Christine_Edzard

Christine Edzard

Christine Edzard

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Christine Edzard (born 15 February 1945)[1] is a film director, writer, and costume designer, nominated for BAFTA and Oscar awards for her screenwriting. She has been based in London for most of her career.

Early life

Edzard was born and raised in Paris by her German-born father, Dietz Edzard, and Polish mother, Suzanne Eisendieck, both painters. After a degree in economics she trained as a set and costume designer with Lila De Nobili and Rostislav Doboujinsky.[1] She assisted Di Nobili on Franco Zeffirelli's productions of Aida and Romeo and Juliet at La Scala in 1963 and 1968.[2]

Career

Edzard co-wrote and designed the film The Tales of Beatrix Potter (1971), for which she was nominated for two BAFTA awards for Best Costume Design and Best Art Direction.[3][4]

With her husband, the film producer Richard B. Goodwin, she founded the Sands Films studio and production company in Rotherhithe, London in 1975.[5][6] The studios include the Rotherhithe Picture Research Library, a free resource for the general public, and the building was awarded a Blue Plaque in 2009, unveiled in January that year by Derek Jacobi.[7] Over the years Sands Films has made and supplied period costumes for international film and TV productions.

Edzard is best known for her film adaptation of Charles Dickens's novel, Little Dorrit (1988), a British film for which she was nominated for an Oscar, a BAFTA Award, and a Los Angeles Film Critics Award.[8][9]

Director and writer filmography

Making and Supplying of period costumes

Further information: Sands Films

References

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    Christine Edzard, IMDb. Retrieved 29 March 2017.
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    Crowl, Samuel (2003). "Edzard's As You Like It and Children's Midsummer Night's Dream". Shakespeare at the Cineplex. p. 155. ISBN 9780821414941.
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    "1972 Film Costume Design". BAFTA.
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    "Art Direction". Awards, BAFTA 1972.
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    Cloarec, Haigron, Letort (15 March 2016). Social Class on British and American Screens. p. 164. ISBN 9781476623122.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
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    Summers, Sue (18 November 1988). "Eccentric You Say? No, A Labour of Love". Los Angeles Times.
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    "London Remembers".
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    "1989 Writing based on another medium". Oscars.org.
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    "1988 Film Adapted Screenplay". BAFTA.
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    Johnston, Sheila (14 June 2001). "Inner-city fairies make magic". The Telegraph.
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    Holden, Stephen (26 November 1997). "Film Review: A Nutcracker in 3D wrapping". New York Times.
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    Thornton Burnett, Mark (22 January 2016). Shakespeare, Film, Fin de Siecle. p. 73. ISBN 9780230286795.
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    Coursen, Herbert R. (2009). Teaching Shakespeare with film and television. p. 139. ISBN 9781593112813.
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    Elley, Derek (6 October 1992). "As You Like It Review". Variety.
  15. [15]
    "Little Dorrit". BFI Screen Online.
  16. [16]
    "Biddy (1983)". BFI. Archived from the original on January 4, 2017.
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