No round up last week because we were a bit busy, so this week is Mega Jammed With Costume Goodness.
Puttin’ on the Glitz
We teamed up with Amber Jane Butchart and The British Library to talk jazz age fashion and dandy gangsters. Further coverage to follow…
Costume Test Images
50 of them to be precise, from Gentlemen Prefer Blondes to Star Wars, Batman, and beyond.
Noah
Mad good interview/article by Tyranny of Style with Noah’s Head Textile Artist Matt Reitsma. There is absolutely no way you can care about costume design and not read this.
Business of Fashion
Costume designers, fashion designers, studios, brands, and a business venture 100 years in the making. Thanks to Ajb for putting this thought provoking article under our nose.
Birds Eye View Film Festival – Fashion and Film
Curated by Kathryn Ferguson, who will hold Q&A’s with some of the directors featured.
Puttin’ on the Glitz
We teamed up with Amber Jane Butchart and The British Library to talk jazz age fashion and dandy gangsters. Further coverage to follow…
Costume Test Images
50 of them to be precise, from Gentlemen Prefer Blondes to Star Wars, Batman, and beyond.
Noah
Mad good interview/article by Tyranny of Style with Noah’s Head Textile Artist Matt Reitsma. There is absolutely no way you can care about costume design and not read this.
Business of Fashion
Costume designers, fashion designers, studios, brands, and a business venture 100 years in the making. Thanks to Ajb for putting this thought provoking article under our nose.
Birds Eye View Film Festival – Fashion and Film
Curated by Kathryn Ferguson, who will hold Q&A’s with some of the directors featured.
- 4/5/2014
- by Lord Christopher Laverty
- Clothes on Film
When you need a leather and copper bikini, especially one with magical powers, you just can't pop down to the local mall.
When that sort of wardrobe is needed, Alexandra Welker, costume designer of the NBC Friday fantasy "Grimm," creates it.
"TV is usually a styling job," she says to Zap2it. "There is a lot of shopping and alterations. I get to design and build a lot."
"The idea is that there is a creature world that surrounds the human world," she says. "Most of the time the human world is oblivious to this, and the main character, a homicide detective in Portland, will see people turn into things, and he learns this is a gift the family possesses. Their role as Grimms is to seek out and destroy. And as a cop, how does he fulfill the Grimm destiny at the same time as staying true to the ethical,...
When that sort of wardrobe is needed, Alexandra Welker, costume designer of the NBC Friday fantasy "Grimm," creates it.
"TV is usually a styling job," she says to Zap2it. "There is a lot of shopping and alterations. I get to design and build a lot."
"The idea is that there is a creature world that surrounds the human world," she says. "Most of the time the human world is oblivious to this, and the main character, a homicide detective in Portland, will see people turn into things, and he learns this is a gift the family possesses. Their role as Grimms is to seek out and destroy. And as a cop, how does he fulfill the Grimm destiny at the same time as staying true to the ethical,...
- 11/15/2013
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Zap2It - From Inside the Box
In the tradition of Bill and Ted and Wayne and Garth, meet the Deedles, a pair of surfer dude teen twin gremmie brahs (that's loser brothers in Deedlespeak) who get a chance to make a name for themselves when they're mistaken for park ranger recruits.
Very much a live-action cartoon, "Meet the Deedles" is innocuous and often amusing Disney fare, armed with enough pratfalls and scatological asides to keep the kids happy.
Given the scarcity of appropriate PG product out there, the picture could catch a bit of a wave, particularly with boys.
Debuting feature director Steve Boyum keeps the pace cranked for this fish-out-of-water story, in which the fish in question are Phil (Paul Walker) and Stew Deedle Steve Van Wormer), surfin' siblings who are forced to leave their beloved Hawaiian home when their dad Elton (Eric Braeden) sends them off to Camp Break Spirit in Wyoming to toughen them up.
Through a series of inevitable mishaps, the Deedles instead find themselves in Yellowstone National Park (although they keep referring to it as "Jellystone"), where the chief park ranger, Captain Pine (John Ashton), believes them to be experts in handling a prairie dog invasion threatening to put a damper on celebrations for Old Faithful's one billionth birthday.
Little do our heroes know -- and that's about what they know -- the
p-dog invasion was orchestrated by one Frank Slater (Dennis Hopper), a deranged former ranger determined to get back at his former employers by rerouting the famed geyser into another part of the park and renaming it New Faithful.
But quicker than you can say "Ore-ida!" and "Nutrageous!" (two of the brothers' pet expressions), the Deedles foil Slater's plans and the geezer geyser gushes once more.
What Jim Herzfeld's script may lack in overall originality, it makes up for inventive dialogue and situations, wisely using the sheltered innocence of his lead characters as the source of much of the humor. Unfortunately, things begin to get bogged down toward the end during the inevitable good-vs.-evil finale.
