Sentences with phrase «period drama films»

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It's worth noting that another Fox Searchlight film, Birdman, was among the lowest - grossing Best Picture Oscar winners of all - time, but it went on to gross more than $ 100 million worldwide, while 12 Years a Slave (another slavery - themed period drama) grossed $ 187 million in global ticket sales, according to Box Office Mojo.

«This job is working with interesting people and interesting actors — I didn't feel like I needed to be in another period drama, but this was just a really interesting director who had done a really interesting film,» says actor @douglasbooth of the @tribeca Film Festival film «Mary Shelley.»

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

I love watching movies, particularly anything in the period drama category or films from the 1930s - 50s.

I like most music, the usual soaps period dramas and romantic / comedy films I do not like horror but will watch any.

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.

Veteran filmmaker Yoji Yamada — who is perhaps most famous for cranking out most of the 48 films of the Tora - san series — directs this good - natured drama set in the waning years of the Edo period (1600 - 1867).

Filming is expected to begin in March for this period drama from Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire director Newell, which depicts the 1986 Reykjavik summit between Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev.

A handsome period drama with the occasional impressive flourish, but despite its rich subject matter, it's Affleck's weakest film yet as a director.

Povinelli sometimes performed stunts, in films like Van Helsing and Employee of the Month, but largely stuck to acting, earning particular attention for the role of Walter in the 2011 period drama Water for Elephants.

The latest film adaptation of Far From the Madding Crowd will delight fans of period dramas.

Stone's misguided efforts to turn Alexander into a drama of Shakespearean proportions undoubtedly plays a big role in the film's wildly uneven tone, which flits wildly between talky period piece and flamboyant melodrama (often within the space of a few scenes).

As for The Danish Girl, his timely period drama about the first known trans person, Focus Features — the company distributing the film — has by all accounts made the surprising decision to debut the film in Venice (it's listed as making a North American premiere in Toronto).

They include songs from animated films, documentaries, period narratives, comedies, and dramas.

The film is Martin Scorsese's period drama Silence, about Jesuit priests facing persecution in 17th century Japan.

Ron Howard is currently in the middle of production on his period Formula 1 racing drama Rush, but the director has a new tool in tow on this film that's giving fans an inside track on how the shoot's going.

She has starred in two movies that were distributed by the Weinstein Company — the 2012 period drama «Lawless,» in which she portrayed the wife of Tom Hardy's character, and the 2013 three - film collection «The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby.»

Having previously worked with Emily Watson, who plays her mother in this film (on period drama Belle), Sarah enjoyed working with her again: «Working with Emily was great, I really felt like I had somebody in my corner,» she says.

The Brit has proven elastic with the release of three largely disparate feature films — the sci - fi action thriller Kill Command, the romantic drama Me Before You, and a period drama Genius, in which she takes on the effusive role of Zelda Fitzgerald — and appeared in two theater productions including a turn as Stella in A Streetcar Named Desire at St. Ann's Warehouse in Brooklyn and as Elena in Robert Icke's Uncle Vanya in London.

And while the film could hardly be accused of being the most intoxicating period drama ever made, mid twentieth century L.A. is evoked well enough through period detail and era - appropriate soundtrack choices.

An underrated, compellingly uncharacteristic film in Bigelow's career, The Weight of Water suffers from over-ambition, juxtaposing a period murder mystery with a rarefied drama of sexual ennui and shortchanging both in the process.

His first six films included two horrors, a period drama, a thriller, a courtroom drama, and a crime noir.

The feminist serial killer road movie Butterfly Kiss, the Bosnian war pic «Welcome to Sarajevo», the period property drama «The Claim» and the Manchester docu - comedy 24 Hour Party People might appear to be films with nothing in common, but in fact all are collaborations between director Michael Winterbottom and writer Frank Cottrell Boyce, who together have shown an ability to produce consistently interesting works in any and every genre.

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.

Fans of well - acted period dramas and good gothic mysteries should consider tuning in but the film will be of particular interest to anyone curious about the origins of modern British horror cinema.

Ridley Scott's latest film, the fact - based period drama «All the Money in the World,» is destined for the Hollywood history books, thanks to its on - the - fly recasting, super-snappy reshoots, and quick rush into theaters mere weeks after one - time star Kevin Spacey was entirely excised from the film.

