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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 .
3 days ago · If you've read The New Yorker recently, you know things are not looking great for Solondz's upcoming Love Child shoot. Very disheartening. But one can't be too depressed in the summer when he just got the high def debuts of Storytelling and Happiness. Because this week, Criterion has given us the first anamorphic release of Happiness is three ...
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 ...
15 hours ago · SYNOPSIS: Todd Solondz’s 1998 movie Happiness, which takes discomfort to an extreme, makes its 4K Ultra HD debut courtesy of Criterion. Unfortunately, there aren’t a ton of bonus features ...
5 days ago · A sceenwriter, novelist, and longtime friend of director Todd Solondz recalls the admiration he felt upon first seeing this audacious ensemble drama, which offers an unflinching, compassionate look at the pain and abjection of being human.
