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Bonjour Tristesse at TCM Film Fest

14 Saturday Apr 2012

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Barbara Tfank, Bonjour Tristesse, Jean Seberg, Otto Preminger, Saul Bass, TCM Film Festival

Traffic was hell but worth it.

What a treat.  I got to see a digitally restored print of Otto Preminger’s “Bonjour Tristesse,” today at the TCM Film Fest.  Jean Seberg was too gorgeous.  The south of France was entrancing, and I even got a surprise when I saw that Saul Bass did the opening title sequence.

Here’s a blog with all the titles: http://annyas.com/screenshots/updates/saul-bass-title-sequence-bonjour-tristesse-1958/

That color is so beautiful on her. Photo: Bob Willoughby, mptv.com.

Great sweater! I love a racing stripe. Photo: Bob Willoughby, mptv.com.

Photo: Bob Willoughby, mptv.com.

Barbara Tfank spoke before the film about how costumes serve the character.  She is a designer who has dressed everyone from Uma Thurman (she designed that pale lavender Prada Academy Awards gown that ushered in the modern, designer + red carpet era, before that it was Vegas meets prom on the red carpet) to Adele and Michele Obama.  She is a former costume designer herself and knows of what she speaks.  A true fashioneaste.

I got a standby ticket and was waaaaaay back.

She said that Givenchy was actually the costume designer for the film.  Seberg never looked so breathtakingly modern, fresh and beautiful.  And this was 1958!  Hopefully Netfilx gets it on DVD,  (don’t you think they should have these kinds of things???) so I can show you all the covetable stuff, like the great swimsuits Seberg gallops around in.

It ends tomorrow folks.

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Turner Classic Film Festival 2012

01 Sunday Apr 2012

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Bonjour Tristesse, Grace Kelly, Jean Seberg, TCM Classic Film Festival, Turner Classic Movies Film Festival

Ok, if you live in the LA area, and call yourself a film buff, you need to get your ass down to this festival.  This is their third year and it’s a whopper.  They’re showing a restored “Cabaret,” “Sabrina,” Liz Taylor’s “Cleopatra,” “Funny Face,” “Casablanca,” “High Society” poolside.  Yes, you can watch Grace Kelly, Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra singing the Cole Porter score poolside at the Roosevelt Hotel.  WTF!!!  The list goes on and on, so much fabulousness, I can’t even type fast enough.

Grace Kelly as Tracy Lord in "High Society," 1956.

I want to see “Bonjour Tristesse,” since Jean Seberg is too gamine gorgeous in it to pass up.  And the beachy French 50’s vibe is fantastic!

"Bonjour Tristesse," 1958. Is that chambray shirt great or what?

Their theme this year is “Style in the Movies.”  For you fashioneaste’s they offer: the films of Stanley Donen, Deco Design, Essentials (the classics), The Legendary Costumes of Travis Banton, and Noir Style.  I am salivating!

Many interesting panels, and special guest are scheduled as well including: Rick Baker (godfather of makeup artists), Mel Brooks, John Carpenter, Liza Minnelli (holy sh*t!!!), Kim Novak, Debbie Reynolds, Robert Towne (screenwriter), huuuuuuuh, I have to catch my breath.

Buy your tickets now:

http://www.tcm.com/festival/

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Breathless

10 Monday Oct 2011

Posted by Angie in 1960's, Hair and Makeup, Women

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1960's Paris, AN AMERICAN IN PARIS, Breathless, French New Wave, gamine, Jean Seberg, Jean-Luc Godard, pixie cut

Whatever you might think of his films, Jean-Luc Godard is a towering and inescapable influence on everything from films, photography, even (maybe subconsciously) to rap music.  I may be bored waiting for the plots to start, may not be that interested in the political or satirical points he’s trying to make, but I sooo appreciate his utter originality and convention-busting mentality.

“Breathless,” 1960, left old-style filmmaking in its wake.  Radical jump cuts and hand-held camera work only became mainstream in the MTV 80’s age of music videos.

Jean Seberg Breathless New York Hearld Tribune shirt

Why doesn’t someone makes these t-shirts so we can buy them??? You could even do a lightweight cashmere or wool. The ultra cool gamine Jean Seberg.

Jean Seberg Breathless hat

Wearing her boyfriend’s hat. She could be going to Coachella, modern, timeless.

Jean Seberg Breathless hat tank sweater

Effortlessly chic. Love the vertically knit tank. mptvimages.com

Jean Seberg Breathless tank sweater

Without the hat, so cute! Just remember smoking kills. But does look cool in black and white. I’m not gonna lie. mptvimages.com

Maybe Goddard called it Breathless because she’s so beautiful.

Jean Seberg Breathless gloves sunglasses dress

This striped dress is perfect for spring. Why did women stop wearing gloves?

Jean Seberg Breathless striped dress

With a sweater thrown over it. Notice the sweater is a fuller cut, not tight.

“Breathless,” is also a play on, “An American in Paris.” But instead of a squeaky-clean American trying not to get caught in a questionable social situation, this American girl knows what’s up, and isn’t fazed in the least by getting into a questionable social situation.

Breathless movie poster

Even his 1960 poster for “Breathless,” looks more modern than any movie playing now. Jean Luc-Godard.

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