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The Wes Anderson Collection: The Grand Budapest Hotel
Author Matt Zoller Seitz has published a continuation of his superb book The Wes Anderson Collection (2013), entitled (deep breath) The Wes Anderson Collection: The Grand Budapest Hotel. The former is a detailed look at Anderson’s output so far, influences, meaning and interpretation of his work; the latter covers exclusively Anderson’s latest, The Grand Budapest Hotel. This is far more than a bolted on sequel, however, and one of the reasons we know this is because Clothes on Film editor Christopher Laverty was asked to contribute a chapter. More than that, it has recently joined The New York Times bestseller list. A pretty, candy-coloured slab of hardback, Seitz’s follow up…
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Dressed to Serve: Costume in The Grand Budapest Hotel
SPOILERS From a costume point of view, and therefore a character point of view, The Grand Budapest Hotel (directed by Wes Anderson) is all about uniforms; those worn by men and women in official capacities and those adopted as a life uniform by those trapped in the past. Eccentric La Belle Époque hangover Madame D (Tilda Swinton) is the latter, Moustafa Zero (Tony Revolori), a newly appointed lobby boy in the pinnacle of majestic 1930s hotels, The Grand Budapest, is the former. While Madame D goes nowhere, perhaps because she has already been everywhere, Zero undertakes a journey and evolution of character, which subsequently means his clothing does too. In…
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Clothes on Film’s 2011 Costume Design Round Up
By no means intended as an exhaustive list, Clothes on Film ponder an overview of 2011 in costume.
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Hanna: Interview with Costume Designer Lucie Bates
Lucie Bates exclusively discusses her work on Hanna, inducing parodies, subtext and working with Giorgio Armani.
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Film Review: The Lovely Bones
Not the emotional and profound experience it should be.
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The Lovely Bones for Fashionable Royal Gala Premiere
The Lovely Bones has been chosen for this year's Royal Gala screening at London's Leicester Square.
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