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	Far from Heaven (2002) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Todd Haynes' Far From Heaven, a homage to the 1950s melodramas of Douglas Sirk, is an exquisitely crafted film of beauty and grace.
		Far From Heaven may very well be the best picture of the year.
		Cathy and Frank Whitiker may be far from heaven, but the film comes about as close to heaven as is possible.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0297884 (913 words)

	Far from Heaven - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Far from Heaven is a 2002 film written and directed by Todd Haynes and starring Julianne Moore, Dennis Quaid, Dennis Haysbert, Ryan Ward, Patricia Clarkson, and James Rebhorn.
		Haynes later said he meant Far From Heaven as homage to the films of Douglas Sirk, especially to All That Heaven Allows and Imitation of Life.
		In the Fourth Annual Village Voice Film Critics' Poll, Far From Heaven was voted the best picture of 2002, and it was later nominated for Academy Awards for Best Actress in a Leading Role (Moore), Best Cinematography, Best Music, Original Score and Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Far_from_Heaven (287 words)

	Far from heaven/Todd Haynes - de Filmkrant net-versie van juni 2003, nr 245
		Far from heaven beleefde vorig jaar bijna gelijktijdig op de filmfestivals van Venetië en Toronto zijn wereldpremière.
		Hij plaatst in Far from heaven zijn personages niet alleen in een psychologisch-maatschappelijk keurslijf, maar vooral in een esthetisch.
		Far from heaven is visueel zo virtuoos (niet voor niets kreeg Ed Lachman een Oscar-nominatie voor zijn cameravoering) dat je als toeschouwer op je hoede moet zijn om niet de schoonheid de ellende te laten gladstrijken.
	www.filmkrant.nl /av/org/filmkran/archief/fk245/farfrom.html (1790 words)

	Filmtracks: Far From Heaven (Elmer Bernstein)
		Far From Heaven: (Elmer Bernstein) When director Todd Haynes decided to return to the genre of 1950's melodrama in his tribute to the socially charged films of Douglas Sirk, his task of recreating the genre balanced delicately between the seriousness of a decent recreation and a potential laugher of a parody.
		His aim with Far From Heaven was to perfectly capture the spirit of those 1950's melodramas, complete with technically identical settings, costumes, photography, and characteristically identical values and behavior portrayed by the actors.
		The score for Far From Heaven is a remarkable journey to the past, and even if it doesn't appeal to the somewhat desensitized ears of modern film score listeners, it earns respect with its precise and emotionally encapsulating pastoralism.
	www.filmtracks.com /titles/far_heaven.html?page=print (898 words)

	24fps \| Far from Heaven
		The romantic configuration of Far From Heaven resembles The Reckless Moment more than any Sirk film: in both stories, a dutiful wife, undergoing a family crisis, is gradually drawn toward an outsider figure with whom romance is impossible.
		Near the end of Far From Heaven, Haynes pays homage with a direct borrowing from Ophuls' film: Moore lies sobbing on her bed in her dark room after the loss of her forbidden love, and the phone rings to draw her back to mundane life.
		There are anachronistic elements in Far From Heaven, but they are the point of the film, not a break in its integrity: Haynes' imaginative recreation of the 50s is clearly marked as the product of our contemporary sensibilities, and his 50s simulacrum exists only to be played off against modern concerns.
	www.24fpsmagazine.com /Archive/FarFromHeaven.html (1745 words)

	"Far From Heaven" - Salon
		If the allegorical fable about a noble suburban housewife and the scandalous implosion of her family that Haynes spins in "Far From Heaven" is not precisely one that Sirk could have told 45 years ago, it's nonetheless true to Sirk's spirit in every way.
		More specifically, "Far From Heaven" bears a family resemblance to Sirk's 1955 "All That Heaven Allows," in which the widowed Jane Wyman sends her uptight suburban community into a tizzy by falling for her younger gardener, played by Rock Hudson.
		Part of the game Haynes is playing in "Far From Heaven," in fact, is to point out that all too often we do judge people by their external characteristics.
	www.salon.com /ent/movies/review/2002/11/08/far_from_heaven (1256 words)

	Het Parool - FILM
		Far from heaven is in de eerste plaats een briljante stijloefening, waarin Haynes zich de stijl en thematiek van Sirk zich geheel eigengemaakt heeft.
		Maar omdat Far from heaven in de eenentwintigste eeuw en niet in pakweg 1955 gemaakt is, kan Haynes taboe-onderwerpen aansnijden waaraan Sirk destijds zijn vingers niet kon branden.
		Far from heaven is een esthetisch hoogstandje en een bittere kritiek op de bekrompen Amerikaanse leefregels, maar glorieert uiteindelijk als melodrama over een onmogelijke liefde.
	www.parool.nl /artikelen/FIL/1054703176006.html (501 words)

