This divide between people's great ideas and the failure we know they will yield is a hallmark of the period piece, but particularly of the period piece on television.
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It's a period piece about a sharecropper and his community.
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What do you think of Lily James' period piece style?
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It's not cheap, I think because it's a period piece.
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It's a dark comedy dressed up as a period piece.
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Costume-drama queen Keira Knightley — in yet another period piece!
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The result is a period piece that is so sumptuous and
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"Reign" is another period piece, but about Mary, Queen of Scots.
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Vinyl may be a period piece, but its concerns are incredibly current.
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Today, June 16, marks the end of sumptuous CW period piece Reign.
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Looking for a period-piece romance to sweep you off your feet?
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It looks like a period piece and, in a sense, it is.
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TNT's upcoming The Alienist will put a period piece twist on serial killing.
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Getting to do a period piece show was always on my bucket list.
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The two met on the Parisian set of their 1989 period piece, Valmont.
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A period piece that's also a road trip movie and a buddy dramedy?
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It shines at being what Greene's film stubbornly resists being: a period piece.
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A pastiche or historical period piece would never have worked for me anyway.
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Finally, this song is used perfectly — and in a period piece, to boot.
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Will "Mad Men" become a period piece about the future instead of the past?
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It was a South American woman who lived in Britain in a period piece.
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The first Gran Hotel is a soap opera in high quality period piece disguise.
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Whether that's a period piece with Kenneth Branagh, or any number of different things.
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It's Cate Blanchett in a period piece, and she's gay on top of it.
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"Mary Poppins Returns" isn't Disney's only forthcoming reboot of a beloved British period piece.
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Instead, he poured himself into "Roma": a Spanish-language, black-and-white period piece.
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Cooke's performance is proudly contemporary, which brings an unexpected energy to this period piece.
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So does "Bedlam," also starring Karloff, another grim period piece set in an asylum.
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All these years later, Looking For Alaska has the look of a period piece.
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It was a way to remind the audience that it was a period piece.
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The movie is a nifty little period piece, buried inside a more conventional rom-com.
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It's a solid period piece that strives to be something more, and occasionally achieves it.
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I loved seeing this be a period piece, and Renae nailed the feel of it.
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What results is a sumptuous period piece with lessons that are relevant to women today.
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Watching Girls in 2017, the show felt like a period piece for a bygone era.
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Even "Bright Lights," that most giddily evocative of eighties novels, isn't really a period piece.
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It's a period piece about two young women living in Leningrad just after the war.
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HBO's hitman farce Barry pulled in 218, Amazon's stand-up period piece The Marvelous Mrs.
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There's crime and porn and drugs and the atmospheric charm of a disco-era period piece.
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"Suddenly it didn't feel like it should be a period piece anymore," O'Toole told BuzzFeed News.
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"It is a period piece that they marketed as their first-ever original series," he said.
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But this revolving door of period-piece cameos arguably does the already-shaky script a disservice.
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But the "anthology series" looks sort of like a period piece, horror version of Black Mirror.
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But they really don't look like a period piece; the black dye gives them new life.
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He has an action film, a drama, a period piece, an adaptation, and a (potential) sequel.
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"2001" is, in part, a fastidious period piece about a period that had yet to happen.
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An atmospheric period piece, full of suggestive details, the movie is set in Edinburgh around 1830.
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"I think even in a period piece there can be completely modern, psychological investigations," he said.
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Yeah. It was a very strong choice to shoot in digital, especially with a period piece.
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"This happened over a five-hour period, piece by piece by piece by piece," Broadhead said.
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Amazon Prime Video's Emmy-favorite period piece returns on Friday, December 6, for its third season.
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Tesla has oddball panache and is probably more compelling than a conventional period piece would be.
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Also here is his uncharacteristically loosely painted, multi-vignette portrait of Lynes, a wonderful period piece.
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I would love to do — again I don't think of the end product like, "Oh, I have to do a period piece, or I have to do a drama" — but I would love to do a period piece, and I would love to do a drama.
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The pace is careful, even slow at times — but it's perfect for a period piece like this.
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Because it's a 1987, San Fransisco-set period piece executive produced by Marvel's Anthony and Joe Russo.
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Serena, a Depression-era period piece released to VOD after years on the shelf, was an embarrassment.
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X-Men: First Class is a stylish, charming superhero period piece set in the Cold War era.
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He's also filming the Queen Anne period piece The Favorite, which stars Swift's longtime pal Emma Stone.
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The only way you know it's a period piece is some of the jive-talking that happens.
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Granted, unrequited yearning is a staple of British period piece dramas, as is low-volume political subterfuge.
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Last year, she worked on a photo series—Period Piece—depicting three queer couples enjoying period sex.
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Her name was Jenny Jean, and I thought it was a period piece set in the 50s.
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In the other corner, there's Peaky Blinders, the Cillian Murphy-led brutal-but-sultry British period piece.
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By the 1980 revival, the show struck some as close to a period piece, at least sociologically.
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Keeping the production from turning into a period piece — albeit a very recent period — required some changes.
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His 2006 film, "Legend of the Black Scorpion," was a sumptuous, "Hamlet"-derived, martial arts period piece.
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"This is a period piece about New York," Jenkins told The New York Times earlier this year.
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It's an affectionate, determinedly credible period piece with lightly fictionalized versions of people and places from the era.
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The loopy aesthetic occasionally calls to mind Yorgos Lanthimos' The Favourite, another recent period piece with modern flair.
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Unlike Cameron Post, that movie was set in its own time, without the trappings of a period piece.
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It would have been pretty easy just to go in and make a period-piece, historic cowboy record.
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A Fall Out Boy biopic / period piece about the rise of commercial pop-punk in the early 2000s.
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The DAU films are unique, however, for combining this spontaneity with the grandeur of a studio period piece.
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It's worth considering more as a period piece chronicling the early 2000s than as a dramatic television show.
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" I went in there, and from seeing the costume, I asked, "Is this some kind of period piece?
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Spanish horror director Paco Plaza's slow-burning period piece is a hidden gem amidst the nebulous Netflix library.
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Using a bulletproof persona that admits of no vulnerability, she has produced an odd sort of period piece.
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It's a translation of a period piece" — from the 19th century — "but we wanted to use modern materials.
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I do find it a bit odd, because when you're doing a period piece you can do research.
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Jupiter's Circle, a nostalgic, Mad Men–like superhero period piece, came out the month before Mad Men ended.
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Davies wanted to give as much of a modern flare as could be allowed in a period piece.
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Pitt played the brooding Tristan Ludlow in the World War I period piece "Legends of The Fall" (1994).
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Céline Sciamma's lush period piece is one of several movies this year that get intimacy between women right.
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We wanted to remind people that this was a period piece, and times have changed significantly since then.
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Netflix's "The Crown," the period piece about Queen Elizabeth, won best casting in a drama over the weekend.
