Fashion Film Festival


	If Looks Could Kill: Cinema’s Images of Fashion, Crime and Violence More… 10 - 31 May 2008 'I love Fashion in Film’s approach to film and find their work supremely dazzling and unique!' Steve Leggett, Program Coordinator National Film Preservation Board, Library of Congress. 2nd Fashion in Film Festival “If Looks Could Kill” Catalogue out now. 'A must-see for any style-conscious movie buff' James Anderson, i-D June 2008 'Absolutely fabulous' Metro 12 May 2008 Lily Cole's Pick of the Festival 'An impressively rich and well thought out programme' Virginie Sélavy, Electric Sheep Magazine Fashion in Film Festival in GQ magazine: click here for more... Sharon O'Connor, Managing Director of Oasis comments: '... These rarely seen films dating back to 1908 present us with a source of iconic fashion images which have visibly influenced the contemporary scene..' Anne Smith, Dean of Fashion and Textiles, Central Saint Martins: '... The role of fashion, costume and styling in films spanning a hundred years reveals the special position that fashion holds in locating the drama of life, society and the human experience.' 'Kirin Ichiban is often associated with style, design and fashion so we're delighted to be a part of this exciting festival' (Kirin Ichiban) sponsors

The 2nd Fashion in Film Festival:

If Looks Could Kill: Cinema’s Images of Fashion, Crime and Violence

Supported by Oasis
10-31 May 2008

Strands:

Co-Conspirators
"Taking Stock" ICA Symposium
The Masks of Villains
Criminal Gestures and Transformations

Criminal Desire
Peeling the Groomed Surface
Dress, Attitude, Delinquency
Special Projects

The Pick of this year's festival by London modelling icon Lily Cole

The Korean re-make of The Red Shoes looks very interesting - the original is an incredible film by English directors Powell and Pressburger who made films about repression and desire...

Plein Soleil is beautiful - suspenseful and chilling.

I am also into he classics - Marlene Dietrich in Borzage's Desire and Hitchcock's The Lodger.

The Spanish film Fata Morgana also looks very promising!

Co-Conspirators (New Artists Commissions)

Exploring a range of subjects such as cursed clothing, obsessive gestures and desires, and the history of the cinematic slap, eight artists have collaborated with the Festival to create new films that explore the themes of “If Looks Could Kill”.
Co-conspirators is guest-curated by editor and curator Louise Clarke and writer and curator Laura McLean-Ferris. More...
Saturday 10 May, 19.00, Tate Modern, Starr Auditorium

Taking Stock ICA Symposium

The devil is in the detail and, err… no, it doesn’t always wear Prada. Travel with us through time and space to explore cinema’s stock of looks, sartorial attitudes and gestures that, however subtle or unexpected, are essential to the crime genre. More...
Thursday 15 May, 14:00 - 18:00, ICA Cinema 1

The Killing Game: glamorous masks and murderous styles in Elio Petri’s La decima vittima
Talk by Anna Battista.
14:00

I Want That Mink! Film noir and Fashion
Talk by Petra Dominkova.
14.45

Looking Sharp
Talk by Barry Curtis and Claire Pajaczkowska.
15.30

Five Types of Stain
Talk by Kitty Hauser.
16.30

Sopranos' Bada Bing - More than Gangster Bling?
Talk by Lorraine Gamman.
17.15

Get Carter
UK 1971. Dir Mike Hodges.
With Michael Caine, Britt Ekland. 112 min. 35mm.
With an introduction by Alistair O'Neill.
18.30

The Masks of Villains

The Colour of Nothingness: costumes of invisibility and transformation in early detective films and literature
An illustrated lecture by Guest Curator Tom Gunning, with live musical accompaniment.
.Saturday 24 May 15:50, BFI Southbank NFT2

Follow Me Quietly
USA 1949. Dir. Richard Fleischer.
With William Lundigan, Dorothy Patrick. 60 min. 35mm.
Wednesday 21 May 18.20, BFI Southbank NFT2 Introduced by Roger Sabin.
Saturday 31 May, 20.30, BFI Southbank NFT3

