Sentences with phrase «of a period piece as»

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

«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.»

Not exact matches

Written over a 17 - year period, the lengthy piece describes Tennyson's struggle with doubt, brought on by the death of a close friend as well as discoveries concerning evolution and science.

The millennium, or a period of 1,000 years, can thus be seen as a convenient way of delineating a substantial piece of time.

The great watershed in ministerial education is the period of the Enlightenment, or, in America, the Revolutionary epoch (roughly 1775 - 1800).91 Before that time learning as such was all of a piece.

Klopp views managing as a puzzle, piecing the team together patiently over a long period of time.

As it turned out, for reasons beyond the scope of this piece, Ancelotti's era at Milan was marked as a period of European spectacles for Milan, both of the right and wrong kind and a shameful negligence of the domestic fronAs it turned out, for reasons beyond the scope of this piece, Ancelotti's era at Milan was marked as a period of European spectacles for Milan, both of the right and wrong kind and a shameful negligence of the domestic fronas a period of European spectacles for Milan, both of the right and wrong kind and a shameful negligence of the domestic front.

Xavi Hernandez spent over 15 years performing for Barcelona and the Spanish midfielder managed to collect 28 titles during this period of time but the veteran player is still hungry for more as he wants to continue securing more pieces of silverware and this is what he is planning to accomplish in his new club, Al Sadd.

Xavi Hernandez spent over 15 years performing for Barcelona and the Spanish midfielder managed to collect 28 titles during this period of time but the veteran player is still hungry for more as he wants to continue securing more pieces of silverware and this is what he is planning to accomplish in his new club, -LSB-...]

Don Denham has made many of these arguments over a long period, such as in his Prospect piece «The Fairness Code» in June 2004, which he references, and last summer in response to the Fabian / JRF attitudes research.

Subsequently bits and pieces swirl into the black hole and thus produce huge flares of radiation that can be as luminous as all the rest of the stars in the host galaxy for a period of a few months to a year.

During this period, known as the Middle Stone Age, humans developed the first symbolic art, like engraved pieces of red ochre and ostrich eggshell containers.

Rosenberg explained that most historians describe the thinking style of the period as «reductionist»: People started looking at smaller and smaller pieces of problems.

«In the 19th and earlier 20th century excavation of caves such as at Creswell Crags and Cheddar Gorge provided the first evidence for the archaeology of this period but open air sites were missing pieces of the jigsaw.

«Our observations provide a crucial piece of evidence to support that suspicion, as they directly reveal the intensity of ice melting at the bottom of the glaciers during that period,» Khazendar said.

The other significant change over that period was the use of the revers in the construction of the lapel, as the Victorians used elaborate three - part patterns to cut a fold of cloth from the lining into the front of the lapel, a universal consideration of frock coats and dress coats of the period, but abandoned in favor of the current single - piece lapels at the same time as the switch to morning coats and lounge suits.

After a lackluster period piece («Gangs of New York») and an uneven biopic («The Aviator»), director Martin Scorsese returns to familiar territory: the world of organized crime and the men and women who fall under its influence, either as willing participants or bitter antagonists.

As alluded to earlier, lovers of costume period pieces will enjoy this more than most, while fans of Wilde will probably find it an interesting rendering of his play, even if it isn't of the quality that suggests Academy Award nominations are in order.

As a follow - up to his Oscar ® - winning The King's Speech, he could have played it safe and done another smart, funny period piece or a family drama — or any number of equally small independent films.

Inevitably, some of the facts become redundant after all the other materials, but I like the inclusion of additional interview subjects / perspectives, and the inclusion of period footage contributes to the piece as well.

A period piece spin on Glee, as filtered through the gauzy lens of underclass - artistic - exuberance that's plagued a subset of comedic - leaning British imports ever since Billy Elliot.

A beautiful but stolid, screamingly boring period piece with acting so wooden as to invite unfavorable comparison to a collection of popsicle sticks.

A period piece, of course, the film starts out in the mid to late 1940's, as America was finally done with the second World War and Hollywood was booming.

A piece of ham - handed kitsch at its most asinine, The Lovers, not in any way to be confused with Louis Malle's film by the same title, is a shamelessly derivative and preposterous would - be blockbuster that goofily fashions itself as a sweeping romance, time - travel sci - fi tale, and gallant period piece all at once.

Post - «Richard,» Reynor picked up parts in films as diverse as the American version of «Delivery Man,» Julian Jarrold's crowdpleasing period piece «A Royal Night Out,» Justin Kurzel's «Macbeth» and, oh yeah, a little film called «Transformers: Age of Extinction.»

Despite the film not seeming to be a period piece, the merits of Xbox's Kinect are spoken about early on and the Nintendo Wii is offered as an alternative.

As if on cue, a swell of new oaters has tumbled into view this year to prove as much, and each of them in their own way plays less like a period piece than it does a mirroAs if on cue, a swell of new oaters has tumbled into view this year to prove as much, and each of them in their own way plays less like a period piece than it does a mirroas much, and each of them in their own way plays less like a period piece than it does a mirror.

