http://www.btlnews.com Voice of the Crew Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:12:16 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc http://www.btlnews.com/awards/the-descendants-featurette/ http://www.btlnews.com/awards/the-descendants-featurette/#comments Wed, 01 Feb 2012 16:49:24 +0000 Staff http://www.btlnews.com/?p=24876 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.]]> http://www.btlnews.com/awards/the-descendants-featurette/feed/ 0 http://www.btlnews.com/awards/danish-director-nicolas-windng-refn-pushes-drive-into-high-gear/ http://www.btlnews.com/awards/danish-director-nicolas-windng-refn-pushes-drive-into-high-gear/#comments Mon, 23 Jan 2012 16:51:14 +0000 Jack Egan http://www.btlnews.com/?p=24336 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.]]> http://www.btlnews.com/awards/danish-director-nicolas-windng-refn-pushes-drive-into-high-gear/feed/ 0 http://www.btlnews.com/awards/costume-designers-guild-announces-awards-nominees/ http://www.btlnews.com/awards/costume-designers-guild-announces-awards-nominees/#comments Fri, 20 Jan 2012 16:53:50 +0000 Staff http://www.btlnews.com/?p=24273 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 the Beverly Hilton Hotel. ]]> http://www.btlnews.com/awards/costume-designers-guild-announces-awards-nominees/feed/ 0 http://www.btlnews.com/awards/contender-costume-designer-mark-bridges-the-artist/ http://www.btlnews.com/awards/contender-costume-designer-mark-bridges-the-artist/#comments Fri, 13 Jan 2012 16:56:51 +0000 Darby Azalea Wilde http://www.btlnews.com/?p=24001 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 The Artist, being in black and white, posed any interesting challenges to his costume designing routine for a film. ]]> http://www.btlnews.com/awards/contender-costume-designer-mark-bridges-the-artist/feed/ 0 http://www.btlnews.com/awards/a-year-of-dazzling-costume-design/ http://www.btlnews.com/awards/a-year-of-dazzling-costume-design/#comments Thu, 12 Jan 2012 16:49:41 +0000 Michelle Paradis http://www.btlnews.com/?p=23922 http://www.btlnews.com/awards/a-year-of-dazzling-costume-design/feed/ 0 http://www.btlnews.com/awards/contender-costume-designer-joanna-johnson-war-horse/ http://www.btlnews.com/awards/contender-costume-designer-joanna-johnson-war-horse/#comments Wed, 11 Jan 2012 16:55:16 +0000 Michelle Paradis http://www.btlnews.com/?p=23826 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 his luck farmer trying to save the family’s farm, is forced to sell Joey to the British Calvary, the events of the First World War commence as seen through the audacious journey of the horse. ]]> http://www.btlnews.com/awards/contender-costume-designer-joanna-johnson-war-horse/feed/ 0 http://www.btlnews.com/awards/contender-costume-designer-pierre-yves-gayraud-albert-nobbs/ http://www.btlnews.com/awards/contender-costume-designer-pierre-yves-gayraud-albert-nobbs/#comments Mon, 09 Jan 2012 16:58:24 +0000 Michelle Paradis http://www.btlnews.com/?p=23673 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 is both eccentric and poignant. Helping to bring the man’s world of 19th century Ireland to life is costume designer Pierre-Yves Gayraud. Gayraud has been splashing films with his costume design in France since the ’90s, where he received a nomination in 1993 for the Cesar Award for Indochine (1992). Stateside, he has worked on The Bourne Identity (2002) and the upcoming Cloud Atlas.]]> http://www.btlnews.com/awards/contender-costume-designer-pierre-yves-gayraud-albert-nobbs/feed/ 0 http://www.btlnews.com/awards/rupert-wyatts-rise-of-the-planet-of-the-apes/ http://www.btlnews.com/awards/rupert-wyatts-rise-of-the-planet-of-the-apes/#comments Thu, 05 Jan 2012 16:59:18 +0000 Mary Ann Skweres http://www.btlnews.com/?p=23534 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 human, that has been visually and audibly created using the most advanced techniques in filmmaking.]]> http://www.btlnews.com/awards/rupert-wyatts-rise-of-the-planet-of-the-apes/feed/ 0 http://www.btlnews.com/awards/contender-portfolios/the-artist-black-and-white-dreams/ http://www.btlnews.com/awards/contender-portfolios/the-artist-black-and-white-dreams/#comments Thu, 05 Jan 2012 16:59:07 +0000 Michelle Paradis http://www.btlnews.com/?p=23528 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 filled with silks, furs, Marcel waves, and bold lipstick: costume designer Mark Bridges, makeup artist Julie Hewett, and hair stylist Cydney Cornell.]]> http://www.btlnews.com/awards/contender-portfolios/the-artist-black-and-white-dreams/feed/ 0 http://www.btlnews.com/awards/contender-costume-designer-arianne-phillips-w-e/ http://www.btlnews.com/awards/contender-costume-designer-arianne-phillips-w-e/#comments Mon, 19 Dec 2011 16:48:14 +0000 Michelle Paradis http://www.btlnews.com/?p=22521 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 with Madonna for 14 years on concert tours, album covers, films and a Broadway play. Dressing historic figures isn’t something new for Philips, who has received an Oscar nomination in 2006 for her costume design in Walk the Line.]]> http://www.btlnews.com/awards/contender-costume-designer-arianne-phillips-w-e/feed/ 0