It's not the kind of territory most period pieces have tread, mostly because period pieces don't normally center on the lives of women who are actually in power.
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You often do contemporary work, more so than period pieces.
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We plan to paint our walls and film period pieces.
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And the songs are never simply period pieces or party tunes.
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The residence contains a few period pieces, none of Lincoln's ownership.
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But many of the lyrics insist that iLe's songs aren't period pieces.
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Like many period pieces, everything about the film oozes a kind of grandiosity.
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Keira Knightley, for example, loves to play wealthy women in a period pieces.
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Certain genres, like fantasy or period pieces, don't lend themselves to product placement.
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Keira Knightley period pieces are 100 percent my thing, and this one looks great.
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"I don't go out for [casting calls for period pieces]," said actress Isabel Kanaan.
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From period pieces to comedies to contemporary dramas, it's a perfect streaming watch list.
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Period pieces are all about choosing what you're going to do with the candles.
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Period pieces — in TV or film — are inherently tricky because of the historical context.
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Just remember during your support or protests, Future's albums aren't just albums; they're period pieces.
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Downton Abbey An obvious choice for anyone who loves period pieces, England and big, elaborate houses.
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They aren't especially original, but they are forceful, tough-minded period pieces, and good to see.
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He wants more inclusivity in casting, which is often white by default, especially in period pieces.
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He specializes in making period pieces shot in "authentically amazing" locations, which could be outside Britain.
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Fans of "Outlander," meanwhile, fall into two camps, Hirsch said: they love period pieces or romances.
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Where this film distinguishes itself from other period pieces is in its dedication to humanizing female rulers.
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But period pieces, especially those about domestic lives, can also easily tip into dustiness or maudlin melodrama.
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The Americans also leans away, deliberately, from the nostalgia and smugness that so often define period pieces.
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As happens with most strong period pieces, these details highlight how things change, but people stay the same.
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Action series play into this, as do mysteries, dramas, period pieces, and every other genre under the sun.
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These are Oscar wins for the books, in categories that are historically reserved for white-cast period pieces.
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Like many period pieces, particularly those that take liberties with historical accuracy, The Favourite is a visual treat.
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Many artworks made just a few years or decades ago have not aged well; they look like period pieces.
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But to a degree, that's going to be factored in by fans of British period pieces like this one.
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There's the coloring, but I've also been doing a lot of period pieces, and they're always curling my hair.
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But for so long, the presence of a Black population in England has been completely left out of period pieces.
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In the past, diverse casting has been reserved for low-budget indie films and Oscar-aspiring period pieces and biopics.
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Feel-good fare such as "Bend It Like Beckham" and period pieces like "Atonement" have been screened in the past.
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And Ms. Rebeck's confidence as a storyteller in any case moots the historical infidelities that mar so many period pieces.
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Director Sofia Coppola has a way with stories about young women (The Virgin Suicides) and period pieces (Marie Antoinette) alike.
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At the same time, I consider his drawings of the 1940s to be more than just well-done period pieces.
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If you like period pieces, but sexy: "Outlander" (Starz), based on the series of novels about a time-traveling nurse in Scotland If you like period pieces, but sexy and royal: "The Spanish Princess" (Starz), about a young Catherine of Aragon (aka Myranda, Ramsay's girlfriend!) If you like period pieces, but sexy and royal and also with Natalie Dormer: "The Tudors" (Showtime), about the reign of young King Henry VIII If you like period pieces set on the other side of the pond featuring various kinds of hairiness and also Jason Momoa: "Frontier" (Netflix), about an outlaw trapper involved in the 1700s fur trade If you want a comfortable fantasy mainstay: The upcoming "Lord of the Rings" prequel TV show (Amazon Prime), set to premiere in 2021.
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This is the first time Ronan and Winslet will star in a movie together, though neither are strangers to period pieces.
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From the safe distance of the United States, or even England, it can seem as if these are simply period pieces.
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The dialogue hopscotches among Yiddish, English and German; the scenes among the Hasidim are essentially period pieces, meticulously designed and costumed.
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The dialogue hopscotches among Yiddish, English and German; the scenes among the Hasidim are essentially period pieces, meticulously designed and costumed.
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I love how Sofia Coppola keeps turning to period pieces to explore the lost, dissatisfied women her films are almost exclusively about.
