Category Archives: Film
November Newsletter: On Noirvember and Tom Waits’ Noir Sensibility
Right: Film poster by Tony Stella for the neo-noir “Gloria”, 1980 Photos: Classiq Journal, unless otherwise stated You take a deeper and deeper dive into noir’s murky stories. The more obscure, the more forgotten, the less known, … Read More
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Revisioning the Western Female Character: Julie Christie in McCabe and Mrs. Miller
The entire cast had to care for their clothes and mend them just as real frontierspeople would have done a century before. The result is very authentic, for Mrs. Miller as well. Julie Christie’s clothes look lived in and are, quite frankly, one of the most authentic female costumes in westerns. Read More
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October Newsletter: On Taking a Seat in the Warm Colours of a Woody Allen Film
I often associate a view I see with movies. I see a red and grey barn on a countryside road and I think of Bergman’s island where he lived. A deserted street lined with tall buildings on a rainy, grey day from the window of a cafe, Three Days of the Condor. A flock of birds on a wire, The Birds, always. The sky before a storm about to break, Wings of Desire. Leaves turning gold on a crisp autumn day, Woody Allen’s films. Read More
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The Undesigned Outfit, the New Symbol of American Maleness: Marlon Brando in A Streetcar Named Desire
“This is it! This is what I’ve always wanted!” The clothes that costume designer Lucinda Ballard chose for him finally put Marlon Brando into character. He became Stanley Kowalski and his “undesigned” outfit became part of the Brando iconography. Read More
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Le choix des armes: Yves Montand and the Look of the Gentleman Gangster
In Le choix des armes, Yves Montand is part of a gentlemen’s world of mobsters and criminals, living and dying by a certain code of honour, never betraying their own, and dressing the part. Read More
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