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Article: The romance of certain old clothes or they don't make 'em like that anymore; Honor de Cavalleria and art cinema's last stand.(Critical essay)
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- January 1, 2008
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Nostalgia for a bygone era of filmmaking is something one usually associates with the paradigm of classical Hollywood: of a particular generation (or a particular breed of cinephile) fondly recalling the kind of stars, films, even genres that once proliferated in a mythically idealised cinematic past. In truth, such a demographic has in recent years been reasonably well catered for. Films like Todd Haynes' Sirkean melodrama Far From Heaven [2002], the Doris Day/Rock Hudson romantic comedy trappings of Down With Love [2003], Steven Soderbergh's Casablanca-inspired The Good German [2006] and more recently George Clooney's screwball pastiche Leatherheads [2008] have all ...