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Properly understood, however, Paris Hilton's My New BFF is more than a period piece of terrible 2000s fashion.
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Now, edited and reworked by its director Alfonso Gomez-Rejon, the 19th century period piece is finally being released.
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She has to deal with workplace sexism that would make her the uncomplicated hero of any other period piece.
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But the larger issue with updating Watchmen today is that it now reads as a very deliberate period piece.
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Whether you're watching a period piece or a romantic drama, you'll find similar elements across the K-drama board.
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With its theme of being torn between two worlds, this is a period piece that is extremely relateable now.
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A period piece that swirls and whirls about in ways both spooky and majestic, its quite an aesthetic feat.
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But this is no dutiful nineties period piece (and, yes, I know that's a horrifying phrase, whatever your age).
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It started as a weird bit of '80s period piece fluff, then only gained relevance as it went on.
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The controversial time period in our nation's history makes an ideal setting for Allen, who loves a good period piece.
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The control center is pretty much a period piece that has no purpose in the present day other than aesthetics.
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It's a period piece, set in Washington, DC, in the early 303s; the current, fourth season takes place in 1983.
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The Favourite may center around a dramatic and dysfunctional royal court, but it's unlike any other period piece before it.
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I'm such a sucker for a good period piece, and Claire Foy, who plays Queen Elizabeth, is an amazing actress.
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And with Netflix's new series The Last Czars, out on July 3, we got that lust period piece at last.
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Goodwood is a visual and aural period piece as well as a gathering of vintage racecars that can still race.
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"This happened over a five-hour period, piece by piece by piece by piece," said Broadhead at a press conference.
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When they sent me the script, I was really surprised because I'm Saudi and this is an English period piece.
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The two-minute trailer looks to be classic Scorsese: a stylized period piece with high tension and plenty of organized violence.
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The Americans is a period piece, after all, and history is history, regardless of how it might resonate with current events.
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When the first trailer was released in August, many publications joked that it looked like a period-piece version Mr. & Mrs.
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Both actors are reportedly circling lead roles in La La Land director Damien Chazelle's new period-piece Babylon, according to Deadline.
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Fences is a 1950s period piece about a former Negro league baseball player (Washington) who's now working as a garbage man.
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Aesthetically, "Like I Love You" is a solid early naughts period piece, and as such, the fashions are kind of hokey.
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A movie in Hebrew, a period piece in which I also act, was clearly not the easiest first film to make.
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"The Personal History of David Copperfield" stands out because of its committment to color-blind casting, particularly in a period piece.
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"The Age of Innocence," Edith Wharton Wharton's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel fulfilled me deeply as a lover of period piece romances.
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Another period piece, "Love & Friendship," is directed by Whit Stillman and based on "Lady Susan," a youthful work by Jane Austen.
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Although technically a period piece, moviegoers will be able to make connections to more recent whistleblowing scandals when watching Official Secrets.
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Vinyl, the culturally rich NYC period piece, turned out to contain almost nothing about its culture, its setting, or its era.
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The 1950s period piece tells the story of genius dressmaker Reynolds Woodcock's torrid love affair with the passionate and challenging Alma Elson.
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In spite of the 19th-century setting, Gomez-Rejon clearly doesn't want The Current War to play as a standard period piece.
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The Japanese American internment could just as easily have made for a straight period piece — it's certainly dramatic enough on its own.
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If you went into this year's Sherlock holiday special The Abominable Bride expecting a period-piece trifle, no one can blame you.
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The '30s period piece stars Matt Bomer as Monroe Stahl, a fictionalized version of the real-life precocious movie mogul Irving Thalberg.
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In those moments, before the film snaps back into suburbia, Condor is fully convincing as the heroine of a serious period piece.
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Because these blockbusters — especially a period piece like "Mulan" — don't have an expiration date, there's no reason to rush them to market.
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By the end of the first episode, Underground is a period piece Ocean's Eleven, but with the highest, most crucial stakes imaginable.
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It has the feel of artifact—a period piece, set in the late nineteenth century, that is dead set on being a documentary.
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I finally understood why actors get that rush when in hair and make-up, especially for a period piece like The Last Tycoon.
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Downton Abbey has come to an end – both across the pond and here at home – but the period piece binge is just beginning.
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It's a well-paced, self-contained little period piece about two people vainly trying to return to normalcy after a seemingly impossible experience.
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Clearly, the people of Fox don't have respect for one of cinema's most specific and most wonderful sub-genres: The sexy period piece.
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The Marlon Brando-starring period piece Mutiny on the Bounty had a $19M budget in 1962, which would amount to about $160M today.
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Elizabeth Emanuel's look for Mary, Queen of Scots costume design nominee Alexandra Byrne was a "period piece with a modern touch," says Emanuel.
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It is basically a rite of passage for an English actress worth her salt to don a corset and tackle a period piece.
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The absurdist period piece — co-starring Olivia Colman, Emma Stone, and Rachel Weisz — generated a leading 10 nominations (tying with Alfonso Cuaron's "Roma").
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"Indignation" might be dismissed as a small, exquisite period piece, but it is so precisely rendered that it gets deeply under your skin.
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It's an excellent way to prepare for Mr. Scorsese's latest period piece, "Silence," which opens in New York and Los Angeles on Dec.
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The episode could, in classic period-piece style, use the past to ask questions about the structure of criminal law in the present.
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Those, in turn, serve only to recall another tiresome period piece, Terry Johnson's "The Libertine," to play the Haymarket within the past year.
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Allen's latest endeavor opened the festival on a rainy Wednesday evening that sharply contrasted the gorgeous golden glow of the 1930s period piece.
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The series has the tone and dramatic charge of an escape thriller–a departure from usual period-piece drama of recent slavery focused films.
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Dunst starred in Coppola's directorial breakout, The Virgin Suicides, in addition to tackling the title role in her high-budget period piece, Marie Antoinette.
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Though she had hoped the film would appeal to all ages, the audiences for what is, after all, a period piece skew markedly older.
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Due North was a parody of a period piece, one of the most complicated genres because of how much attention to detail is required.
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Some have defended the show's mostly white cast by arguing that it's a period piece, and thus more historically accurate to feature white actors.
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In the period piece from French director Rebecca Zlotowski, the two play sisters thought to have supernatural skills allowing them to interact with ghosts.
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Netflix's latest miniseries Alias Grace is a lush and beautiful period piece that investigates a character we rarely see in television: the woman murderer.
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Sam Mendes's achingly tender period piece reunited Titanic megastars Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio, and neither one of them got much recognition for it.
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It is a period piece and I was listening to nothing but '70s music and looking at old YouTube footage of old '70s content.
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Obviously, it's a period piece because when the characters discuss Socialism — which they do, earnestly and often — no one starts trolling them on Twitter.
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The dizzying German period piece does not have dragons, no matter how much leading man Gereon Rath (Volker Bruch) imagines one below his feet.
