Quick Take:
Famed costume designer Arianne Phillips, who grew up in Santa Cruz, comes to the Santa Cruz Cinema for a Q&A session before the screening of the new Bob Dylan biopic "A Complete Unknown," on which she did the costume design.
The new Bob Dylan biopic is now in theaters, and on Friday, the downtown Santa Cruz Cinema will celebrate the film’s local angle with a special screening.
The acclaimed Hollywood and Broadway fashion designer Arianne Phillips, who grew up in Santa Cruz, was the costume designer for the new film, “A Complete Unknown,” from director James Mangold, which portrays Dylan’s early years in New York City.
On Friday afternoon, Phillips will be in town at the Santa Cruz Cinema to take part in a Q&A session before a screening of the film. She has enjoyed an astonishing career as a costume designer in the movies, with a résumé that includes “The Crow,” “Tank Girl,” “Hedwig and the Angry Inch,” “Walk the Line,” “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood,” and several others. She’s been nominated for an Academy Award in Costume Design three times, and for a Tony Award for her work in the Broadway version of “Hedwig.” She has also been a stylist and collaborator with Madonna for many years.
Phillips was first inspired by transgressive fashion in film way back as a Santa Cruz High student attending screenings of “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” at the now defunct Sash Mill Cinema.
The Q&A session with Phillips will begin at 1 p.m. on Friday at Santa Cruz Cinema before a 1:15 p.m. screening of “A Complete Unknown.” Tickets are now on sale.
