Category Archives: Film costume

The many stories and lives of the fisherman’s classic knitwear and Catherine Deneuve in “À nous deux”

Catherine Deneuve in “À nous deux”, 1979. Les Films 13, Cinévidéo   Cast Out with Love is a wonderful, poetic short visual story written by Lauren Williams, and directed by Greg Dennis, revealing the beauty, history and craft hidden in … Read More

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“For Bird, it was essential that he didn’t have that dress coding at all”: In conversation with costume designer Alex Bovaird

Frank Rogowski as Bird in “Bird”, 2024. BBC Films, BFI, MUBI   It’s been years since I saw Fish Tank and I still think of it as special and raw, this disarming, intimate family chronicle and unsparing yet humorous and … Read More

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A look for the ages and my annual reiteration of “Three Days of the Condor”

Robert Redford in “Three Days of the Condor”, 1975. Dino De Laurentiis Company, Paramount Pictures, Wildwood Enterprises     I’ve made a habit of watching Three Days of the Condor over the holidays. It’s a Christmas classic. But the word … Read More

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Just the right girl: Gloria Grahame in “In a Lonely Place”

”In a Lonely Place”, 1950. Columbia Pictures   Humphrey Bogart wanted Lauren Bacall for the part. The Studio wanted Ginger Rogers. Nicholas Ray wanted Gloria Grahame. He was right. In a Lonely Place wouldn’t be the film that it is … Read More

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“I Like My Use of Colour in It”: Nicholas Ray on the Costumes of Johnny Guitar

There is a sequence in Nicholas Ray’s Johnny Guitar where the lawmen all wear black. Joan Crawford appears in white. It is a crisp and striking visual moment, all the more so since it is a Western noir in color. Read More

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