The world is filled with ironies and often, these ironies are a part of Hollywood people and films. Greta Gerwig, Margot Robbie, and, Ryan Gosling’s Barbie is a prime example of the irony that we are talking about and no, it wasn’t the producers this time.
With a movie based on feminism and a satire on the patriarchy, Mattel executives had a really tough time letting Gerwig take full creative control of the project. As per a movie expert, the toy company tried to delete 3 integral scenes from Barbie including Ryan Gosling’s “I’m Just Ken” sequence (which is completely unacceptable).
A still from Barbie starring Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling
Mattel Executives Really Did Not Want Ryan Gosling’s “I’m Just Ken” Sequence!
Being one of the highest-grossing movies of all time, Greta Gerwig, Margot Robbie, and, Ryan Gosling literally shined in their pink outfits...
With a movie based on feminism and a satire on the patriarchy, Mattel executives had a really tough time letting Gerwig take full creative control of the project. As per a movie expert, the toy company tried to delete 3 integral scenes from Barbie including Ryan Gosling’s “I’m Just Ken” sequence (which is completely unacceptable).
A still from Barbie starring Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling
Mattel Executives Really Did Not Want Ryan Gosling’s “I’m Just Ken” Sequence!
Being one of the highest-grossing movies of all time, Greta Gerwig, Margot Robbie, and, Ryan Gosling literally shined in their pink outfits...
- 3/9/2024
- by Visarg Acharya
- FandomWire
Dakota Fanning’s Marge Sherwood describes Tom Ripley as an untrustworthy liar who takes advantage of people in the official trailer for Netflix’s Ripley. The limited series stars All of Us Strangers‘ Andrew Scott in the titular role and is based on Patricia Highsmith’s popular Tom Ripley novels.
“Tom Ripley (Scott), a grifter scraping by in early 1960s New York, is hired by a wealthy man to travel to Italy to try to convince his vagabond son to return home,” reads Netflix’s synopsis. “Tom’s acceptance of the job is the first step into a complex life of deceit, fraud, and murder.”
In addition to Scott and Fanning, the series stars Johnny Flynn (Lovesick) as Dickie Greenleaf, Eliot Sumner (Pretty Red Dress), Maurizio Lombardi (Monterossi), Margherita Buy (Mia Madre), and two-time Oscar nominee John Malkovich. Oscar winner Steven Zaillian (Schindler’s List) wrote, directed, and executive produced the limited series.
“Tom Ripley (Scott), a grifter scraping by in early 1960s New York, is hired by a wealthy man to travel to Italy to try to convince his vagabond son to return home,” reads Netflix’s synopsis. “Tom’s acceptance of the job is the first step into a complex life of deceit, fraud, and murder.”
In addition to Scott and Fanning, the series stars Johnny Flynn (Lovesick) as Dickie Greenleaf, Eliot Sumner (Pretty Red Dress), Maurizio Lombardi (Monterossi), Margherita Buy (Mia Madre), and two-time Oscar nominee John Malkovich. Oscar winner Steven Zaillian (Schindler’s List) wrote, directed, and executive produced the limited series.
- 3/4/2024
- by Rebecca Murray
- Showbiz Junkies
With more than 70 schools offering costume design instruction, what makes such a program stand out? Is it the proximity to film studios and theaters in the major entertainment hubs of L.A., London and New York? The variety of courses, from historical design to 3D fabric printing, or simply a well-rounded curriculum? Or is it the chance to network with award-winning alums and industry insiders, coupled with portfolio development and postgrad job placement?
Whatever the consideration, students, as soon-to-be narrative storytellers, face an ever-changing field with digital design technology at the forefront as the industry tries to figure out what to do with the practice of artificial intelligence. As Bill Brewer, Uncsa’s co-director of the Costume Design & Technology program, notes, “We believe that because we tell stories about the human condition, our industry will continue to rely on the artistry of humans.” Scad is also addressing AI, with workshops...
Whatever the consideration, students, as soon-to-be narrative storytellers, face an ever-changing field with digital design technology at the forefront as the industry tries to figure out what to do with the practice of artificial intelligence. As Bill Brewer, Uncsa’s co-director of the Costume Design & Technology program, notes, “We believe that because we tell stories about the human condition, our industry will continue to rely on the artistry of humans.” Scad is also addressing AI, with workshops...
- 2/24/2024
- by Cathy Whitlock
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
“Barbie” and “Poor Things” led the 26th Costume Designers Guild Awards.
In the excellence in period film category, Oscar nominee Holly Waddington won for her work on “Poor Things.” Jacqueline Durran, who is also an Oscar nominee, was recognized for her work on “Barbie,” winning the excellence in sci-fi/fantasy film award.
In contemporary costume, “Saltburn’s” costume designer Sophie Canale won there.
Shawna Trpcic who passed away last year, posthumously won for her work on the Disney+ show “Ahsoka.”
Wendi McLendon-Covey served as the night’s host. Annette Bening received the Spotlight Award. Bening has worked alongside costume designers such as Albert Wolsky and Julie Weiss, and was recognized for her special awareness of the role and importance of costume design. However, due to Covid, Bening was unable to accept the speech in person.
Francine Jamison-Tanchuck was presented with the career achievement award. She thanked mentors including Ann Roth and Edith Head.
In the excellence in period film category, Oscar nominee Holly Waddington won for her work on “Poor Things.” Jacqueline Durran, who is also an Oscar nominee, was recognized for her work on “Barbie,” winning the excellence in sci-fi/fantasy film award.
In contemporary costume, “Saltburn’s” costume designer Sophie Canale won there.
Shawna Trpcic who passed away last year, posthumously won for her work on the Disney+ show “Ahsoka.”
Wendi McLendon-Covey served as the night’s host. Annette Bening received the Spotlight Award. Bening has worked alongside costume designers such as Albert Wolsky and Julie Weiss, and was recognized for her special awareness of the role and importance of costume design. However, due to Covid, Bening was unable to accept the speech in person.
Francine Jamison-Tanchuck was presented with the career achievement award. She thanked mentors including Ann Roth and Edith Head.
- 2/22/2024
- by Jazz Tangcay
- Variety Film + TV
The Color Purple costume designer Francine Jamison-Tanchuck will be honored with the Career Achievement Award at the 26th annual Costume Designers Guild Awards this year.
The award recognizes “an individual whose career in costume design has left an indelible mark on film and television.” Previous recipients include Ruth E. Carter, Deborah L. Scott, Michael Kaplan, Joanna Johnston, Jeffrey Kurland, Ellen Mirojnick, Sandy Powell, Marlene Stewart, Ruth Meyers, Ann Roth, Milena Canonero, Albert Wolsky, Colleen Atwood, and Theoni Aldredge, Sharen Davis, April Ferry, Aggie Rodgers, Judianna Makovsky and Eduardo Castro, among many others.
“Try not to allow someone’s negative thoughts or comments keep you from moving forward creatively. You can be nervous, but don’t be afraid to risk taking the first steps even if you can’t completely see the staircase!” says Jamison-Tanchuck.
Jamison-Tanchuck’s credits include Regina King’s triple-Oscar nominated One Night in Miami as well as...
The award recognizes “an individual whose career in costume design has left an indelible mark on film and television.” Previous recipients include Ruth E. Carter, Deborah L. Scott, Michael Kaplan, Joanna Johnston, Jeffrey Kurland, Ellen Mirojnick, Sandy Powell, Marlene Stewart, Ruth Meyers, Ann Roth, Milena Canonero, Albert Wolsky, Colleen Atwood, and Theoni Aldredge, Sharen Davis, April Ferry, Aggie Rodgers, Judianna Makovsky and Eduardo Castro, among many others.
“Try not to allow someone’s negative thoughts or comments keep you from moving forward creatively. You can be nervous, but don’t be afraid to risk taking the first steps even if you can’t completely see the staircase!” says Jamison-Tanchuck.
Jamison-Tanchuck’s credits include Regina King’s triple-Oscar nominated One Night in Miami as well as...
- 1/9/2024
- by Beatrice Verhoeven
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
As we wrap up our year-end coverage, IndieWire looks back at the people, projects, and ideas that defined 2023 — and what’s coming next.
To fully appreciate the financial success of Greta Gerwig’s zeitgeist-shifting smash hit “Barbie,” let’s briefly consider some of the other heavy-hitters it trounced at the box office: John Wick, Indiana Jones, Transformers, the “Fast and Furious” family, and The Flash. The number-one film of the year may have sprung from beloved (slight shudder here) intellectual property, but Gerwig so wholly transformed the iconic doll, shaping a new mythos around her in the process, that nothing about “Barbie” felt been-there or done-that in the slightest.
While Hollywood’s affection for — and attention to — the kind of franchise features that used to regularly top the box office charts is on the decline, the success of “Barbie,” the sort of fresh take on seemingly old material that should...
