costume drama

Queen Anne Costume Drama ‘The Favourite’ Dazzles with Humor, Tragedy, Weirdness

Queen Anne Costume Drama ‘The Favourite’ Dazzles with Humor, Tragedy, Weirdness

Director Yorgos Lanthimos provides plenty of his trademark absurdity, but The Favourite is his most accessible, painfully human film to date.

Film Geeks Know That Hitchcock’s ‘Under Capricorn’ Is So Much More Than Merely a Costume Drama

Film Geeks Know That Hitchcock’s ‘Under Capricorn’ Is So Much More Than Merely a Costume Drama

For viewers into the techniques of mise-en-scène, Kino Lorber's 4k digital restoration of Hitchcock's first Technicolor film, Under Capricorn, is one dazzlement after another.

The (Un)Making of the English Aristocracy: ‘Downton Abbey: Season 3’

The Significance of the Significant Glances in ‘Edith Wharton: The Buccaneers’