Blood and Black Lace (Sei donne per l'assassino)
Italy/Monaco/France/Germany 1964. Dir Mario Bava.
With Mary Arden, Cameron Mitchell, Eva Bartok. 88 min. DVD.
Thursday 29 May, 20.00, The Horse Hospital

The Bird with the Crystal Plumage (L’uccello dalle piume di cristallo)
Italy 1970 . Dir Dario Argento.
With Tony Musante, Suzy Kendall. 97 min. 35mm.
Friday 30 May, 18.30, BFI Southbank NFT1

The Tenth Victim (La decima vittima)
Italy 1965. Dir Elio Petri.
With Ursula Andres, Marcello Mastroianni. 92 min. Digi-beta.
Introduced by Dylan Jones.
Wednesday 28 May, 20.45, ICA Cinema 1

Criminal Gestures and Transformations

A Question of Silence (De Stilte rond Christine M.)
Netherlands 1982. Dir Marleen Gorris.
With Edda Barends, Cox Habbema. 92 min. 35mm.
Thursday 22 May, 18.30, ICA Cinema 1

Ms .45
USA 1981. Dir Abel Ferrara.
With Zoe Lund, Albert Sinkys. 80 min. 35mm.
Thursay 22 May, 20.45, ICA Cinema 1

Body Double (X)
France 2002. Dir Brice Dellsperger.
With Jean-Luc Verna. 104 min. Digi-Beta.
With an introduction by Guest Curator Drake Stutesman.
Friday 23 May - 20:30, ICA Cinema 1

Office Killer
USA 1997. Dir Cindy Sherman.
With Carol Kane, Jeanne Tripplehorn. Molly Ringwald 82 min. Beta.
Introduced by Gilda Williams.
Sunday 11 May - 17:00, Tate Modern, Starr Auditorium

Criminal Desire

Silent Film’s Thieves, Jewel Robberies and Cases of the Lost Glove
Introduced by Christel Tsilibaris.
Sunday 18 May, 17.00, Ciné lumière

A Man With White Gloves (L’homme aux gants blancs)
France 1908. Dir Albert Capellani.
With Henri Desfontaines, Marguerite Brésil. 35mm.

The Gentleman Thief (aka Max Leads Them a Novel Chase ; Le voleur mondain)
France 1909. Dir Louis Gasnier.
With Max Linder. 16mm.

Nick Winter and the Case of the Famous Hotel (Nick Winter et l'affaire du Célébric Hôtel )
France 1911, Dir Gérard Bourgeois.
With Georges Vinter. 35mm.

The Pearl (La Perle)
Belgium 1929. Dir Henri d’Ursel.
With Georges Hugnet, Kissa Kouprine. 35mm.

The Kidnapping of Fux Banker (Únos bankére Fuxe)
Czech Republic 1923. Dir Karl Anton.
With Anny Ondra, Karel Lamac. 75 min. 35mm.
UK PREMIERE
New musical accompaniment by DJ Charles Kriel and “funny face”.
Introduced by Marketa Uhlirova.
Sunday 25 May, 18.20, BFI Southbank NFT1

The Rat
UK 1925. Dir Graham Cutts.
With Ivor Novello, Isabel Jeans. 80min. 35mm.
Saturday 24 May 17:45, BFI Southbank NFT1

Asphalt (Der Polizeiwachtmeister und die Diamantenelse)
Germany 1929. Dir Joe May.
With Betty Amann, Gustav Fröhlich. 94 min. 35mm.
With live piano accompaniment.
Sunday 25 May, 15.30, BFI Southbank NFT1

Desire OASIS Gala screening
USA 1936. Dir Frank Borzage.
With Marlene Dietrich, Gary Cooper. 89 min. 35mm.
Saturday 17 May, 20:30, Ciné lumière

The Red Shoes (Bunhongsin)
South Korea 2005. Dir Kim Yong-gyun.
With Hye-su Kim, Seong-su Kim, Yeon-ah Park. 103 min. 35mm.
LONDON PREMIERE
Wednesday 14 May, 20.45, ICA Cinema 1

