January 4, 2015, 5:00 p.m. — Ready to Wear (1994), The Model’s Handbook (1956)
Ready to Wear
1994. USA. Directed by Robert Altman. Screenplay by Altman, Barbara Shulgasser. With Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, Julia Roberts, Kim Basinger, Anouk Aimée, Sally Kellerman. This sprawling comedy, shot during Fashion Week in Paris, is a disorderly series of vignettes documenting the preening acolytes of high-fashion runway shows, featuring cameos from real-life designers and celebrities. Taking on an insular world foreign to him, Altman exerts his usual arsenal of absurdist humor and satire. The distributor anglicized the title for U.S. release in the belief that American audiences would be baffled by the French phrase. 132 min.
