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Attirely Appropriate: A conversation with costume designer Joanna Johnston

10 April 2013 5:41 AM, PDT | Flickeringmyth | See recent Flickeringmyth news »

Trevor Hogg chats with Joanna Johnston about her career, the art of costume designing and the Academy Awards...

“My aunt is a painter, my mother is a photographer and going back a rather few generations there are literary and painting people,” states British Costume Designer Joanna Johnston.  “My father was involved with theatre so there was this entertainment thing from him.”  The 1938 production of Marie Antoinette which resulted in Norma Shearer (The Divorcee) receiving an Oscar nomination has left a lasting cinematic impression.  “It was designed by a designer called Adrian and he was a massive eclectic designer from the 20th century.   I have no idea how much his budget would have been; it’s so fantastical that if you see it and you’re young, it’s absolutely beyond.”  Becoming a costume designer for film was an accidental career choice.  “It was serendipity.  I fell under the guise of »

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Costume Designer Anthony Powell Talks to BFI, from Polanski to Friedkin's Controversial 'Sorcerer'

28 March 2013 2:37 PM, PDT | Thompson on Hollywood | See recent Thompson on Hollywood news »

Three-time Oscar-winning costume designer Anthony Powell, who gave us the sumptuous sartorial designs in Roman Polanski's "Tess," Steven Spielberg's Indiana Jones films "Temple of Doom" and "Last Crusade" and William Friedkin's "Sorcerer," sat down recently with the BFI to discuss his career. Highlights below, with photos of his many costuming feats. On working with Roman Polanski: Roman's extraordinary. He could do the job of anyone on the set, except, possibly the costumes. He says he knows nothing about costumes but I don't think it's true; he always knows instinctively if something is right or not. In real life, we have very little in common, but in work, we have this extraordinary telepathy. Every time we've worked together, he just rings me up and gives me one sentence, and I just go away and do it, because I see exactly what he's got in his mind.On »

- Beth Hanna and Ryan Lattanzio

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Tess

23 March 2013 5:06 PM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »

(Roman Polanski, 1979, BFI, 12)

This adaptation of Thomas Hardy's tragic novel Tess of the d'Urbervilles, completed in 1891, was Roman Polanski's first movie after jumping bail in the Us in 1978, having pleaded guilty to the statutory rape of a 13-year-old girl. This prevented him ever working in the States or Britain again and may have introduced a note of caution into his handling of a story about an innocent young woman. It certainly made it impossible to shoot the picture in Hardy's Wessex. In the event the film (originally thought of as a vehicle for his late wife, Sharon Tate, to whom it's dedicated) is an outstanding piece of work.

Sensitively staged on well-chosen locations in Normandy and Brittany, it revolves around a deeply moving performance by Polanski's former lover and protege, the German actress Nastassja Kinski, as the country girl Tess. She was the victim, as Hardy saw it, »

- Philip French

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