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Not to mention all the adaptations and period pieces designed to make you get all misty-eyed remembering your own misspent youth.
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As for Knightley, she's still living her best life and portraying brave, young women in period pieces like her upcoming film, Collette.
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The joy and also challenge of period pieces are that they must take the past and sell it back to modern viewers.
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With spare interiors and light colors all the rage right now, selling a home filled with period pieces can be a challenge.
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Several nominees for the best picture title, including "Little Women" and Quentin Tarantino's "Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood," are period pieces.
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Alas, this Oscar almost always goes to royal period pieces, so I am predicting "The Favourite" will triumph in a close race.
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Twisting the cinematic aesthetic in order to deconstruct normalcy, they poke fun at everything from beauty pageants, commercial shoots, period pieces, and more.
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The actress, 32, opened up about how she chooses her movie roles, saying she prefers period pieces because women are simply treated better.
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Once you're made aware of this dashing intellectual with a penchant for period pieces, however, you'll be noticing him in just about everything.
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Before Guillermo del Toro was winning Oscars for fish sex period pieces, he brought Mike Mignola's darkly beautiful Hellboy comic books to life.
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Profile in Style Julien Dossena, the creative director of Paco Rabanne, is fueled by an unholy combination of period pieces and futuristic design.
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British actors of color are finding more roles in period pieces, including David Oyelowo in last year's PBS and BBC "Les Misérables" miniseries.
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When you look at period pieces like this, set in that era, usually women are demure, docile and don't have much of a voice.
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So it's trying to make more decisions geared directly toward winning back multiplex viewers, whose interest in fish-fucking period pieces was perhaps limited.
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Unlike the universal praise that gets heaped onto more traditionally "respectable" film-making enterprises like 3.5-hour period pieces, this one actually seemed cool.
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He's been equally at home directing small-budget romances and period pieces, big-budget war films, and the opening ceremony 2008 Olympics in Beijing.
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Period pieces are a great way to tell stories about past times and to see what life was like for those who came before us.
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Although his best books have never been merely lightweight eighties period pieces, the books set in that decade, and redolent of it, remain his strongest.
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The chance to fill every corner of their fictional Wakanda with the same level of craft and detail usually reserved for British-star-studded period pieces.
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The Best Costume Design category has largely become a space reserved to honor period pieces that take inspiration from old European or white American period dress.
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Outside of those royal period pieces, the best actress field remains robust: Of the four acting races, this one has the largest group of legitimate contenders.
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It's set in a brothel in London in the late 1700s, and while lots of period pieces seem hyper-miserable, "Harlots" is actually a lot fun.
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Adaptations of "Pride and Prejudice" (pictured), "Sense and Sensibility", "Persuasion" and "Emma", all of which hit the screens between 1995 and 1996, were full-frills period pieces.
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After unscrupulous dealers bought his early reproductions, removed the labels, artificially aged them and sold them as period pieces, he had his name burned into his pieces.
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Starring Olivia Colman as Queen Anne, Rachel Weisz as Sarah Jennings Churchill, and Emma Stone as Sarah's cousin Abigail, the story unfolds a bit differently than other period pieces.
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One, a favorite of misguided workplace dramas and period pieces about bold and angry men, is to ratchet up the interpersonal conflict as high and as fast as possible.
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You have so much power over everything that sometimes it can be super disturbing that you don't get what you expect, especially with period pieces where you design everything.
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Having both starred in different period pieces in their respective careers, channeling the glitz and glam of the 1920s in Babylon should be no problem for Stone and Pitt.
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Royal period pieces usually go a long way with this group, but Lanthimos films thrive on discomfort, and he isn't afraid to push "The Favourite" into some untraditional places.
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German TV has been coming on strong in the last several years, particularly with period pieces that explore the era of division between the country's East and West halves.
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A too often overlooked element of period pieces is dialogue, but Eggers, drawing on a host of primary sources, has consistently striven to make his films as accurate as possible.
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She has been encouraged to become acquainted with all kinds of casting agents but not to bother with the ones who work on period pieces like Reign or Murdoch Mysteries.
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Bhattacharya's journals are atmospheric period pieces, and his field recordings are mono but vivid and often raw, capturing music that was far more geographically and culturally isolated back in 220.
