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Costume Round Up: Villains

6 April 2013 8:56 AM, PDT | Clothes on Film | See recent Clothes on Film news »

This week we published Bonnie Radcliffe’s excellent article about the costume design clues in No Country for Old Men (2007), including a breakdown of psychotic hit man Anton Chigurh’s (Javier Bardem) sparse but never black attire among a sea of check shirts and cowboy hats. Chigurh stands out as much as he needs to (note the snakeskin boots) but really he dresses to fit in. Like all the best villains he is not aware he is the bad guy; to Chigurh he is just doing a job.

So in honour of Chigurh’s distinctive western jacket and polyester trousers, we have a round up of some of the best villain related costume posts at Clothes on Film. Don’t judge a book by its cover, but if you do meet a man in pinstripe resort wear with a boater, perhaps avoid staying for dinner.

Click the image to read the post. »

- Chris Laverty

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The James Clayton Column: Oscar nominees for new award categories

14 February 2013 2:25 AM, PST | Den of Geek | See recent Den of Geek news »

Feature James Clayton Feb 15, 2013

As the Academy Awards come round again, James introduces a few new Oscar categories of his own...

The red carpets have been laid down. The suits and frocks are tailored and vacu-wrapped ready for the spotlight. The champagne is on ice. It’s awards season, folks, and the stage is set for a ceremony of glitz, glamour and gong-grabbing glory. Smiles! Flash bulbs! Stars sweeping by! String orchestras playing in a major key! Razzle-dazzle showtime! (Applause!)

The slow stream of dramatic video montages punctuated by badly-delivered autocue announcements start to wash over everyone and it all seems to be safe and standard. Suddenly: Bang! Finally inspired to action by an especially awful Seth MacFarlane joke - “Well, if Hugh Jackman and Anne Hathaway win tonight, they’ll be ‘Less Misérables’!” (Laughter!) - Bane enters stage left.

“Let the games begin!” he mumbles before lurching forward to »

- ryanlambie

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Oscar Costume Design Nominations: At Least One Surprise

10 January 2013 12:36 PM, PST | Clothes on Film | See recent Clothes on Film news »

The Academy Awards go one smarter than BAFTA by including the late Eiko Ishioka for Mirror, Mirror in their Best Costume Design nominees. Otherwise it is business as usual for all the big hitters. However one other costume designer on this list especially deserves her statuette (clue: amazingly she has never been nominated before)…

Anna Karenina – Jacqueline Durran

Les Misérables – Paco Delgado

Lincoln – Joanna Johnston

Mirror, Mirror – Eiko Ishioka

Snow White and the Huntsman – Colleen Atwood

Django Unchained: Where on earth is Sharen Davis..?

We have already covered the issue of only big name, big budget period and fantasy films getting a look-in for Costume Design awards Here; our response to BAFTA’s own commendable but safe list of nominees announced yesterday. Yet it is worth reiterating again that costume design is not always about display and certainly not scale. Priority number one: serve the narrative, which can be achieved a number of ways. »

- Chris Laverty

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