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Da 5 Bloods,
News of the World, and
The Truffle Hunters on other platforms, since the Oscars left these fine films behind. But more on that to come.
This year,
Mank leads the Oscar nominations in ten categories.
Judas and the Black Messiah became the first feature with all Black producers up for Best Picture. Two women directors, Chloe Zhao and Emerald Fennell, are nominated in the same year. Steven Yeun became the first Asian-American leading actor nominated, and Riz Ahmed the first Muslim.
The Oscars matter. Why? It’s a chance for the public to see or hear about work that has been overlooked or under-distributed. It keeps filmmakers themselves shooting for the moon, not just big box office.
Nowhere do we see see more evidence of the natural aging process than when we look into a mirror. What once may have defined our identity is showing its true nature, and part of that nature is moving into the fall and winter seasons of life. Lines come, deepening their creases as we go through life’s inevitable challenges, marking us and changing us forever. But we have the choice of looking at the aging process differently! With the wisdom of experience, we can see that these lines do not define us. They demarcate the unique and private journey of our thoughts and experiences!
Anthony Powell, Oscar-winning designer of exotic costumes for a string of films including Tess, Death on the Nile and 101 Dalmatians – obituary
He worked with Glenn Close on her costumes as the fur-crazed Cruella de Vil, for which he exaggerated haute couture styles to comic effect
22 April 2021 • 2:13pm
Anthony Powell in 1991 with a drawing of his costume for Dustin Hoffman as Captain Hook for the movie Hook
Credit: Ian Cook/The LIFE Images Collection via Getty
Anthony Powell, who has died aged 85, was an internationally acclaimed British costume designer who gave period authenticity to George Cukor’s Travels with my Aunt (1972) starring Maggie Smith, John Guillermin’s all-star Agatha Christie adaptation Death on the Nile (1978) and Roman Polanski’s Tess (1979), starring Nastassja Kinski as Thomas Hardy’s heroine – winning Oscars for all three.
Billy Wilder: from poor Austrian journalist to Hollywood superstar
The director’s newly translated writings reveal how his life as a penniless reporter shaped his hit movies
Marilyn Monroe as Sugar Kane, singer and ukulele player for the female band in Some Like It Hot. Photograph: APL Archive/Alamy
Marilyn Monroe as Sugar Kane, singer and ukulele player for the female band in Some Like It Hot. Photograph: APL Archive/Alamy
DonnaFerguson
Sun 18 Apr 2021 03.30 EDT
In an arresting scene from one of director Billy Wilder’s most famous films,
Some Like It Hot, Marilyn Monroe sashays along a Chicago railway station platform in a figure-hugging outfit, leaving Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis gobsmacked.