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Critic's Pick A young Hasidic woman's flight from her marriage and community makes for a modern-day period piece with a striking star performance.
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Critic's Pick A young Hasidic woman's flight from her marriage and community makes for a modern-day period piece with a striking star performance.
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Like "Warrior," it's a period piece set in an Asian enclave, a Japanese fishing village in Southern California in the ominous year of 1941.
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Right now, when the limitations on acceptable modes of expression for women are so flagrantly apparent, that period piece doesn't feel very far removed.
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It's an excellent way to prepare for Mr. Scorsese's latest period piece, "Silence," which opens in New York and Los Angeles on Dec. 23.
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Inevitably, Shirley's cantankerous personality infects young wife Rose (Odessa Young), and their mutual unhappiness is the engine that drives in this smart period piece.
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If the plot doesn't always pulse with excitement, the rest of the biopic screams prestige project: sumptuous sets and handsome costumes fill this period piece.
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All of those primetime options feel much more urgent than a well-made period piece that still lacks a wave-making, fresh point of view.
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I wasn't quite sure how to capture this feeling without it feeling like costumes or a period piece, so he just started combing thrift shops.
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Now that we know Game of Thrones won't be returning until July 16, we're going to need some period piece spooks to tide us over.
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Howards End, the BBC miniseries now airing on Starz and based on E.M. Forster's 1910 novel, is a period piece, and happy to be so.
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It's from the set of the 1920s period piece "The Night They Raided Minsky's," reportedly the first musical to be filmed entirely in New York.
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It wants to be a harrowing remembrance of the suffering of the Holocaust, a satisfying revenge fantasy, a sensational period piece, and a dark comedy.
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He has played happy-go-lucky (in John Hillcoat's 2012 bootlegging period piece "Lawless") and straight man to a marauding zombie girlfriend ("Life After Beth").
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This is what leads us to the real heart of the bubbly period piece: What happens when the life you know is completely turned upside-down?
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At best, they figured somebody hearing the name of Diet Coke's predecessor, Tab, would be pulled out of an emotional scene by brief period piece nostalgia.
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Netflix has a new period-piece show from creators Ben York Jones and Michael Mohan about dorks in the '90s, and it's premiering on February 16th.
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Though the Amazon Prime drama, also starring Anna Camp and Erin Darke, is a period piece, it has resonance with the conversation surrounding today's gender dynamics.
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Appearing in flashbacks to 1930s Berlin, Hari's character is part of a metaphysical period piece that meshes with the show's setting in current-day Los Angeles.
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"The North Water" is careful to avoid pastiche; there is not a trace of irony or a moment when the author descends into period-piece writing.
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But this pseudo period piece is playful and anachronistic, with Anne doubling as an occasional narrator, using a MacBook and Google Images to prove her points.
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Instead of a land of the moon, Nicole Garcia's mostly turgid, occasionally risible period piece, largely set in the 1950s, initially takes us to Lyon, France.
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Hypnospace Outlaw isn't an on-the-nose statement on The Internet Today; it's a pitch-perfect period piece that's actually set in a vibrant alternate universe.
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Its Steven King-style paperback typeface smacks of a period piece, as does the theme music's deliberate, arpeggiated riffs, legatto "wahhhh" chord voicing, and heartbeat bass drum.
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FX's brand new Ryan Murphy-Brad Falchuk creation Pose vogued onto the scene Sunday night, immediately proving to be a stunning, emotional wallop of a period piece.
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Shot largely with IMAX cameras and optimized for 70mm projection, it's meant to showcase the latest cinema technologies, which is a little ironic for a period piece.
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Unlike Jackman's Wolverine, the character was recast for 2011's period piece X-Men First Class and X-Men: Apocalypse, in which James McAvoy played the part.
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When making Profile, Bekmambetov and his team realized that they were effectively making a period piece for which they'd have to recreate technology that had since changed.
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Set in the stark brutality of the early American landscape, our Puritan protagonists in this disturbing period piece are rigidly pious and obsessed with misery and shame.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood is a period piece so painstakingly constructed that it shames the rest of the genre.
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Under those auspices, his new picture Phantom Thread feels like his Gosford Park: a British period piece that finds the filmmaker working in a distinctively classical style.
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To create the right vision for the period piece, careful camera angles were chosen to truncate the building and make one portion look like the entire house.
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Alwyn played the role of Baron Masham in the 2018 period piece drama "The Favourite," and Swift called the film "absolutely phenomenal" the day before its release.
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That's present in The Personal History of David Copperfield, but unlike his 2017 TIFF premiere The Death of Stalin, Copperfield is a gentler, less biting period piece.
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A period piece set in the '40s, its two seasons tell a single, compelling story about the Manhattan Project and the construction of the first atomic bomb.
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I was so excited when I realized that this season was going to be treating 113 in the period piece way that we've been treating the '90s.
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Ryder Rating: 6/10, would've been better had the witches won... Sheesh, I was not about this other, earlier period piece starring Ryder opposite Daniel Day-Lewis.
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While the time period is different, there's a bit of a Mad Men vibe here: a distinctly stylized period piece, a focus on sexism, and lots of drinking.
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After all, the Ryan Murphy-Brad Falchuk period piece already made history by hiring more trans performers for its series regular cast than any other TV show ever.
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It's without a doubt a handsomely made period piece, if a bit of a slog, but it remains to be seen whether it'll have traction beyond Oldman's accomplishments.
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Stone and Colman were in London to promote The Favourite, a lavish period piece set in the early 18th century when England was at war with the French.
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After a quick glimpse of Oh in this world, all we can think about is watching her absolutely kill it in a historical period piece of her own.
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This is a period piece (set during World War I), evoking Captain America: The First Avenger, one of the finest Marvel movies, and it also features Chris Pine.
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I thought shooting a period piece that's a comedy sounded really fun, and it's really rare to come across a movie like that that's getting made right now.
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It's wartime period-piece setting placed it apart from the rest of the films as a standalone story, in spite of the bookends tying it back to Justice League.
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Ladies of London's Julie Montagu is sharing inside Mapperton House, her incredible 400-year-old family estate that looks as if it was plucked from an English period piece.
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Based on a true story, the period piece tells the incredible tale of "Operation Anthropoid," the code name for a Czechoslovakian-led mission to assassinate SS officer Reinhard Heydrich.
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It's a carefully researched period piece set in 1825 about a young Irish convict, Clare (Aisling Franciosi), who has been sent to live out her sentence in remote Tasmania.
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Unlike the other hyper-male prestige shows of its era, Deadwood was a period piece, less about the way we are, and more about the burdens of shared history.
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Pope's Homer read like Homer when it was published, although the idea of reading ancient Greek verse in strict rhymed couplets seems to us a brilliant Augustan period piece.
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Hayao Miyazaki developed and co-wrote the screenplay for this bouncy period piece, set in early-1960s Yokohama and revolving around a boardinghouse that overlooks the city's busy harbor.