To fully appreciate the financial success of Greta Gerwig’s zeitgeist-shifting smash hit “Barbie,” let’s briefly consider some of the other heavy-hitters it trounced at the box office: John Wick, Indiana Jones, Transformers, the “Fast and Furious” family, and The Flash. The number-one film of the year may have sprung from beloved (slight shudder here) intellectual property, but Gerwig so wholly transformed the iconic doll, shaping a new mythos around her in the process, that nothing about “Barbie” felt been-there or done-that in the slightest.
While Hollywood’s affection for — and attention to — the kind of franchise features that used to regularly top the box office charts is on the decline, the success of “Barbie,” the sort of fresh take on seemingly old material that should...
- 12/18/2023
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
After Barbie was released back in July 2023, rumors surfaced that the real Barbara Handler made a cameo in the film, but that wasn’t actually her in the movie.
She Has shared her thoughts on the movie though!
For those who don’t know, businesswoman and inventor Ruth Handler is the woman who came up with the idea for the Barbie doll and she named the iconic character after her daughter.
Keep reading to find out more…
Ruth co-founded Mattel with her husband and served as the company’s first president.
It was rumored that Barbara played the older woman who chats with Barbie (Margot Robbie) on a bus stop bench in Santa Monica after she travels to the world. They have an emotional chat that becomes a sentimental moment and an incredibly important one for Barbie’s personal growth.
The scene was almost cut from the movie!
Director Greta Gerwig...
She Has shared her thoughts on the movie though!
For those who don’t know, businesswoman and inventor Ruth Handler is the woman who came up with the idea for the Barbie doll and she named the iconic character after her daughter.
Keep reading to find out more…
Ruth co-founded Mattel with her husband and served as the company’s first president.
It was rumored that Barbara played the older woman who chats with Barbie (Margot Robbie) on a bus stop bench in Santa Monica after she travels to the world. They have an emotional chat that becomes a sentimental moment and an incredibly important one for Barbie’s personal growth.
The scene was almost cut from the movie!
Director Greta Gerwig...
- 12/15/2023
- by Just Jared
- Just Jared
Variety Awards Circuit section is the home for all awards news and related content throughout the year, featuring the following: the official predictions for the upcoming Oscars, Emmys, Grammys and Tony Awards ceremonies, curated by Variety senior awards editor Clayton Davis. The prediction pages reflect the current standings in the race and do not reflect personal preferences for any individual contender. As other formal (and informal) polls suggest, competitions are fluid and subject to change based on buzz and events. Predictions are updated every Thursday.
Visit the prediction pages for the respective ceremonies via the links below:
Oscars | Emmys | Grammys | Tonys
2024 Oscars Predictions:
Best Achievement in Costume Design Rachel McAdams as Barbara Simon, Abby Ryder Fortson as Margaret Simon, and Benny Safdie as Herb Simon in Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret. Photo Credit: Dana Hawley
Weekly Commentary: More to come.
Read: Variety’s Awards Circuit for the...
Visit the prediction pages for the respective ceremonies via the links below:
Oscars | Emmys | Grammys | Tonys
2024 Oscars Predictions:
Best Achievement in Costume Design Rachel McAdams as Barbara Simon, Abby Ryder Fortson as Margaret Simon, and Benny Safdie as Herb Simon in Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret. Photo Credit: Dana Hawley
Weekly Commentary: More to come.
Read: Variety’s Awards Circuit for the...
- 11/7/2023
- by Clayton Davis
- Variety Film + TV
“Barbie” screenwriters Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach recently joined Tony Kushner for a discussion about the record-breaking Warner Bros. blockbuster and revealed one of the first notes Mattel gave them on the script: Please don’t have the Mattel exec stand-in characters be shot.
In the third act of “Barbie,” an all-out beach battle takes place between the warring Ken characters. It’s at this moment that Will Ferrell, playing the fictionalized CEO of Mattel, arrives in Barbieland along with his armada of nameless male Mattel execs. At one point one of these execs gets shot with a fake arrow during the ensuing, bloodless mayhem.
“There was a note when we first turned the script it,” Baumbach told Kusher. “On page 111: ‘Does a Mattel executive have to be shot?’ At the time we were like, that should just be on the ad!’
“But all the notes had a question mark at the end,...
In the third act of “Barbie,” an all-out beach battle takes place between the warring Ken characters. It’s at this moment that Will Ferrell, playing the fictionalized CEO of Mattel, arrives in Barbieland along with his armada of nameless male Mattel execs. At one point one of these execs gets shot with a fake arrow during the ensuing, bloodless mayhem.
“There was a note when we first turned the script it,” Baumbach told Kusher. “On page 111: ‘Does a Mattel executive have to be shot?’ At the time we were like, that should just be on the ad!’
“But all the notes had a question mark at the end,...
- 11/3/2023
- by Zack Sharf
- Variety Film + TV
Lionsgate’s adaptation of the Judy Blume novel “Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret” has been submitted for the Golden Globes in the comedy/musical categories, Variety has learned exclusively. With the expansion from five to six nominees this year, the movie will compete for recognition against Warner Bros’ “Barbie,” Searchlight Pictures’ “Poor Things” and Focus Features’ “The Holdovers.”
Written and directed by Kelly Fremon Craig, the film tells the story of 11-year-old Margaret, who is uprooted from her life in New York to New Jersey, where she deals with the challenges of new friends and a new school.
Read: Variety’s Awards Circuit for the latest Oscars predictions in all categories.
The coming-of-age dramedy boasts a roster of multiple Oscar winners and nominees among its cast and artisans, notably standout supporting actress hopeful Rachel McAdams, who was previously nominated for the best picture winner “Spotlight” (2015). Her young co-star Abby Ryder Fortson,...
Written and directed by Kelly Fremon Craig, the film tells the story of 11-year-old Margaret, who is uprooted from her life in New York to New Jersey, where she deals with the challenges of new friends and a new school.
Read: Variety’s Awards Circuit for the latest Oscars predictions in all categories.
The coming-of-age dramedy boasts a roster of multiple Oscar winners and nominees among its cast and artisans, notably standout supporting actress hopeful Rachel McAdams, who was previously nominated for the best picture winner “Spotlight” (2015). Her young co-star Abby Ryder Fortson,...
- 10/11/2023
- by Clayton Davis
- Variety Film + TV
Barbie co-writer/director Greta Gerwig dug in when it came to actor Ryan Gosling‘s big dance number, “I’m Just Ken.”
Studio executives questioned the part in the script that indicated: “And then it becomes a dream ballet and they work it out through dance.” Gerwig envisioned that number to mirror the iconic, “Singing in the Rain.” She won her argument with executives but later held her breath, wondering if her gut was right.
‘Barbie’ needed a ‘dream ballet’
Gerwig recalled being summoned into a “big meeting” where she was asked “‘Do you need this?’” she recalled, People reports.
“I was like, ‘Everything in me needs this,'” Gerwig said. “They were like, ‘What do you even mean? What is a dream ballet?’ And I was like, ‘A dream ballet? Where do I begin!'”
The scene in question was set in an empty room filled with Kens dressed in black.
Studio executives questioned the part in the script that indicated: “And then it becomes a dream ballet and they work it out through dance.” Gerwig envisioned that number to mirror the iconic, “Singing in the Rain.” She won her argument with executives but later held her breath, wondering if her gut was right.
‘Barbie’ needed a ‘dream ballet’
Gerwig recalled being summoned into a “big meeting” where she was asked “‘Do you need this?’” she recalled, People reports.
“I was like, ‘Everything in me needs this,'” Gerwig said. “They were like, ‘What do you even mean? What is a dream ballet?’ And I was like, ‘A dream ballet? Where do I begin!'”
The scene in question was set in an empty room filled with Kens dressed in black.
- 10/10/2023
- by Gina Ragusa
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
Oscar Race Kicks Off as First Screeners Drop: ‘Air,’ ‘Creed III,’ ‘John Wick 4’ and More (Exclusive)
The Academy Screening Room is now open to all eligible AMPAS members, with the first wave of films uploaded for Oscar consideration for the upcoming awards season.
Nine notable titles are among the films, including Ben Affleck’s “Air” from Amazon Studios, Michael B. Jordan’s “Creed III” from MGM, Kelly Fremon Craig’s “Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret” and Chad Stahelski’s “John Wick: Chapter 4,” both from Lionsgate.
The Academy performs a heavy vetting process for each film that chooses to submit for consideration. In 2022, nine movies were among the first added to the members’ portal while in 2020, eight films kicked off that season. Historically, over 300 movies are in the running for best picture consideration. Obviously, more films will be added, and in greater batches, over the next several months. Distributors are the ultimate decision makers on when a movie is placed on the Academy Screening Room for viewing.
Nine notable titles are among the films, including Ben Affleck’s “Air” from Amazon Studios, Michael B. Jordan’s “Creed III” from MGM, Kelly Fremon Craig’s “Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret” and Chad Stahelski’s “John Wick: Chapter 4,” both from Lionsgate.
