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James Acheson James Acheson started out with various Monty Python movies, and Brazil directed by Python alumni Terry Gilliam. The Python TV series was done by Hazel Pethig. In recent years he has costumed Bernardo Bertoluccis spectacles, including The Last Emperor, The Sheltering Sky, and Little Buddha. He has also done richly decadent looking costumes for such powdered wig era dramas as Restoration and Dangerous Liaisons. Rich use of color: bright reds in Restoration, orange in Bertolucci films. His work is oddly complementary in time and place to Beavan and Bright, either being set in a much earlier era than theirs such as the 17th18th Century or in locations they have never visited North Africa, China, Nepal. His work is with an edge, offcenter, engulfing.Coleen Atwood Films set in the recent past 1950s 1960s. Clothes have a humorous, tongue in cheek quality: look at those strange clothes people wore back then Still very splashy and fun. Likes bright colors, humorously overbright, in fact. Captures look of suburbia, middle class dreams of splendor, at once glamorous and hopelessly middle brow: see the rock clothes of That Thing You Do, evening wear in Ed Woods. Works extensively with Jonathan Demme Married to the Mob, Silence of the Lambs, Philadelphia, That Thing You Do and Tim Burton Edward Scissorhands, Ed Woods, Mars Attacks. Older era historical films: Wyatt Earp, Little Women. Also: Love Field, Born Yesterday.

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