Sentences with phrase «period piece look»

The Man in the Iron Mask is a film made strictly for entertainment purposes and isn't shooting for Academy Award caliber cinematics, despite the impressive ensemble of actors and the period piece look.

The film does have a striking, period piece look and feel, though many shots are held for an overly - dramatic effect.

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For our purpose the important aspect is simply that in view of this long period of investigation we are able to look at the Bible in a much more intelligent fashion, without assuming that it is «all of a piece».

We had periods where we really looked dangerous through set pieces.

At this period where everything looks all gloomy at Arsenal, we can do with a piece of good news.

«If you look at it from their perspective, they haven't exactly been able to govern in the first year of their administration in the way that other administrations have, where you would have, theoretically, a period in which the new administration is allowed to pass some of the needed pieces of legislation.»

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

You always do a great job mixing and matching your pieces, and it's especially helpful for a period of time where most women don't want to spend a fortune to look great for a short while.

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.

Tweet This cape coat with the tulle ruffle peeking out... I look like a character in a period piece.

If you're looking for some cool pieces from all time periods and labels, come here!

All these pieces look super for the festive period, but will also look great mixed with other garments.

I wasn't sure how I'd like it since it looked pretty cut - and - dry / period piece / Oscar bait, but it was fantastic.

This cape coat with the tulle ruffle peeking out... I look like a character in a period piece.

A lavishly designed period piece from director Todd Haynes, Far From Heaven is a heartbreaking look at the taboo nature of interracial relationships and homosexuality in 1950s Connecticut.

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.

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

Barring possible awards attention for Carey Mulligan, this looks to be about the end of the line for this feminist British period piece (a hit in the UK), which got a wide rollout but never quite lived up to expectations on this side of the pond.

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.

Dunaway and Wood's primary focus seems to be a brief commentary on all the manner of genres that Linklater has tackled: Sports flick, Bad News Bears; Period piece, Me and Orson Welles; Western, The Newton Boys and Sci - Fi, A Scanner Darkly all get a look in while highlighting his lack of pretension and his ability to dig deeper into more meaningful and intelligent projects.

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.

As fun as they are, Dave Franco and Aubrey Plaza suffer from what I call «The Mila Kunis Effect» where his California cackle and modern looks and her New York cadence just don't play convincingly in a period piece.

Among the new pics we have our first look at Kevin Bacon as villain Sebastian Shaw and a better look at January Jones as Emma Frost, plus we are actually getting a feel for the fact that this is supposed to be a period piece set in the»60s.

From stop - motion animations and life - affirming biopics to gentle period pieces and heartwarming rom - coms, here's a look at 10 titles that are perfect for cosying up to on the sofa when you don't have the energy or the inclination to hit the town.

Focus released a trailer for the film today, and it looks to be a pretty meticulously detailed period piece procedural.

As I booted up the nostalgic period piece, my friend looked over my shoulder asking me what was wrong.

Playing like a period piece today, Empire Records will be quite valuable as reference to future filmmakers looking to recreate»90s teen culture.

«The Romanoffs» isn't a period piece but a look at modern - day people who believe they are the descendants of the titular Russian family dynasty.

It's just that he's so incredibly talented that it looks like a period piece drama / epic love story and it gets nominated for Academy Awards, when in reality it's no more than a well - made love story with a little metaphor thrown in for good measure.

Ten more: S. Craig Zahler's Brawl in Cell Block 99, a violent yarn with an indomitable Vince Vaughn performance; BPM, a moving look at AIDS activists in Paris; Before I Fall, a teen Groundhog Day; Luca Guadagnino's Call Me by Your Name, a lush holiday at an Italian villa; Christopher Nolan's Dunkirk, with its ingenious time - shifting narrative; Alexander Payne's social comedy Downsizing; William Oldroyd's Lady Macbeth, a period piece with bite; the uneven but lively satire The Square; Steven Soderbergh's clever heist picture Logan Lucky; and the Twilight Zone vibe of The Killing of a Sacred Deer.

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.

While the film centered around Korean resistance fighters looking to overthrow Japanese forces successfully plays out as a period piece — the stylization of the entire era from costumes to scenery hits the mark a million times over — the film is quite safe among the other releases of 2016.

Tulip Fever first look: Christoph Waltz and Alicia Vikander feature in the first peek at Justin Chadwick's period piece.

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.

In this adaptation of the book from «Boston Globe» reporters Dick Lehr and Gerard O'Neill, Cooper has Depp and Joel Edgerton as his two leads, and an incredibly deep supporting cast that provide the look and feel for this period piece dramatizing the crime and corruption during Bulger's reign.

The set and costume design is shimmery and glamorously detailed, with the fancy cars and mansions looking so stunning the film blurs the line between period piece and pre-war fantasy.

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.

The pieces are all here — Cruise, Nicole Kidman, director Ron Howard, composer John Williams — but Cruise struggles as a late - 19th - century Irish immigrant: He has a rough go of it with the accent, and looks frankly bizarre in period costume.

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.

Based on Hunter S. Thompson's novel, this period piece, which stars Johnny Depp as a hard - drinking journalist, looks like fun.

When we analyze companies we look at them not as pieces of paper but as businesses we intend to own for a long period of time.

Unlike most large surveys, this eloquent, accessible volume takes a close, in - depth look at specific works of art and series, including paintings, drawings, graphics, sculptural pieces, and illustrated books from all periods of Johns's career.

The 1951 three - panel White Painting is believed to have been painted over almost immediately as Untitled [matte black triptych](ca. 1951, fig. 2).6 In fact, there is no exhibition history or any other evidence to indicate that White Painting [three panel] was extant between 1951 and 1968; 7 in those years, most of the original White Paintings had slipped out of existence, their canvases used as the supports for other pieces.8 Though artists throughout history have created new works on used canvases, Rauschenberg did so with an unusual frequency and ease, particularly in the early 1950s.9 Looking back at that period some ten years later, he commented, «Today I wouldn't do that....

Spanning four millennia, from the Bronze Age to today, the show looks at examples from different periods and cultures, and includes contemporary pieces by artists such as Wallace Chan.

In between, the usual suspects and period pieces appear, from László Moholy - Nagy in sculptural planes and Naum Gabo's transparent column to Larry Bell's cube on a pedestal, but they look lost in space.

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.

Picasso had organized a very personal look at his work, with pieces chosen from his pink and blue periods and his Cubist and neo-classical phase as well as Surrealist creations, and the homage now on show reconstructs this subjective survey.

Looking beyond the idea of obtaining art from the key movers and shakers of certain styles or periods, the Fishers concentrated on pieces that excited them and that they wanted to spend time with, Garrels says.

Some of the bronzes from the»60s, cast from wax - dipped wire pieces, also transcend their own period quality, looking both like Surrealist - inspired modern work and archaic relics of indeterminate meaning or function.

As a catalyst on the Bay Area scene in the late»40s, Still certainly was important, but many of his paintings have begun to look like period pieces or records of megalomania.