The Academy performs a heavy vetting process for each film that chooses to submit for consideration. In 2022, nine movies were among the first added to the members’ portal while in 2020, eight films kicked off that season. Historically, over 300 movies are in the running for best picture consideration. Obviously, more films will be added, and in greater batches, over the next several months. Distributors are the ultimate decision makers on when a movie is placed on the Academy Screening Room for viewing.
- 8/18/2023
- by Clayton Davis
- Variety Film + TV
This article contains spoilers for "Barbie."
As the movie says out loud, when a person thinks of a Barbie, the image of someone who looks like Margot Robbie in Greta Gerwig's "Barbie" is likely what first pops into mind. Despite her decades of different looks and fashion choices, blonde hair, a big smile, and some sort of pink outfit have served as the unofficial Barbie uniform for over half of a century. And yet, at the end of the film, Barbie wears a soft, simple, yellow dress.
Costume designer Jacqueline Durran gave Variety the inside scoop. "The Barbies have gone through all of that stuff and they're now the most fulfilled versions of themselves," Durran said. "And that sets the scene for what's happening to Margot's Barbie as she's becoming human." Durran explained that all of the costumes in Barbieland weren't made to accentuate the softness of the human body.
As the movie says out loud, when a person thinks of a Barbie, the image of someone who looks like Margot Robbie in Greta Gerwig's "Barbie" is likely what first pops into mind. Despite her decades of different looks and fashion choices, blonde hair, a big smile, and some sort of pink outfit have served as the unofficial Barbie uniform for over half of a century. And yet, at the end of the film, Barbie wears a soft, simple, yellow dress.
Costume designer Jacqueline Durran gave Variety the inside scoop. "The Barbies have gone through all of that stuff and they're now the most fulfilled versions of themselves," Durran said. "And that sets the scene for what's happening to Margot's Barbie as she's becoming human." Durran explained that all of the costumes in Barbieland weren't made to accentuate the softness of the human body.
- 8/9/2023
- by BJ Colangelo
- Slash Film
Spoiler Alert: This contains spoilers from “Barbie” which is now playing in theaters.
The yellow dress Margot Robbie’s wears in Barbie’s final scenes was designed to represent change, says the film’s costume designer Jacqueline Durran.
By the end of the Greta Gerwig blockbuster, Barbie has been transformed by the Real World. She’s become flat-footed, broken the patriarchy and all zen has been restored in Barbieland. Except Barbie, after experiencing the spectrum of human emotion, is feeling unfulfilled. She wants to be a human in the real world.
“The Barbies have gone through all of that stuff and they’re now the most fulfilled versions of themselves,” Durran says. “And that sets the scene for what’s happening to Margot’s Barbie as she’s becoming human.”
Durran says the costumes in Barbieland did not accentuate the softness of a human body. However, for the yellow dress...
The yellow dress Margot Robbie’s wears in Barbie’s final scenes was designed to represent change, says the film’s costume designer Jacqueline Durran.
By the end of the Greta Gerwig blockbuster, Barbie has been transformed by the Real World. She’s become flat-footed, broken the patriarchy and all zen has been restored in Barbieland. Except Barbie, after experiencing the spectrum of human emotion, is feeling unfulfilled. She wants to be a human in the real world.
“The Barbies have gone through all of that stuff and they’re now the most fulfilled versions of themselves,” Durran says. “And that sets the scene for what’s happening to Margot’s Barbie as she’s becoming human.”
Durran says the costumes in Barbieland did not accentuate the softness of a human body. However, for the yellow dress...
- 8/4/2023
- by Jazz Tangcay
- Variety Film + TV
Greta Gerwig’s “Barbie” is destined to be a classic in its own right, already garnering nearly half a billion dollars at the box office in under a week. The film, about a stereotypical Barbie (Margot Robbie) in the grips of an existential crisis that sees her going to the Real World, is all manner of fun and wacky, with a number of Old Hollywood influences.
Gerwig herself has cited a number of features that either directly or indirectly inspired “Barbie,” starting with the 1939 Technicolor classic, “The Wizard of Oz.” That film, with its now iconic transition between Kansas and the land of Oz, no doubt factored into how the feature approaches color. The idea of a character transitioning from one world to another draws comparisons to “The Truman Show” and “Heaven Can Wait.”
Among the more nuanced, less obvious films, Gerwig took inspiration from “Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown,...
Gerwig herself has cited a number of features that either directly or indirectly inspired “Barbie,” starting with the 1939 Technicolor classic, “The Wizard of Oz.” That film, with its now iconic transition between Kansas and the land of Oz, no doubt factored into how the feature approaches color. The idea of a character transitioning from one world to another draws comparisons to “The Truman Show” and “Heaven Can Wait.”
Among the more nuanced, less obvious films, Gerwig took inspiration from “Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown,...
- 7/28/2023
- by Kristen Lopez
- The Wrap
Barbie (read our review Here) is currently dominating the box office, and it wouldn’t be a surprise if it goes on to rack up some Oscar nominations as well. It seems like a lock for categories like Best Production Design, Best Costume Design, Best Makeup and Hairstyling, etc. Variety recently spoke to production designer Sarah Greenwood and set decorator Katie Spencer about the work they did to bring Barbie Land to the screen… and during the conversation, it was revealed that one of the locations in Barbieland was inspired by an iconic location from one of the most popular horror movies ever made: Weird Barbie’s house was inspired by the Bates house in Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho (watch it Here)!
Weird Barbie’s house was one of the last sets Greenwood and Spencer worked on, and Greenwood had this to say about it: “One of my early references...
Weird Barbie’s house was one of the last sets Greenwood and Spencer worked on, and Greenwood had this to say about it: “One of my early references...
- 7/28/2023
- by Cody Hamman
- JoBlo.com
The biggest surprise in Greta Gerwig’s smart and spirited live-action blockbuster, Barbie, co-written with Noah Baumbach and starring Margot Robbie as “stereotypical” Barbie and Ryan Gosling as Ken in need of her 'female gaze,' is the cameo made by the multiple Oscar-winning costume designer (for Anthony Minghella’s The English Patient and George C Wolfe’s Ma Rainey's Black Bottom) and Baumbach favourite (While We're Young and White Noise), the always beautiful Ann Roth. Here, Jacqueline Durran does the outfits.
Our Heroine With 1,001 Faces, to borrow the title of Harvard professor Maria Tatar’s latest book - which itself engages with Joseph Campbell’s Hero With A Thousand Faces - is on a quest that leads her from Barbieland to the Real World and...
Our Heroine With 1,001 Faces, to borrow the title of Harvard professor Maria Tatar’s latest book - which itself engages with Joseph Campbell’s Hero With A Thousand Faces - is on a quest that leads her from Barbieland to the Real World and...
- 7/23/2023
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
In one of the most touching scenes in “Barbie,” the title character, played by Margot Robbie, has a conversation on the bench with an old lady on a bench in the real world.
We won’t spoil what they discussed, but we will reveal who plays the unnamed character: Ann Roth.
Roth is the costume designer for the Greta Gerwig film, a five-time Academy Award nominee for costume design and two-time winner (“The English Patient” in 1996 and “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” in 2020).
The 91-year-old designer’s career has spanned six decades. Other notable projects she’s worked on include “Midnight Cowboy,” “9 to 5,” “Sabrina” and “The Hours.” While this is Roth’s first film with Gerwig, she previously collaborated with Gerwig’s partner Noah Baumbach on “Margot at the Wedding,” “While We’re Young” and “White Noise.”
In an interview with Rolling Stone, Gerwig revealed that some executives sought to...
We won’t spoil what they discussed, but we will reveal who plays the unnamed character: Ann Roth.
Roth is the costume designer for the Greta Gerwig film, a five-time Academy Award nominee for costume design and two-time winner (“The English Patient” in 1996 and “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” in 2020).
The 91-year-old designer’s career has spanned six decades. Other notable projects she’s worked on include “Midnight Cowboy,” “9 to 5,” “Sabrina” and “The Hours.” While this is Roth’s first film with Gerwig, she previously collaborated with Gerwig’s partner Noah Baumbach on “Margot at the Wedding,” “While We’re Young” and “White Noise.”
In an interview with Rolling Stone, Gerwig revealed that some executives sought to...
- 7/23/2023
- by Lawrence Yee
- The Wrap
Greta Gerwig had a clear vision for the story she wanted to tell with Barbie and rejected the idea of cutting a scene with Margot Robbie and an older woman on a bench.
When Barbie crosses over to the real world, she comes across an older woman sitting on a bench. As the women exchange glances, Barbie compliments the older woman and tells her she is beautiful. When it was time to edit the film, Gerwig came under pressure to cut that particular scene from the final cut but ultimately opted to keep it.
“I love that scene so much,” Gerwig told Rolling Stone. “And the older woman on the bench is the costume designer Ann Roth. She’s a legend. It’s a cul-de-sac of a moment, in a way — it doesn’t lead anywhere. And in early cuts, looking at the movie, it was suggested, ‘Well, you could cut it.
