Sentences with phrase «of period pieces like»

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.

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.

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What I said earlier about Maritain is true to a lesser extent of Pacelli: Some of these speeches read like period pieces, more so than the work of earlier and later popes.

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.

«Usually something like this gets assembled over a period of time, maybe by different groups, and then there's one last piece that links them together.

It's so easy to get stuck in a rut and dress the same pieces and style them in the same ways for a long period of time but that becomes so uninspiring after a while and you feel like you could totally benefit from trying something else and «out of your comfort zone».

I'd like to cultivate a more suitable everyday sort of style, which definitely nods to the vintage style, but also doesn't need to necessarily look like a period piece.

Lovers of Downton Abbey will like this one: Like Downton, it proves that a good period piece doesn't need gratuitous violence or sex to be compelllike this one: Like Downton, it proves that a good period piece doesn't need gratuitous violence or sex to be compellLike Downton, it proves that a good period piece doesn't need gratuitous violence or sex to be compelling.

Aside from the occasional piece of media like the (highly recommended) Dallas Buyers Club, this is not a period of time or a crisis that is frequently visited in popular media, and this seems to be leading to a knowledge gap that is gradually expanding over the years.

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.

Previously he'd directed a series of James Bond - like spoofs called OSS: 117, and his 2014 Cannes bow was a misguided, miserable political period piece called The Search.

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».

Like I said above, it's a period piece, but it's got all the hallmarks of being made during the 1970s.

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 mirror.

Just like its source material, Red Dead Redemption would be a turn of the century period piece, with an ear for turn of the century idioms and an eye for historical detail and brutal frontier violence.

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.

From costumes to sets, the art direction is equally up to the task of making it look like a genuine period piece.

I will say though, that the book is extremely girly, and this movie looks like a major period - piece (not time period), yet it's all done by a bunch of males which is weird.

His recent pictures, including the 1950s psychodrama «The Master» and the»70s noir «Inherent Vice,» feel less like stylized period pieces than weird, indelible relics of their respective eras — impeccably crafted, rich in mystery and deeply attuned to their characters» turbulent inner states.

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.

Though this is exactly the type of project that Carell has been actively seeking lately (one that allows him to flex both his comedic and dramatic muscles), it's surprising to see someone like Knightley stray so far from her comfort zone of bleak dramas and stuffy period pieces.

And the recent Supreme Court decision didn't make the film feel like a musty period piece — instead, it seemed to add resonance and immediacy, turning a small victory in one community into the harbinger of greater things to come.

Goya's Ghosts (2006) Mixing elements of historic fact with fiction, the easiest explanation for Bardem's wig - like mess in this Milos Forman film is that it's a period piece set in the late 18th - century.

Even a departure like his underrated 2000 period piece Esther Kahn seemed perversely idiosyncratic and confrontational, what with its deliberately blank lead performance by Summer Phoenix and its plain, unburnished images of Victorian England.

I thought the entire cast was perfect as the casting director was wise to get experienced fantasy and period piece actors from famous shows like Game of Thrones, Downton Abbey, and The Borgias to give the characters a certain flair.

Director Armando Iannucci opens The Death of Stalin like a typical period piece, with some calming piano music, a concert hall, and a group of attentive audience members.

And coming so close on the heels of Terence Davies's A Quiet Passion and Whit Stillman's Love & Friendship, two films that revivify the period piece and prioritize the interpretive freedom of page - to - screen adaptation, the dour A Woman's Life looks like exactly that — hidebound even in its unorthodoxies.

It's also a flawlessly executed period piece that feels like a prequel to the 1976 film All the President's Men — part of a United States government's shared cinematic universe of coverups, conspiracies, and corruption.

The twice Oscar - nominated costume designer, known for her work on historical period pieces like Malcolm X, Amistad, Selma, and The Butler, ventured into the high - tech world of Wakanda to create costumes that looked to the future but were rooted in real history.

Amma Assante («Belle») directs this epic period piece that sounds like one of the more ambitious films at TIFF 2016.