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And that was particularly true in two period pieces that seemed like funhouse mirror images of one another: Mary Queen of Scots and the much kookier and more transgressive The Favourite.
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British period pieces, Scandinavian crime dramas, sci-fi adventures, oddball dark comedies — tell us what you're in the mood for, and we'll help you find your next favorite show or movie.
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That film, and her 1993 Western, "The Ballad of Little Jo," were deeply feminist, unabashedly provocative stories about singular women battling the prejudices of their times; period pieces with contemporary resonance.
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One other motivating factor isn't really leaving behind something from the genre, but something from recent examples of the genre that I wanted to get away from: they're all period pieces.
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" The tall, blue-eyed actor frequently appeared in period pieces, subsequently playing an accursed knight opposite Michelle Pfeiffer in the movie "Ladyhawke," and a villainous rogue in the medieval drama "Flesh + Blood.
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I've mostly been watching Masters of Sex out of a skewed sense of completism all this time; I like period pieces, and this one seems closer to its end than its beginning.
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Having a history of working on period pieces, like Carol and American Hustle recently, what are some of the differences between working on movies and working on a TV show like Feud?
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Last summer, for instance, the Art Institute of Chicago played songs by Woody Guthrie and Sarah Vaughn and other period pieces in its "America After the Fall: Painting in the 1930s" exhibition.
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Read These Stories Next:Meet Your New Favorite TV Villain, Killing Eve's Jodie Comer The Terrifying Calabrian Mafia Group Likely Behind Paul Getty's Kidnapping Howards End Makes An Important Point About Feminist Period Pieces
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The need for more complicated and human roles for women of color in today's film and television is pretty obvious—but for historical accuracy in period pieces, diversity is conveniently not a concern.
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Based on literary source, bothare period pieces set in and around World War II, start with "A," and feature Knightley in a slinky silk evening gown — although Aftermath's is chartreuse to Atonement's emerald green.
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Winslet made her mark in Hollywood with the 1912-set Titanic and later starred in period pieces like Sense and Sensibility, Revolutionary Road and The Reader, for which she won a Best Actress Oscar.
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By virtue of being set in violently racist times so different than ours, period pieces unearth antiquated and deplorable race relations in which white people are powerful and other, non-white people are not.
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Each of these period pieces is overwhelmingly homogeneous when it comes to race, gender or both; the fact that they are set firmly in the past seemingly allows them to exist without much pushback.
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Read These Stories Next: All The Spring TV Shows You Need To Know About Howards End Makes An Important Point About Feminist Period Pieces Reese Witherspoon Is A Mom Whisperer In Her New Heartwarming Series
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Not that Ms. Maxwell was at home only in frothy period pieces, though like Ms. McDonald (and Christine Ebersole and Donna Murphy) she possessed an uncanny (and uncommon) affinity for the styles of other times.
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People who believe the above are often presented as dumb yokels on TV and in movies, and if you push further, racists and sexists are presented as outright villains or "behind the times" in period pieces.
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They're not consistent like IU, who remains the queen of Korean period pieces, but they come close, and sometimes the cognitive dissonance between their soulful, intimate whispers and the music's plastic surface has a thrill of its own.
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It's no surprise that just a few years later she'd bring her always-compelling performances to such lush, auteur-driven period pieces as Francis Ford Coppola's Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992) and Martin Scorsese's The Age of Innocence (1993).
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Moreover, the two have a great deal in common: Both are foreign-language period pieces set outside the US, which were shot in black and white, reflecting the latitude that comes with being relatively unfettered by traditional financial considerations.
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If you mainly know the Swedish actress from her prestige-drama roles and plum period pieces, this represents quite the change of pace – she's a bonafide action star in this one, racing and swinging and shooting her way through the jungle.
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That's because their credits include the semi-classic "Ed Wood," Tim Burton's ode to the schlock director, a similarly pitched period pieces that also focused on a guy laboring to produce low-budget movies while surrounded by colorful but quirky characters.
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This mandate came courtesy of Lanthimos, and it's a very different approach from the many period pieces in which actors' cheeks are mysteriously rosy, their skin shockingly clear, and their eyes suspiciously bright ("no makeup" makeup at its most deceptive).
