Category Archives: Film costume
Solveig Dommartin is Wearing Yohji Yamamoto in “Until the End of the World”
Solveig Dommartin in ”Bis ans Ende der Welt”, 1991 | Argos Films. Road Movie Filmproduktion Until the End of the World begins with a grim end-time scenario. A nuclear satellite threatens to crash through the ozone layer and wipe … Read More
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Nino Cerruti and Cinema
The union between the world of cinema and Nino Cerruti began in the late 1960s. His name appears in the credits of tens of films, dressing memorable characters from both Hollywood and the French cinema, from Jean-Paul Belmondo in Borsalino and Alain Delon in Mr. Klein, to Michael Douglas in Wall Street and Jeremy Irons in Reversal of Fortune. Read More
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Closer: Marie Trintignant in Claude Chabrol’s “Betty”
Betty gets away with her true nature. She is untamed. Her husband and her mother-in-law try to tame her, but they don’t succeed. Chabrol doesn’t try, he lets her be. Is she the victim of what Laure calls the “dead weight of society” or a monstrous and unworthy wife and mother? Chabrol doesn’t answer. Instead, he makes the viewer look a little closer and more indulgent, through her own eyes, at Betty. Read More
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Interview with Avatar Costume Designer Deborah L. Scott: “The Process Is the Same. You Build the Character!”
Costume undergoes its own groundbreaking evolution in Avatar: The Way of Water while still operating within the mise en scène as an aid of character and narrative. In a unique filmmaking effort, Deborah L. Scott invented a new costume paradigm. Read More
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One Classic Look: Karen Allen in “Starman”
Karen Allen in John Carpenter’s “Starman”, 1984. Columbia Pictures In John Carpenter’s 1984 sci-fi Starman, Jeff Bridges is a space being trying to make contact with humans, after answering a NASA message intended for aliens. Upon arrival on Earth, … Read More
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