Interview

Fashion and film share a long, torrid and tumultuous love affair. Who to tame them but Diane Pernet, in the second edition of her A Shaded View on Fashion Film Festival in Paris?  BLOG POSTED: 09/09/09

January Jones has always looked like a woman from another era. But it wasn’t until she got to play one on the hit series Mad Men that her career finally took off. How a former teen model became television’s hottest housewife.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 07/20/09

Criterion's DVD re-release of the deadly-serious The Seventh Seal, a primary example of mid-century haute cinéma, arrives from a remote place.  BLOG POSTED: 06/16/09

If you were searching for the future direction of fashion, your first stop would probably not be Milan, a one-industry town. Nor would you look to an iconic luxury label that’s been around for decades. But Tommaso Aquilano & Roberto Rimondi, who have taken over the reins at Gianfranco Ferré, are proving that the future has arrived in Milan, and it doesn’t mean sacrificing la dolce vita.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 03/24/09

In Valentino: The Last Emperor, director Matt Tyrnauer sketches an intimate portrait of a high-living designer who gave the world Valentino Red but has rarely shown it his true colors.  BLOG POSTED: 03/18/09

The Toe Tactic is the  feature-length mixed animated and live-action debut from animator Emily Hubley.  BLOG POSTED: 01/28/09

Roman Polanski may soon be permitted back into the U.S., but he’s made some of his most compelling films while in exile from the Hollywood machine. As he collaborates with artist Francesco Vezzoli on a commercial for a fictional perfume starring Natalie Portman and Michelle Williams, the director talks about the Perils of the movie world and the pleasures of skiing drunk at night.

   ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 01/15/09

Art of the Modern Movie Poster opens December 3 at Lincoln Center's Frieda and Roy Furman Gallery.  Yes, the main purpose of these splashy broadsheets is (or, in the case of these historical specimens, was) to get  BLOG POSTED: 12/02/08