Tag: casci ritchie
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‘Mr. Nelson: On the North Side’ Passes the Microphone to Prince’s North Minneapolis community
When Prince passed away on April 21 2016, the world mourned the loss of a titan within the music industry. Throughout his (almost) forty-year reign, Prince dominated the charts with a revered talent and staunch work ethic that appeared almost otherworldly. From early on in his career Prince bathed himself in varying degrees of purple…
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‘House of Cardin’ Tells the Story of the Brand but Leaves Pierre Cardin an Enigma
House of Cardin is an expansive retrospective of Italian born designer Pierre Cardin, largely known for his futuristic couture at the height of the ‘lunar age’ of the 1960s. Regarded as a pioneer, Cardin had many industry firsts within his career including the first menswear collection from a couturier in 1960 and hosting Russia’s first…
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‘Helmut Newton: The Bad and the Beautiful’ Provides the First Posthumous Retrospective of Fashion’s Polarising Provocateur
Fittingly, Newton’s story is narrated by the women frequently captured behind his camera with candid interviews from Grace Jones, Isabella Rossellini, Charlotte Rampling, Nadja Auermann, Marianne Faithfull, Claudia Schiffer and importantly his wife June Newton (known as photographer Alice Springs within the industry). Newton’s highly erotic photographs expertly placed high fashion amongst subversive mise en…
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‘Mucho, Mucho Amor’ has it all— Horoscopes, Capes and Scandal!
Mucho, Mucho Amor invites you into the wonderful world of Walter Mercado— an ageless Puerto-Rican astrologer and life-long advocate of eccentric glamour. The documentary explores Mercado’s origins as a celebrated child healer in rural Puerto Rico and charts his meteoric success from regional telenovelas to worldwide domination as the world’s most beloved astrologer. At the…
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[The Final Girls Club] Slumber Parties and Self-Identity in ‘The Craft’
The Final Girls Club is a column publishing every 1st, 3rd and 4th Monday of the month. It aims to take an analytical and retrospective look at female-led horror cinema and how these films hold up in the context of current issues surrounding gender, sexuality and politics. Everyone’s first time watching The Craft was at…
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Dressing for the Recently Deceased: Costuming Femininity for the Women of ‘Beetlejuice’
My worn-out copy of Beetlejuice (taped off the telly alongside Labyrinth) was a familiar childhood companion, often brought out at family sleepovers to keep me from screaming the house down. Oddly enough, I now find the film strangely comforting despite its bleak subject matter; perhaps the older I get, the more I recognise my own…
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‘Fairytale’ is a Whirlwind Story of Self-Discovery in Full Technicolor
The directorial debut from Sebastiano Mauri follows Mrs Fairytale (Filippo Timi), a seemingly content American housewife whose life is flipped upside down following a startling realisation exactly mid-way through the film. Perhaps because of this, the film does feel distinctly in two parts, the first half slightly difficult to settle into but once you settle…
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‘Bride of Frankenstein’ Turns 85
For those who have yet to watch Bride of Frankenstein, you may be surprised to find that the immortal ‘Monster’s Mate’ only appears for a short-lived but powerful five minutes as the film ends. Screen time albeit brief, the Bride proved a cinematic hit and has continued to influence so much of what we now…
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‘Celebration’ is the Final Curtain for Yves Saint Laurent
French filmmaker Olivier Meyrou was invited in 1998 to film what was to be the final collection of Yves Saint Laurent under the courtier’s name. What was to be a Celebration of a forty-year dominance in the haute couture industry, in turn, depicted the sombre demise of one of fashion’s most influential houses. Of course,…
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Short Film ‘The Whistler’ is a Contemporary, Twisted Fairy Tale
The Whistler is written and directed by Jennifer Nicole Stang and is an incredibly successful horror short which effectively captures the audience’s attention within it’s short running time. Stang quickly introduces accessible characters, a well-paced plot, builds up suspense and even has time to squeeze in a few scares, all within 12 minutes. At first,…
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