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Originally Posted by veronica Ever notice that when Hitchcock started filming in USA that most of the male leads' ties are solid - not patterned? Jimmy Stewart in the color version of 'The Man Who Knew Too Much' wears a subtly-patterned tie... *Trying to remember what he wears in 'Vertigo'. Maybe it is a Hollywood rule: Don't detract from the actors with 'busy' wardrobe. That ´s funny, I will look next time Back in London, in Frenzy, the significant tie is patterned if I remember correctly....striped?

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Originally Posted by veronica Cary Grant. I'm thinking 'North by Northwest'. Only two changes of wardrobe - the beautiful grey suit and tie and apres hospital: the white buttondown and trousers and *- *pennyloafers?. Classic.
Ever notice that when Hitchcock started filming in USA that most of the male leads' ties are solid - not patterned? Jimmy Stewart in the color version of 'The Man Who Knew Too Much' wears a subtly-patterned tie... *Trying to remember what he wears in 'Vertigo'. Maybe it is a Hollywood rule: Don't detract from the actors with 'busy' wardrobe. I must say I had not noticed the tie phenomenon - must check it out.
One of Cary Grant's most stylish films is Notorious IMO. He has more changes of clothes in that one of course!
Trot

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Originally Posted by Vinterdroppe I love the stylistic impression in many of Godards films, like "A bout de souffle"
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053472/photogallery
and "Bande apart" (that terrific dance scenen helps) http://www.frenchfilmsondvd.com/Review/BandeAPart.jpg Thanks for the great links, Vinterdroppe. Breathless is one of my favourites, well ahead of its time I would think. One thing about it that is very much of its time is the amount of smoking it contains. Looks quite shocking in these sad clean-living days.
I have never seen Bande apart but will now track it down.
Trot

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'Frenzy'. Significant tie(s) was also murder weapon? (I have only seen Frenzy twice - over ten years ago.) Filmed on location in England? I think the murderer was a 'vulgar' person: too much jewelry, flashy dresser, habitually picked his teeth with a silver or gold toothpick? I think he'd need a noisy tie to draw more attention to himself. Since he wasn't the leading man, busy tie drawing away from his good looks wouldn't matter?
Let's face it - Cary Grant looked good in 'Gunga Din'. And what was on last night? 'North by Northwest'! With the famous mistake "assembling the General Assembly". I believe Grant was living in the same hotel during the time of filming from which his character is abducted. The woman who plays his mother was two years older than Grant.
William Powell usually looks good in just about everything he appears in, too. Very dapper. With the exception of 'The Forgotten Man' when Carole Lombard picks him out of the trash heap / Hooverville... *The 'Thin Man' series with Myrna Loy - looking good.
I think my vote will remain with 'Gatsby' because of the crowd / party scenes wardrobe, Gatsby's pink suit - or Gatsby and Daisy throwing his English tailor-made shirts into the air. (Those shirts might be considered property of the Prop Dept though. LOL.) Daisy and Jordan reclining on chaise lounges at the beginning of the movie - was it in chiffon? 'Gatsby' had an impact on men's fashions - pleated trousers made a comeback. It doesn't help its case that the movie itself didn't live up to the promise of the book.
I just wish I could remember where I read that business about Hitchcock's leading mens' ties. Thinking it was in Alan Flusser's Style and the Man. And I've torn the house apart looking for it. Or maybe it is a Cary Grant thing and it was in some Grant biography?



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Yes, there are a lot of close-ups of people smoking or posig with cigarettes in all Godard films I have seen so far. http://www.altmanphoto.com/jean_luc.godard.html
See "Bande apart", it is not his best, but one of his most humorous in my opinion! It is a very "Godardish" application of a novel, "Fools gold" by Dolores Hitchens, and it is truly a film of the french new wave, both in style and narration.
Frenzy: actually it was very long ago since I saw it myself, and I don´t remember if it´s one tie or many ties...but I do remember that the clothes and properties all had a touch of the seventies...there was a lot of brown and orange...and brown and orange, and I think there was at least one brown/orange striped tie involved.
Agree about both Grace kelly and Cary Grant. I haven´t seen Notorious yet. I have been holding it in the dvd/video store a couple of times. I had a "see all Hitchcock films-project" going on a while ago, but for some reason it was interrupted. The women are usually very stylish. When James Steward dresses up Kim Novak in Vertigo I can´t help to think that it´s the immage of Hitchcock himself dressing up all his favorite blondes for the movies...


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Originally Posted by veronica
I think my vote will remain with 'Gatsby' because of the crowd / party scenes wardrobe, Gatsby's pink suit - or Gatsby and Daisy throwing his English tailor-made shirts into the air. (Those shirts might be considered property of the Prop Dept though. LOL.) Daisy and Jordan reclining on chaise lounges at the beginning of the movie - was it in chiffon? 'Gatsby' had an impact on men's fashions - pleated trousers made a comeback. It doesn't help its case that the movie itself didn't live up to the promise of the book.
I agree that the film does not seem to have the 'depth' of the book. As to the origin of the clothes, I am sure I read that the wardrobe was the work of Ralph Lauren and not 'English' at all. Is that right? Very stylish anyway.
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You are probably right about the wardrobe designer being Ralph Lauren.
Daisy inquires as to where he gets all his clothes; Gatsby replies something like, "My man in London sends me shipments twice a year." Or something to that effect, a kind of 'studied offhandedness' - implying a Saville Row tailor and connections in Jeremyn Street, which a well-to-do officer serving in WWI would have established. But he is a 'parvenu'. Daisy comes from a moneyed background.


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gattaca
in the mood for love
fight club
moulin rouge
blade runner
hero
clueless
any movie with audrey hepburn
and probably 2046, though i have not seen it


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Originally Posted by liquid gattaca
in the mood for love
fight club
moulin rouge
blade runner
hero
clueless
any movie with audrey hepburn in it (especially breakfast at tiffany's)
and probably 2046, though i have not seen it
Oh yes, the clothes and the details in "In the mood for love"! All Maggie Cheungs outfits are goergous. Haven´t seen 2046 yet either.

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It's not a movie but a TV series, but every time I watch it (and I do it often, I own the DVDs!), I always wonder at the clothes worn by the cast of The Sopranos, especially the male side. Even in the scripts, clothing has sometimes an important role, like when they steal a truckload of italian suits, or when Paulie tells Chris to "dress up" the day he's being "made".