Peeling the Groomed Surface

The Lodger : A Story of the London Fog
UK 1927. Dir Alfred Hitchcock.
With Ivor Novello, June. 98 min. 35mm.
Introduced by Alice Rawsthorn.
With live musical accompaniment.
Tuesday 13 May, 18.30, BFI Southbank NFT1

Leave Her to Heaven
USA 1945. Dir John M. Stahl.
With Gene Tierney. 105 min. 35mm.
Monday 19 May, 18.20, BFI Southbank NFT2

Sunday 25 May, 20.40, BFIv Southbank NFT2
Preceding the screening on Sunday 25 May, Guest Curators Rebecca Arnold and Adrian Garvey will give a talk “Sometimes the Truth is Wicked: Fashion, Violence and Obsession in Leave Her to Heaven” .

Purple Noon (Plein Soleil)
France 1960. Dir René Clément. 115 min. 35mm.
Introduced by Stella Bruzzi, and Pamela Church Gibson.
Sunday 18 May, 14.00, Ciné lumière

Mannequin in Red (Mannekäng i rött)
Sweden 1958. Dir Arne Mattsson.
With Antia Björk, Lillebil Isben. 108 min. 35mm
Introduced by fashion designer Bella Freud.
Tuesday 20 May, 20.15, Ciné lumière

Fata Morgana
Spain 1965. Dir Vicente Aranda.
With Teresa Gimpera, Marianne Benet . 84 min. 35mm.
Friday 16 May, 20.45, Ciné lumière

Chronicle of a Love (aka Story of a Love Affair/ Cronaca di un amore)
Italy 1950. Dir Michelangelo Antonioni.
With L ucia Bosé, Ferdinando Sarmi, Massimo Girotti. 98 min. 35mm.
Saturday 24 May, 20.40, BFI Southbank NFT 2 Introduced by Elizabeth Wilson.

Monday 26 May, 17.50, BFI Southbank NFT

Dress, Attitude, Delinquency

So what! Two tales of Juvenile Delinquency
Guest-curated by Roger K. Burton, costume designer and former mod.
Saturday 31 May, 18.20, The Horse Hospital
The movies are:

The Violent Years
USA 1956. Dir William Morgan.
With Jean Moorhead and Barbara Weeks. 56 min. DVD.

The Boys
UK 1962. Dir Sidney J. Furie
With Richard Todd, Dudley Sutton, Robert Morley. 123 min. DVD.

Get Carter
UK 1971. Dir Mike Hodges.
With Michael Caine, Britt Ekland. 112 min. 35mm.
With an introduction by Alistair O'Neill.
Thursday 15 May, 18.30, ICA Cinema 1

Zoot Suit Riots
USA 2001. Dir Joseph Tovares.
Documentary. 60 min. DVD.
Monday 26 May, 20.00, The Horse Hospital

Special Projects

Fashion Statements at BFI Southbank

Join Fashion in Film and Mouth That Roars to celebrate the culmination of a filmmaking project enabling young people from East London to explore how they express themselves through fashion and what pressures they are faced with to conform to a certain look. Mouth That Roars gives, often misrepresented, London youth a chance to learn how to articulate their opinions and experiences through video production.

Project Manager: Denise Rose, Mouth That Roars; Coordinator: Cathy John.

In the Mood for Crime: Students in the Window

Dorothy Tang and Viktor Smedinge will create new installations for the College's Window Gallery at Charing Cross Road.
Friday 9 - Friday 16 May, Central Saint Martins - Window Gallery

Magic and Fashion

Research Centre for Fashion, the Body and Material Cultures’
For more information visit www.fashion-body-materialcultures.org
Tuesday 20 May, ICA

MEDIATHEQUE - Brit Chic

Celebrate 60 years of cutting-edge couture with a kaleidoscopic trip down the catwalks of post-war British fashion.
May 2008, BFI Southbank

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