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"Cream just makes everyone look like they have a lovely natural glow, because powder blush can be a bit heavy for when you're doing a period piece," she says.
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Though it shares a lot of DNA with del Toro's The Devil's Backbone and Pan's Labyrinth, Tigers Are Not Afraid is a contemporary story, rather than a period piece.
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The Favourite is a period piece starring Emma Stone, Olivia Colman, Rachel Weisz, Nicholas Hoult, and Joe Alwyn about two cousins competing to be the most beloved by Queen Anne.
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Al-Mansour's follow-up film, Mary Shelley, may be a period piece set in 19th century England and France, but, like Wadjda, Mary is dissuaded from pursuing what she loves.
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Nate Parker – who won the breakthrough director of the year award at the convention – writes, produces and stars in the powerful period piece, which dramatizes Nat Turner's 1831 slave rebellion.
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Created by Dana Calvo, the perfectly decent 1960s period piece about women journalists trying to achieve equal pay was canceled only five weeks after its first season dropped on Amazon.
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His macho bluster now seems a period piece—influenced by Ernest Hemingway and Nelson Algren, and paralleled by the antics of Ellison's contemporaries like Norman Mailer and Hunter S. Thompson.
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In Colette, the author — played with sharp mischievousness by period piece queen Keira Knightley — gradually wades into her sexuality in free-thinking (and sexually free) turn-of-the-century Paris.
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TNT has found (or maybe stumbled into) a fertile limited-series niche with sensational crime yarns -- first "The Alienist," and now another handsome period piece with a serial killer hook.
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The powerful period piece has already generated some serious Oscar buzz after winning the grand jury prize and audience award at Sundance — where its screening received a raucous standing ovation.
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Keira Knightley has become famous for her period piece dramas (Pride and Prejudice, Atonement, Anna Karenina, even Pirates of the Caribbean) but this is a wholly different role for her.
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A longtime favorite of champions of the Russian director Aleksei German (1938-2013), this bleak, vulgar and suffocating-by-design 1998 period piece is only now getting a formal release.
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In its early scenes, "Frantz" sustains the mood of a solemn, romantic period piece whose dignified melancholy is deepened by Philippe Rombi's Mahler-influenced soundtrack, sighing discreetly in the background.
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Our definition of what it means to be a "working stiff" has changed so much in such a short time that The Belko Experiment ends up seeming like a period piece.
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Obviously the sequel has the potential to go anywhere and do anything (Higher, further, faster, baby!), but small clues peppered in to the movie make the case for another period piece.
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Returns Friday, September 23, on Amazon Prime If the absence of Downton Abbey has left a sudsy-British-period-piece-shaped hole in your TV viewing schedule, Poldark is your show.
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And a period piece wouldn't be complete without stunning costumes: the trailer leaves us with chills over the long gothic gowns and beautiful neck ruffs that were popular in the 1600s.
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"I didn't think it was going to get picked up because it was on AMC and they had no TV shows and it was a period piece," she admitted to E!
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It would be wrong to suggest that Carol, a big-budget period piece about white lesbians, has more intrinsic value than Moonlight, a low budget contemporary story about black gay men.
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But it was the period piece Shakespeare in Love, with its 13 nominations, that would shock Hollywood by bringing home Best Picture in one of the more memorable recent Oscar upsets.
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Austin says that he's writing a screenplay pitch for a "period piece," a love story; Lee says that he's made art, too, then talks about robbing local houses and, later, dogfighting.
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It's a period piece that's almost reverential, while also lodging critiques of both convent life and the reforms that greatly reduced the number of women who felt compelled to live it.
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Written and directed by Jonah Hill, this film wants to be less a period piece than a time capsule, an immersion in the sights and sound of a pop-cultural moment.
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"The Post" may look like a period piece, as it dramatizes how the 1971 publication of the leaked Pentagon Papers exposed government efforts to mislead the public about the Vietnam War.
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Yet despite a thoroughly modern central character, this impeccably costumed, wishy-washy period piece feels like it emerged from a PBS storage trunk, wrapped in tissue paper and reeking of mothballs.
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It's a carefully researched period piece set in 1825 and centered on a young Irish convict, Clare (Aisling Franciosi), who has been sent to live out her sentence in remote Tasmania.
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While the period piece, premiering Sunday, April 8, is very much exactly what you expect it to be — a gorgeous British dissection of humanity — it is also a bit of a surprise.
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It helps that Weisberg is a former member of the CIA (really!), but memory is imperfect, and as the leaders of a period piece that prizes itself on accuracy, that won't do.
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According to Deadline, Kate Winslet has joined Avatar 2, meaning that she'll once again be directed by James Cameron, that guy who made the period piece about that ill-fated cruise ship.
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This included some concern for the up and coming 26-year-old actor who just so happens to be filming the Queen Anne period piece The Favorite, starring Swift's friend Emma Stone.
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On Tuesday, A24 dropped the first trailer for Eggers's upcoming second film, The Lighthouse, a creepy, black-and-white period piece about two lighthouse keepers played by Robert Pattinson and Willem Dafoe.
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I spoke with Webb about how he brings that experience forward into Mafia III, a game that also finds itself torn between two identities: pulpy revenge story and racially aware period piece.
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Also in this section, an upbeat 22 promotional film produced by the Automatic Voting Machine Corporation is a real period piece (as seen from our era of hanging chads and hacking fears).
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Some two decades later, that still hasn't happened, which makes "Take Me Out" less of a period piece than might be presumed — and thus, more urgent now than when it was conceived.
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At the ceremony tonight in New York, Mr. Jenkins's adaptation of James Baldwin's novel will compete with "The Favourite," a British period piece, and "First Reformed," a religion-centered drama, among others.
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What it is: This period piece horror movie, dripping with menace, has received tremendous reviews for its story of a family who encounters something terrible in the remote wilderness of Colonial America.
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Ryan Murphy and company have created a mid-80s period piece for people who miss the blood-drench horror of '70s and '80s, served with a dash of psychotic serial killer motivation.
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James Francos one and two are the centerpiece of a whole world of bizarre, period-piece facial hair, and the latest in what the paranoid could point out as a trend for HBO.
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He also wears the sort of leather jacket that has the hood of a sweatshirt sewn into it, one of many jackets in the film that suggest maybe it is a period piece.
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Rachel Weisz playing a mysterious, possibly murderous love interest in a period piece sounds awesome, and this trailer makes My Cousin Rachel look really great, too, with wonderful landscapes and moody candlelit encounters.
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The Oscar-winning period piece is just the latest film Matthew Hoffman has reinvented with the help of his friends at a local retirement center as part of his Tuesdays with Matthew series.
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Outside of the writing itself, the most significant aspects of the pre-production process — and this is especially true for The Americans, given that it's a period piece — are research and fact checking.
