Sentences with phrase «on the costume drama»

Rylance added a second for his TV role on the costume drama «Wolf Hall.»

Not exact matches

If you've ever seen any of those costume dramas set in huge mansions, with posh people helping themselves from big silver hotplates on the sideboard, they will certainly have contained Kedgeree.

If the makers of Downton Abbey want to capitalize on the popularity of costume dramas, they might look for their next Lady Mary in Mary Shelley, the author of Frankenstein.

Although offered many roles in Hollywood, he preferred to work in Europe on the sort of glitzy costume dramas that highlighted his attention - grabbing physique.

Starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Rebecca Hall as Sylvia and Christopher Tietjens, BBC2's five - part adaptation has apparently moved Andrew Davies, the so - called king of costume drama, to read the novels that Parade's End is based on.

It doesn't take an important life and reduce it to domestic crisis and costume drama («A Man for All Seasons») or pop simplification («The Agony and the Ecstasy»), but deals with it on the planes that made it important.

Making its American debut Sunday via the PBS series «Masterpiece Mystery,» 201 years after Elizabeth Bennet finally said yes to Mr. Darcy, it's a highly satisfying riff on the original work, as well as a credit to the modern British costume drama.

Positioning its elements on a glitzy stage to boot, the image promises precisely what the trailer does in all those shots of swirling sparks and beating fans: a slick and swoony costume drama of almost goofy proportions.

mmm... a protagonist who complete dominates a long film to the detriment of context and the other players in the story (though the abolitionist, limping senator with the black lover does gets close to stealing the show, and is rather more interesting than the hammily - acted Lincoln); Day - Lewis acts like he's focused on getting an Oscar rather than bringing a human being to life - Lincoln as portrayed is a strangely zombie character, an intelligent, articulate zombie, but still a zombie; I greatly appreciate Spielberg's attempt to deal with political process and I appreciate the lack of «action» but somehow the context is missing and after seeing the film I know some more facts but very little about what makes these politicians tick; and the lighting is way too stylised, beautiful but unremittingly unreal, so the film falls between the stools of docufiction and costume drama, with costume drama winning out; and the second subject of the film - slavery - is almost complete absent (unlike Django Unchained) except as a verbal abstraction

And sure enough, what begins as a clarion call settles into a somewhat familiar period costume drama spiced up now and again with racy sequences nonetheless sobered by the memory of the delirious hedonism of that opening, wherein we get Dracula's backstory as a hero of a holy war, repulsing Muslim invaders in Romania, turning to blasphemy when the vengeful Turks fool his wife Elisabeta (Winona Ryder) into believing that her beloved has died on the battlefield, and gleefully chewing artificial scenery with toothy relish.

Darkest Hour does have its flaws, mostly in that it arrives on the back of so many other haughty, costume - heavy WWII dramas before it.

James McAvoy — Skillfully avoiding the fate of many a British male export, eternity in period costume drama hell, McAvoy built on his devastating turn in 2007's Attonement by showcasing another side to his game starring opposite Angelina Jolie's lips in the gloriously silly assassin saga Wanted.

Upon entering I thought that I could very well be walking into yet another costume drama that takes no time whatsoever to work on an able story (i.e. Valmont), but instead I was treated to a beautifully layered film that is probably the second best I've seen so far this year.

(p. 37) Yet, whereas Daire sees Mauprat as a dynamic, complex, and ostensibly queer studio film (the gender play he notes in the biography), Keller sees the film as a «costume drama [that] lacks almost entirely the vigour described by Epstein about the effects of cinema on an audience.»

The Irish costume designer received her third Oscar nomination this year for her work on period drama Victoria & Abdul starring Dame Judi Dench.

Throw in a jealous wife (Antje Thiele) and an ambitious father - in - law (David Thewlis) with designs on the throne, and you've got all the fixins for a convoluted, costume drama of, dare I say it, Shakespearean proportions.

The second episode airs tomorrow night, but we have an exclusive clip, courtesy of Starz, from the episode for you now, because... c'm on, lady - centric history, Queens, costume drama.

William Oldroyd's costume drama has a truly killer line in corsets, while Lone Scherfig offers a very different take on Dunkirk

While it ticks all the boxes of what many deem to be a typical costume drama, e.g. upper class backdrop, domestic intrigue, suppressed lust, elaborate sets and, of course, costumes, The Young Victoria (2009) is a more valid commentary on the burden of extreme wealth and duty as barrier to happiness.

Describing the film already seems like it's doing a disservice to those who are not ready to geek out on history lessons and fancy costume dramas.

One of the joys of Asante's filmmaking is how she subverts audience expectations to make observations on politics, race and gender: As Sophie Mayer observes in her review for Sight & Sound, «in a clever twist on the Bechdel test, Asante shows that it is through talking about marriage and men that the female protagonists of costume drama are able to articulate a political philosophy.»

A la deriva was followed by an absurdist costume drama based on fifteen short stories by Quim Monzó.

Dame Judi Dench will be taking on a role in zombie costume drama The Curse Of The Buxom Strumpet, alongside Sir Ian McKellen and Gillian Anderson.

The film is far more earthy than a typical costume drama, which will either please or put off viewers depending on their inclinations.

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.

I'm very interested in costume drama, and if one commandeers it, the film needs to establish itself as different from costume drama on television and in cinema, which is all about the interior [of characters].

And for all his comments about specific actions, line readings, and so on made by the actors, he sheds no light on how he arrived at such offbeat casting choices; after all, the likes of Anderson, Dan Aykroyd, Anthony LaPaglia, and Eric Stoltz aren't exactly the names that immediately come to mind for a costume drama.

Presented more as a costume drama than a film with any modern relevance, Milk «s power to move is largely dependent on the viewer's ability to watch Sean Penn make hammy faces at the camera.

On paper, the costume drama The Duchess couldn't be any more different from British director Saul Dibb's previous cinematic outing, the urban gun - crime drama Bullet Boy.

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).

The story flags when it falls back on the incidental cliches of the costume drama, or when it unwisely taps the Duc D'Anjou for allegedly frisky comic relief.

It's a move that leaves you straining at times to see what's going on, but one that also strips all pageantry out of the usual costume drama cliches.

This could be a case study for when we talk about how there's nothing on at the cinema, it's all the same kind of middle - brow costume drama or whatever.

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.

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.

With Joe Johnston delivering pyrotechnical action - adventure in a period guise, à la The Rocketeer (which was similarly fixated on its female lead's buxom chest), this costumed - crusader saga is a capable, if somewhat unremarkable, affair beset by the same origin - story shortcomings that plagued another U.S. - virtue - via - army - weaponry fable, Iron Man — namely, a bifurcated structure in which the introductory first half exceeds, in compelling drama and kick - ass thrills, the latter fight - the - baddies combat.

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The script includes full production notes, with ideas for staging, props, costumes and effects plus some great history, english and drama follow - on activities for further work in the classroom.

The script includes full production notes, with suggestions for staging, props and costumes, plus great follow - on drama, english and history activities for further classroom work.

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.