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Patricia Field is one of those rare figures whose name evokes not just a person but a complete visual sensibility—a world of unashamed splendor, wild vitality, and the kind of sartorial daring that makes you wonder why you ever bothered with beige. Field has been a provocateur and a prophet for decades, dressing characters who have molded our cultural imaginations.

Carrie Bradshaw’s tutu from Sex and the City? That was Patricia. The chaotic, punk-inspired style of The Devil Wears Prada? Patricia again. She is more than just a costume designer; she is a storyteller who creates identities from fabric and sequins, reminding us that clothes are never just clothes—they are declarations, disguises, and wishes.

Michael Selditch’s documentary, Happy Clothes: A Film About Patricia Field, aims to capture this essence: not just the woman but also the ethos she represents. Happy Clothes feels almost deceptively simple, bordering on whimsical,...

Exclusive: Greenwich Entertainment has acquired U.S. rights to Happy Clothes: A Film About Patricia Field, an award-winning documentary from Michael Selditch about the famed costume designer of the same name.

On the heels of its world premiere at the 2023 Tribeca Festival, the film will open at NYC’s IFC Center on September 20, with Selditch, Field and surprise guests in attendance for Q&As after select screenings. Release plans for additional major markets and home entertainment will be announced at a later date.

Happy Clothes offers a candid, fly-on-the-wall glimpse into the creative process and the extraordinary life and career of retailer, stylist and costume designer Patricia Field, whose unique vision has impacted fashion and popular culture for nearly six decades. As a two-time Emmy-winning costume designer, Field is best known for her work on Sex and the City. Her resume also boasts some 30 other television shows including Ugly Betty,...

After a year-long hiatus the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival has unveiled the lineup for its 26th edition, which will take place in Durham, N.C., from April 4-7. The festival will kick things off with “Girls State,” the Apple Original docu that premiered at Sundance earlier this year.

It’s been five years since Full Frame, often referred to as “a filmmaker’s festival,” was held as an in-person event. Full Frame was held entirely online for the 2020–22 festivals due to Covid-19. Then in 2023 the festival was put on hold last year due to financial struggles and leadership turnover at Duke’s Center for Documentary Studies (Cds), a nonprofit affiliate of the university that puts on the fest. Notably, Cds executive director Opeyemi Olukemi resigned last year. As reported by The Assembly, Olukemi, who took the role in 2021, was criticized as the Cds staff shrank and a bulk of...

When she won a Golden Globe for “The Devil Wears Prada,” Meryl Streep said it best about what the role of costume design could be in moving pictures while thanking costume designer Patricia Field: “That was like special effects for our movie.”

Indeed, “special effects” is what the effervescent Pat Field touch brings to any project that she signs her name under, the most popular among them undoubtedly being HBO’s “Sex and the City.” With perhaps the exception of “Mad Men” has there been another culturally iconic TV series in the last quarter century that informed, even evolved how people dressed in their daily lives?

So it’s no easy task to do justice to the life and legacy of Field, a colorful New York City personality with a recently published book about her life. But more versed in episodic outputs such as CNN’s four-part docuseries “American Style” than feature-length films,...

Happy Clothes: A Film About Patricia Field, Bad Like Brooklyn Dance Hall, Lost Soulz to premiere in New York.

Andrew Herwitz’s The Film Sales Company has boarded worldwide sales rights on three films set to receive their world premieres at Tribeca Festival.

Michael Selditch’s Happy Clothes: A Film About Patricia Field premieres in Spotlight Documentary and chronicles the work of feted costume designer Field, who earned global renown for the likes of Sex And The City and Ugly Betty and garnered an Oscar nod for The Devil Wears Prada.

Kim Cattrall, Lily Collins Sarah Jessica Parker, Darren Star,...

Happy Clothes: A Film About Patricia Field, Bad Like Brooklyn Dance Hall, Lost Soulz to premiere in New York.

Andrew Herwitz’s The Film Sales Company has boarded worldwide sales rights on three films set to receive their world premieres at Tribeca Festival.

Michael Selditch’s Happy Clothes: A Film About Patricia Field premieres in Spotlight Documentary and chronicles the work of feted costume designer Field, who earned global renown for the likes of Sex And The City and Ugly Betty and garnered an Oscar nod for The Devil Wears Prada.

Kim Cattrall, Lily Collins Sarah Jessica Parker, Darren Star,...

Tribeca Film Festival Artistic Director Frédéric Boyer with Anne-Katrin Titze: “There’s a first film from Germany, which I think is brilliant.”

