Sentences with phrase «period romantic drama»

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.

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

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.

The fifth nominee for Score of the Year is Jonny Greenwood's music for the controversial and avant - garde romantic period drama «Phantom Thread,» directed by Paul Thomas Anderson and starring Daniel Day - Lewis.

I Am Love writer - director Luca Guadagnino follows up with The Reliable Wife, a romantic period drama set in 1908 Wisconsin about a widower and his mail - order bride who both get more than they bargained for.

Next week we get Ruby Sparks (very good, unexpected, non-traditional romantic comedy), Killer Joe (William Friedkin's grotty NC - 17 thriller, starring Matthew McConaughey), Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry (documentary about the Chinese activist, said to be very inspiring), The Graduate (45th anniversary engagement of Mike Nichols» classic), Farewell My Queen (French period drama, said to be quite good), plus the wide releases of the Total Recall (possibly only for junk food fanatics, but who knows yet), so it's a good weekend to catch up on any holdovers you might have missed.

Even though it's made in a style that feels familiar, this World War II romantic drama takes a much more complex approach to the period, most notably in the way that it refuses to let...

Alan Rickman's romantic period drama A Little Chaos is pure escapism.

I'm generally a sucker for a good romantic drama and period piece this film combines both and fails on both accounts.

Sense and Sensibility is a film I discovered years later during an obsessive teenage phase of romantic period dramas.

Strong word is Joe Wright has emerged as a front - runner and has an established relationship with Focus and Universal having directed period dramas PRIDE & PREJUDICE, ANNA KARENINA, as well as romantic war drama ATONEMENT and action - thriller HANNA.

Goop's spectacularly weepy speech aside, Shakespeare In Love is a classic romantic period drama; both enchanting and witty.

The movie is a romantic drama / period piece about Eilis (Ronan), an Irish girl planning to immigrate to America.

The Social Network 2010, 120 minutes, PG - 13 / Director: David Fincher / Writers: Aaron Sorkin, Ben Mezrich / Stars: Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield, Justin Timberlake, Armie Hammer, Max Minghella, Brenda Song, Rashida Jones, Steve Sires, John Getz, David Selby, Denise Grayson, Douglas Urbanski, Rooney Mara Buy It: Blu - ray • DVD • Instant Video David Fincher broadened his horizons with The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, a big - budget, effects - laden fantasy romantic period drama seemingly tailor - made for awards season.

It properly identifies a certain period in adolescence as grand drama and surreal dreamscape — when everything takes on magnified import both romantic and Romanticist — and paints that world in rich, velvet strokes.

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.

It's your standard issue Wong romantic drama dressed up, not as a period piece or gangster picture, but instead as a martial - arts epic.

Although writer - director Patrice Leconte's romantic period drama A Promise played at both the Venice and Toronto film festivals, the French filmmaker's English - language debut has yet to land a U.S. release date (though it will premiere in France this coming April).

Rounding out the best picture category were the romantic drama «Call Me by Your Name,» the Winston Churchill biopic «Darkest Hour,» the coming - of - age dramedy «Lady Bird,» the period romance «Phantom Thread,» the Pentagon Papers drama «The Post» and the smash hybrid of horror and social satire «Get Out,» which picked up four nominations overall, including writing and directing nods for Jordan Peele and a lead actor nomination for Daniel Kaluuya.

The latest from Bertrand Tavernier («Round Midnight), this period drama is set in the 1500's, during the reign of Charles IX, when France was decimated by religious wars, as Catholics and Protestants slaughtered one another.Tavernier skillfully manages a romantic roundelay, in which three suitors vie for the love of the Princess of Montpelsier who, of course (it's a French film, after all), is already married.