When Barbie crosses over to the real world, she comes across an older woman sitting on a bench. As the women exchange glances, Barbie compliments the older woman and tells her she is beautiful. When it was time to edit the film, Gerwig came under pressure to cut that particular scene from the final cut but ultimately opted to keep it.
“I love that scene so much,” Gerwig told Rolling Stone. “And the older woman on the bench is the costume designer Ann Roth. She’s a legend. It’s a cul-de-sac of a moment, in a way — it doesn’t lead anywhere. And in early cuts, looking at the movie, it was suggested, ‘Well, you could cut it.
- 7/22/2023
- by Armando Tinoco
- Deadline Film + TV
As ‘Barbie’ fans gathered at the Alamo Drafthouse in New York for the Barbie premiere on Friday, director Greta Gerwig stopped by for a surprise visit.
In an Instagram video posted by writer David Mack, Gerwig was seen in a denim jumpsuit and cap addressing the audience. “I can’t tell you how happy I am that you guys are all here,” she said. “When we made this movie we made it with so much joy and hope, and we hoped that people would go back to the movie theatre...
In an Instagram video posted by writer David Mack, Gerwig was seen in a denim jumpsuit and cap addressing the audience. “I can’t tell you how happy I am that you guys are all here,” she said. “When we made this movie we made it with so much joy and hope, and we hoped that people would go back to the movie theatre...
- 7/22/2023
- by Charisma Madarang
- Rollingstone.com
Greta Gerwig’s “Barbie” is now playing in theaters nationwide, but one if its most emotional scenes might not have made it to the big screen had the filmmaker not held her ground against studio executives. In several interviews before the comedy’s theatrical release, Gerwig revealed that it was suggested she cut out the scene where Barbie (Margot Robbie) meets an elderly woman on a bench and tells her she’s beautiful.
“I love that scene so much,” Gerwig told Rolling Stone. “And the older woman on the bench is the costume designer Ann Roth. She’s a legend. It’s a cul-de-sac of a moment, in a way — it doesn’t lead anywhere. And in early cuts, looking at the movie, it was suggested, ‘Well, you could cut it. And actually, the story would move on just the same.’ And I said, ‘If I cut the scene, I...
“I love that scene so much,” Gerwig told Rolling Stone. “And the older woman on the bench is the costume designer Ann Roth. She’s a legend. It’s a cul-de-sac of a moment, in a way — it doesn’t lead anywhere. And in early cuts, looking at the movie, it was suggested, ‘Well, you could cut it. And actually, the story would move on just the same.’ And I said, ‘If I cut the scene, I...
- 7/21/2023
- by Zack Sharf
- Variety Film + TV
Team Experience has been looking at LGBTQ+ related Oscar nominations. Tonight we're serving lewks!
By Christopher James
For a movie with iconic nude scenes, the costumes of The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999) are just as memorable and titillating. It’s fitting that the Oscars honored the incredible work of costume designers Ann Roth and Gary Jones for the film, which should’ve shown up in more categories than the five it was nominated for. Though the actual Oscar went to Lindy Hemming’s period-specific and gloriously gaudy work in Topsy-Turvy, we’re still cheering on the sidelines for Ripley.
Let's count down the 10 queerest looks from the movie...
By Christopher James
For a movie with iconic nude scenes, the costumes of The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999) are just as memorable and titillating. It’s fitting that the Oscars honored the incredible work of costume designers Ann Roth and Gary Jones for the film, which should’ve shown up in more categories than the five it was nominated for. Though the actual Oscar went to Lindy Hemming’s period-specific and gloriously gaudy work in Topsy-Turvy, we’re still cheering on the sidelines for Ripley.
Let's count down the 10 queerest looks from the movie...
- 7/7/2023
- by Christopher James
- FilmExperience
When Greta Gerwig was in preproduction on her Barbie movie (out July 21), executives from the brand’s owner, Mattel, paid her an inevitable visit. She gave them a preview of the movie’s look (very, very pink) and feel (Elf-y magical-realism ramped up a thousandfold). Then she hit them with a monologue: stuff like the influence of spiritualist painters, how Barbie is like an ancient religious myth, references to The Red Shoes and Stairway to Heaven and Heaven Can Wait. “I think at that point, when I was in hour three of talking,...
- 7/3/2023
- by Brian Hiatt
- Rollingstone.com
Footage of late Sixties New York City seamlessly sways into Dustin Hoffman’s Ratso Rizzo in Midnight Cowboy stealing a handful of plum tomatoes and a coconut from a fruit stand with help from his new sidekick Joe Buck (Jon Voight). “These Eyes” sing Guess Who, and Lucy Sante comments that the film “could be an advertisement for anti-glamour and yet by doing this it manages to express the zeitgeist.”
Nancy Buirski’s masterful Desperate Souls, Dark City And The Legend Of Midnight Cowboy, edited with Anthony Ripoli is much more than a documentary on John Schlesinger’s multiple Oscar-winning film. Based on James Leo Herlihy’s novel, adapted by Waldo Salt, shot by Adam Holender, with costumes by Ann Roth, Midnight Cowboy features an impressive supporting cast, including Sylvia Miles, Brenda Vaccaro, Jennifer Salt, and...
Nancy Buirski’s masterful Desperate Souls, Dark City And The Legend Of Midnight Cowboy, edited with Anthony Ripoli is much more than a documentary on John Schlesinger’s multiple Oscar-winning film. Based on James Leo Herlihy’s novel, adapted by Waldo Salt, shot by Adam Holender, with costumes by Ann Roth, Midnight Cowboy features an impressive supporting cast, including Sylvia Miles, Brenda Vaccaro, Jennifer Salt, and...
- 6/29/2023
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Desperate Souls, Dark City and The Legend Of Midnight Cowboy director Nancy Buirski on Joe Buck and Ratso Rizzo: “They become appealing because of these wonderful performances by Jon Voight and Dustin Hoffman.”
Nancy Buirski’s masterpiece is much more than a documentary on John Schlesinger’s Midnight Cowboy, screenplay by Waldo Salt, shot by Adam Holender, costumes by Ann Roth, and starring Jon Voight and Dustin Hoffman with Sylvia Miles, Brenda Vaccaro, Jennifer Salt, and Bob Balaban. Desperate Souls, Dark City And The Legend Of Midnight Cowboy, edited by Anthony Ripoli, features on-camera interviews shot by Rex Miller with Lucy Sante, Brian De Palma, Edmund White, Michael Childers, Charles Kaiser, Jim Hoberman, Ian Buruma, Voight, Vaccaro, Balaban, Holender, and Jennifer Salt.
Brenda Vaccaro with John Schlesinger: “Ann Roth saved my life,” says Vaccaro, “by putting me in that fur coat.”
The evocative, wide-ranging, and evermore timely documentary drops us...
Nancy Buirski’s masterpiece is much more than a documentary on John Schlesinger’s Midnight Cowboy, screenplay by Waldo Salt, shot by Adam Holender, costumes by Ann Roth, and starring Jon Voight and Dustin Hoffman with Sylvia Miles, Brenda Vaccaro, Jennifer Salt, and Bob Balaban. Desperate Souls, Dark City And The Legend Of Midnight Cowboy, edited by Anthony Ripoli, features on-camera interviews shot by Rex Miller with Lucy Sante, Brian De Palma, Edmund White, Michael Childers, Charles Kaiser, Jim Hoberman, Ian Buruma, Voight, Vaccaro, Balaban, Holender, and Jennifer Salt.
Brenda Vaccaro with John Schlesinger: “Ann Roth saved my life,” says Vaccaro, “by putting me in that fur coat.”
The evocative, wide-ranging, and evermore timely documentary drops us...
- 6/26/2023
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
The story of “Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret” remains as relevant to teens today as when the Judy Blume book came out in 1970. The story of a young girl navigating the first rocky steps into adolescence while changing schools and navigating her parents’ different religious backgrounds, what happens to Margaret (Abby Ryder Fortson) happens to lots of young girls, and Margaret’s yearning to just be happy and normal is universal.
“I think one of the magic tricks of the book is that anybody who reads it, in any decade, experiences it as contemporary,” director Kelly Fremon Craig told IndieWire. “When I read it in 1990, I had no idea it was written 20 years prior, so I was projecting all my own childhood images of the ’90s onto everything. And the book cover looked like it was contemporary, you know what I mean? So I had no idea [it was set in 1970].”
But...
“I think one of the magic tricks of the book is that anybody who reads it, in any decade, experiences it as contemporary,” director Kelly Fremon Craig told IndieWire. “When I read it in 1990, I had no idea it was written 20 years prior, so I was projecting all my own childhood images of the ’90s onto everything. And the book cover looked like it was contemporary, you know what I mean? So I had no idea [it was set in 1970].”
But...
