Thompson on Hollywood: Costume Designer Anthony Powell Talks to BFI, from Polanski to Friedkin's Controversial 'Sorcerer'

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Costume Designer Anthony Powell Talks to BFI, from Polanski to Friedkin's Controversial 'Sorcerer' Mar 28th 2013, 21:37 Three-time Oscar-winning costume designer Anthony Powell, who gave us the sumptuous sartorial designs in Roman Polanski's "Tess," Steven Spielberg's Indiana Jones films "Temple of Doom" and "Last Crusade" and William Friedkin's "Sorcerer," sat down recently with the BFI to discuss his career. Highlights below, with photos of his many costuming feats. On working with Roman Polanski: Roman's extraordinary. He could do the job of anyone on the set, except, possibly the costumes. He says he knows nothing about costumes but I don't think it's true; he always knows instinctively if something is right or not. In real life, we have very little in common, but in work, we have this extraordinary telepathy. Every time we've worked together, he just rings me up and gives me one sentence, and I just go away and do it, because I see exactly what he's got in his mind.On the influence of film fashion on real-world fashion:I once realized that whenever I did a period film that had interesting... Media files: tess.jpg (image/jpeg)

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