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Sep 19, 2024 · When he was a student, Solondz thought parts of the graduate film program at N.Y.U. were corrupt; as a tenured professor there, he still does. But when he arrived, in 1983, he was relieved to ...
Sep 21, 2024 · Todd Solondz 's 1998 black comedy Happiness has become a cult classic among film fanatics, but multiple attempts to censor its taboo content very nearly prevented the project from reaching ...
5 days ago · Todd Solondz loves the lowest of the low as much as he loves Elroy, his real-life only son. (Or Pebbles, his only daughter.) For me, Happiness leaves in its wake the scented, dissonant, atonal, soaring, liturgical chords of love and mercy. I always think of Todd at the piano, indifferently enraptured by the music.
2 days ago · In a new featurette produced for this Criterion release, Aftersun filmmaker Charlotte Wells interviews Todd Solondz about the production and legacy of Happiness. Their conversation is more organic, less cut and dried than that may sound, as Wells was a student of Solondz’s at New York University who worked on Wiener-Dog .
Sep 17, 2024 · Todd Solondz, writer and director. I’d had an unexpected success with my movie Welcome to the Dollhouse and, knowing how fleeting that can be, I wanted to take advantage. Everyone wanted to work with me. So I wrote a script – and all those doors closed again. Except one.
2 days ago · Todd Solondz’s follow up to Welcome To The Dollhouse has a similar off-beat, dark sense of humour running through it, but here Solondz juxtaposes moments of absurd humor with horrifying realities, creating a work that is both disturbing and darkly comic. Despite its relentless bleakness, the film’s empathy for its flawed, often repellent characters elevates it from shock value to something more profound.
4 days ago · Sep 25, 2024 Web Exclusive By Joey Arnone Photography by The Criterion Collection. An essential gem in the uncomfortable cinema canon, Todd Solondz’s Happiness (1998) is the cinematic equivalent of slowly peeling off a Band-Aid. Solondz’s singular blend of discomfort and jet-black humor will leave you both squirming in your seat and feeling ...
