Tag Archives: Coco Chanel

Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky – Couturière and Composer’s love affair looks chic but lacks heart

Posted on 23 November 2010 by Jason Best

Fashion designer Coco Chanel took centre stage in last year’s lavish biopic about her early career, Coco Before Chanel. She has to share equal billing with composer Igor Stravinsky, however, in the no-less sumptuous period romance, Coco Chanel and Igor … Continue reading →

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Small Screen – this week’s top ten DVDs…

Posted on 26 November 2009 by admin

Terminator Salvation Robot wars… Christian Bale attempts to save humanity from being wiped out by intelligent machines – and woe betide any cinematographers who get in his way. If you can see this, then you might need a Flash Player … Continue reading →

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Out on DVD | Coco Before Chanel

Posted on 23 November 2009 by Jason Best

“Chanel invented the 20th century for women.” That was the grand claim made about legendary fashion designer Coco Chanel by Diana Vreeland, editor in chief of Vogue in the 1960s. Coco Before Chanel, French director Anne Fontaine’s lavish biopic, however, … Continue reading →

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Big Screen – this week’s top ten at the cinema…

Posted on 6 August 2009 by admin

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince It’s a kind of magic… Harry and his Hogwarts cohorts have to contend with a new potions teacher, Voldemort’s Death Eaters, and raging hormones in their sixth year at the School of Witchraft and … Continue reading →

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At the Cinema | Coco Before Chanel

Posted on 31 July 2009 by Jason Best

Coco Before Chanel, a sumptuous period drama about the early career of legendary fashion designer Coco Chanel, owes a big debt to another recent film about an iconic Frenchwoman who rose to fame in the first half of the 20th … Continue reading →

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