Category Archives: Film costume
“Dark Passage”, Bogie and Bacall’s poetic dreamscape where everything becomes possible
Bogie is on the run, having just escaped prison after he was framed for the murder of his wife, and Bacall comes to his rescue, her belief in his innocence rooted in her own family history. But for the … Read More
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In the outpost of Casablanca, the dress code is white
Photo: Humphrey Bogart in “Casablanca”, 1942, directed by Michael Curtiz. Warner Brothers Rick never sits with his customers. He never sticks his neck out for everyone. He is intently neutral. He owns a nightclub in Casablanca, the Moroccan seaport … Read More
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In Marrakech, with Hitchcock and his most free-willed heroine
Photo: Doris Day and James Stewart in “The Man Who Knew Too Much”, 1956, directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Paramount Pictures Only Alfred Hitchcock could make a remake of one of his own films that is better than the original. … Read More
A matter of mistaken identity and striped jerseys
Brigitte Auber and Cary Grant in “To Catch a Thief”, 1955. Paramount Pictures To Catch a Thief was the first film Hitchcock shot on location, in the South of France. It was also the film that brought Cary Grant … Read More
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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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