Murdock at the Movies
With The Times BFI London Film Festival 2009 (14th – 29th October 2009) just over a week away, we take a look at some of the boldest grooming choices soon to appear on the silver screen.
Fantastic Mr Fox (George Clooney)
This is the big one. The style icon of the season. Okay, so he's a fictional feral animal but he's suave, charismatic and resourceful. And he has a particularly good wardrobe for someone who lives in a hole.
American – The Bill Hicks Story (Bill Hicks)
Now Bill Hicks was never a great fan of consumerism, supeficiality or popular culture, which proably explains why he's rarely considered a style icon. But he had a signature look (dark, brooding, smoking) and he stuck with it, demonstrating a degree of self-confidence to go with his sophisticated, independent brand of black comedy.
The Men Who Stare at Goats (George Clooney)
The American military is another unlikely source of sartorial insight, but this promising comedy features the usually debonair Mr Clooney sporting a rather fetching moustache. It seems such top lip topiary has been a celluloid mainstay this year (see Brad Pitt in Inglorious Basterds, Johnny Depp in Public Enemies). With Movember on the horizon, it could be time for you to start cultivating a 'tache…
Topper (Cary Grant)
A classic comedy from 1937 starring the original leading man from Hollywood's Golden Age. Grant's handsome looks and charming demeanour have inspired generations of smooth gentlemen. Catch this special screening for a look at the original George Clooney.
The Road (Viggo Mortensen)
It's quite a leap from the comedy Topper to this apocalyptic movie based on the bleak Cormac McCarthy book of the same name. Indeed, Viggo Mortensen's bedgraggled, hirsute end-of-the-world-survivor couldn't be further from Cary Grant. Maybe a Murdock Full Service would sort him out.
The Informant! (Matt Damon)
Further moustache-based Hollywood fun, this time starring a portly Matt Damon directed by Steve Soderbergh. Okay, so it's probably not Damon's best look but he has been credited with "a mesmerizing mindfuck of a performance", for which the moustache must get come acclaim. The Bourne Goatee next?
Up in the Air (George Clooney)
I thought it was only reasonable to finish with yet another George Clooney film, this was starring Mr Clooney as a frequent flyer whose happily itinerant way of life is jeopardised when he meets a special lady. The silver fox is starting to look his age in this one, but is the perfect example of a man growing old naturally and with sophistication.
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