Oscar-nominated designers in 15th annual costume panel at the Egyptian

Fashion · Film

It’s such a fascinating “way in” to consider the slate of Oscar nominated movies — via the amazing vision and craftsmanship of the artists who create their costumes.

Just consider one of them. Arianne Phillips, nominated for A Complete Unknown, has garnered prior nominations for Academy Award for Best Costume Design three times, for James Mangold’s Walk the Line (2005), Madonna’s directorial debut, W.E. (2011), and for Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019).

Her film career also includes Tom Ford’s Nocturnal Animals (2016), Matthew Vaughn’s Kingsman: The Secret Service (2014) and Kingsman: The Golden Circle (2017), James Mangold’s Girl, Interrupted (1999) and 3:10 to Yuma (2007), John Cameron Mitchell’s Hedwig And the Angry Inch (2001), Mark Romanek’s One Hour Photo (2002), and Milos Forman’s The People Vs. Larry Flynt (1996).

Ms. Phillips will take part in an esteemed panel of her peers, the six Oscar-nominated costume designers, who, in the fifteenth annual occurrence of this event, will be led in conversation by Professor Deborah Nadoolman Landis, Ph.D., Director, David C. Copley Center for Costume Design : 

  • Lisy Christl (Conclave)
  • David Crossman (Gladiator II)
  • Linda Muir (Nosferatu)
  • Arianne Phillips (A Complete Unknown)
  • Paul Tazewell (Wicked)
  • Janty Yates (Gladiator II)

There is a live-stream option: https://www.tft.ucla.edu/events-workshops/sketch-to-screen-costume-design-panel/

15th Annual Sketch to Screen Costume Design Panel | Egyptian Theater | Sat Mar 1

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High fliers in Brooklyn: STREB’s ‘Do Not Try This At Home’

Dance
photo credit: stephanie berger

High-octane and daring. Action-packed and gravity defying. Surely we’re describing Hollywood stunt work, right? Wrong! We’re talking about rarefied choreography of extreme physicality, innovation, and near-misses that have made Elizabeth Streb a genre leader in this limit-pushing display of human action. Others in this niche of dance that we have written about are Mehmet Sander and Jacques Heim.

STREB’S DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME comprises two components: MAVERICK SURF is a constantly evolving piece in which Action Heroes (a.k.a. dancers) perform their gravity-defying feats at new velocities with breathtaking precision. They are challenged to handle the ever-increasing intensity of a 100-foot wave simulation that turns motion and gravity into adversaries. 

STREB extreme action dancers, photo credit: stephanie berger

Also on offer will be the debut of AIR SPLINTER, a pulse-pounding new work that explores STREB’s signature techniques of falling. In this piece, the Action Heroes leap from a towering truss, their movements cascading in surprising, rhythmic bursts. They leap and land in unpredictable succession.

Better the Action Heroes than us. DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME is not for the faint of heart. Pearl-clutchers need not attend.

photo: stephanie berger

DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME | STREB | Williamsburg, Brooklyn | Mar 21 – Apr 13

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