Category Archives: Film costume
Colour and Costume: From The Umbrellas of Cherbourg to La La Land
Top photo: “La La Land”; bottom photo: “The Umbrellas of Cherbourg” “Here’s to the fools who dream.” No wonder I love this film. And I don’t even like musicals. But here I am talking about La La Land voraciously … Read More
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Suit Acting and Android Fashion in Metropolis
January 10th, 1927. It was on this day, 90 years ago, that Fritz Lang released Metropolis, not only a key film of the German expressionist movement, but also the primordial science fiction movie. A drama of the future set … Read More
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Style in Film: Amy Adams in Nocturnal Animals
Tom Ford’s second film is strangely seductive, beautifully constructed, and cautiously glamorous A friend of mine once told me that it’s when she’s most impeccably dressed that she is going through the most difficult times. I have never … Read More
Isabelle Huppert’s Red Leather Gloves in A Comedy of Power
With this year’s Elle and Things to Come, Isabelle Huppert is challenging female stereotypes. But the truth is she has been honing her ferocious talent for over forty years. In Claude Chabrol’s 2006 L’ivresse du pouvoir (A Comedy of … Read More
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Back to School: The On-Screen Preppy Look of Robert Redford
Robert Redford has made it clear from the very beginning that he came into films because of the craft of acting, and then, by founding the Sundance Film Festival, that he stuck in the business because of the films … Read More
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