2016
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The Legacy of Alexander McQueen
The French journalist and filmmaker Loïc Prigent has carved himself a considerable reputation for his impressive resume of fashion documentaries that have profiled some of the leading designers of the day, and a whole series of films that took a look behind the scenes at Fashion Week. Last year Prigent produced one his finest films today called The…
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Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk
There are very few filmmakers who consistently produce sure-fire hits with every movie they make like the two-time Oscar winner Ang Lee, but even he is seems is not completely infallible. His latest one boasts the very latest experimental technology that affects how we see it all but somehow it seems like that it is at the expense…
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Elle
The movie opens with such a shockingly brutal rape scene that stuns one into disbelief. Even knowing that it is helmed by Dutch filmmaker Paul Verhoeven who directed the controversial Basic Instinct, and is based on a story by Phillipe Dijan the author of Betty Blue, still doesn’t quite prepare one for the fact that…
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The Dressmaker
The first line we hear uttered out of Tilly Dunnage’s mouth is ‘I’m Back you Bastards‘. And she is indeed in the remote Australian outback small town which she left overnight in a hurry some 20 years ago. For the past two decades she has re-invented herself as a very successful fashion designer wowing the…
