Cinema du Look #2

‘A Magazine About Stylish Cinema’

Named for the historically ‘style over substance’-branded French film movement of the mid-80s, new film/fashion/archive publication Cinema du Look is here to set the record straight. Exploring ‘stylish cinema’, editor Dorit Oren and her team believe the ‘visual aspects of cinema are as important to the substance of the moving image as script or performance.’

Inside this enlarged sophomore edition, expect interviews, essays, photography, art and industry profiles on the subject of ‘material’. Highlighting the paramount importance of surfaces in cultivating a rich visual onscreen language, the issue dives into the archives of the likes of Paul Morrissey and Isabella Rossellini with New York-transplant and cinema preservationist Michael Chaiken, examines the interplay of pleasure and power in the canon of Paul Verhoeven, documents instances of fragrance on-screen, takes a deep dive inside costume designer Shirley Russell’s world (and wardrobe) and uncovers the meaning behind some of the most influential looks from Luchino Visconti’s iconographic filmography. 

Above all, as Dorit writes,‘Cinema du Look is about a passion for the visual pleasures of cinema.’