Watching a period piece starring a selection of character actors from Ireland and the United Kingdom, each of them clad in bulky, largely indistinguishable winter garb and sporting various combinations of facial hair and cold - chapped cheeks, is as close as many of us will ever get to experiencing face blindness.

If you read it from a pomo perspective as an artifact of a certain period, then that can only help the intellectual impact of the piece, but if you're looking for an immersive experience, you might have a tougher time with this quality of presentation.

Junge, detained in Russia for a period at the end of World War II before finding work as a magazine editor, treats the unseen Heller like a priest; one might say that her regret drives the piece, resulting in not a lurid film about Hitler (which has disappointed those critics out for something pulpier), but a deathbed confession.

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.

This is a period piece centering around a rugged western hero who decides to prove himself by being the first westerner to enter into a gruelling desert horse race in the Middle East, hoping ot prove that his American horse Hidalgo is just as good if not better than any of the Arabian horses he's up against.

Suggesting a period piece version of a film noir saga as envisioned by Stanley Kubrick, this twisted feminist drama is rooted in contentious racial - and gender - warfare issues, employing a meticulous formalism to recount its cutthroat story about Katherine's at - any - cost attempts to attain liberation.

There was certainly a sense of exploration and discovery in Picnic at Hanging Rock, just as there was in the other revisionist - history period piece that would make a great double feature with this movie: Kelly Reichardt's Western: Meek's Cutoff.

Somewhat reductively, it's a Rushmore for our times — even contemporaneous with that film given it's technically a period piece — a coming - of - age story where overcoming pretention and forced mannerisms is as important to growth as learning self - confidence and kindness.

They don't need to be period pieces or intimate dramas (although that won't hurt), but they have to be in films that hit creative peaks such as «Room» or «The Revenant» («Beasts of No Nation» should have been one of those films, but more on that in a minute).

The period piece has been described as being in the style of David Fincher's Seven and James Watkins» The Woman In Black.

Another period piece is Joe Wright's «Darkest Hour,» with Gary Oldman as Winston Churchill at the beginning of his time as Prime Minister — interesting to see right now in light of John Lithgow's recent Golden - Globe - nominated and Emmy - winning star turn as a much older (and taller!)

Allonsanfàn Paolo Taviani & Vittorio Taviani, Italy, 1974, 35 mm, 111m Italian with English subtitles In this dreamlike, 19th - century - set period piece, Mastroianni stars as Fulvio, an aging political revolutionary of noble birth who begins questioning his commitment to the cause.

Obviously, this is not a film for everyone, as there is a large segment of society who have little tolerance for Shakespeare, or even costumed period pieces in general.

Cinderella was re-envisioned as a lavish period piece by director Kenneth Branagh; The Jungle Book was brought to life by jaw - dropping visual effects courtesy of director Jon Favreau; Pete's Dragon got a humanistic update via filmmaker David Lowery; and Beauty and the Beast is a mega-hit, grossing over $ 1 billion at the box office.

But his body of work runs the gamut from epic period pieces (Berlin Alexanderplatz, the BRD Trilogy) to dystopic science fiction (World on a Wire) as well.

There were some notable moments — another great speech from Viola Davis, Diego Luna choosing to speak in Spanish while presenting — but before Streep's speech, it looked as though the night would belong to La La Land and The Crown, a comforting period piece about the nobility of the hereditarily privileged.

But Captain Marvel's nature as a period piece is set to rectify the situation, fittingly bringing Coulson and Clark Gregg, who's advocated for women in the MCU, back over to the movie side of things.

A friend of mine, a fellow journalist, referred to this as a period piece, and I totally agree.

This isn't a total surprise as «Moonrise Kingdom» had a bare minimum of pop songs (some Hank Williams can be heard briefly on the car radio) and as this is a»30s set period piece, it makes sense to move further away from anachronistic pop.

Happy to be there: The 1970's counts nowadays as a «period piece,» so the gonzo fashions of «Inherent Vice» got a nomination.

Period pieces regarding the subjugation of women's agency (from Brize's A Woman's Life to Planetarium to Davies» take on Emily Dickinson featuring a career best Cynthia Nixon to the dueling personas played by Mary J. Blige and Carey Mulligan in the 40s set Mudbound) as well as the repression of sexuality in the past (BPM) and present (The Wound; The Untamed; A Fantastic Woman) makes for a rather distressing but altogether worthwhile crop of titles from the past year.

Dead Man (1995) With «Dead Man,» his first period piece, Jim Jarmusch imagined the 19th - century American West as an existential wasteland, delivering a surreal reckoning with the ravages of industrialization, the country's legacy of violence and prejudice, and the natural cycle of life and death.

The six all - powerful stones (originally known as gems in the Marvel comics) have popped up in nine of the franchise's fourteen films, movies ranging in scope and tone from the World War II period piece «Captain America: The First Avenger» to the outer space adventure film «Guardians of the Galaxy.»