"The Dressmaker’’ was clearly intended to be a ravishing creation, but the film is patched together from such a ragbag of scraps that it can’t be called a success. Despite highly enjoyable moments and ...

The Dressmaker (2015) Film Review, a movie directed by Jocelyn Moorhouse, and starring Kate Winslet, Judy Davis, Liam Hemsworth, Hugo Weaving, Sarah Snook, James Mackay, Caroline Goodall, Kerry Fox, ...

“The Dressmaker” was clearly intended to be a ravishing creation, but it’s patched together from such a ragbag of scraps that it can’t be called a success. Despite highly enjoyable moments and the ...

Rollo Tomasi is a Connecticut-based film critic, TV show critic, news, and editorial writer. He will have a MFA in Creative Writing from Columbia University in 2025. Rollo has written over 700 film, ...

THE DRESSMAKER is about revenge, but it’s not ever focused on a specific person. The town of Dungatar, to which Tilly Demogue (Kate Winslet) returns, is at first just a quiet little town in the ...

In the most recent of Kate Winslet‘s seven Oscar nominated roles (Steve Jobs, 2015), she played the titular Apple co-founder’s moral compass. For her next film, The Dressmaker, she threw that compass ...

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To the foreboding drum of a spaghetti Western score, the dressmaker steps off the bus like a gunslinger packing the unique heat of a Singer sewing machine. It’s 1951, and Myrtle “Tilly” Dunnage ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Classifying movies as “bad” or “good” is hard to do. It’s difficult not only because movies are ...

Costume designers Marion Boyce and Margot Wilson chat about their latest endeavor, "The Dressmaker." How did you pick the costumes for the movie? Are the looks all custom made or are there certain ...

Keep up with the wild and wooly world of indie film acquisitions with our weekly Rundown of everything that’s been picked up around the globe. Check out last week’s Film Acquisition Rundown to find ...