Fashion Historian & Historical Costume Maker
It’s been a looooooooooong time since I’ve had a moment to write any movie reviews, but I finally found the time! Here you go:
Costume Design
Hmm. HMM! The only one I’ve even seen was “True Grit,” and yes the costumes were very well done. Guess I need to get busy — at least I need to see “The King’s Speech”! It’s not an obvious year — there’s no “Marie Antoinette” to knock everyone out of the park with over-the-top historical costumes. It’s kind of interesting that this year, a less showy film could win! I’m guessing “Alice” will be the obvious choice — Colleen Atwood is great — but I kind of hope something less flashy (eg “True Grit”) wins it. This is all hypothetical, of course, because I’ve only seen one of the five!
Costume Designers Guild Nominations
These are often more interesting, just because there are various categories within costume. Plus it’s coming from the actual costume designers themselves!
Excellence in Contemporary Film:
Just saw “Black Swan” the other night, and based on the overall design of the film, I hope that wins! Of course, I haven’t seen all of these…
Excellence in Period Film:
I’m going to say “True Grit” FTW!
Excellence in Fantasy Film:
Haven’t seen any.
Outstanding Made for Television Movie or Miniseries:
Ditto – nada, although “Temple Grandin” is totally on my list of need-to-watch-soon.
Outstanding Contemporary Television Series:
No opinion, other than to say “Dancing with the Stars” – ha!
Outstanding Period/Fantasy Television Series:
Oh please let it be “The Tudors”! But seriously, either “Mad Men” or “Boardwalk Empire” — both are fab.
Excellence in Commercial Costume Design:
I know nothing!
I hope you are watching Downton Abbey on PBS Masterpiece; if not, get on it! I REALLY loved the series — it was an Edwardian “Gosford Park” (written by the same screenwriter, of course). The story goes in interesting directions that I didn’t always suspect, Maggie Smith is hilariously fabulous, and the costumes are faaaabulous (although I thought that characters wore their clothes for longer — ie years — than I would have expected; for example, the eldest daughter rewears a particular blouse over the span of 2-3 years. It seems like fashion would have changed faster than that in the Edwardian era?).
Anyway, if you’d like to drool over some images of the costumes, Enchanted Serenity of Period Films has a great series of posts; start with this one and then browse around! Thanks to Bess/myladyswardrobe for the link, a few months back.
A nice post from ColourLovers about Sophia Coppola’s Marie Antoinette. I like the color palettes they drew from the film!
So I haven’t given up on Costume in Cinema — I just got distracted, and then suddenly had a HA-UGE list of movies to review, which was daunting. So I kept procrastinating. But I have finally gotten back in gear, so there is a raft of new movie reviews!
Phew! You can see why that took me so long!
And, as always, the Upcoming Movies page is up to date.
