2009 August | Clothes on Film

Posted by Chris Laverty on August 28, 2009

An Education is an upcoming early 1960s set film about Jenny (Carey Mulligan) a bright seventeen year old planning to study at Oxford who becomes romantically involved with dashing socialite David (Peter Sarsgaard), soon abandoning her aspirations and future shot at independence. The story is an adaptation of British journalist Lynn Barber’s autobiography of the same name.

Judging solely on this footage, Jenny goes down the Audrey Hepburn route more than typical teen fashions of the sixties. So it is a Givenchy pared down style comprising little jewellery, trenchcoat, simple, sexy shifts in silk and plain colours with occasional floral prints rather than the younger look of Courtelle mini-dresses and PVC knee high boots more common to the era.
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Posted by Chris Laverty on August 27, 2009

Starring: Patrick Swayze, Keanu Reeves, Gary Busey
Directed by: Kathryn Bigelow

Back in 1991 the world was a smaller place. The internet was in its infancy and subcultures, tribes, such as the surfing community, were mysterious to most of us. Perhaps they did act and sound like Patrick Swayze’s boho-hippy bank robber in search of ‘the ultimate rush’, we didn’t know. Only now we do, and, assumed caricatures apart, they really don’t.
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Posted by Chris Laverty on August 24, 2009

Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy director Gore Verbinski has left Universal’s adaptation of videogame hit Bioshock. 28 Weeks Later’s Juan Carlos Fresnadillo is hotly tipped to replace him.

However Verbinski will retain producer’s credit through his company Blind Wink. Verbinski was contractually obliged to leave the project after Bioshock changed filming locations in order to curb escalating costs. He is currently directing animated feature Rango for Paramount.
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Posted by Chris Laverty on August 22, 2009

Third and final part of a sartorial analysis examining denim as symbolic recognition for character on film – focusing on The Parallax View (1974) starring Warren Beatty.

Action Man:

By the mid-1970s denim had been accepted as day wear for everyone though still remained intrinsically associated with adolescent ‘drop out’ culture.
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