	Movie Review - Far from Heaven - Hollywood Bitchslap
		Far from Heaven, because it is detached from the period it covers, deliberately recreates the quaint and stiff texture of the films of the era to denounce the hypocrisy of the period, but also of our time.
		Because we are able to measure the cultural differences between the late fifties and today, Far from Heaven's success is in making a modern audience realize that what we think today and the way we now express it may eventually be considered as artificial as the treatment of important issues fifty years ago.
		Far from Heaven's greatest problem is not that it is campy, but that it not campy enough.
	www.hollywoodbitchslap.com /review.php?movie=6299&reviewer=287&printer=1 (937 words)

	Far From Heaven (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		For instance, in Far From Heaven, Frank works for Magnatech, a large manufacturer of television sets – surely a reference to All That Heaven Allows in which Cary Scott’s (Jane Wyman) children buy her a television to attempt to curtail her growing sexual feelings for her gardener Ron Kirby (Rock Hudson).
		Typecast with her “woman on the verge of a nervous breakdown” persona, Moore’s screen appearances have become predictable and tedious, In Far From Heaven, she is finally given the opportunity to play against type and she seizes the chance with startling grace, intuition, and compassion.
		Far From Heaven is most certainly one of the best Hollywood films of the year so far is a testament to Haynes’s virtuosity and formidable talent, and it is a case in point that films with a political punch need not be sombre, visually simple or didactic to get their points across.
	www.highangle.co.uk /reviews/farfromheaven.html (955 words)

	Movies Other\| (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Far from Heaven is a big-budget pastiche of ’50s melodrama in which homosexuality and interracial love are the overt themes.
		What’s new and remarkable in the Far from Heaven scene is Raymond’s disingenuousness.
		Haynes’s ambitions in Far from Heaven are, I think, the same as Waters’s, but whereas in Hairspray Waters exceeds expectations for musicals by addressing racial integration and body image, Haynes, in choosing the melodrama as his form, raises expectations that he doesn’t fulfill: he actually does less than what melodramas can do, and did.
	www.bostonphoenix.com /boston/movies/reviews/documents/02537020.htm (723 words)

	Far From Heaven
		"Far From Heaven" is a beautiful, divine drama that instantly enraptures and grabs the heart, but director/writer Todd Haynes does not want his audience to leave the theater only with scorn for days past.
		"Far From Heaven" has a certain aesthetic, perfectly over-beautified feel that will never let us forget that this experience we are being a part of is a movie.
		So, in "Far From Heaven", Todd Haynes has made three films: one about the 50's, one about the glorious melodramas from that period, and most importantly, a film about present day.
	bigspeegs124.tripod.com /bigspeegs/farfromheaven.html (792 words)

	calendarlive.com: MOVIE REVIEW - 'Far From Heaven'
		Todd Haynes' melodrama "Far From Heaven" opens at the height of a New England autumn when the trees are ablaze in yellow, orange and a red so vivid it looks like blood.
		The characters in "Far From Heaven" are held similarly in check by their Eisenhower moment, but because we know how to fill in the ellipses Haynes shades everything bolder, laying color upon color.
		Haynes knows this deeply, which is why Cathy may be far from heaven, but never once is she out of the director's embrace.
	www.calendarlive.com /movies/reviews/cl-et-dargis8nov08,0,1566068.story (1347 words)

	Far from Heaven (2002)
		With Far From Heaven, Todd Haynes has recreated the prototypical 1950s Douglas Sirk melodrama (Magnificent Obsession, Written on the Wind, All That Heaven Allows).
		Far From Heaven is the type of movie one can watch a dozen times over, gleaning something new from each viewing—not as regards story depth, but in terms of how carefully the film is constructed.
		Far from Heaven begs to be seen on the big screen, but that said, the transfer is exceptionally well done.
	www.reel.com /movie.asp?MID=136454&PID=10109031&Tab=reviews&CID=18 (911 words)

	Movie Review - Far from Heaven - Hollywood Bitchslap
		If Far From Heaven doesn't receive a slew of 2003 Oscar nominations, there is no justice.
		Far From Heaven is a film that is both comforting and disquieting in its mastery.
		But what prevents Far From Heaven from being just another “woman in crisis” movie is the fact that the devastating events of Cathy’s life take place within the confines of a film as rigidly stylized as the society it critiques.
	www.hollywoodbitchslap.com /review.php?movie=6299&reviewer=309&printer=1 (700 words)

	filmcritic.com Movie Review: Far From Heaven
		Far From Heaven is a dramatic and assured return to form for Haynes following his lackluster and obvious attempt at gaining Hollywood street cred with Velvet Goldmine.
		Heaven tells the story of a stereotypical Hartford, Connecticut family knee-deep in the glory that was the '50s.
		Heaven is impressive in the way it captures the stifling oppression of the era and cruelty of those who inhabited it -- the willingness to look the other way at your own problems while gossiping fiercely at those of others.
	www.filmcritic.com /misc/emporium.nsf/ddb5490109a79f598625623d0015f1e4/896a5aa39c307c6488256c45001980f0?OpenDocument (809 words)

