Sentences with phrase «period costume drama»

«Diary of a Victorian Dandy» was a collision of performance and photography reflecting the nation's popular taste for the period costume drama and nostalgia for a utopian past at the heart of «little» England.

Since Deeds isn't a period costume drama, one wouldn't think much about its clothes, which actually makes this program more compelling than one might expect.

Jane Eyre - Sure, it looks like yet another British period costume drama, but the story and its adaptation are solid enough.

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.

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.

Commonly they are British period costume dramas of manners where women are tempestuous, men are either be cruel or intensely romantic, and prevalent themes of station, class, character and morality are bandied about.

Period costume dramas are always expected to offer opulent pageantry, but in the case of Vatel, that's all there is.

The inspiration for director Amma Asante's fascinating period costumed drama, Belle, came from quite an unusual place — in Scone Palace at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland, there hangs a painting of two young women from the 18th century.

It sometimes feels that the British film industry only makes about three or four different kinds of movies: dreadful gangster films that rarely get a release abroad, gritty social realism pictures, period costume dramas, and semi-quirky comedies with a tearjerking side, exemplified by something like «Billy Elliot» or «The Full Monty,» but more often turning out like «Calendar Girls» or «Song For Marion.»

Not exact matches

Beautifully filmed while adhering closely to period costume, architecture, and environment (1910 Russia) the drama examines both....

It ends up having all the requisites of a period drama — a strings - heavy soundtrack, lavish costumes and passionate declarations of love — plus a good deal more.

Although it features many of the characteristics of the typical period piece, this innovative costume drama is different in its...

Like any respectable period drama, Brideshead boasts striking scenery, pleasing photography, and chipper costumes.

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

is misleading because while draped in Darius Khondji's luxuriant, golden - hued cinematography like the silks of Lady Liberty's gown, and decked in loving period costume and detail, the film is really a small - scale human drama in which those Gray staples, a love triangle and a love / hate brother-esque relationship, play out beat by minutely observed beat.

Set in the early days of New England, The Witch is horror by way of costume drama; a decadent period piece with all the accompanying frills accented by true, serpentine terror.

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.

This is an upscale period drama in which loving attention has been paid to costume and production design.

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).

Both cover the «period piece costume drama with lots of flowy dresses» checkboxes that so often lead to a win in this category, and while

I mean it's funny — in reviews people don't call it a period drama or a costume drama.

As a wuxia film (a particular type of fantastical drama / action film involving Chinese martial artists and set in deep history), its loveliest resonances are found its finely executed martial arts sequences, costuming and period setting, as well as the still charisma of Shu Qi's performance.

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.

Full of the lavish sets and extravagant costumes becoming of a royal family period drama, the film, steeped in monarchy, feels buoyant and vibrant in no small part thanks to the actors» ability to humanize such aristocratic characters.

The costumes have their own arcs in Stephen Frears» period drama about the clash of East and West that's relevant in our divisive times.