Films that display a lot of costumes, period costumes, with large scenes like ballrooms and gowns, they tend to be recognized even though it might not be harder to make five big ball gowns than a modern piece.

But more surprising was costume designer Jenny Beavan's triumph in over dual nominee Sandy Powell and the production design win for Colin Gibson and Lisa Thompson, as many expected the Academy to go with a more traditional period piece like «The Danish Girl» or «Bridge of Spies.»

Set on the cusp of Steinem feminism, circa the 1968 elections (more or less because that's when co-scenarist Robert Towne began writing the screenplay, and wouldn't it be great if more films became incidental period pieces like that?)

The second season of Fargo (which, as every summary of the show must mention, is not a remake of the Coen brothers movie) is a «70s period piece that's every bit the equal of its fantastic (and unrelated) first season, with actors like Jesse Plemons, Ted Danson, Patrick Wilson and Jean Smart doing some of their best dark comedy work as small - town Midwestern crooks and cops.

Knightley isn't as charming as she was in the first film, and Bloom, who has proven himself effective in period pieces such as this, still can't act his way out of a paper bag, even alongside co-stars like Depp.

High praise is also due to the production design, costumes, and score, all of which help to make a potentially silly genre mash - up feel like a fancy «arthouse» - type period piece.

He clearly knows what he's doing being no stranger to brilliant period pieces, like the 1996 line - for - line adaptation of Shakespeare's «Hamlet» and, most recently, special effects action flicks, «Thor» (2011) and «Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit» (2013).

Having influenced many of todays cop films, The French Connection remains a relevant and compelling story and with this new blu - ray transfer, it looks more like a period piece rather than a 38 - year - old movie.

I was becoming resigned to the fact that these documents would look in hindsight like period pieces from the bygone era of urban Catholic schooling.

Our reviewer writes, «Along with his pointed cultural critique are stark, electrifying pieces like «Ode to a Drone» and inventive, playful poems like his celebratory ode to grammar in the sly «His Love of Semicolons» («The comma is comely, the period, peerless, / but stack them one atop / the other, and I am in love»).

The visual introduction involves using a physical barrier, such as a baby gate, and a visual barrier like a blanket or large piece of cardboard that is lifted for brief periods.

Just as with the Hotel Maria Cristina, the Le Méridien Vienna has married contemporary decor with a few period - style pieces — like the free - standing Victorian - style tub found in most of the rooms — but style hasn't given way to substance.

While an important piece of history for the time period, these collectibles (sometimes found in curiously strange areas like a mission concerning the freeing of sex slaves) these often fall into the trap of breaking links with the message the game's writing is trying to convey.

Armchair artistry aside though — the sense of time and place is conveyed well with intricate drawings of period set pieces like digital watches, sports jackets and flickering analogue TV screens.

Spanning a wide range of periods and styles, the Post-War and Contemporary Art Day Auction offers superb work from 20th century icons to exciting new names, with outstanding pieces from the likes of Sigmar Polke, Howard Hodgkin, Jean Dubuffet and Martin Kippenberger.

Andre's first major exhibition in Britain for over 10 years, it features eight sculptures made between 1967 and 1983, as well as some of his typed - out poems from the same period (their words are arranged to form bold patterns on the page, almost like little pieces of sculpture).

If they were, Jackson Pollock's Lavender Mist would today look like a period piece, illuminating the quirks of 1950s America but quite odd and silly from our point of view.

First up, there are the Impressionist and Modern art sales at Christie's and Sotheby's, where a dwindling store of truly first - rate period works on the open market mean that even minor pieces can command stellar sums, like a small Cézanne watercolor of almost palpably rendered apples that's expected to fetch as much as $ 600,000 at Sotheby's.

Known for hosting exhibitions of artists like Henrietta Harris, Nick Gentry and David Walker, Robert Fontaine Gallery represents a platform for both established and emerging artists, whose pieces range from Post-War period to today.

There are also older pieces like a Christ figure from the Renaissance period as well as a print of Albrecht Dürer's «Melancholia,» depicting a woman with her head in her hands, plagued by her own thoughts.