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Amazon Prime is here with just the show that will quench your thirst for all things deeply British and deeply political with another based-on-true-events period piece A Very English Scandal.
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But the gains made in gay rights threaten to make "Falsettos" a period piece, something its creators and cast have been forced to consider as they restage a classic for a new era.
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Created by Mr. Simon and George Pelecanos, it's a 1970s and '80s period piece about the entwined histories of Times Square and the pornography industry, starring James Franco (playing twins) and Maggie Gyllenhaal.
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Mr. Branagh's solution was to modify, and sometimes entirely change, character and plot details in ways that may dismay purists but that he felt would give the period piece a more contemporary resonance.
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In notes distributed at the movie's premiere, Mekas, who died last year at 96, called it his "meditation on love and death in a period of darkness," and "Guns" is a period piece.
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At moments, the mini-series feels like dreamy steampunk thanks to sputtering machinery and fussy mustaches — and Santos-Dumont's own interest in Jules Verne — but it's more of a romantically composed period piece.
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Cary Fukunaga, the director behind True Detective season one, returns to haunting murder cases with The Alienist, a period piece about a secret investigation into murders of child sex workers in 1890s New York.
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Chloë Sevigny and Kristen Stewart star in this period piece drama / horror film based off the true story of Lizzie Borden, who's believed to have murdered her father and step mother with a hatchet.
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In the period piece, the two are travelers from America in Europe and end up in a post-World War I Paris where they are chosen to star in a movie about, yes, psychics.
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Already, the most infamous comment on varying states of enlightenment—Donald Rumsfeld's meditation on "known unknowns"—reads like a period piece, a set of remarks one could never imagine issuing from an Obama official.
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In grasping the weirdness of this movie, it's as good a place to start as any, but to be fair to Damon, there is much that's off about this nutty period-piece monster movie.
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In Les Blank's documentary Burden of Dreams, Werner Herzog—then in the process of filming his epic period piece Fitzcarraldo deep in the Peruvian jungle—rants against the "obscenity" of his lushly overgrown surroundings.
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At the ceremony tonight in New York, Mr. Jenkins's adaptation of James Baldwin's novel will compete with "The Favourite," a British period piece, and "First Reformed," a drama about a tormented pastor, among others.
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The garments (save for the platform sneakers) are skimpy enough that each could fit individually inside an envelope, but the sheer yardage of fabrics on display rivals any Oscar-bait Regency-era period piece.
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Pitt won the Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role statue during the 2020 Oscars for his work as Cliff Booth in Quentin Tarantino's period piece, Once Upon A Time In... Hollywood.
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Because Austen didn't finish the novel, there's a lot of potential to dive into each of the characters' stories which puts the period piece into the perfect position for modern viewers: possible multiple seasons.
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He broke in as burnout Daniel Desario (a stoned update of Henry Winkler's Arthur Fonzarelli from Happy Days) on Freaks and Geeks—the clichéd but beloved high school period piece cancelled after one season.
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As with any period piece based on real people — this one spans five decades — the costumes and makeup of the time in Fosse/Verdon will help the actors look like the real people they're playing.
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When the Amazon Studios banner appeared onscreen, the Eccles crowd cheered, signaling the arrival of another legitimate player in the indie space (even if the fizzy period piece doesn't read much like an awards contender).
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"Legion" isn't a period piece — it seems to exist in a time of its own — but it looks a little as if Stanley Kubrick in 1968 were directing "The Prisoner" with 21st-century visual effects.
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The problem arises when this type of defense is used as a knee-jerk retort every time someone questions why a period piece is told as though women, people of color and others hardly existed.
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"If somebody's aware you're looking for Japanese actors that could play a period piece, you don't [want fans to] figure out or discuss how that world is now fitting into Westworld," Papsidera told the Huffington Post.
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While the chaos in Tulsa swirls and as squids fall from the sky, Irons's character is living in a lavish mansion roleplaying an affluent period piece — an Upstairs Downstairs fantasy with a ... staff of robot clones?
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The real trouble, they told me — and this is true of any good period piece — comes when they start connecting stories to events they think are period-appropriate, only to have the research prove them wrong.
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It's an ideal way to appreciate the attention to detail that Todd Haynes brought to this 1950s period piece, not to mention Sandy Powell's costumes and the freighted glances cast between Rooney Mara and Cate Blanchett.
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THE FAVOURITE Yorgos Lanthimos ("The Lobster") brings his absurdist wit to an 22000th-century period piece — a dark comedy about cousins (Rachel Weisz and Emma Stone) who compete for the favor of Queen Anne (Olivia Colman).
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From the start, the comparisons to The Witch seem clear: It's another atmospheric period piece, another gloomy New England folk tale, another horror movie built around the terror of other people instead of some outside boogyman.
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Its first Broadway revival (in previews, at the Walter Kerr), directed by Lapine and starring Rannells, Christian Borle, and Stephanie J. Block, will be a period piece, but when it was written it was breaking news.
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The film — a Dee Rees-directed period piece examining the lives of two Mississippi families, one black and the other white, circa World War II — is filled with gritty visuals brought to life by Ms. Morrison.
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Mudbound is a period piece, set in the American South after World War II. Two families struggle against social hierarchy and try to keep their families alive as their dreams of farming fade before their eyes.
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Tilly was at the height of her career in the late '80s and early '90s when she met a then up-and-coming actor named Colin Firth on the Parisian set of their 1989 period piece, Valmont.
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Ryan Murphy's final series for FX (before leaving for Netflix) is this delightful, warm '80s period piece about drag ball culture of the era and the idea of found families among people all across the LGBT spectrum.
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But for a certain breed of cinema fans, it was a stunning project — a beautifully realized period piece, impeccably written and acted, with highly controlled design that spoke to a filmmaker obsessed with getting the details right.
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For the ceremony, Bush chose a period piece apropos burgundy gown from Marchesa, which features a deep-V neckline embellished with lace appliqués throughout the bodice that turn into rows of fringe cascading down the column skirt.
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Earning the kind of raves for a horror movie not seen since "It Follows," the period piece "The Witch" takes audiences back to the days when people thought covens were not just the stuff of spooky stories.
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As a whole, Good Girls Revolt mostly seems impressed with itself for its commitment to being a period piece (to its credit, it frequently looks gorgeous) and daring to Go There, even if it never truly does.
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But neither the strippers nor that line nor even Lil Wayne's verse is enough to rescue this song, which will go down in history as an odd period piece, just as we are discussing it right now.
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Whether you're looking for political maneuvering, tense domestic drama, something to satisfy your intense period-piece craving or you just want to look at some seriously stunning costumes and scenery, there's plenty to sink your teeth into.
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It's scary and tense, and very much a period piece, a late-90s survival horror game (set squarely in the later Clinton era, with dollar gallons of gas and chunky computers) now boasting some modern design niceties.
