Category Archives: Film costume
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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The Man’s Fedora Hat, and Its Narrative Role, As Seen on the Heroines of Ozu, Godard and Sautet
Romy Schneider in “Max et les Ferrailleurs”, 1971 A bleak, dark detective story that taps into noir, Claude Sautet’s Max et les ferrailleurs is more than a “policier” film. It draws two fine character studies: Michel Piccoli’s Max, a … Read More
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This Summer We’re Channelling: Grace Kelly in “Rear Window”
One evening this summer, when a cool breeze was starting to push the heat from the earlier scorcher into more bearable a memory, we watched Rear Window in the garden. I have watched it on repeated times throughout the … Read More
Talking Costumes in Wim Wenders’ “Paris, Texas”
“Once I was driving to a screening for Paris, Texas, Wim Wenders recalls in his book Einmal, “with Harry Dean Stanton in an incredibly long limousine. Even in the middle of New York, Harry was still Travis, sitting in the back of his brother’s car and driving silently through the desert.” Read More
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