As Phil and Stew, Walker and Van Wormer keep the loopy sweetness of their TV-damaged characters intact, while old pros Ashton and Hopper avoid the easy temptation to go over the top, given the film's cartoony structure. As Ashton's stepdaughter and resident Jellystone babe, A.J. Langer plays a blossoming former tomboy effectively.
Shot extensively near Park City, Utah, the flora and fauna have been brightly captured by cinematographer David Hennings, and Steve Bartek's score ripples with the necessary surf guitar twang.
MEET THE DEEDLES
Buena Vista Pictures
Walt Disney Pictures presents a DIC Entertainment production
in association with Peak Prods.
Credits: Director: Steve Boyum; Screenwriter: Jim Herzfeld; Producers: Dale Pollock, Aaron Meyerson; Executive producers: Andy Heyward, Artie Ripp; Director of photography: David Hennings; Production designer: Stephen Storer; Editor: Alan Cody; Costume designers: Alexandra Welker and Karyn Wagner; Music: Steve Bartek; Music supervisor: Karen Glauber; Casting: Amy Lippens. Cast: Phil Deedle: Paul Walker; Stew Deedle: Steve Van Wormer; Captain Pine: John Ashton; Lt. Jesse Ryan: A. J. Langer; Nemo: Robert Englund; Mo: Megan Cavanagh; Elton Deedle: Eric Braeden; Frank Slater: Dennis Hopper. MPAA rating: PG. Color/stereo. Running time - 90 minutes.
Very much a live-action cartoon, "Meet the Deedles" is innocuous and often amusing Disney fare, armed with enough pratfalls and scatological asides to keep the kids happy.
Given the scarcity of appropriate PG product out there, the picture could catch a bit of a wave, particularly with boys.
Debuting feature director Steve Boyum keeps the pace cranked for this fish-out-of-water story, in which the fish in question are Phil (Paul Walker) and Stew Deedle Steve Van Wormer), surfin' siblings who are forced to leave their beloved Hawaiian home when their dad Elton (Eric Braeden) sends them off to Camp Break Spirit in Wyoming to toughen them up.
Through a series of inevitable mishaps, the Deedles instead find themselves in Yellowstone National Park (although they keep referring to it as "Jellystone"), where the chief park ranger, Captain Pine (John Ashton), believes them to be experts in handling a prairie dog invasion threatening to put a damper on celebrations for Old Faithful's one billionth birthday.
Little do our heroes know -- and that's about what they know -- the
p-dog invasion was orchestrated by one Frank Slater (Dennis Hopper), a deranged former ranger determined to get back at his former employers by rerouting the famed geyser into another part of the park and renaming it New Faithful.
But quicker than you can say "Ore-ida!" and "Nutrageous!" (two of the brothers' pet expressions), the Deedles foil Slater's plans and the geezer geyser gushes once more.
What Jim Herzfeld's script may lack in overall originality, it makes up for inventive dialogue and situations, wisely using the sheltered innocence of his lead characters as the source of much of the humor. Unfortunately, things begin to get bogged down toward the end during the inevitable good-vs.-evil finale.
As Phil and Stew, Walker and Van Wormer keep the loopy sweetness of their TV-damaged characters intact, while old pros Ashton and Hopper avoid the easy temptation to go over the top, given the film's cartoony structure. As Ashton's stepdaughter and resident Jellystone babe, A.J. Langer plays a blossoming former tomboy effectively.
Shot extensively near Park City, Utah, the flora and fauna have been brightly captured by cinematographer David Hennings, and Steve Bartek's score ripples with the necessary surf guitar twang.
MEET THE DEEDLES
Buena Vista Pictures
Walt Disney Pictures presents a DIC Entertainment production
in association with Peak Prods.
Credits: Director: Steve Boyum; Screenwriter: Jim Herzfeld; Producers: Dale Pollock, Aaron Meyerson; Executive producers: Andy Heyward, Artie Ripp; Director of photography: David Hennings; Production designer: Stephen Storer; Editor: Alan Cody; Costume designers: Alexandra Welker and Karyn Wagner; Music: Steve Bartek; Music supervisor: Karen Glauber; Casting: Amy Lippens. Cast: Phil Deedle: Paul Walker; Stew Deedle: Steve Van Wormer; Captain Pine: John Ashton; Lt. Jesse Ryan: A. J. Langer; Nemo: Robert Englund; Mo: Megan Cavanagh; Elton Deedle: Eric Braeden; Frank Slater: Dennis Hopper. MPAA rating: PG. Color/stereo. Running time - 90 minutes.
- 3/24/1998
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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