- 4/28/2023
- by Sarah Shachat
- Indiewire
You can probably list the names of a plethora of fashion designers off the top of your head. Christian Dior, Coco Chanel, Tom Ford, Marc Jacobs, Ralph Lauren, etc. They not only designed beautiful clothes people crave to wear, but they became figureheads in their industry. You could put them on the cover of a magazine and know exactly who they are. Costume designers, however, don't get the same kind of popularity, even though they are in a similar profession. You may be able to think of a few names — Ann Roth, Sandy Powell, or Ruth E. Carter — but I would suspect it would be difficult for you to pick them out of a crowd.
Then there is Edith Head. With her unmistakable short black hair and Coke bottle glasses, Head was the crème de la crème of Hollywood costume design from the late 1920s through the 1970s. She holds...
Then there is Edith Head. With her unmistakable short black hair and Coke bottle glasses, Head was the crème de la crème of Hollywood costume design from the late 1920s through the 1970s. She holds...
- 4/22/2023
- by Mike Shutt
- Slash Film
Ask any young woman about the book that changed their life and most will, in some form, mention Judy Blume’s 1970 novel “Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret.” The story of an 11-year-old girl trying to navigate middle school and puberty has been the subject of banned book lists and was perceived as unfilmable — both because of Blume’s protectiveness over the material and the novel’s frank look at menstruation.
Director Kelly Fremon Craig is no stranger to young women in a state of transition, having helmed the equally wonderful “Edge of Seventeen” in 2016. Her take on “Are You There God” is filled with heart and isn’t afraid to talk about all the topics that made Blume’s novel so controversial. At times, the feature is jarring in how overt it discusses periods, bras, and tween girls’ desire to grow up too fast. Concurrently, it’s such a sweet,...
Director Kelly Fremon Craig is no stranger to young women in a state of transition, having helmed the equally wonderful “Edge of Seventeen” in 2016. Her take on “Are You There God” is filled with heart and isn’t afraid to talk about all the topics that made Blume’s novel so controversial. At times, the feature is jarring in how overt it discusses periods, bras, and tween girls’ desire to grow up too fast. Concurrently, it’s such a sweet,...
- 4/20/2023
- by Kristen Lopez
- The Wrap
This year’s Tonys will be held on June 11, so the American Theatre Wing will likely be announcing their lifetime achievement award recipient in the near future. Who do you think should be taking home this prestigious trophy? Scroll down to let us know in our poll which behind-the-scenes creative deserves the honor this year.
The Tony for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre honors an individual’s body of work, and in some years we’ve gotten multiple recipients. Last year legendary five-time Tony winner Angela Lansbury received this honor about four months before her death on October 11 at the age of 96. The following living creatives have already received this award so they’re not eligible to be chosen again: Paul Gemignani, Alan Ayckbourn, Athol Fugard, Jane Greenwood, Sheldon Harnick, Marshall W. Mason, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Harold Wheeler, and Graciela Daniele.
Here are 10 possibilities, all of them creatives over the...
The Tony for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre honors an individual’s body of work, and in some years we’ve gotten multiple recipients. Last year legendary five-time Tony winner Angela Lansbury received this honor about four months before her death on October 11 at the age of 96. The following living creatives have already received this award so they’re not eligible to be chosen again: Paul Gemignani, Alan Ayckbourn, Athol Fugard, Jane Greenwood, Sheldon Harnick, Marshall W. Mason, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Harold Wheeler, and Graciela Daniele.
Here are 10 possibilities, all of them creatives over the...
- 3/21/2023
- by Jeffrey Kare
- Gold Derby
At the 25th Costume Designers Guild Awards (CDGAs) on Feb. 27 at L.A.’s Fairmont Century Plaza, special honorees will include costume designers Deborah L. Scott (Avatar: The Way of Water) and Rachael M. Stanley (Sabrina the Teenage Witch, Ally McBeal); Black Panther: Wakanda Forever Oscar nominee Angela Bassett, who will receive the Spotlight Award; and Bette Midler, who will be recognized with the Distinguished Collaborator Award.
Midler jokes with THR that the Costume Designers Guild award recognizes her “willingness to stand in front of a mirror for hours on end! What could be more delightful?” All kidding aside, Midler continues, “A great costume is like a second skin; you feel as if you belong in it. It’s very freeing because it provides so much information to the audience, and you don’t have to work so hard.”
Midler got an early taste of the work that goes into...
Midler jokes with THR that the Costume Designers Guild award recognizes her “willingness to stand in front of a mirror for hours on end! What could be more delightful?” All kidding aside, Midler continues, “A great costume is like a second skin; you feel as if you belong in it. It’s very freeing because it provides so much information to the audience, and you don’t have to work so hard.”
Midler got an early taste of the work that goes into...
- 2/26/2023
- by Degen Pener
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Steven Spielberg’s autobiographical feature The Fabelmans earned seven Oscar nominations this morning, including one for Spielberg’s longtime collaborator, composer John Williams, and one for veteran actor Judd Hirsch, who plays Boris, a fictionalized version of Spielberg’s great uncle in the movie.
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At 90 years 350 days, Williams became the oldest person to be nominated for an Oscar (excluding honorary awards). He also topped his own record as the most nominated living person with 53 Oscar noms.
At 87 years and 315 days, Hirsch became the second oldest acting nominee behind Christopher Plummer who was 88 years and 41 days at the time of his nomination and ahead...
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At 90 years 350 days, Williams became the oldest person to be nominated for an Oscar (excluding honorary awards). He also topped his own record as the most nominated living person with 53 Oscar noms.
At 87 years and 315 days, Hirsch became the second oldest acting nominee behind Christopher Plummer who was 88 years and 41 days at the time of his nomination and ahead...
- 1/24/2023
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
“White Noise” director Noah Baumbach called on costume designer Ann Roth to bring the film’s characters to life. The movie marked a reunion for Roth and Baumbach, who had collaborated on “Margot at the Wedding.”
It also marked a reunion for Oscar-winning hair department head Mia Neal and Roth, whom Neal calls “a mentor.”
The all-star cast features Greta Gerwig, Adam Driver and Don Cheadle in an adaptation of Don Delillo’s novel. Driver is Jack Gladney, a professor of Hitler studies at the College-on-the-Hill. He lives with his wife, Babette (Gerwig), and their four children, but when an “airborne toxic event” takes place in their community, the family must grapple with the universal mysteries of love, death and uncertainty.
“Noah was very specific about all the individual characters’ looks. Working with him and Ann Roth to create the looks for everyone can only be described as taking a master class,...
It also marked a reunion for Oscar-winning hair department head Mia Neal and Roth, whom Neal calls “a mentor.”
The all-star cast features Greta Gerwig, Adam Driver and Don Cheadle in an adaptation of Don Delillo’s novel. Driver is Jack Gladney, a professor of Hitler studies at the College-on-the-Hill. He lives with his wife, Babette (Gerwig), and their four children, but when an “airborne toxic event” takes place in their community, the family must grapple with the universal mysteries of love, death and uncertainty.
“Noah was very specific about all the individual characters’ looks. Working with him and Ann Roth to create the looks for everyone can only be described as taking a master class,...
- 12/13/2022
- by Jazz Tangcay
- Variety Film + TV
Noah Baumbach with The New York Times culture reporter Reggie Ugwu at Live from Nypl on the final scene in White Noise: “I reached out to James Murphy (LCD Soundsystem), a close friend of mine. We worked together on Greenberg …” Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Noah Baumbach’s firm grip on White Noise, Don DeLillo’s masterpiece, starring Adam Driver and Greta Gerwig with Raffey Cassidy, Sam Nivola and May Nivola (Emily Mortimer and Alessandro Nivola’s children), Don Cheadle, Jodie Turner-Smith, Lars Eidinger, and Barbara Sukowa, with costumes by Oscar-winner (for Anthony Minghella's The English Patient) Ann Roth (Baumbach ’s While We're Young), is vibrantly disturbing and joyously faithful to the source. The uproarious finale, an all-encompassing supermarket dance number, visually part Stepford Wives and Jacques Demy musical, is set to new body rhumba, a new song by LCD Soundsystem, all ready to show the Grim Reaper what we humans are up to.
Noah Baumbach’s firm grip on White Noise, Don DeLillo’s masterpiece, starring Adam Driver and Greta Gerwig with Raffey Cassidy, Sam Nivola and May Nivola (Emily Mortimer and Alessandro Nivola’s children), Don Cheadle, Jodie Turner-Smith, Lars Eidinger, and Barbara Sukowa, with costumes by Oscar-winner (for Anthony Minghella's The English Patient) Ann Roth (Baumbach ’s While We're Young), is vibrantly disturbing and joyously faithful to the source. The uproarious finale, an all-encompassing supermarket dance number, visually part Stepford Wives and Jacques Demy musical, is set to new body rhumba, a new song by LCD Soundsystem, all ready to show the Grim Reaper what we humans are up to.
- 12/11/2022
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
It’s not hard to see why Noah Baumbach, our foremost movie satirist of the body neurotic, would have Don DeLillo’s 1986 novel “White Noise” in his sights for adaptation — especially so after the pandemic seemed to bring stark new resonance to the author’s prescient, all-too-human black comedy about a dysfunctional family in distracted, anxious, consumerist America enduring an “airborne toxic event.”
