Now that the Weinstein Brothers' fledgling production company has been stabilized by gay-friendly fashion fabulousness (Project Runway) and the efforts of a loquacious auteur (Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds), it's not surpriding that Harvey's first acquisition at this year's Toronto Film Festival would be a gay-friendly movie by a loquacious....well, by Tom Ford.
The Hollywood Reporter says that The Weinstein Company paid $1-2 million for A Single Man, Ford's adaptation of Christopher Isherwood's 1964 novel about the day in the life of a 1960s-era Los Angeles English professor mourning his dead lover.
It's only natural, of course, that Ford would tackle the 60s, given his groundbreaking insights into the period ("Students in the '60s were responsible for great changes, politically and socially," he intoned to Index Magazine in 2004). But how does the ever-thoughtful Ford compare filmmaking to his fashion work? Fashion "is a fleeting and commercial art form," Ford sniffed at
Interesting. Of course, in the great Fordian tradition of contradictory quotes, the purely-expressive director had a different take on fashion and film in the 2004 Index interview: “The two mediums are very related. What I did as a fashion designer for both Gucci and Yves Saint Laurent was to create a character and then costume that character throughout her life."
Given the Oscar buzz surrounding A Single Man, look forward to another six months of musings by Tom Ford: cineaste.
