Sentences with phrase «literary costume drama»

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.

* James Ivory, who has competed three times in the directing category for his literary costume dramas «A Room With a View,» «Howards End» and «The Remains of the Day,» is officially the oldest Oscar winner ever at age 89 after winning Best Adapted Screenplay for the love story «Call Me by Your Name.»

Not exact matches

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.

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

The Sundance film festival has sold itself for 40 years as the champion of cutting - edge, radical independent cinema; not a natural habitat for the stiffly costumed and perfectly spoken habits of the literary - inflected costume drama.