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If you like period pieces with lots of violence, political intrigue, raven imagery and scenes shot in extremely low lighting: "Vikings" (The History Channel), about the Norse legends of Ragnar Lothbrook If you like period pieces with lots of violence, political intrigue and a handsome, brooding outcast looking to claim his rightful place in the world: "The Last Kingdom" (Netflix), based on the "Saxon Stories" novels about a Saxon noble who grows up as a Dane If you're a ride-or-die member of House Lannister: "The Borgias" (Showtime), about a treacherous family taking names and making money in Renaissance-era Italy.
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Unlike so many other revisionist period pieces, or even contemporary films which critiqued the culture at large, there's no baked-in atmosphere of midcentury sunniness which is then peeled back to reveal darkness beneath (racism, sexism, Cold War hysteria, or what have you).
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I'm not partial to any one thing — I don't just do historical films, I don't just do black films, period pieces, I want to be able to tell a plethora of stories in different genres whether it's sci-fi, different thrillers, action films.
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I wouldn't be at all surprised if this play, like Ms. Wade's previous works "Posh" and the Olivier Award-winning "Home, I'm Darling," finds a longer life still, not least among playgoers who like a bit of spice in their period pieces.
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I feel like we've come to think of the genre as this cloistered little hermetically sealed jewel box, and these stories end up always being either period pieces or "timeless" — if they talk about class, it's in the context of way back when in Britain.
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If you're a fan of sci-fi, comic book adaptations, British detective dramas, British period pieces, Harry Potter, psychological thrillers, spy movies, family comedies, family tearjerkers, social satire, or, um, Duck Tales, you have most likely seen (or heard) David Tennant acting in something in the past 20 years.
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If I ever see a picture of Keira Knightley out and about, I wonder why the actress is holding a cell phone, or getting out of a car, or wearing pants, because I'm so used to seeing the 32-year-old in dramatic period pieces, smushed into a corset.
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After a promising placement in an Amazon Studios open call, followed by a frank discussion with a producer about the pitfalls of writing period pieces, Allain finally uploaded the screenplay to The Black List, a forum where screenwriters can solicit feedback and get their work seen by Hollywood professionals.
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With two period pieces coming out this year, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies and War & Peace, a starring role playing Cinderella and a breakout turn as cousin Rose on Downton Abbey, it appears as though Lily James might be experiencing a bit of turn-of-the-century typecasting.
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Elegance and beauty are the dominant leitmotifs of this edition of "La Traviata," an opera based on "La Dame aux Camélias" by Alexandre Dumas, fils, that is a constant in theater repertoires everywhere, reinvented in countless enactments, from minimalist to modern to full-on mid-19th-century period pieces.
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One thing I always wonder about with period pieces is that when you get a script and there's a specific prop reference that might be tricky to track down — the one I thought of immediately was Joan's 1960s-era Pepsi machine — how do you tackle a problem like that?
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The film narrowly escapes this fate by allowing its message to exist in a messy middle ground somewhere between the "well, look how enlightened we are now!" audience flattery of too many period pieces dealing with American race relations of the past, and the "have things gotten worse?" horror of this present moment.
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" Ms. Price works by referral only, preferring women who want to use clothes to change the way they want to be perceived: like an actress marooned in sweet period pieces who wanted to transition to, as Ms. Price put it, "roles where she's potentially going to run through the woods with a crossbow.
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Curtis Hanson's adaptation of James Ellroy's LA Confidential, which hit theaters the following Friday, works in many of the same ways Roman Polanski's Chinatown had 20-plus years earlier: Both are handsomely mounted period pieces recalling the noir mysteries of the era, while explicitly addressing matters of sex and violence that their precursors couldn't touch.
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" Some contenders hail from period pieces, like Keira Knightley in "Colette," Carey Mulligan in "Wildlife," KiKi Layne in "If Beale Street Could Talk," and Felicity Jones as a young Ruth Bader Ginsburg in "On the Basis of Sex," but still others offer more modern-day thrills, like Toni Collette in the horror hit "Hereditary.
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Scenes in which the main figures — a ragtag, argumentative but largely cheerful batch of Chinese guerrillas intent on sabotaging the Japanese Army during the Second Sino-Japanese War — strategize over meals or regroup in a cave after an attack are pleasantly reminiscent of this genre's offerings from Asia in the 1970s and early '80s, period pieces or not.
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