In the first instalment with Tribeca Film Festival Artistic Director Frédéric Boyer we discuss Christian Petzold’s Afire; Frédéric Tcheng’s Invisible Beauty (on Bethann Hardison); Ethan Berger’s The Line (on the recommendation of Robert Eggers’ The Witch producer Jay Van Hoy); Michael Shannon’s Eric Larue; David Duchovny’s Bucky F*cking Dent; John Slattery’s Maggie Moore(s); Steve Buscemi’s The Listener; Anna Roller’s Dead Girls Dancing; Maria Fredriksson’s The Gullspáng Miracle; Michael Selditch’s Happy Clothes: A Film About Patricia Fields, and Stephen Kijak’s Rock Hudson: All That Heaven Allowed.

Christian Petzold’s Afire, starring Paula Beer, Enno Trebs, Langston Uibel, and Thomas Schubert

The 21st edition of...

If Jay McCarroll is somehow a victim of his own fame, he won't admit it. The first winner of the Emmy-nominated Project Runway hasn't broken the fashion world wide open, and he says that's an impossible goal to achieve in just a handful of years.

But the outspoken McCarroll, who did not take his six-figure winnings from the show, is still trying to push towards that finish line, constantly working and re-working his line of designs. Eleven Minutes directors Michael Selditch and Robert Tate spent many months with McCarroll as he prepared for his brief walk under the bright lights of New York's Fashion Week, showing us exactly how the newcomer prepared for his first independent show...without the helping hand of Heidi Klum and company.

Big Picture: Even though the runway show itself is short, it's nearly a year putting it all together, stitch by stitch. And in your situation,...

Eleven Minutes

Featuring Jay McCarroll, Nancy Kane, and Kelly Cutrone

Directed by Michael Selditch and Robert Tate

Rated R

Reality television has created an almost embarrassing array of minor celebrities, everyone from the naked tax evader guy on Survivor to William Hung. If we've seen them, how will we ever forget that shrieking religious banshee of Trading Spouses or Omarosa from The Apprentice?

These shows aren't immune from big personalities; that's the reason most people watch. But few reality or competition shows have as much on the ball as Project Runway. The contestants actually have to do something, and do it in original ways. EVery stitch is scrutinized.

From a pool of fashion designers, three are chosen each season to display their new lines of clothes at New York's Fashion Week, one of the biggest events in that entire industry. It would be like determining the American Idol winner by...

With all eyes on the upcoming Academy Awards (not to mention the Spirit Awards, the afternoon before), it's a relatively quiet week at the box office. There are some bubblegum high school antics, a couple of documentaries about the dysfunctional, a children's literary classic and a somber drama set during WWII. Take heart, we're nearly over the hump.

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BAFTA-nominated director Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra returns with this transatlantic journey of self-discovery that offers itself as another girder in the bridge between Bollywood and the U.S. American-born Indian Roshan (Abhishek Bachchan) makes a pilgrimage from New York to India to bring his ailing grandmother home. In the process, he discovers a little something about himself, his ancestral homeland and the proud traditions contained within it. Veteran composer A.R. Rahman, who's vying for an Oscar for his work on "Slumdog Millionaire,...

Spring is a season of renewal, particularly in the movie business, where the completion of the awards derby allows Amy Adams to segue from playing a solemn nun in "Doubt" to a klutzy crime scene cleaner in "Sunshine Cleaning." Along with "Sunshine," there are plenty of festival favorites about to get their day in the sun, whether that's in theaters, on DVD or on demand online or on TV. This preview recognizes the many ways to get your indie film fix, as well as the special events you might want to head out to if you live in New York or Los Angeles, including "The Brothers Bloom" director Rian Johnson's week-long con man movie "Festival of Fakery" at L.A.'s famed New Beverly Cinema, about which we recently spoke to the director. But regardless of whether we're watching films from the past or present, we're looking forward to the next couple months.

[An indieWIRE review from Reverse Shot.] It’s doubtful anyone unfamiliar with Bravo’s series “Project Runway” will buy tickets to see the new documentary “Eleven Minutes,” even though Michael Selditch and Rob Tate’s film goes to great lengths to distance itself from that most trend-setting of TV reality shows. In its behind-the-scenes portrayal of “Runway”‘s season one winner Jay McCarroll, as he readies his first line for showcase and, hopefully, sale, “Eleven …...

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With all eyes on the upcoming Academy Awards (not to mention the Spirit Awards, the afternoon before), it's a relatively quiet week at the box office. There are some bubblegum high school antics, a couple of documentaries about the dysfunctional, a children's literary classic and a somber drama set during WWII. Take heart, we're nearly over the hump.

Download this in audio form (MP3: 6:11 minutes, 8.5 Mb) "Delhi 6"

BAFTA-nominated director Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra returns with this transatlantic journey of self-discovery that offers itself as another girder in the bridge between Bollywood and the U.S. American-born Indian Roshan (Abhishek Bachchan) makes a pilgrimage from New York to India to bring his ailing grandmother home. In the process, he discovers a little something about himself, his ancestral homeland and the proud traditions contained within it. Veteran composer A.R. Rahman, who's vying for an Oscar for his work on "Slumdog Millionaire,...

