piece about rock, then and now.

Madame Bovary stars Paul Giamatti, Wzra Miller and Mia Wasikowska in a period piece set in 19th century France where a young woman ends up in a disappointing marriage to a country doctor.

Director and star Alan Rickman appears to favour gloss over grit in this period piece.

«The Seagull,» «On Chesil Beach»: Saoirse Ronan was very good as a Sacramento teenager in «Lady Bird,» but she's better in period pieces such as «Atonement» and «Brooklyn.»

Based on and inspired by but not so much based on or inspired by the highly regarded but little - read The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne, the film dabbles in period piece, insider comedy, and all - around oddity.

Tweet This cape coat with the tulle ruffle peeking out... I look like a character in a period piece.

«We wanted to find new places that you didn't see in every Western, or didn't see in every period piece,» said producer Chris Ohlson on the red carpet before the film.

Actors Benedict Cumberbatch and Toby Jones, who portray Charles» supporters in this film, also star together in another period piece, Amazing Grace, where they find themselves on opposite sides of the debate over England's involvement in the slave trade.

Hayley Atwell's character is much more impressive than anyone would expect from a female in a period piece.

According to the association, film raters consider smoking in this broader context, and they also consider how frequent, glamorized, or historically relevant it is (as in period pieces, for instance).

This cape coat with the tulle ruffle peeking out... I look like a character in a period piece.

Finally, Robert Eggers is the graceful hand pulling the strings, giving us some of the most disturbing set - pieces you'll likely ever see in a period piece, including a possession scene that overcomes cliche and exaggeration and remains in your mind long after it unfolds.

On film, it occasionally manifests itself in period pieces that focus on the encroachment and proliferation of the railroad: its engines (as in King Vidor's Duel in the Sun and Beyond the Forest, or the Hughes Brothers» From Hell) the manifestation of the industrial revolution in terms of hellmouths and serpents — William Blake's «Tyger» burning bright in the forests of a primordial night, all - consuming and inexorable.