Category: costume in cinema

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Random Musings Part Trois

Most important! The Buccaneers is finally coming to DVD! (Insert hallelujah-type music here, thanks to Chantel for the heads up). What am I talking about? See the Victorian movie reviews page.

Also important: Elizabeth I (the Helen Mirren miniseries) is coming to HBO on 4/22 and 4/24 (two episodes). I’ve seen the first half of part one and can vouch that it is great.

Less important: new review of The Libertine on the 17th century movie review page.

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Random Musings Part Deux

FIDM has finally started to put up some online images from this year’s Art of Motion Picture Costume Design exhibition; so far just the Academy Award-nominated films are up (hopefully they’re going to do the rest as well?).

Those pesky Charles A. Whitaker auction people are having yet another of their costume and textile auctions; check out the online images. I may quite simply die over this Worth ballgown; do you think it’s the inspiration for this Haper’s Bazar plate (the whole iris motif?) that I started to recreate but ended up abandoning? Is this what the 10 yards of black duchesse silk lurking in my closet should turn in to? (Oh, WHAT to do with that fabric is really going to kill me, I think).

And while we’re traveling through random-land: new movie reviews of The Cazalets and Mrs. Henderson Presents are on the 20th century page.

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Going Beyond the Academy Awards

The following are the winners of the Costume Designers Guild awards:

Excellence in Contemporary Film: Transamerica (Danny Glicker)
Excellence in Period Film: Memoirs of a Geisha (Colleen Atwood)
Excellence in Fantasy Film: The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Isis Mussenden)

Outstanding Made for TV Movie/Mini-Series: Elvis (Eduardo Castro)
Outstanding Period/Fantasy TV Series: Rome (April Ferry)

There’s more tv awards — see details at the Costume Designers Guild website.