Category Archives: Film costume
Breaking the Rules of a Leading Lady: Bette Davis in “The Letter”
There have been other femmes fatales dressed in white who commanded the screen with ferocity, but none of them had the audacity of Bette Davis’ Leslie Crosbie in The Letter, who not only inverts the symbolism of colour, but ironically inverts the roles of bride and mistress. Read More
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The Searing Style of Jacques Deray’s “La piscine”
In La piscine, Jacques Deray directs with great style a searing psychosexual thriller, while drawing on the bigger than life personalities and star charisma of his protagonists – Schneider and Delon again together on screen, and Delon reunited with Ronet nine years after Plein soleil. Read More
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The Mosquito Coast: Interview with costume designer Justine Seymour
In the contemporary retelling of The Mosquito Coast, costume designer Justine Seymour embodies key character traits and themes from the book into the wardrobe of the leading cast that evoke the simple living and breaking of the status quo of the Fox family, and then Read More
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Darkness Under the Limelight: Tyrone Power in “Nightmare Alley”
Tyrone Power and Joan Blondell in “Nightmare Alley”, 1947. Twentieth Century Fox There is something sordid about the atmosphere of a small-time, small-town carnival. Comedians trapped in tragic roles. The performers may be under the limelight, but it is … Read More
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‘80s Style Rocks in Neo-Noir: Rachel Ward in “Against All Odds”
Rachel Ward in “Against All Odds”, 1984. Columbia Pictures LA at dawn. Silhouettes of high-rises, bungalows and lines of palm trees merge together into a glowing mist. The urban jungle created through light and shadow, new dreams that are … Read More
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