Sentences with phrase «period pieces of the film»

Frequent smoking is shown during the period pieces of the film.

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One of the funniest examples of this was when the director of Awakenings mistakenly said the film took place in a «menstrual hospital» instead of «mental hospital», Williams immediately said, «It's a period piece.»

It's a quiet film with no score and set during the height of the Civil War, but it's masterfully edited to be a period piece that keeps you glued to your seat.

Rainer Werner Fassbinder's adaptation of a late 19th - century novel by Theodor Fontane is an austere period piece that may be the least characteristic of the German director's films.

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.

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».

Actors Benedict Cumberbatch and Toby Jones, who portray Charles» supporters in this film, also star together in another period piece, Amazing Grace, where they find themselves on opposite sides of the debate over England's involvement in the slave trade.

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).

A period piece, of course, the film starts out in the mid to late 1940's, as America was finally done with the second World War and Hollywood was booming.

A piece of ham - handed kitsch at its most asinine, The Lovers, not in any way to be confused with Louis Malle's film by the same title, is a shamelessly derivative and preposterous would - be blockbuster that goofily fashions itself as a sweeping romance, time - travel sci - fi tale, and gallant period piece all at once.

Post - «Richard,» Reynor picked up parts in films as diverse as the American version of «Delivery Man,» Julian Jarrold's crowdpleasing period piece «A Royal Night Out,» Justin Kurzel's «Macbeth» and, oh yeah, a little film called «Transformers: Age of Extinction.»

Despite the film not seeming to be a period piece, the merits of Xbox's Kinect are spoken about early on and the Nintendo Wii is offered as an alternative.

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.

Set in 1959, the period piece directly deals with the integration of suburbs in the era of the civil rights movement, although whether or not the film deals with it well is up for you to decide.

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.

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.

Eric Rohmer (1920 - 2010) made 50 films over a period of 57 years, beginning with the short Journal d'un scélérat (50) and ending with the 17th - century period piece The Romance of Astrea and Celadon (07).

Somewhat reductively, it's a Rushmore for our times — even contemporaneous with that film given it's technically a period piece — a coming - of - age story where overcoming pretention and forced mannerisms is as important to growth as learning self - confidence and kindness.

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).

Joe has two films coming out later this year — Mary Queen of Scot and The Favourite, both period pieces, and both to be released in time for award season.

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.

Obviously, this is not a film for everyone, as there is a large segment of society who have little tolerance for Shakespeare, or even costumed period pieces in general.

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.

When the Spotlight investigation is temporarily halted in the wake of 9/11, we're reminded that the film is also a period piece, set during a time when print journalism had not yet entered its death throes.

Tweaked and polished to within an inch of its life, The Danish Girl is the latest shamelessly awards - seeking effort from British director Tom Hooper, whose last two period films The King's Speech and Les Misérables were certainly showstopping pieces of cinema.

We know from Singer's brief teases of the next film that it'll be an»80s period piece (First Class was in the»60s and Days of Future Past takes place mostly in the»70s) meaning we're going to again see slightly aged versions of Jennifer Lawrence's Mystique, Michael Fassbender's Magneto, James McAvoy's Professor X and Nicholas Hoult's Beast.

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.

It was a major desire of his to make a film that he wouldn't call it a genre, but a period piece.

I recently spoke to cinematographer Roger Deakins, production designer Kristi Zea, costume designer Albert Wolsky and film editor Tariq Anwar about their work on the film, a 1950s period piece featuring the on - screen reunion of Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet.

But the tide began to turn in late January when «The King's Speech,» the British period piece about George VI's struggle to overcome his stutter before being crowned king of England, began to pick up steam, winning the Producers Guild of America Award, the Directors Guild of America Award for Tom Hooper, the top Screen Actors Guild Award and the BAFTA for best film.

Petzold's period piece, now over 30 years out from its rural setting, deals directly with the now fallen Berlin Wall and lacks all the techno - attention of iPhones and laptops, yet the film feels surprisingly modern.

Coming off the heels of The Deep Blue Sea, probably the most underrated and misunderstood film of its year, Sunset Song is a period piece set in the cinegenic Scottish countryside of the 1930s, and based on a book by Lewis Grassic Gibon that's been called the most important Scottish novel of the 20th century.

The six all - powerful stones (originally known as gems in the Marvel comics) have popped up in nine of the franchise's fourteen films, movies ranging in scope and tone from the World War II period piece «Captain America: The First Avenger» to the outer space adventure film «Guardians of the Galaxy.»

«Suburbicon,» a George Clooney - directed»50s - era period piece that touches on very real issues of integration within a borderline surreal dark comedy, recently saw filmmakers conduct an interview in a Hollywood trade that positioned the film as a post-Charlottesville movie of the moment.

And Linklater has actually tried many different kinds of movies, including the wicked black comedy «Bernie,» the musical romp «School of Rock,» the nostalgic period piece «Me and Orson Welles» and even a couple of animated films.

Filmographies for Davies and the principal cast and trailers for Mirth and other Sony Pictures period pieces round out the unspectacular array of extras, but the sterling visual and aural transfer of a very worthy film makes this a sturdy enough DVD package.

At its best, the film functions as a Hitchcockian haunted house movie with a palpable air of mystery, intrigue, elegant set pieces and offers up exquisite period details.

Dwayne Johnson who is also producing stated, «I envision this film a period piece in the vein of Humphrey Bogart's The African Queen.»

Due to its World War I setting, Wonder Woman is often as much of a period piece as it is a superhero film.

Much has been written on Robert Eggers» exemplary period piece, so I'll keep it brief: The Witch is a quiet horror film of subtle plot machinations and subtler characterization.

Q: This film has a lot of «60s music in it and it's sort of a period piece.

The only one still - kinda - sorta on the table is period piece Bride of Frankenstein, the second film in the Dark Universe series, even though it's undergone a series of delays itself.

As that film continues its run across the country, Davies spoke with novelist Steve Erickson about the film, how he creates the textures of a period piece, and his nostalgia for his childhood for an interview just published at the Los Angeles Review of Books.

The film, which has been interpreted as a commentary on the empty bromides of self - help culture as well as an allegory of the AIDS crisis, became a breakthrough for both Haynes and Moore, who would go on to collaborate on such ravishing period pieces as Far from Heaven and Wonderstruck (which premiered at Cannes last month).

Starring Leonardo DiCaprio (two more words that guarantee Oscar scrutiny), the film is a period piece about a stockbroker who descends into a life of drugs and fraud.

It's a period piece that feels remarkably present, a little bit of magic from the master that allows the film to become a parable as much as it is a history.

«Detroit Rock City» is a wonderful film that manages to strike a nice balance of John Hughes teen comedy and late - seventies period piece.

Not because they are great films (they aren't, even by the most generous stretch of the imagination) but because they are entertaining pieces from a distinctive period of B - movie filmmaking, as weirdly fun and perversely creative in their own exploitative way as kindred films from the forties and fifties and sixties.

While the end result may be admittedly more uneven in spots than [Tsui Hark's] best - known works, this lavish period piece contains enough thrills, spills and moments of cinematic grace that not only manage to push it through the rough spots but allow it to put most American action films of recent vintage to shame.