"Eleven Minutes" (a.k.a. "Jay McCarroll: Eleven Minutes") is a documentary helmed by Michael Selditch and Robert Tate. The duo worked together in TV's "Gourmet's Diary of a Foodie" with Selditch producing and editing and Tate producing.   The film sees a limited run on February 20th via indie distributor Regent Releasing, known for greats such as "Aurora Borealis" starring Joshua Jackson and Donald Sutherland. Check out the whole gallery.What's it about?   It's been a while since the sharp-witted Jay McCarroll was dubbed "the next great American designer" on season one of reality TV's "Project Runway" and he's anxious to finally show his first line of clothing. The feature documentary Eleven Minutes chronicles his year-long journey preparing his first independent runway show for New York's Fashion Week in Bryant Park and the subsequent selling of his line to stores. The result is an in-depth, painfully raw and humorous exploration...

"Eleven Minutes" (a.k.a. "Jay McCarroll: Eleven Minutes") is a documentary helmed by Michael Selditch and Robert Tate. The duo worked together in TV's "Gourmet's Diary of a Foodie" with Selditch producing and editing and Tate producing. The film sees a limited run on February 20th via indie distributor Regent Releasing, known for greats such as "Aurora Borealis" starring Joshua Jackson and Donald Sutherland. It's been a while since the sharp-witted Jay McCarroll was dubbed "the next great American designer" on season one of reality TV's "Project Runway" and he's anxious to finally show his first line of clothing. The feature documentary Eleven Minutes chronicles his year-long journey preparing his first independent runway show for New York's Fashion Week in Bryant Park...

"Eleven Minutes" (a.k.a. "Jay McCarroll: Eleven Minutes") is a documentary helmed by Michael Selditch and Robert Tate. The duo worked together in TV's "Gourmet's Diary of a Foodie" with Selditch producing and editing and Tate producing. The film sees a limited run on February 20th via indie distributor Regent Releasing, known for greats such as "Aurora Borealis" starring Joshua Jackson and Donald Sutherland. It's been a while since the sharp-witted Jay McCarroll was dubbed "the next great American designer" on season one of reality TV's "Project Runway" and he's anxious to finally show his first line of clothing. The feature documentary Eleven Minutes chronicles his year-long journey preparing his first independent runway show for New York's Fashion Week in Bryant Park...

Here! Films, the theatrical distribution and worldwide sales division of Here! Networks, has acquired worldwide distribution rights to "Eleven Minutes," a documentary about fashion designer Jay McCarroll, winner of the first season of "Project Runway." The project is co-directed and co-produced by Michael Selditch and Rob Tate.

Regent Releasing, Here!'s sister company, and Here! Networks will distribute the film day-and-date in theaters and on the cable network on Feb. 20.

In 2006, Selditch and Tate made a one-off TV special on McCarroll for Bravo called "Project Jay." "Eleven Minutes" picks up where that program ended.

The documentary chronicles McCarroll's year-long journey preparing his first independent runway show for New York's Fashion Week in Bryant Park and the subsequent selling of his line to stores.

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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- A video-shot effort that all too readily reveals its stage origins, "Fixing Frank" is nonetheless a thought-provoking and involving film that is a natural for gay-oriented film fests and eventual cable and video distribution. This drama about a psychotherapist who purports to cure gay people of their homosexual leanings, previously produced onstage in New York and Los Angeles, features compelling dialogue and a trio of strong performances from leads Dan Butler, Andrew Elvis Miller and Paul Provenza. It was recently showcased at the Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival.

Frank Johnston (Miller) is a free-lance writer who has been encouraged by his boyfriend Jonathan (Provenza), a psychotherapist, to pose as a new patient of Dr. Apsey (Butler), who specializes in converting gays to heterosexuality. Frank, pretending to be desirous of such a change, starts having sessions with the doctor, who he initially assumes is a quack. But the doctor's nonjudgmental and nonconfrontational approach starts to rattle Frank, who begins questioning both his own motives and the true state of his relationship with his lover.

Director Michael Selditch is ultimately hampered both by the poor quality of the video format and the extremely talky script, which appears to have been very closely adapted from the original play. Thus, most of the film consists of intense conversation shot in extreme close-up, which quickly generates feelings of claustrophobia. Fortunately, however, the dialogue is provocative, intelligent, natural sounding and well-delivered by the three lead actors, who inhabit their characters with a compelling mixture of fearlessness and sensitivity. Butler is particularly effective, easily conveying the astute intelligence that enables the doctor to manipulate his new patient with such ease.