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The series, adapted by writers Beatrix Christian and Alice Addison, immediately feels distinct from the film version, though it is still set in 1900 and is an incredibly detailed period piece down to the last lace glove.
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Two series — which premiere on Friday, March 20 — stand as tentpoles of the deluge: bonkers docuseries Tiger King and period piece miniseries Self Made, which is inspired by the life of historical hair mogul Madam C.J. Walker.
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From a political point of view, the desired outcome of "The Handmaid's Tale" would have been that it would fade into obscurity as a period piece, so that my dire warnings would not prove to be correct.
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One episode, based on Parton's 2002 ballad "These Old Bones," is a poignant period piece starring Kathleen Turner as a backwoods fortune teller; another casts the "Dancing With the Stars" champion Julianne Hough as a contemporary Jolene.
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The earliest, and in many ways the most straightforward and the most romantic, is Elizabeth Marie Pope's The Perilous Gard, which was written in 1974; it's a period piece filled with spooky Elizabethan castles and underground caves.
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For every take on contemporary chart hits there's a genre-specific collection, or a tribute to the dance music of a particular city, or a period piece — that is, if "the '70s and '80s" counts as a period.
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His models wore giant straw hats and, leg-of-mutton sleeves, and came down the runway to the schmaltzy orchestral theme from "Jean de Florette," the Gérard Depardieu period piece from the 1980s — French cheese at its ripest.
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Lady Bird—Greta Gerwig's Oscar-nominated coming-of-age story starring Saoirse Ronan—may technically be a "period piece," since the thing is set in 2002 or whatever, but that's not exactly what the phrase calls to mind.
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THE FAVOURITE Yorgos Lanthimos ("The Lobster") brings his absurdist wit to an 18th-century period piece — a dark comedy about the two women (Rachel Weisz and Emma Stone) who compete for the favor of Queen Anne (Olivia Colman).
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Leonardo DiCaprio, "Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood": DiCaprio took four years to follow up his Oscar-winning role in "The Revenant," and as the fading actor Rick Dalton in Quentin Tarantino's period piece he's funny and poignant.
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You can match your subtitles to the content on your screen with new fonts, colors and text effects — or just make everything really weird by watching a period piece matched with a font that looks just like Comic Sans.
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A moment of praise for the low-budget indie Western: If you can successfully execute a period piece for $2,000,000, as Kelly Reichardt (Certain Women, Night Moves, Old Joy) here manages to do with flying colors, you're basically unfuckwithable.
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It's possible to imagine a modern Death Wish as everything from a period piece to a generic action vehicle, although given Roth's history with films like '70s cannibal horror homage The Green Inferno, it hopefully won't be the latter.
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One of the key details revealed during the presentation was that the movie will be a period piece set in the 1990s, a timeframe that will set it apart from most of the other films in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
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Everything is up in the air this season, so Phantom Thread is likely a contender for Best Director and Best Picture, but as a period piece set in the fashion world, it's also a shoo-in for Best Costume Design. —M.
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When you hear Sherman-Palladino herself speak about her dreams for Maisel, it becomes clear why so many women needed to be working on set, beyond the fact we make everything better: the period piece is a deeply woman-first show.
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That this scene is now basically a period piece, an unlikely or impossible scenario for anyone who isn't super-soaked in privilege is a fact that I both know all about and absolutely do not know what to do with.
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Created by the writing and directing team of Matt and Ross Duffer, the show is a period piece set in 1983 that follows the disappearance of a 12-year-old boy — and the dark secrets about the town it uncovers.
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" She points out that, from a political point of view, "the desired outcome of 'The Handmaid's Tale' would have been that it would fade into obscurity as a period piece, so that my dire warnings would not prove to be correct.
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Sofia Coppola has put together a dream team of actresses — Nicole Kidman, Kirsten Dunst, and Elle Fanning — for The Beguiled, a period piece about how a Southern all-female boarding school reacts when a Union soldier (played by Colin Farrell) shows up.
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But in his more serious roles, like in the spy thriller MI-5, Western period piece Brimstone, or Toronto Film Festival flop The Death and Life of John F. Donovan, Harington's performances are still haunted by the ghost of stony-faced Jon Snow.
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The series looks kind of odd from this first trailer — a little undecided on whether it's focused on comedy or drama, aware of but not great when it comes to sexism and privilege, and maybe a touch under-budget for a period piece.
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Robbie and Ronan — who were both nominated for Best Actress at this year's Oscars — are at odds in Mary Queen of Scots, a period piece centered of the lives of Queen Mary of Scotland and Queen Elizabeth I in the mid-1500s.
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All the shows and movies you should be looking out for As usual, my girlfriend and I were looking for a Keira Knightley period piece the other week when we learned, to immense disappointment, that Pride & Prejudice is no longer on Netflix.
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In the middle of its third season, Masters of Sex — Showtime's period piece retelling of the story of sex researchers William Masters and Virginia Johnson — seemed like it would never return to the promise of its first season, much less fulfill that promise.
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This television interruptus technique doesn't feel like a gimmick on Fleabag, which is a show all about spiraling down the drain of a single woman's messy interior life, but it does feel a bit forced in the context of the period piece.
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A period piece, a modern setting, an elaborate dystopian future; these weren't storytelling choices, they were meant to signify the ways in which we are doomed to repeat the same conflicts, with the decades and scapegoats mere details, in a tragic unending story.
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Netflix just dropped the first teaser trailer for it upcoming period piece The King, featuring the Oscar-nominated actor playing King Henry V as he struggles to embrace the life of a royal after spending most of his life away from it.
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Nonfiction Julian Fellowes may be adapting the "Downton Abbey" formula to a stateside setting, but why wait for his late-19th-century period piece, "The Gilded Age," when you can escape right now into the well-apportioned drawing rooms of the past?
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And given that a traffic stop can lead to an African-American driver's death, this raises the question: Despite a Hollywood film that presented the subject as a period piece, how far removed are we from the days of the Green Book?
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After all, "Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice" is often (incorrectly) remembered today as a smirky period piece, with that notorious ad that showed its four stars — Robert Culp, Natalie Wood, Elliott Gould and Dyan Cannon — sharing a bed and presumably naked beneath the sheets.
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As in Netflix's "Sex Education," set in a British idea of an American high school, "Okay" is full of 1980s music cues, both soundtrack and diegetic, to the extent that I had to double back and make sure it wasn't a period piece.
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Legion may be set in the present (or maybe not — its time period is left intentionally vague), but half its scenes, particularly those in the hospital and in David's sister's house, could have been plucked from a period piece set in the '60s or '70s.
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Rewind "Women in Love," directed by Ken Russell from the playwright and activist Larry Kramer's adaptation of D. H. Lawrence's 1920 novel, is a double period piece — set in the aftermath of World War I and evocative of the late 1960s, when it was made.
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Because white type on a black background can look harsh and overly digital — not ideal for a period piece — Marmatakis designed each block of text on his computer, printed it out, and then took a brush and water to the type, blurring the edges a bit.
