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Orla Smith / April 28, 2019

Jacqueline Durran on why period costumes can never be ‘pure’

Oscar winning costume designer Jacqueline Durran discusses her longstanding collaboration with Mike Leigh and her approach to designing period costumes for hundreds of characters in Peterloo.

Terence Davies

Alex Heeney / April 17, 2017

‘The costumes have got to look as though they wear them’: Terence Davies talks A Quiet Passion

Writer-director Terence Davies discusses his Emily Dickinson biopic, A Quiet Passion, and how he developed the film’s aesthetic. This is the second feature in our Special Issue on A Quiet Passion, which you can read in full here.

Girl Asleep, Rosemary Myers

Gillie Collins / October 10, 2016

From stage to screen: Director Rosemary Myers on her new film Girl Asleep

Gillie Collins talked to director Rosemary Myers about adapting her Windmill theatre play Girl Asleep for the film. Collins also explores the many exaggerated, theatrical elements that define the film.

Julie Delpy, Lolo

Gillie Collins / March 14, 2016

Julie Delpy talks colour and comedy in Lolo

Writer-Director-Actress Julie Delpy discusses her consummately entertaining new movie, Lolo, which is chock full of the same joie de vivre Delpy channels in real life.

Sandy Powell

Sam Woolf / February 23, 2016

Sandy Powell’s costumes in Carol tell what words can’t

Costume designer Sandy Powell showed how two starkly different women refashion one another into a perfect match. 

Liasons Dangereuses

Mary Angela Rowe / February 17, 2016

Les Liaisons Dangereuses shines at the Donmar

Josie Rourke’s production at the Donmar plays up the novel’s feminist subtext while emphasizing the genuine bond between its two dissolute protagonists. The result is a surprisingly romantic take on this cynical novel.

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