Category Archives: Film

La enfermedad del domingo: In Conversation with Costume Designer Clara Bilbao

In our interview, costume designer Clara Bilbao talks about clothes as story tellers in La enfermedad del domingo (Sunday’s Illness). Read More →

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François Truffaut, His Alter Egos and His Brown Leather Jacket

François Truffaut, Jacqueline Bisset and Jean-Pierre Léaud on the set of “La nuit américaine” (1973) | Les Films du Carrusse   “The film of tomorrow will be filmed by adventurers,” Truffaut had said as an introduction to what would become … Read More →

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Editorial: Ice Blonde

Beautiful and mysterious, hidden behind her opaqueness and inaccessibility, Catherine Deneuve’s ice, cool look (Mississippi Mermaid) would have been perfect for a Hitchcock noir. Read More →

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Bradley Cooper’s Rugged, Real Style in “A Star Is Born”

The black or faded blue jeans, denim jackets, plain t-shirts, weathered leather jacket and western boots are Jackson Maine’s apparel of choice, his natural habitat, rooted deep in the American grain, just as his country rock music is, just as his outwardly rugged, inwardly ruptured American masculinity is. Read More →

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Sundance Film Festival Dress Code

Besides its spirit of inquiry and free-thinking, do you know what else I love about the Sundance Film Festival? Its casual dress code. Actors and filmmakers forgo… Read More →

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