Jacqueline Durran is celebrated for her costumes having been three times nominated for the Best Costume Design Academy Award; first in 2005 for Pride and Prejudice, again in 2007 for Atonement, and now 2013 for Anna Karenina in which she is both Oscar and BAFTA nominated. Starring Keira Knightley, who wore Durran’s emerald green 30’s-style dress to widespread acclaim in Atonement, Durran’s face-framing furs, extravagantly veiled hats and watered silk gowns beautifully accentuate Knightley’s tragic Anna. Clothes on Film contributor Karin E. Baker spoke to Durran about gathering the many details that went into creating the opulent look for this latest interpretation of Tolstoy’s novel.
The $2 million worth of Chanel jewellery in the film is breathtaking. The use of jewels that scream Chanel in a 19th century film may seem anachronistic but as Durran explained, director Joe Wright isn’t interested in fastidious historical exactness: ‘Joe had a vision...
The $2 million worth of Chanel jewellery in the film is breathtaking. The use of jewels that scream Chanel in a 19th century film may seem anachronistic but as Durran explained, director Joe Wright isn’t interested in fastidious historical exactness: ‘Joe had a vision...
- 1/11/2013
- by Contributor
- Clothes on Film
My new voice belongs to Edward Herrmann. He has allowed me to use it for 448 pages. The actor has recorded the audiobook version of my memoir, Life Itself, and my author's copies arrived a few days ago.
Listening to it, I discovered for the first time a benefit from losing my own speaking voice: If I could still speak, I suppose I would probably have recorded it myself, and I wouldn't have been able to do that anywhere as near as well as Herrmann does.
My editor, Mitch Hoffman, suggested a few readers he was confident would do a good job. Herrmann's name leaped up from his email.
I've always admired his acting, and there is a little newspaperman in his lineage: He played William Randolph Hearst in Bogdanovich's "The Cat's Meow." If my voice is performed by the actor who played Hearst, doesn't that make me only two degrees of separation from Orson Welles?...
Listening to it, I discovered for the first time a benefit from losing my own speaking voice: If I could still speak, I suppose I would probably have recorded it myself, and I wouldn't have been able to do that anywhere as near as well as Herrmann does.
My editor, Mitch Hoffman, suggested a few readers he was confident would do a good job. Herrmann's name leaped up from his email.
I've always admired his acting, and there is a little newspaperman in his lineage: He played William Randolph Hearst in Bogdanovich's "The Cat's Meow." If my voice is performed by the actor who played Hearst, doesn't that make me only two degrees of separation from Orson Welles?...
- 8/28/2011
- by Roger Ebert
- blogs.suntimes.com/ebert
Txt M3 B1TCH dropped its first music video (above) today called "Partially Smart" which stars the cast (Sean Barrett, Daniel Stone, Vanessa Ragland) of the web series which is still releasing episodes from its first season. Directed by John Irwin, the video is part of the Meanest Man Contest and the Ep is available online at Rcrd Lbl. [Smalldreams.tv, Txt M3 B1TCH] North Carolina-based web series Port City P.D. has landed a satellite TV distribution deal in the Us on Tuff TV which airs in cities like Dallas, Little Rock, Whicita and Key West. The four year-old web series from Shaun O'Rourke, which did about 4 million views online, already had a distro deal on Europe's America Unleashed satellite network, but this now puts it in about 70 million Us homes. [StarNewsOnline] Online video viewing was up across the board in 2009, according to new numbers out from Nielsen today. Us viewers totaled 137.4 million in December 2009, averaging...
- 1/13/2010
- by Marc Hustvedt
- Tubefilter.com
Sean Barrett, Vanessa Ragland and John Irwin may have small dreams but they have tons of talent and I don’t use the word lightly. Massively talented and their quirky, no holds barred comedy is pure web gold. The team got together two and a half years ago when Sean and Vanessa met an improv class at the Westside Eclectic in Los Angeles. Sean had a camera and the two of them decided to put a few characters on the tape, when videographer John Irwin joined the team they created SmallDreams.tv and the rest is internet comedy history. The first thing they shot was a quirky one off called "Sex Party," then a series of viral videos called Polygamy based on the Texas Polygamist Cult that was raided last year.
- 3/3/2009
- by C.J. Arabia
- Tubefilter.com
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