What’s harder to accept about this ideal blend of filmmaker and material — in a way, rounding out a trilogy about cracked-but-surviving families following Baumbach’s “The Meyerowitz Stories” and “Marriage Story” — is that it’s impressive in its filmic warp and woof but falls short getting under our skin the way the novel immortalized with joking seriousness our collective “brain-fade” and how each of us handle the fear of death.
Although it starts with a Baumbach-added, DeLillo-appropriate prologue in which Don Cheadle’s liberal arts college...
What’s harder to accept about this ideal blend of filmmaker and material — in a way, rounding out a trilogy about cracked-but-surviving families following Baumbach’s “The Meyerowitz Stories” and “Marriage Story” — is that it’s impressive in its filmic warp and woof but falls short getting under our skin the way the novel immortalized with joking seriousness our collective “brain-fade” and how each of us handle the fear of death.
Although it starts with a Baumbach-added, DeLillo-appropriate prologue in which Don Cheadle’s liberal arts college...
- 11/26/2022
- by Robert Abele
- The Wrap
Adam Driver and Greta Gerwig attempt to protect their blended family from an airborne toxic event in the official trailer for White Noise. The new trailer, featuring LCD Soundsystem’s “new body rhumba,” arrived along a gorgeous new poster designed by Marija Tiurina.
White Noise reunites two-time Oscar nominee Adam Driver with his Marriage Story, The Meyerowitz Stories New and Selected, While We’re Young, and Frances Ha director Noah Baumbach. Three-time Oscar nominee Greta Gerwig (Baumbach’s real-life partner) previously worked with Baumbach on Mistress America, Frances Ha, and Greenberg.
The cast also includes Oscar nominee Don Cheadle, Raffey Cassidy, Sam Nivola, May Nivola, Lars Eidinger, Andre Benjamin, and Jodie Turner-Smith.
Baumbach’s behind-the-scenes team features director of photography Lol Crawley, production designer Jess Gonchor, editor Matthew Hannam, and costume designer Ann Roth, with music by Danny Elfman. Baumbach adapted Don DeLillo’s novel and serves as producer along with David Heyman and Uri Singer.
White Noise reunites two-time Oscar nominee Adam Driver with his Marriage Story, The Meyerowitz Stories New and Selected, While We’re Young, and Frances Ha director Noah Baumbach. Three-time Oscar nominee Greta Gerwig (Baumbach’s real-life partner) previously worked with Baumbach on Mistress America, Frances Ha, and Greenberg.
The cast also includes Oscar nominee Don Cheadle, Raffey Cassidy, Sam Nivola, May Nivola, Lars Eidinger, Andre Benjamin, and Jodie Turner-Smith.
Baumbach’s behind-the-scenes team features director of photography Lol Crawley, production designer Jess Gonchor, editor Matthew Hannam, and costume designer Ann Roth, with music by Danny Elfman. Baumbach adapted Don DeLillo’s novel and serves as producer along with David Heyman and Uri Singer.
- 11/22/2022
- by Rebecca Murray
- Showbiz Junkies
Scarlet (L'envol) director Pietro Marcello with Anne-Katrin Titze (in scarlet Haider Ackermann) on Gabriel Yared: “He was both a guide and for me it was a new experience to be flanked and to be working alongside a composer of that high level.” Photo: Kate Patterson
Pietro Marcello’s Scarlet (L'envol), which is an adaptation by the director with Maurizio Braucci and Maud Ameline (Mikhaël Hers’ Amanda), in collaboration with Geneviève Brisac of the 1923 novel Scarlet Sails by Russian author Alexander Grin stars Raphaël Thiéry, Juliette Jouan, Louis Garrel, Noémie Lvovsky, and Yolande Moreau.
Pietro Marcello on costume designer Pascaline Chavanne (pictured Juliette Jouan as Juliette in Scarlet): “For me it was a privilege to work not only with her but with the many masters of their crafts that I worked with.”
The film is a celebration of craft, both on screen and in the making, Pascaline Chavanne’s...
Pietro Marcello’s Scarlet (L'envol), which is an adaptation by the director with Maurizio Braucci and Maud Ameline (Mikhaël Hers’ Amanda), in collaboration with Geneviève Brisac of the 1923 novel Scarlet Sails by Russian author Alexander Grin stars Raphaël Thiéry, Juliette Jouan, Louis Garrel, Noémie Lvovsky, and Yolande Moreau.
Pietro Marcello on costume designer Pascaline Chavanne (pictured Juliette Jouan as Juliette in Scarlet): “For me it was a privilege to work not only with her but with the many masters of their crafts that I worked with.”
The film is a celebration of craft, both on screen and in the making, Pascaline Chavanne’s...
- 10/12/2022
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
“White Noise” might be the quietest high-profile Oscar hopeful in the last decade: The Netflix film from Noah Baumbach, a two-time Oscar-nominated screenwriter whose last film was nominated for best picture, boasts a cast that includes Adam Driver and a 89 score on Rotten Tomatoes. However, buzz is strangely muted for the first film ever to serve as the opening night movie of the Venice and New York Film Festivals. But why?
“Unfilmable” source material
That likely begins with the source material. Baumbach’s adaptation of Don DeLillo’s whimsical novel revolves around Jack Gladney (Driver), a professor of Hitler studies at the College-on-the-Hill. He lives with his wife Babette (Greta Gerwig) and their four children, but when an “Airborne Toxic Event” takes place in their community, the family must grapple with the universal mysteries of love and death.
During his introductory remarks at Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall on Sept.
“Unfilmable” source material
That likely begins with the source material. Baumbach’s adaptation of Don DeLillo’s whimsical novel revolves around Jack Gladney (Driver), a professor of Hitler studies at the College-on-the-Hill. He lives with his wife Babette (Greta Gerwig) and their four children, but when an “Airborne Toxic Event” takes place in their community, the family must grapple with the universal mysteries of love and death.
During his introductory remarks at Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall on Sept.
- 10/6/2022
- by Clayton Davis
- Variety Film + TV
White Noise director Noah Baumbach with stars Greta Gerwig, Raffey Cassidy, Sam Nivola, May Nivola, composer Danny Elfman, and James Murphy (LCD Soundsystem) Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Noah Baumbach’s adaptation of Don DeLillo’s novel White Noise, starring Adam Driver and Greta Gerwig with Raffey Cassidy, Sam Nivola and May Nivola (Emily Mortimer and Alessandro Nivola’s children), Don Cheadle, Jodie Turner-Smith, Lars Eidinger, and Barbara Sukowa was the Opening Night selection of the 60th New York Film Festival.
Noah Baumbach on the costumes by Ann Roth for White Noise: “That sort of real and unreal thing. Jess Gonchor, the production designer, same thing. Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
The last time I spoke with Noah Baumbach was for While We're Young and I asked him about his working relationship with the Oscar-winning costume designer Ann Roth. At the press conference the afternoon of the premiere of White Noise the incomparable...
Noah Baumbach’s adaptation of Don DeLillo’s novel White Noise, starring Adam Driver and Greta Gerwig with Raffey Cassidy, Sam Nivola and May Nivola (Emily Mortimer and Alessandro Nivola’s children), Don Cheadle, Jodie Turner-Smith, Lars Eidinger, and Barbara Sukowa was the Opening Night selection of the 60th New York Film Festival.
Noah Baumbach on the costumes by Ann Roth for White Noise: “That sort of real and unreal thing. Jess Gonchor, the production designer, same thing. Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
The last time I spoke with Noah Baumbach was for While We're Young and I asked him about his working relationship with the Oscar-winning costume designer Ann Roth. At the press conference the afternoon of the premiere of White Noise the incomparable...
- 10/3/2022
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Adam Driver stars in Netflix’s ‘White Noise’
Netflix has released three new character posters from Oscar-nominated writer/director Noah Baumbach’s White Noise ahead of its screening as the opening night film at the 60th New York Film Festival. White Noise also had the honor of opening the 2022 Venice Film Festival on August 31st.
The character posters feature the film’s stars two-time Oscar nominee Adam Driver, three-time Oscar nominee Greta Gerwig, and Oscar nominee Don Cheadle. The White Noise cast also includes Raffey Cassidy, Sam Nivola, May Nivola, Lars Eidinger, Andre Benjamin, and Jodie Turner-Smith.
Baumbach’s behind-the-scenes team features director of photography Lol Crawley, production designer Jess Gonchor, editor Matthew Hannam, and costume designer Ann Roth, with music by Danny Elfman.
“Noah Baumbach’s adaptation of White Noise is an unequivocal triumph: a wildly entertaining and morbidly funny meditation on the way we live now that is...
Netflix has released three new character posters from Oscar-nominated writer/director Noah Baumbach’s White Noise ahead of its screening as the opening night film at the 60th New York Film Festival. White Noise also had the honor of opening the 2022 Venice Film Festival on August 31st.
