Sentences with phrase «of a period piece»

Yes, I've always wanted to do something where you dress up in some sort of period piece and it's set in the 20s.

While the focus is on rare books, it has also become a wonderful showcase for authors of period pieces.

The overall image is colorful but somewhat soft, intended to capture the atmosphere of this period piece.

We get a lot of horror movies and a lot of period pieces, but how about a horror period piece?

That's the hard part of any period piece, put the viewer in the then and there.

The series is published in black and white, rather than color — were you deliberately trying to evoke the feel of a period piece?

«Delightful examples of Donoghue's all - encompassing talent that should be read by fans of her period pieces as well as her gay audience - indeed, by anyone who cherishes thoughtful, warm - hearted fiction.»

Almost as much of a period piece as Topsy - Turvy, Vera Drake likewise suggests that the past is still with us.

It's almost a diner car approach, sort of a period piece about the industrial locomotive era in American history.»

When you think of the name Joe Wright, you think of period pieces like Atonement and Pride & Prejudice — not action flicks that twist fairytale themes into something the Brothers Grimm would approve of.

Due to its World War I setting, Wonder Woman is often as much of a period piece as it is a superhero film.

It's highly reminiscent of the period pieces by directors such as Jarman and Peter Greenaway, that were shown in cinemas back in the 80s.

No, people, this type of film is quite a ways away from being something like «Rock of Ages», but the idea of a period piece about a prominent rock music club is close enough to make the handful of people who know about «CBGB» get the «heebie - jeebies».

It's not as though there was nothing else going on in Australian cinema in the 1970s, but the combination of period piece, eye - catching locations, literary adaptation and coming - of - age theme surely conjures...

A unique cherry blossom of a period piece finds its roots intertwined with an erotically - charged crime, set to shock and entrance viewers unaware of the free - spirited madness to follow.

There's much discussion about how the film is supposedly a game changer, how it's more in tune with the current zeitgeist as opposed to the traditional narrative strengths and linearity of a period piece like The King's Speech.

Even though Furman uses some of the same techniques with less effectiveness in The Infiltrator, he manages to introduce some new stylistic choices that may be staples for this kind of period pieces, but are new to Furman.

Formalist technics can be worked seamlessly into modern films, like the comic book qualities of Edgar Wright's Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World, or they can be sloppy, like every time a current Top 40 hit makes its way into the soundtrack of a period piece.

Director James Gray is today's master of the period piece, mustering sumptuousness with every classically - tinged detail.

Becoming Jane is a gem of a period piece showing how a 1790s British woman, repressed by sexist conventions, became an enduring novelist.

With the theatricality and aggrandising actors required of the topic, Anonymous has all the hallmarks of a period piece.

As portmanteau of period piece and splatter pic, it's good.

Saoirse Ronan helped Josie Rourke introduce the footage of their period piece «Mary Queen of Scots» (December 7).

As that film continues its run across the country, Davies spoke with novelist Steve Erickson about the film, how he creates the textures of a period piece, and his nostalgia for his childhood for an interview just published at the Los Angeles Review of Books.

In Lynn Shelton's «Laggies,» Keira Knightley steps out of her period piece comfort zone with Maggie, a colossally unmotivated and perplexed 28 - year - old who decides to take a week - long hiatus from her fiancé.

One star for the fabulous performances and another star for the rich and gorgeous cinematography of this period piece, but it's a subject matter I don't much care for, and it's very difficult to summon sympathy for one that probably got help to wipe one's own arse.

I enjoyed the opening hour of this period piece drama but things fell away with a peculiar finale that didn't ring true.

Darwins buried at Downe include: Bernard Darwin and his wife Elinor Monsell, who taught her husband's cousin Gwen Raverat, author of Period Piece, engraving; Charles Waring Darwin; Elizabeth Darwin, «Aunt Bessy»; Emma Darwin, Charles Darwin's wife; Erasmus Alvey Darwin; Mary Eleanor Darwin; Henrietta Etty Darwin, later Litchfield, «Aunt Etty».

Q: This film has a lot of «60s music in it and it's sort of a period piece.

If you're a fan of period pieces, vikings, violence, or Mads Mikkelsen, do not miss Valhalla Rising.

Fans of Lerman, fans of period pieces, and fans of powerful filmmaking in general owe it to themselves to see this one.

Hardcore horror this is not, but if you're a fan of period pieces, haunted mansions, and things that go bump in the night, throw this one on your list.