Swords flash and heads roll, spin and bounce in "The Guillotines," a sumptuous tale about bad men and good, peasants and rulers and what happens to a movie when it is sliced and diced into progressively more forgettable itty bits.
Frank Miller, the celebrated comic-book author, had written and directed a moody, snowy, sumptuous film about a masked charmer with a self-healing body who lives to protect his city.
Cecil B de Mille offered the leading role in his sumptuous movie about her to Claudette Colbert with the words: "How would you like to play the wickedest woman in history?" His question anticipated the answer: "Very much indeed, please".
And when the market homes went on sale off-plan, none of the sumptuous brochures about "modern garden square living" mentioned the proles who'd be living next door.
— — — — House Of Pleasures Directed By Bertrand Bonello The French term for brothel is "maison close" — literally closed house — and Bertrand Bonello's "House of Pleasures," a sumptuous drama about the lives of courtesans in fin de siècle Paris, takes this expression at face value by unfolding almost entirely within the upholstered walls of an upscale bordello called L'Apollonide.
Films that missed out included Behind the Candelabra, in which Michael Douglas plays the legendarily flamboyant entertainer Liberace, and Italian director Paolo Sorrentino's The Great Beauty, a sumptuous story about an ageing novelist.
"The Buccaneers" This sumptuous miniseries about rich young husband hunters negotiating the upper-class ways of Edwardian England should be catnip to "Downton Abbey" fans.
But the argument is not about the sumptuous marble face — it's about the utilitarian backside.
Read on, and you'll find nary a word about sumptuous starlets nibbling chocolate-covered strawberries in the Beverly Hills Hotel.
Following the arrest a tabloid newspaper splashed stories about sumptuous parties thrown by Mr Nambu in an impeccably appointed guesthouse in the capital.