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Still, there is plenty to love in the updated series, as Anne With an E also works to incorporate gay characters and black people into the type of period piece that traditionally has refused to even acknowledge the existence of anyone who isn't white and straight.
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As you all know, this New Trailers column is also the home of the internet's largest Keira Knightley period piece fan club, so we are obviously very excited about this new film that seems to be almost exclusively filled with longing gazes and troubled reaction shots.
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This becomes an especially complicated job for people who work on a period piece like Feud — which wrapped its Bette and Joan season on April 23 — in which they have to consider things like historical accuracy when creating photogenic sets and finding (or fabricating) period-appropriate props.
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Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara co-star in this period piece about a forbidden love in the 1950s, but what could easily have been a sappy and cliché love story is an altogether sharp, thrilling romance in the capable hands of Velvet Goldmine director Todd Haynes.
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Though it's especially alarming to watch at this current moment, Loro is a period piece, a mostly imagined look behind the scenes at Berlusconi's milieu during the mid-aughts, after one of his falls from power, as he plotted and bribed his way to the next rise.
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These difficult questions, paired with the sumptuous, nearly obsessive period piece details of Alienist's Gilded Age New York City setting, prove in a TV landscape filled to the brim with ultra-calculating murderers, the Daniel Brühl and Dakota Fanning-starrer, premiering January 22, is worthy of your obsession.
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FX has ordered a pilot for "Pose," a period piece set in the mid-'80s in New York City, examining the juxtaposition of several segments of life and society in Manhattan: the emergence of the luxury Trump-era universe, the ball culture world, and downtown social and literary scene.
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While series like Atlanta, Barry, and Glow had quite a bit of buzz going into Emmys night, Amazon Video's period piece newbie, about a wealthy 1950s housewife named Miriam "Midge" Maisel (Rachel Brosnahan) turning to stand-up comedy after her husband's marriage-ending affair, performed an admirable coup.
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There are so many ways the third season of FX's esteemed anthology series could go wrong — especially as the show abandons the '70s period piece grandeur of its second season for a story set in 2010, with what seem to be minimal connections to the first two seasons.
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Jhabvala's script was inspired by the 1947 diaries of a real-life actor-manager, Geoffrey Kendal, but its brilliance lies in her turning what could have been a nostalgic period piece about the end of empire into a coming-of-age tale centered on the family's teen-age daughter.
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You could almost mistake the series for a nostalgic period piece, as when a bushy-bearded Zachary Levi ("Chuck") enters as a silver-tongued peddler, or when Grace befriends Mary (Rebecca Liddiard), a feisty, politically aware servant who fatefully attracts the interest of one of her employer's sons.
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This, it turns out, is the trouble with working on fictional tech innovations in a beautifully made period piece: You can't invent anything that changes history, and viewers will always know what real-life company is lurking a few months into the future, waiting to steal your thunder.
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Polarization was even reflected in a battle royale among movie reviewers: Four members of the New York Film Critics Circle threatened to resign after the period piece "The Lion in Winter," a stodgy slice of Oscar-bait, edged out John Cassavetes's raw, ultracontemporary "Faces" for the year's best movie.
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Hartmann's opera has been on the radar of researchers, dramaturges and cultural historians for years as something like a "lost" work — though it was not actually lost, but just biding time and looking like the kind of period-piece that is fascinating but not easy to dust off.
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Less didactic than Neill Blomkamp's 2009 sci-fi apartheid allegory District 9 (which she cites as an influence) but even more culturally urgent than a period piece like Pan's Labyrinth, Tigers Are Not Afraid isn't an easy watch, despite the sense of earned catharsis it offers by the end.
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Benjamin enters each sibling's head sequentially, giving the book a four-act structure, with each act functioning as a period piece: Here is the queer scene in San Francisco in the early '80s; note the AIDS crisis lurking in the background (in a slightly rote and predictable fashion).
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"My co-writer, Kevin Willmott, who took the job, knew that as storytellers, we had to put stuff in the film that connected to the present day so that people would not just look at us as a period piece, a history lesson," Lee explained at the "BlacKkKlansman" press junket.
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That's because it, like those TV shows, is a period piece, in this instance one set during World War II. Mr. Hopkins plays Sir, a venerable stage actor touring England with productions of Shakespeare held together with string and chewing gum, since so many younger actors have gone into the military.
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"Alias Grace," meanwhile, is a six-part period piece based on the unsolvable mystery of a poor housemaid (Sarah Gadon) who either abetted the murders of her boss and his housekeeper/lover (Anna Paquin), or was sacrificed by Victorian moralists for being a little too free, a little too desirable.
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"To see Asians and Asian Americans and Asian Australians and Asian British in a context that isn't, like, a period piece, like, a dated piece — contemporary people with contemporary problems, and not just the idea of an Asian, but their real lives," Wu told Entertainment Weekly during the cover shoot for the movie.
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So as this fourth-network scenario came true in America — along with cable TV and the present-day onslaught of premium channels and the comfortably numbing power of quality shows on HBO, Showtime, Netflix and others — "Network" has remained not just a period piece but an almost psychically inspired glimpse into the future.
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The hip-hop connection continues to this day, captured in the movies "Roll Bounce," a 2005 period piece starring the rapper Lil' Bow Wow, and "ATL," a 2006 comedy-drama with T.I. The music video for "Theme Music," released this year by Fabolous, Jadakiss and Swizz Beatz, featured skaters from Branch Brook.
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The director was at the peak of his film-a-year experimental phase, and what seemed on the surface like a steamy art film starring adult actress Sasha Grey as a high-class escort ended up being an elliptical documentary-style period piece about the 2008 recession that left many critics irritated and bored.
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"My co-writer, Kevin Willmott, who took the job, knew that as storytellers, we had to put stuff in the film that connected to the present day, so that people would not just look at us as a period piece, a history lesson," Lee told Fox News during the "BlacKkKlansman" press junket in New York.
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It seems to be a bit more than just a "part of the world" that the hero sees, and while The Sinking City is a period piece, some of the ways it highlights the racist themes of its source material are more than a little resonant of how we encounter racism and xenophobia today.
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"Because our show is set in modern day, not a period piece we always felt it was important to use modern/current songs along with the '80s material however we wanted to make sure the modern songs lived in the world — by that I mean tone, instrumentation, vibe," 13 Reasons Why's music supervisor, Season Kent, tells Refinery29.
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The Favourite is a historical drama that plays with convention, both in story and technique: there are white powdered wigs and gorgeous corseted gowns galore, but also an absolutely batshit dance sequence, and fish-eyed lens shots that make the whole thing feel more like Alice in Wonderland post-"Drink Me" potion than a staid period piece.
