The costume vault

Mad Max: Fury Road , the fourth installment in the Mad Max franchise, is nothing like we've seen before. Certainly nothing like any Best Picture Nominee that's come before it. And there is, precisely, where lies its strength. Directed by George Miller (who had already directed the previous three movies of the franchise), this epic chase is, at its core, as simple as it gets. It hits all the notes you'd expect of a Mad Max movie, but somehow it has a magic that had not been captured before. More than a movie, it's an experience. Precisely because the story is so simple (basically, a two-hour-long chase), the movie has the time to really immerse you in the universe without any dialogued exposition or your usual tropes in fantasy worlds. And it's there where the costume design really comes into play. From the dictatorial world of Inmortan Joe to the rebellious Furiosa and her clan; the designs manage to transport the viewer into the crazy world that th...

For a very long time, in film and literature, has prevailed an over-romanticized view of the "wild west"; with the unending deserts and the long sunsets, the honorable loner that rights wrongs across the country and the humble cowboy that fights mean Indians. This, of course, could not be furthest away from the reality of life at the frontier. Because of this, whenever a movie comes along that even remotely tries to stray away from that romance version of American history and tries to bring it closer to actual history, it feels like a very much needed breath of fresh air. Alejandro González Iñárritu's The Revenant certainly feels that way. His take on the survival story of a real-life fur hunter (Hugh Glass) is a grizzling tale of hate and revenge, as well as a fresh look upon men's relation to nature. To top it all, it's also a very interesting commentary on the whole Indian conflict. But what makes this movie relevant is not the story itself, whic...