The film functions successfully as such, although those expecting a serious period drama may be surprised.

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).

«Boyhood,» Richard Linklater's acclaimed coming - of - age drama shot over a 12 - year period, was named best film of 2014 on Monday by the New York Film Critics Circle.

The director of The Duchess talks to Jason Solomons about Keira Knightley, period dramas and his debut film Bullet Boy

Scoring strongly at the New York Film Critics (including best film) likely helped, but word of mouth seems to be strong for Todd Haynes» period romantic drama starring Rooney Mara and Cate Blanchett.

The film is a kind of variation on Chan's Police Story, also released in 1985 and another key film in the shift of HK action cinema from period epics to contemporary crime dramas.

Most of his working - class ensemble pieces are set very much in the present day, but following the success of his Gilbert and Sullivan biopic «Topsy Turvy» (1999)-- which was inevitably set in the past — Leigh has once again turned to period drama with his latest work, «Vera Drake» — without ever abandoning the ideological concerns of his more contemporary films.

As is customary with BBC period dramas, the film is a beautiful spectacle to behold.

Far From the Madding Crowd will undoubtedly appeal to period drama devotees who demand film adaptations remain faithful to its classic source material.

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.

The director, who emigrated from Warsaw to London when he was 14, won the best foreign language film Oscar for his period drama Ida in 2015.

That screenwriter David Nicholls harbours a fear of alienating ardent period drama / Hardy enthusiasts by reformulating an over-familiar plot is evident, but what is more regrettable is, although there are flashes of Vinterberg's skilled craftsmanship throughout the film, it ultimately remains contained within the tight strictures of the genre and becomes no better or worse than the plethora of recent period dramas; solid and dependable but utterly riskless and tired, begging the question, is the period drama genre well passed its sell by date?

Instead, the film lingers on the war period and the Bletchley years, where it's most comfortable as an ensemble, getting - the - team together drama.

Again, these films were a throwback to film history, with O Brother riffing on the work of director Preston Sturges, Cruelty being inspired by the screwball comedies of the 1930s and Burn owing a heavy debt to the paranoia political dramas of the 1970s - a period which appears to have inspired a cast amount of Clooney's cinematic output.

Director Justin Trefgarne, with the aid of the general public, has managed to bring into life a film based in the UK that tries to be something vastly different to the usual period drama or mobster movie that usually comes out of our fair isle.

Last year he directed his second feature film with the period drama A little Chaos starring both himself and Kate Winslet.

... the story of the most extraordinary 19th century teenage heroine told in a visceral, sexy, contemporary way -LSB-...] Our film is not a period drama.

Corset - y period dramas of repression and oppression are not normally our go - to bag but aside from the leads, who we'd queue to see read an old - timey phone book, the film's setting is much grimier and more sordid than the drawing room / china teacup variety of period drama (in keeping with the naturalism and class setting of Zola's novel) and gives the advance look we've had an impressively distinctive look and feel.

In this period, he tackled an Oscar - winning drama about alcoholism (The Lost Weekend), two well - regarded film noirs (Double Indemnity, Sunset Boulevard), a war drama (Stalag 17), two light - hearted rom - coms (Sabrina, Seven Year Itch) a gripping murder - mystery (Witness for the Prosecution) and perhaps the funniest American movie of all time (Some Like It Hot).

The cast of upcoming period drama «Trumbo» came out in style for the film's New York City screening on Tuesday.

That period drama also marked the start of a productive phase in Mankiewicz's career, which saw him helming twelve 20th Century Fox films, many of which he also wrote, in just over six years.

The passage of thirty years has rendered the miniseries Under Capricorn quite obscure, but it's a decent period drama that should interest those who know the book and those who appreciate Alfred Hitchcock's earlier films.

But he's never directed a film like «The Wind Rises,» a biographical period drama that has a few flights of fancy, but is otherwise a grounded and very personal tale of aircraft design, the oncoming storm, and doomed love.

And lo, on Day 8 Hou Hsiao - hsien descended from on high to save the day with his long - gestating wuxia period drama The Assassin, which immediately became almost everybody's favorite Competition film (mine included), even if many professed themselves as much mystified as entranced.