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It can be maddening for movie lovers not living on either coast, but the vast majority of viewers have been made to wait weeks for such critical darlings as Martin Scorsese's virtuosic religious epic Silence, Jim Jarmusch's low-key existential sestina Paterson, Mike Mills's period piece (pun intended) 20th Century Women, or the righteous, barrier-breaker Hidden Figures.
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After overcoming the mid-century period-piece retro look of the exhibition that recalled the dopey visual muzak of psychedelic light shows and the uncomfortable space-age haute couture of Paco Rabanne, I nonetheless found it stylistically relevant enough to engage my mind with ideas around our increasingly intelligent, competent, malicious and aesthetically-capable software-driven reality.
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The film, directed and cowritten by production designer turned filmmaker Robert Eggers, who made his directorial debut with 2015's Puritan period piece The Witch, deftly blends elements of horror, fantasy, and comedy as it follows two lighthouse keepers who find themselves stranded on a remote island in New England circa 1890 and slowly begin losing their minds.
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Give us a Grudge prequel period piece next year or Grudge in Space the year after or a post-apocalyptic Grudge about how the last few Grudge survivors have to be really, really, nice to each other to avoid someone dying while sad or mad and igniting the curse again, like some kind of extremely courteous version of A Quiet Place!
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Now a period piece, "Losing Ground" (out on Blu-ray and DVD from Milestone) seems also to be an anomaly — not just because Ms. Collins's only feature-length film was among the first directed by an African-American woman or because "Negro" is the preferred term of self-description for the middle-class professionals at the center of her film.
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Although it is something of a period piece, Jud Yalkut's "Destruct Film," from 1967, deserves mention as the show's most physical environment: Its floor is strewn with pieces of film (walk on them, handle them, hold them to the light), while its walls blink with projected movies that include the Fluxus deities Charlotte Moorman and Nam June Paik in performance.
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This detailed period piece starring Mary J Blige, Carey Mulligan, Jason Mitchell, and Garrett Hedlund partly shows how "loving someone else can be a tool for survival," Rees explains, as she explores the dynamic between the families and the friendship of two men who have survived the ravages of World War II to return to life in the Mississippi Delta.
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Even if we don't swear all off all past Weinstein projects, Blakley recommends we add the three Weinstein Company films slated for release in 2018 to a list of movies worth avoiding: The Current War, a period piece about Thomas Edison starring Benedict Cumberbatch, The Upside, an American adaptation of the French film The Intouchables, and Mary Magdalene, a film in which Joaquin Phoenix plays Jesus.
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Try "Adore", a Philadelphia soul ballad and/or precisely crafted period piece so achingly tender it makes your late-'60s/early-'70s harmony group of choice sound pathetically insincere by comparison — Prince is that much sexier, that much schlockier, and even masterpieces like the Stylistics' "You Are Everything" and the Delfonics' "La-La Means I Love You" don't quite melt into the stars with such stylized passion.
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It's a shame that Steve Carell was nominated for his very, extremely Michael Scott-y turn in Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris's Battle of the Sexes—partially because his performance in the film represents the diminishing returns of a side of Carell we've seen one too many times, and partially because he had a much better showing in Richard Linklater's critically sniffed-at mid-aughts period piece.
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This retrospective showcases a wide range of African-American filmmakers who made enduring work in the 1990s, whether it was Julie Dash with the ethereal period piece "Daughters of the Dust" (on Saturday), Kasi Lemmons with the child's-eye Southern-gothic melodrama "Eve's Bayou" (on Sunday, with Lemmons in person, and on Tuesday) or F. Gary Gray with the raucous comedy "Friday" (on May 10).
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Drawing connections between an artist's life and work can be a fool's business, but it's fair to say that Baumbach knows the contours of divorce quite well: He has said that the split between his parents, a literary novelist and a film critic, informed "The Squid and the Whale," an '80s period piece told through the eyes of a Brooklyn teenager who misplaces his resentment.
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It includes the San Francisco-set mystery "Chan Is Missing" (showing on Tuesday), in which a cabdriver and his nephew search for a man who appears to have absconded with their savings; and the period piece "Eat a Bowl of Tea" (on Monday), which takes place in New York after World War II wherein an American veteran (Russell Wong) enters into an arranged marriage with a Chinese bride (Cora Miao).
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Talking about how middle-class values cheapen the lives of others whose realities are more vulnerable or complicated, Strike thinks: But while the Potter books benefitted from a combination of historical specificity (the entire series is a period piece about the cruel plutocratic revanchism that defined the Thatcher era) and troublingly simplistic analogy (house elves!), the Strike series struggles with the vague and under-considered liberalism of its author.
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In its radical commitments and rebellious spirit, the show easily dovetails with Soulèvements, which was at the Jeu de Paume last fall, in its fringe consortium, with Beat Generation at the Centre Pompidou, in its dependence on period-piece presentation, with The Velvet Underground: New York Extravaganza, which was at the Philharmonie de Paris last summer, and to the archival Europunk (19893–21989), which took place at Cité de la Musique a few years ago.
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In contrast with the previous few ceremonies, Boyle chose to use a lot of physical props, and initially the stadium's floor was covered with a theatrical green countryside that represented each kingdom in the UK. The program began as a period piece set to a pulsing modern soundtrack that focused on the Industrial Revolution, and found the Olympic rings forming above the stadium and burning with fire as though they were welded together (a famous image from these games).
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While Downton writer and creator Julian Fellowes has two projects in the pipeline – a miniseries, Dr. Thorne, and a show for NBC, The Gilded Age, fans still have a bit to wait until those will hit their screens (Gilded Age has been said to be aiming for a 2017 release, while Dr. Thorne may be coming at the end of the year.) In the meantime, here are 2001 movies, TV shows and miniseries that will quench your period piece thirst.
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"Slow Love" fashions a replicated musical period piece complete with piano bedrock, restrained drums not so much driving as following the melody, and sappy strings swathing the whole thing in a cozy, syrupy blanket, then adds a historically anachronistic saxophone that, without turning the song into swing, after the first chorus continues to solo in the background for pretty much the rest of the song, swelling up with liquid joy at each subsequent chorus and sometimes commenting on Prince's vocal line.
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Even the weather was starting to turn Russian in Washington last week, as the creators and cast of " The Americans " rolled into town to celebrate the launch of the show's final season on FX. When the series, a period piece about a family of spies from the Soviet Union living under deep cover as ordinary suburbanites, premièred, five years ago, it had the cheery glow of the eighties—the cars were boxy, the computers clunky, and it was always morning in America.
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Friday marked a new milestone for Ronan: the release of director Josie Rourke's Mary Queen of Scots, in which she stars as the titular matriarch across from Margot Robbie as her royal competitor—and cousin—Queen Elizabeth I. The historically revisionist period piece is tailored for our time: rather than simply portraying Mary as a cold-hearted queen (as she's typically depicted), it shows her as a young woman in politics learning to exercise her immense, newfound power while also grappling with being a political pawn herself.
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