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The Descendants Featurette
In this new featurette from Fox Searchlight, The Descendants’ production designer Jane Stewart and costume designer Wendy Chuck discuss their work on the film. Stewart has been nominated for a contemporary film award from the Art Directors Guild. »
Danish Director Nicolas Windng Refn Pushes Drive into High Gear
Nicolas Windng Refn, director of Drive, doesn’t himself drive. He has failed his driver’s license test eight times. Yet the heralded Danish director came to Los Angeles, the city of cars, to make a film filled with some of the most authentic and exciting car chase sequences seen on the screen in years. »
Costume Designers Guild Announces Awards Nominees
The nominees for the 14th Annual Costume Designers Guild Awards were announced this week. Honorary awards will be announced next week. The winners will be revealed at the awards gala hosted by award winning film and television actress, Jane Lynch, with Lacoste as presenting sponsor and Disaronno as supporting sponsor on Feb. 21 at... »
Contender – Costume Designer Mark Bridges, The Artist
Mark Bridges’ amazing career as a costume designer has taken him, most recently, from the late 1920s to the early 1930s in The Artist to 1980s Boston in The Fighter to the turn of the century in There Will Be Blood to the disco era of Boogie Nights and Blow. I asked him if... »
A Year of Dazzling Costume Design
It has been a dazzling, ambitious year for costume design. This year’s crop of films have brought to realization the scope of worlds through costume as unique and enthralling as they are varied and distinctive. »
Contender – Costume Designer Joanna Johnston, War Horse
Steven Spielberg’s World War I era epic War Horse, adapted from the novel by Michael Morpurgo, unfolds amidst the sweeping backdrop of the many varied landscapes of Europe. It begins in rural England with a young man named Albert (Jeremy Irvine) and his beloved horse Joey. When Albert’s father (Peter Mullan), a hard on... »
Contender – Costume Designer Pierre-Yves Gayraud, Albert Nobbs
Albert Nobbs is a film that has been in the making since Glenn Close starred in the 1982 off- Broadway stage production adapted from George Moore’s short story. Directed by Rodrigo Garcia, Close’s sensitive portrayal of a woman disguising herself as a man in order to find employment and survive in 19th century Ireland... »
Rupert Wyatt’s Rise of the Planet of the Apes
Rise of the Planet of the Apes tells an origin story that lays the foundation for the mythology of the first Planet of the Apes film, which takes place 3,000 years in the future. The success of the current film hinges on the believability of the main character, Caesar, a chimpanzee played by a... »
The Artist: Black-and-White Dreams
BTL Screening Series hosted a screening of The Artist, Jan. 4 in Los Angeles, followed by a Q&A with some of the film’s key below-the-line talent. The film is an endlessly charming film dizzy with expressive, lovely imagery. Michel Hazanavicius (writer/ director/ editor) commanded an impressive team to create the dazzling spectacle of a world... »
Contender – Costume Designer Arianne Phillips, W.E.
Madonna’s W.E., a sweeping romantic drama about the intersecting lives of Wally Winthrop (Abbie Cornish), a modern day New Yorker and the affair between Wallis Simpson (Andrea Riseborough) and King Edward VIII (James D’Arcy) is a feast for the eyes. Helping to create the spectacle is costume designer Arianne Phillips who has been working... »
Director Series
Iran’s Best Foreign Film Nominee: Asghar Farhadi’s A SeparationJanuary 2012 | By Jack Egan
One of the surprises of this awards season is A Separation, a highly lauded film from Iran that has captivated reviewers and moviegoers and... »
Danish Director Nicolas Windng Refn Pushes Drive into High Gear
January 2012 | By Jack Egan
Nicolas Windng Refn, director of Drive, doesn’t himself drive. He has failed his driver’s license test eight times. Yet the heralded Danish director came... »