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Nov 15, 2023 · Todd Haynes: Yeah, man, these two just tore each other to bits. [Laughs.] No, you never know what it’ll be like with different actors, bringing them together. I have the boring duty of reporting ...
May 27, 2023 · Todd Haynes' “May December" is a delicious and disquieting drama laced with comedy and camp that premiered over the weekend at the Cannes Film Festival. Natalie Portman stars as an actor researching an upcoming film that’s to dramatize a scandal from 20 years earlier. She comes to Savannah, Georgia, to spend time with a woman who years earlier become tabloid fodder for a sexual relationship with a 7th grader. Now, she’s seemingly happily married to him. For Portman, the film was a ...
Todd Haynes (/heɪnz/; born January 2, 1961; Los Angeles) is an American filmmaker. His films span four decades with themes examining the personalities of well-known musicians, dysfunctional and dystopian societies, and blurred gender roles. Haynes first gained public attention with his controversial short film Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story (1987), which chronicles singer Karen Carpenter's life and death, using Barbie dolls as actors. Superstar became a cult classic. Haynes's feature ...
Nov 4, 2019 · At 7:30 A.M. on a frosty March Saturday in downtown Cincinnati, the director Todd Haynes was on the sixteenth floor of the corporate law firm Taft Stettinius & Hollister, and he was already, as he ...
Dec 31, 2023 · Todd Haynes has been a cornerstone of the American independent film world since the early 1990s and remains one of the groundbreaking artists of our time. In films such as Safe (1995), Velvet Goldmine (1998), Far from Heaven (2002), Carol (2015), and his latest, May December (2023), Haynes refracts queer cultural and social history through an artist’s lens, creating indelible films of an extraordinarily tactile nature.
Jan 15, 2016 · Carol: Directed by Todd Haynes. With Cate Blanchett, Rooney Mara, Kyle Chandler, Sarah Paulson. An aspiring photographer develops an intimate relationship with an older woman in 1950s New York.
Nov 15, 2023 · May December. Director Todd Haynes on Mirrors, Doubling, and Queerness. The queer cinema luminary talks about his acclaimed persona-swapping melodrama. Todd Haynes has one of the most uniquely queer oeuvres in cinema. Across four decades, the filmmaker has dedicated his gaze to exploring identity itself, in all its fascinating shades.
