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Luc Besson's "The Fifth Element"

Trurl — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 05:39:26 -0800

Beanplating on The Fifth Element from architecture students at the University of Waterloo. The production design was by French comics creators Jean Giraud (Moebius) and Jean-Claude Mézières. The costumes were by Jean-Paul Gaultier. (screen test) The soundtrack was by Eric Serra. The Divine Language was by Luc Besson and Milla Jovovich.

Rita Hayworth in "Gilda"

Trurl — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 20:19:50 -0800

Leonard Michaels' "The Zipper": Rita Hayworth is never seen disrobed in the movie, though it is threatened more than once. The atmosphere of dark repression and mysterious forces – the mood or feeling of the movie – might be destroyed by the revelation of her body. It scared me as she began her striptease dance in the nightclub. I didn’t want everybody to see her body, or even to see that Rita Hayworth had a body. The iconic black strapless gown was designed by French couturier Jean Louis - who also dressed Miss Hayworth in The Lady from Shanghai.

Edith Head's "How to Dress for Success"

Trurl — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 23:24:16 -0800

Winner of more Academy Awards than any other woman in history, costume designer Edith Head authored a 1967 bestseller titled How to Dress for Success which featured her own illustrations. Head's first Academy Award came for The Heiress starring Olivia de Havilland. Her final screen credit was Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid - which was dedicated to her memory. Her notable creations include: - Dorothy Lamour's sarong - a mink-lined gown for Ginger Rogers in Lady in the Dark that gained notoriety for flouting wartime austerity - Barbara Stanwyck's ecdysiast ensemble in Ball of Fire - the costumes for Billy Wilder's Sunset Boulevard - the dress Grace Kelly wore to receive her 1954 Oscar (the most expensive in Academy Award history to that time) - Miss Kelly's stunning wardrobe in Rear Window - Kim Novak's costumes in Vertigo - this widely-copied dress for Elizabeth Taylor in A Place in the Sun - the period scanties worn by Natalie Wood in The Great Race

Brüno: Delicious Journeys Through America for the Purpose of Making Heterosexual Males Visibly Uncomfortable in the Presence of a Gay Foreigner in a Mesh T-Shirt

goodnewsfortheinsane — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 16:43:10 -0800

Trailer for Brüno, the upcoming film by Sacha Baron Cohen, formerly known for his characters Ali G and Borat.

Larry Clark: Punk Picasso

matteo — Thu, 31 Mar 2005 06:24:22 -0800

The Cheerful Transgressive Ever since 1971, when Larry Clark published Tulsa, an austere series chronicling his meth-shooting pals in sixties Oklahoma, Clark has made it his mission to document teenagers at their most deviant, their most vulnerable, their most sexually unhinged (possibly NSFW). And now “Larry Clark” the first American retrospective of Clark’s work, currently on display at the International Center of Photography, demonstrates the richness with which he’s mined this single subject (NSFW). More inside.