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SARTORIAL CINEMA: LA COLLECTIONNEUSE

August 07, 2019 by David Coggins in Style

August is the perfect time for an Éric Rohmer film. They unfold in relaxed settings—lakeside resorts, borrowed, barely furnished country houses, beach towns. The characters are at leisure and, since they’re French, they tend to discuss their theories of love and morality.

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August 07, 2019 /David Coggins
Sartorial Cinema, Style, Film, France
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SARTORIAL CINEMA: THE GODFATHER'S SHIRT

July 30, 2019 by David Coggins in Style

This has always been my favorite shirt in any film. Marlon Brando’s Don Corleone has retired. He’s not in the darkened, wood-paneled office but in the sunlight of the garden. He’s forsaken the professional life for the pastoral life.

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July 30, 2019 /David Coggins
Style, Film, Sartorial Cinema
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