Best costume design --- who should win

Thanks Ruth - that was great, and I loved all the stills. Wish I'd paid more attention to Smiley's wardrobe - I read somewhere that they found a reversible Aquascutum raincoat for him and they asked Aquascutum to remake a few copies for the film (you know how film is, they like to have multiples of major costumes). The glasses were so important, it was great reading how they came about too.
 
Sometimes its better if you don't read interviews with the costume designers... That is utter nonsense about people wearing 10 year old clothes in the 1970s! Outside of Carnaby street there was such a thing as fashion in pre-Thatcher Britain... and she uses too many white shirts for the era. Even the most conservative men wore pale blue, beige, pale yellow, striped and checked shirts with wide ties.
 
I haven't seen The Artist yet, but of the others, Jane Eyre deserves this one.

As for Hugo, I felt like the costuming added so much to that film. Even though it was set in the early 30s, the clothing was not so much time specific, but more Paris specific. The kids in the movie dressed exactly like you would want Parisian children to dress - with a bit of whimsy and elan.
 
I admit I haven't seen any of the nominated films yet... I definitely want to see Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, but that only just started here. Something for next week maybe.

I loved A Single Man too - just incredible...

That pic from the Great Gatsby set left me speechless - what IS that? I admit I love "Australia". Over the top and all that it is, I still like it. But my fave Baz Luhrman film is "Strictly Ballroom". Completely over the top, but I love watching it again every now and then.

Karin
 
Hi,

I am going to see "Hugo" this weekend (I hope). It looks like fun, and is about the beginnings of film so I have to see it at the movies and not on video, just like "The Artist" really needs to be seen in a theatre or it just doesn't "work" for the audience member. I hate 3D, it hurts my brain, so I hope they are showing "Hugo" regular style. Marty can do no wrong by me, he is my favorite director of modern/contemporary films. I do not love all of his movies, but have seen them all with the exception of "Kundun" or however you spell it.

Karin, I LOVED LOVED LOVED "Strictly Ballroom"!!
 
I just saw The Artist. I really loved it, and thought it was very clever. I do agree though, about the standards of beauty being wrong for the era - I couldn't stop thinking that all the way through the film! Even so I still absolutely loved it, and as Barbara says, definitely one you need to see on the big screen.

I love Strictly Ballroom too!
 
@Angela - :hysterical:. I refuse to see that film based on that photo alone.
@Barbara - just imagine, there I was on Hamilton Island (Australia) on a tourism industry event, and the night's entertainment would have been an open-air cinema - showing "Strictly Ballroom". Only... it poured that night... too early in the year. And most people didn't know the film and didn't really care. Awwwww...

Karin
 
LOVED Strictly Ballroom - a great film and SO funny, but the costuming was supposed to be over the top because it was about dance competitions. I didn't realize that Baz did that too, or had forgotten.

I just found a 2D version will be playing of Hugo tomorrow afternoon, so I will get to see it after all. I can't stand 3D - my eyes hurt for an entire day after Alice in Wonderland.
 
Rue_de_la_Paix said:
I am going to see "Hugo" this weekend (I hope). It looks like fun, and is about the beginnings of film so I have to see it at the movies and not on video, just like "The Artist" really needs to be seen in a theatre or it just doesn't "work" for the audience member.
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What about this? (my local) I missed the Artist so I think it was hardly on here. Formally The Curzon cinema, it's just been bought by Odeon. I tried to find some pictures of the interior but couldn't find any now. Inside it has four panelled glass doors going through to a marble floor entrance with four marble (effect I think) columns either side, you go up a double width staircase to a landing with a stained glass dome light well in the ceiling above a large chandelier and four staircases going to each corner and different screens. The handrails are all black steel curving shapes similar to the exterior tiling you can see below. I still think it would be a fantastic location to show theatre as well as cinema but can't see Odeon doing that now. The previous owners were very into restoring it to glory though.
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I'm very lucky in that my local cinema, the Odeon in Muswell Hill, is a beautiful Grade II listed 1930s art deco cinema, and so it was a great place to see the Artist! It still has most of the original fittings, including this lighting feature in the auditorium,

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Oh wow! now that's a great setting, unfortunately there are no original features I can see actually in the screen rooms themselves at mine, and Odeon have just painted all the walls black :(
 
That's a particularly stunning photo of it I must say and I'm not sure if it's a recent pic or older, but it still looks like that.

I'm very glad it's listed so no-one can muck about with it. They converted it from one screen to three back in the 70s, so there are two small screens under what would have been the dress circle, and those rooms are nothing special. But the main screen, for which the seating is now only the dress circle, is still great. And all the lobby etc very well preserved with the orignal light fittings. It was given listed status in the 80s. So lucky it survived that long!

the outside it isn't as wonderful as yours. Apparently they had to do a fairly low key exterior because it's right opposite a church, and it wasn't felt right to have an entertainment venue calling too much attention to itself!

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But the inside is great.

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Here's links to a few more pictures of this lovely art deco cinema, in case anyones interested:

http://flic.kr/p/beX7P4
http://flic.kr/p/beX9dc
http://flic.kr/p/8CxAxx

and a couple from back in the day...

http://flic.kr/p/4ncUMH
http://flic.kr/p/4ncSut
 
Those are great pictures Ruth, I've no idea if ours is listed, they've certainly never touched the exterior except to change the cinema name (Curzon, Reel and now Odeon) though I wonder if the screen rooms have been divided in ours too: It has 6 screens but it really is a very small cinema, the largest seats just over 300 the smallest some 50 and as I say there are no period features in there, Reel also replaced all the seating about 5 years ago to the modern plush plastic!
It was great seeing the pics through the years on that link, the Concordia Theatre I perform at was created from an old hosiery factory in the 70's and still has exactly the same tiny fold up wooden seats.
 
30s cinemas usually were built with only one screen, so yours has probably been chopped up, which may be how it lost it's interior. A lot of old cinemas were divided in later years in order to survive as a business.

It really is my favourite period of architecture, and there's a lot of it around where I live in London, including all the London Underground stations in this part of town.
 
It's a complete anomaly why we have such great buildings here as this must have been a tiny town in the 30's. We have a 30's tiled bingo hall (still in use today!) as well about three times the size of the cinema outside, though I've never been in to my memory.
 
Ruth, I missed your pics of the Odeon earlier - I used to live at the bottom of Muswell Hill and went to that cinema too! I lived in Crouch End for almost two years, it's such a lovely part of London. It's a lovely neighbourhood.
 
That's nice Nicole, makes you feel like a neighbour! It's a great little cinema. I used to live in Crouch End as well, and Muswell Hill. Now I'm just down the road in Bounds Green. Crouch End is very chi-chi and expensive these days. I love it round here, and there happens to be a lot of art deco architecture around.
 
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