The character posters feature the film’s stars two-time Oscar nominee Adam Driver, three-time Oscar nominee Greta Gerwig, and Oscar nominee Don Cheadle. The White Noise cast also includes Raffey Cassidy, Sam Nivola, May Nivola, Lars Eidinger, Andre Benjamin, and Jodie Turner-Smith.
Baumbach’s behind-the-scenes team features director of photography Lol Crawley, production designer Jess Gonchor, editor Matthew Hannam, and costume designer Ann Roth, with music by Danny Elfman.
“Noah Baumbach’s adaptation of White Noise is an unequivocal triumph: a wildly entertaining and morbidly funny meditation on the way we live now that is...
- 9/26/2022
- by Rebecca Murray
- Showbiz Junkies
The American Friend director Wim Wenders on Patricia Highsmith: “Amazing strong person.” Photo: courtesy of Swiss Literary Archives
In honour of Patricia Highsmith and the US theatrical première of Eva Vitija’s intimate Loving Highsmith, Film Forum in New York has scheduled movies adapted from the novels of the acclaimed author to show simultaneously with the documentary.
Eva Vitija with Anne-Katrin Titze: “The character of Ripley shows much about Patricia Highsmith herself.”
Highsmith On Screen includes Alfred Hitchcock’s Strangers On A Train; René Clément’s Purple Noon; Wim Wenders’s The American Friend (starring Dennis Hopper and Bruno Ganz); Anthony Minghella’s The Talented Mr. Ripley, and Todd Haynes’s Carol (screenplay by Phyllis Nagy, adapted from The Price of Salt, starring Rooney Mara, Kyle Chandler, and...
In honour of Patricia Highsmith and the US theatrical première of Eva Vitija’s intimate Loving Highsmith, Film Forum in New York has scheduled movies adapted from the novels of the acclaimed author to show simultaneously with the documentary.
Eva Vitija with Anne-Katrin Titze: “The character of Ripley shows much about Patricia Highsmith herself.”
Highsmith On Screen includes Alfred Hitchcock’s Strangers On A Train; René Clément’s Purple Noon; Wim Wenders’s The American Friend (starring Dennis Hopper and Bruno Ganz); Anthony Minghella’s The Talented Mr. Ripley, and Todd Haynes’s Carol (screenplay by Phyllis Nagy, adapted from The Price of Salt, starring Rooney Mara, Kyle Chandler, and...
- 8/31/2022
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Oscar-nominated writer/director Noah Baumbach reunites with two-time Oscar nominee Adam Driver and three-time Oscar nominee Greta Gerwig (his real-life partner) for White Noise, based on the book by Don DeLillo. The one-minute teaser trailer doesn’t give away much; if you haven’t read the book, odds are you’ll have no better idea what the film’s about after watching the trailer than you did before pressing play.
Netflix hasn’t set a premiere date for the comedy/drama which is embarking on a festival run before its wide release. White Noise is the opening night film at the Venice Film Festival on August 31, 2022 and will screen at the New York Film Festival in September.
“Noah Baumbach’s adaptation of White Noise is an unequivocal triumph: a wildly entertaining and morbidly funny meditation on the way we live now that is also the director’s most ambitious and expansive film,...
Netflix hasn’t set a premiere date for the comedy/drama which is embarking on a festival run before its wide release. White Noise is the opening night film at the Venice Film Festival on August 31, 2022 and will screen at the New York Film Festival in September.
“Noah Baumbach’s adaptation of White Noise is an unequivocal triumph: a wildly entertaining and morbidly funny meditation on the way we live now that is also the director’s most ambitious and expansive film,...
- 8/25/2022
- by Rebecca Murray
- Showbiz Junkies
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May Routh, the fashion illustrator turned renowned costume designer who brought iconic looks to such films as The Man Who Fell to Earth, My Favorite Year and Being There, has died. She was 87.
Routh died peacefully June 1 at her home in Los Angeles, set decorator and family spokesperson Bryony Foster told The Hollywood Reporter.
Routh also did several projects with director John Frankenheimer, starting with the acclaimed 1996 Civil War-set Andersonville and followed by another TNT miniseries, 1997’s George Wallace, starring Gary Sinise as the Alabama governor, and the big-screen action thrillers Ronin (1998) and Reindeer Games (2000).
Routh received Emmy nominations for her work on Andersonville and the 1991 CBS telefilm Lucy & Desi: Before the Laughter, starring Frances Fisher and Maurice Benard.
She earned her first screen credit as a costume designer on Nicolas Roeg‘s The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976), starring David Bowie as...
May Routh, the fashion illustrator turned renowned costume designer who brought iconic looks to such films as The Man Who Fell to Earth, My Favorite Year and Being There, has died. She was 87.
Routh died peacefully June 1 at her home in Los Angeles, set decorator and family spokesperson Bryony Foster told The Hollywood Reporter.
Routh also did several projects with director John Frankenheimer, starting with the acclaimed 1996 Civil War-set Andersonville and followed by another TNT miniseries, 1997’s George Wallace, starring Gary Sinise as the Alabama governor, and the big-screen action thrillers Ronin (1998) and Reindeer Games (2000).
Routh received Emmy nominations for her work on Andersonville and the 1991 CBS telefilm Lucy & Desi: Before the Laughter, starring Frances Fisher and Maurice Benard.
She earned her first screen credit as a costume designer on Nicolas Roeg‘s The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976), starring David Bowie as...
- 6/11/2022
- by Mike Barnes
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures today announced the first round of exhibition rotations scheduled for the 2022–2023 season, which further its mission to advance the understanding, celebration, and preservation of cinema.
This summer, the Museum will open the exhibition Regeneration: Black Cinema 1898–1971, which will explore the history of Black cinema from its earliest days to just after the civil rights movement. In the fall, the museum will open galleries devoted to Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather and the influences of French filmmaker Agnès Varda.
In early 2023, new exhibitions will open, with spaces spotlighting Boyz n the Hood, Casablanca, documentarian Lourdes Portillo, and the collaboration between production designer Sarah Greenwood and set decorator Katie Spencer. Then, in late spring, the Museum will open its first permanent exhibition, Hollywoodland, chronicling the founding and the founders of the Hollywood studio system in Los Angeles.
Over time, new objects, images, and interviews will be added to various galleries,...
This summer, the Museum will open the exhibition Regeneration: Black Cinema 1898–1971, which will explore the history of Black cinema from its earliest days to just after the civil rights movement. In the fall, the museum will open galleries devoted to Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather and the influences of French filmmaker Agnès Varda.
In early 2023, new exhibitions will open, with spaces spotlighting Boyz n the Hood, Casablanca, documentarian Lourdes Portillo, and the collaboration between production designer Sarah Greenwood and set decorator Katie Spencer. Then, in late spring, the Museum will open its first permanent exhibition, Hollywoodland, chronicling the founding and the founders of the Hollywood studio system in Los Angeles.
Over time, new objects, images, and interviews will be added to various galleries,...
- 3/21/2022
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures revealed the first round of exhibits for its 2022-2023 season on Monday, including a tribute to Francis Ford Coppola’s 1972 film “The Godfather” and its first permanent exhibit, “Hollywoodland,” dedicated to the founders of Hollywood.
Other newly announced additions to the museum include “Regeneration: Black Cinema 1898-1971,” a tribute to French filmmaker Agnès Varda and spaces dedicated to “Boyz n the Hood” (1991), “Casablanca” (1942) and the collaborations of production designer Sarah Greenwood and set decorator Katie Spencer.
“The history of film is endlessly rich and varied, which is why we envisioned the exhibitions of the Academy Museum as a continually evolving set of installations and virtual content,” said Bill Kramer, director and president of the Academy Museum. “We are delighted to present a new round of stories, explorations, moving images, props, and other objects that explore the many facets of moviemaking – from the founding of Hollywood to present day.
Other newly announced additions to the museum include “Regeneration: Black Cinema 1898-1971,” a tribute to French filmmaker Agnès Varda and spaces dedicated to “Boyz n the Hood” (1991), “Casablanca” (1942) and the collaborations of production designer Sarah Greenwood and set decorator Katie Spencer.
“The history of film is endlessly rich and varied, which is why we envisioned the exhibitions of the Academy Museum as a continually evolving set of installations and virtual content,” said Bill Kramer, director and president of the Academy Museum. “We are delighted to present a new round of stories, explorations, moving images, props, and other objects that explore the many facets of moviemaking – from the founding of Hollywood to present day.
- 3/21/2022
- by Sasha Urban
- Variety Film + TV
Variety's Awards Circuit is home to the official predictions for the upcoming Oscars and Emmys ceremonies from film awards editor Clayton Davis. Following history, buzz, news, reviews and sources, the Oscar and Emmy predictions are updated regularly with the current year's list of contenders in all categories. Variety's Awards Circuit Prediction schedule consists of four phases, running all year long: Draft, Pre-Season, Regular Season and Post Season. The eligibility calendar and dates of awards will determine how long each phase lasts and is subject to change.
