Style Icon: Tyler Durden, Fight Club
David Fincher’s 1999 cult film Fight Club is a film about freedom and alienation and fascism all at once. It’s a film that changes and grows with each viewing and Fincher leaves clever clues...
View ArticleStyle Icon: Cindy and Dean, Blue Valentine
Blue Valentine is not your average love story. It’s told in two sections, taking place seven years apart. The sections are intercut, culminating in the glowing scenes of two young lovers getting...
View ArticleStyle Icon: Albert Finney, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
In 1960, Czech born Karel Reisz released his new wave British classic film Saturday Night and Sunday Morning. Reisz’s film along with movies by Tony Richardson (The Loneliness of the Long Distance...
View ArticleStyle Icon: Audrey Hepburn, Funny Face
The eternal presence of Audrey Hepburn on the silver screen is largely due to her timeless style. Whether it’s the black cocktail dress by Givenchy in Breakfast at Tiffany’s or a series of glamorous...
View ArticleStyle Icon: Vinz, Hubert & Said, La Haine
Mathieu Kassovitz’s La Haine is a classic piece of French Cinema. The film takes place in the nineties after a series of riots in the banlieues of Paris. The audience follows a day in the life of...
View ArticleStyle Icon: Rachel Weisz, The Deep Blue Sea
By Steven Fraser Terrance Davies’ 2011 adaptation of the 1952 Terrance Rattigan stage play The Deep Blue Sea tells the tale of a young lady by the name of Hester Collyer. She is played by the stunning...
View ArticleStyle Icon: Helen Mirren, The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover.
By Steven Fraser Directed by Peter Greenaway and with a truly excellent British cast (Michael Gambon, Tim Roth, Helen Mirren), The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover was released in 1990 to great...
View ArticleStyle Icon: Richard Dreyfuss, Jaws
By Saul Masters The name Richard Dreyfuss is not normally brought up when discussing style icons, no doubt due to the actor starring in such film as Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Not the sort of...
View ArticleStyle Icon: Cher Horowitz, Clueless
By Lucia Genziani This year Amy Heckerling’s cult rom com Clueless, like, totally turns eighteen. Last Friday Tee’s and Cee’s screened the movie as part of their We Love the 90s Film Fest: four...
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