Sentences with phrase «most costume dramas»

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).

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Now it's the 21st century and most viewers of these costume dramas will assume this particular headache is a thing of the past.

A period drama, or «PD» (Press Darling), on this occasion set primarily in the 1930s, remains the most popular genre for costume coverage in mainstream media.

Full of terrific performances and stellar sets and costumes, Mrs. Henderson Presents is an eye - catching and pleasant comic drama, with musical leanings, that may not leave a lasting impression, but it is amiable enough in nature to please most audiences.

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.

The strangest and most uncompromising of all musician biopics, Jean - Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet's 1968 debut feature, The Chronicle Of Anna Magdalena Bach disregards most conventions of costume drama to ask some very human questions about history, what it takes to be an artist, and what movies can tell us about ourselves.

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.

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.

Poldark: Series 1 (Acorn), the 1975 British costume drama based on the novels of Winston Graham, arrived on American shores via «Masterpiece Theatre» in 1977 and immediately became one of the most popular British TV imports of its era.

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 solar eclipse mirror ball, giant cuddly toys and an experimental 16th - century costume drama filmed on the banks of the river Tamar will all feature in new commissions celebrating 70 years of one of the UK's most important public art collections.