Amongst staggering aural and visual assault, perhaps one of the quietest aspects of Dunkirk (2017, directed by Christopher Nolan) are its costumes – and this is to its credit. Dunkirk is the type of film that requires you to engage quickly with everything you see on screen. Jeffrey Kurland’s costume design is masterful in this regard. A sea of subtly differentiated green and brown with the pop of naval uniforms and briefly glimpsed civilian wear. This is 1940 at its most spare and rudimentary.
Here, Jeffrey Kurland chats exclusively to Clothes on Film about his process for creating the world of Dunkirk:
Spoilers Throughout
Clothes on Film: How did you go about researching the many uniforms seen in the film?
Jeffrey Kurland: As I normally would do. In the beginning it’s kind of a one man job. I trawl the internet, I go to libraries – I actually have my own library I use.
Here, Jeffrey Kurland chats exclusively to Clothes on Film about his process for creating the world of Dunkirk:
Spoilers Throughout
Clothes on Film: How did you go about researching the many uniforms seen in the film?
Jeffrey Kurland: As I normally would do. In the beginning it’s kind of a one man job. I trawl the internet, I go to libraries – I actually have my own library I use.
- 7/31/2017
- by Lord Christopher Laverty
- Clothes on Film
A new trailer for Christopher Nolan's upcoming film Dunkirk has been released. Everything that I've seen of this film so far looks amazing and each promo and trailer that's released just builds the intensity! This one does the same thing and it also is promoting that there will be special 70mm engagements that audiences will be able to catch when the film hits theaters. This is one of my most anticipated movies of the year and it looks like Nolan is going to give us an incredible World War II drama. And hell yes, I want to see it in 70mm!
The movie was inspired by Operation Dynamo, which was a 1940 mission that freed over 340,000 British and Allied troops who were trapped and surrounded by the Nazis in the French city of Dunkirk. It was one of the largest organized retreats in modern military history.
The film has an...
The movie was inspired by Operation Dynamo, which was a 1940 mission that freed over 340,000 British and Allied troops who were trapped and surrounded by the Nazis in the French city of Dunkirk. It was one of the largest organized retreats in modern military history.
The film has an...
- 7/5/2017
- by Joey Paur
- GeekTyrant
We’re less than half-a-year away from Christopher Nolan‘s Dunkirk, one of our most-anticipated summer studio films (alongside Edgar Wright’s Baby Driver, of course), and one of our biggest questions is how (or if) his approach to a period epic will feel different than his recent features. Inspired by Operation Dynamo, a miracle of a mission in 1940 where nearly 340,000 Allied troops were rescued after being trapped by the Nazis in this northern area of France, more details have now arrived.
“I spent a lot of time reviewing the silent films for crowd scenes –the way extras move, evolve, how the space is staged and how the cameras capture it, the views used,” Nolan tells Premiere Magazine. The director revealed that he brushed up on silent films such as Intolerance, Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans, and Greed, as well as the films of Robert Bresson (notably Pickpocket and A Man Escaped,...
“I spent a lot of time reviewing the silent films for crowd scenes –the way extras move, evolve, how the space is staged and how the cameras capture it, the views used,” Nolan tells Premiere Magazine. The director revealed that he brushed up on silent films such as Intolerance, Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans, and Greed, as well as the films of Robert Bresson (notably Pickpocket and A Man Escaped,...
- 2/28/2017
- by Leonard Pearce
- The Film Stage
Looking over next summer’s wide-release slate, it becomes clear, and perhaps unsurprisingly so, that Christopher Nolan‘s Dunkirk is not so much one of the top draws as it is one of the few attractions worth any attention. (The other is Edgar Wright’s Baby Driver, thus raising the question of what, exactly, British filmmakers can bring to studio projects that’s otherwise missing.) Following an initial teaser that caused minor waves (some of them derisive), the first full-length trailer is now available for your viewing pleasure.
The war drama is inspired by Operation Dynamo, a miracle of a mission in 1940 where nearly 340,000 Allied troops were rescued after being trapped by the Nazis in this northern area of France. See the preview below for the film starring Mark Rylance, Tom Hardy, Kenneth Branagh, Harry Styles, Cillian Murphy, Fionn Whitehead, Aneurin Barnard, James D’Arcy, Jack Lowden, Barry Keoghan, and Tom Glynn-Carne.
The war drama is inspired by Operation Dynamo, a miracle of a mission in 1940 where nearly 340,000 Allied troops were rescued after being trapped by the Nazis in this northern area of France. See the preview below for the film starring Mark Rylance, Tom Hardy, Kenneth Branagh, Harry Styles, Cillian Murphy, Fionn Whitehead, Aneurin Barnard, James D’Arcy, Jack Lowden, Barry Keoghan, and Tom Glynn-Carne.
- 12/14/2016
- by Nick Newman
- The Film Stage
Like it or not, Christopher Nolan‘s Dunkirk is poised to be one of 2017’s biggest films, a work whose very outline — one of our few bankable working filmmakers’ IMAX-shot World War II epic with a cast of young British stars and seasoned pros — immediately sets it a place at the table of cultural conversation. (For whatever that ultimately means.) Before this nightmare of think pieces and weirdly petty Twitter debates really begins, though, WB’s marketing machine has to (must! cannot not!) put out a teaser — likely one that inevitably makes the film, however good it may end up being, seem a bit more “artful” than the final product.
So here, now, is, our first look at Dunkirk, in which Nolan chronicles the legendary 1940 battle and evacuation of British soldiers — material that, per star Mark Rylance, “has the potential to make a very, very powerful and simple, pure war film about a miraculous loss.
So here, now, is, our first look at Dunkirk, in which Nolan chronicles the legendary 1940 battle and evacuation of British soldiers — material that, per star Mark Rylance, “has the potential to make a very, very powerful and simple, pure war film about a miraculous loss.
- 8/4/2016
- by Nick Newman
- The Film Stage
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