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Best Costume Design
Updated: Feb 7, 2022
Awards Prediction Commentary: BAFTA selected “Cruella” (Walt Disney Pictures), “Cyrano” (MGM...
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2022 Oscars Predictions:
Best Costume Design
Updated: Feb 7, 2022
Awards Prediction Commentary: BAFTA selected “Cruella” (Walt Disney Pictures), “Cyrano” (MGM...
- 2/8/2022
- by Clayton Davis
- Variety Film + TV
On Thursday morning, the Costume Designers Guild announced who the group will honor at its 24th annual awards, to be held on March 9 at the Broad Stage in Santa Monica. Actor Andrew Garfield will receive the Spotlight Award, producers Amy Pascal and Rachel O’Connor (who is president of film and television at Pascal Pictures) will receive the Distinguished Collaborator Award and costume designer Sharen Davis the Career Achievement Award.
The CDG’s Spotlight, Distinguished Collaborator and Career Achievement awards recognize members of the entertainment industry whose work demonstrates a commitment to the art of costume design. Previous recipients include Charlize Theron, Glenn Close, Kerry Washington and Cate Blanchett (Spotlight); Shonda Rhimes, Meryl Streep, Guillermo del Toro and Quentin Tarantino (Distinguished Collaborator); and Ruth E. Carter, Eduardo Castro, Colleen Atwood, Sandy Powell and Ann Roth (Career Achievement).
In a statement, the president of the Costume Designers Guild, Salvador Perez, said: “Andrew...
The CDG’s Spotlight, Distinguished Collaborator and Career Achievement awards recognize members of the entertainment industry whose work demonstrates a commitment to the art of costume design. Previous recipients include Charlize Theron, Glenn Close, Kerry Washington and Cate Blanchett (Spotlight); Shonda Rhimes, Meryl Streep, Guillermo del Toro and Quentin Tarantino (Distinguished Collaborator); and Ruth E. Carter, Eduardo Castro, Colleen Atwood, Sandy Powell and Ann Roth (Career Achievement).
In a statement, the president of the Costume Designers Guild, Salvador Perez, said: “Andrew...
- 2/3/2022
- by Missy Schwartz
- The Wrap
The Costume Designers Guild on Wednesday revealed nominees for its 24th annual CDG Awards, recognizing excellence in the craft across eight film, TV and short-form categories. The guild also said its winners will be announced at an in-person ceremony March 9 at The Broad Stage in Santa Monica.
Voters in the guild, IATSE Local 892 select nominees in three film categories: Period, Contemporary and Sci-Fi/Fantasy. Among the notable nominees this morning include costume designers from fashion-forward titles like MGM/Uar’s House of Gucci (Janty Yates), Disney’s Cruella (Jenny Beavan) and A24’s wild ride Zola (Derica Cole Washington). Other nominees included Black Panther Oscar winner Ruth E. Carter, this time for Amazon’s Coming 2 America.
Superhero titles were prominent on today’s noms list, with mentions for Marvel movies Spider-Man: No Way Home and Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings and DC’s The Suicide Squad.
Voters in the guild, IATSE Local 892 select nominees in three film categories: Period, Contemporary and Sci-Fi/Fantasy. Among the notable nominees this morning include costume designers from fashion-forward titles like MGM/Uar’s House of Gucci (Janty Yates), Disney’s Cruella (Jenny Beavan) and A24’s wild ride Zola (Derica Cole Washington). Other nominees included Black Panther Oscar winner Ruth E. Carter, this time for Amazon’s Coming 2 America.
Superhero titles were prominent on today’s noms list, with mentions for Marvel movies Spider-Man: No Way Home and Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings and DC’s The Suicide Squad.
- 1/26/2022
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
The nominations for the Costume Designers Guild Awards will be released on Wednesday, recognizing the achievements of the artisans that created some of the most memorable outfits and clothing designs of the year. Following the 10-month eligibility window, the community of over 1,200 members separates the film categories into three groups — contemporary, period and sci-fi/fantasy.
The distinctions between contemporary and period tend to get blurred, especially with modern subjects like Princess Diana in “Spencer” and Venus and Serena Williams in “King Richard” among the selections. However, per the CDG rules, “any entry with at least 51% of all costumes existing in a historical era greater than 25 years [on or before December 31, 1995] from the current entry year will be considered a period entry.”
That puts Jacqueline Durran (“Spencer”) and Sharen Davis (“King Richard”) into the period film field, where it’s indisputably the most competitive. Three of the five nominees from CDG typically translate to an...
The distinctions between contemporary and period tend to get blurred, especially with modern subjects like Princess Diana in “Spencer” and Venus and Serena Williams in “King Richard” among the selections. However, per the CDG rules, “any entry with at least 51% of all costumes existing in a historical era greater than 25 years [on or before December 31, 1995] from the current entry year will be considered a period entry.”
That puts Jacqueline Durran (“Spencer”) and Sharen Davis (“King Richard”) into the period film field, where it’s indisputably the most competitive. Three of the five nominees from CDG typically translate to an...
- 1/25/2022
- by Clayton Davis
- Variety Film + TV
Ian McKellen’s Broadway credits include starring opposite Patrick Stewart in Harold Pinter's No Man's Land and Samuel Beckett's Waiting For Godot, and with Helen Mirren in Conor McPherson’s adaptation of August Strindberg's Dance Of Death
Oren Jacoby’s fabulous tribute On Broadway features Helen Mirren, Hugh Jackman, Ian McKellen, Tony Kushner, August Wilson, Christine Baranski, Hal Prince, James Corden, Alec Baldwin, John Lithgow, Tommy Tune, David Henry Hwang, Trevor Nunn, Julie Taymor, Jack O’Brien, Viola Davis, and George C Wolfe (director of Ma Rainey's Black Bottom - Best Costumes Oscar win Ann Roth) sharing their thoughts on the impact of Broadway. Stephen Sondheim, James Earl Jones, Sam Shepard, Bob Fosse, David Byrne, Michael Bennett, Adam Driver, Neil Simon, Michael Mayer, John Malkovich and Gary Sinise, Philip Seymour Hoffman and John C Reilly, and Ethan Hawke, Patricia Schoenfeld’s role, and the importance of theatre came up during our conversation.
Oren Jacoby’s fabulous tribute On Broadway features Helen Mirren, Hugh Jackman, Ian McKellen, Tony Kushner, August Wilson, Christine Baranski, Hal Prince, James Corden, Alec Baldwin, John Lithgow, Tommy Tune, David Henry Hwang, Trevor Nunn, Julie Taymor, Jack O’Brien, Viola Davis, and George C Wolfe (director of Ma Rainey's Black Bottom - Best Costumes Oscar win Ann Roth) sharing their thoughts on the impact of Broadway. Stephen Sondheim, James Earl Jones, Sam Shepard, Bob Fosse, David Byrne, Michael Bennett, Adam Driver, Neil Simon, Michael Mayer, John Malkovich and Gary Sinise, Philip Seymour Hoffman and John C Reilly, and Ethan Hawke, Patricia Schoenfeld’s role, and the importance of theatre came up during our conversation.
- 8/19/2021
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Director and Mother!! star Morgan Spector: “There are various forms of that fantasy of a lost or impending pastoral. And that’s what we were trying to get at …”
Three highlights of the 20th edition of the Tribeca Film Festival With/In program of shorts (with music by Mark Adler) are Jonathan Cake’s life-affirming Touching, starring Julianne Nicholson, Iggy Cake, Phoebe Cake, and Jonathan; Bart Freundlich’s Intersection, starring Julianne Moore, Talia Balsam, and Don Cheadle, and Morgan Spector and Maya Singer’s Mother!!, starring Rebecca Hall, Maya Singer, and Morgan.
Morgan Spector with Anne-Katrin Titze on Batsheva Hay worn by Rebecca Hall and Maya Singer in Mother!!: “I love her clothes and I love her, she’s a wonderful person.”
During my conversation with Morgan Spector the past week, Henry David Thoreau fantasies, rewatching Brad Pitt in David Fincher’s Fight Club in 2021, Willem Dafoe in Abel Ferrara’s Siberia,...
Three highlights of the 20th edition of the Tribeca Film Festival With/In program of shorts (with music by Mark Adler) are Jonathan Cake’s life-affirming Touching, starring Julianne Nicholson, Iggy Cake, Phoebe Cake, and Jonathan; Bart Freundlich’s Intersection, starring Julianne Moore, Talia Balsam, and Don Cheadle, and Morgan Spector and Maya Singer’s Mother!!, starring Rebecca Hall, Maya Singer, and Morgan.
Morgan Spector with Anne-Katrin Titze on Batsheva Hay worn by Rebecca Hall and Maya Singer in Mother!!: “I love her clothes and I love her, she’s a wonderful person.”
During my conversation with Morgan Spector the past week, Henry David Thoreau fantasies, rewatching Brad Pitt in David Fincher’s Fight Club in 2021, Willem Dafoe in Abel Ferrara’s Siberia,...
- 7/4/2021
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
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