	Metroactive Movies \| 'Far From Heaven'
		Far From Heaven does seem like a Sirk movie for a new century--the same satiny style but with more adult subject matter.
		You're meant to see Far From Heaven and think, "It's been a long time since the 1950s; how the world has changed." Actually, the right comment is: it's been a long time since the existence of a world that never existed, except on Hollywood sound stages.
		Far From Heaven (PG-13; 107 min.), directed and written by Todd Haynes, photographed by Edward Lachman and starring Julianne Moore, Dennis Quaid and Dennis Haysbert, opens Friday at selected theaters valleywide.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/metro/11.14.02/farfromheaven-0246.html (890 words)

	Eye - Heavenly features - 09.05.02
		Far From Heaven's heightened visual style and bold emotions are underpinned by volatile questions about race, class and gender, with Haynes making explicit many of the things that Sirk could only imply.
		Far From Heaven "is not about the '50s in America," he says.
		Yet Far From Heaven is "not without humour," she says.
	www.eye.net /eye/issue/issue_09.05.02/film/farfromheaven.html (965 words)

	Chicago Reader Movie Review
		Despite the Toronto buzz, Far From Heaven may not become a hit, even in art theaters (though I've heard it had a strong opening week at the Landmark).
		The pointedly titled Far From Heaven properly, if paradoxically, begins in the autumnal treetops -- as close to heaven as the movie cares to go -- before craning down to Hartford, Connecticut, and environs in the mid-50s, and inevitably concludes 107 minutes later with a crane moving upward toward the first spring blossoms.
		It's a fascinating companion piece to Far From Heaven, using the same talented actress to explore suburban alienation in comparably gargantuan consumerist surroundings, this time contemporary southern California, through an affliction diagnosed but never quite confirmed as environmental illness.
	www.chicagoreader.com /movies/archives/2002/1102/021122.html (1629 words)

	Far From Heaven movie Review at The Z Review UK movie review
		Far From Heaven is a reflective 50's film made in the year 2002, but it is still a very identifiable human melodrama.
		Everything in Far From Heaven is so detailed to reflect that film genre, from the score by Elmer Bernstein, the camera angles, and even the title sequence of the film.
		Far From Heaven is hands down one of the best films of the year.
	www.thezreview.co.uk /reviews/f/farfromheaven.htm (911 words)

	CNN.com - Review: 'Far From Heaven' picture-perfect - Nov. 1, 2002
		You hardly have to be part of the cult, though, to respond to the rapturous moviemaking magic of ''Far From Heaven,'' the bold and brilliant new film by the maverick writer-director Todd Haynes (''Velvet Goldmine,'' ''Safe'').
		Yet it takes almost no time for ''Far From Heaven'' to immerse us in its spell, in part because the details are really no more odd, remote, or campy than they would be in any actual old movie.
		''Far From Heaven'' is a dazzling conceptual feat, but more than that, it's a work of enthralling drama -- a deconstruction of Hollywood soap opera that is also a full-fledged, utterly unironic masterpiece of the form.
	www.cnn.com /2002/SHOWBIZ/Movies/11/01/ew.review.heaven/index.html (803 words)

	Far From Heaven - Review
		With Far From Heaven Haynes has shunned the dark avenue of the chick flick and recreated rather than reinvented the genre of the women's film, immersing the audience in the times and the feel of a fifties movie right down to the end credits.
		'Far From Heaven' also separates itself from more modern depictions of women in film by keeping its focus on its story of a woman finding her way in a (white) man's world.
		As the central character Moore remains wide-eyed and tragically optimistic as one by one the supports of her domestic and personal lives are taken from her, yet her character remains hopeful and even learns a measure of independence in the end.
	www.filmireland.net /reviews/farfromheaven.htm (530 words)

	Far From Heaven 11 January 2004 Bon Journal
		And this movie is full of them: a beautiful woman who is not desired by her husband, a good-looking man who has other desires, and a fl gardener who is more cultured than most pretentious white businessmen.
		A subtitle could be "Far from perfect." In striving for a perfect existence, the well-to-do families in Hartford, Connecticut, live in a very narrow minded definition of perfection, at least by today's standards.
		"Far from heaven" is a beautiful movie which ends suggestively.
	www.bonjournal.com /entries/j040111.htm (318 words)

	Zap2it.com - Movie review - Far From Heaven
		Haynes does several things superbly well in Heaven, but one of the most remarkable is the way he summons up the past by capturing the look and feel of the 1950s movies, the whole grammar of Hollywood Golden Age romance.
		Far From Heaven was inspired by the maternal melodramas of director Sirk, including Written on the Wind (1956), Imitation of Life (1959) and especially All that Heaven Allows (1955), in which another repressed Norman Rockwell-town matron (Jane Wyman, a widow) fell in love with another handsome but socially unacceptable gardener (Rock Hudson).
		And though Far From Heaven is a picture where, superficially, moral decorum is observed (we see only a handful of kisses between any of these lovers), Haynes always lets us sense the passions and possibility screened or quenched by the hypocrisies of the time.
	www.zap2it.com /movies/movies/reviews/text/0,1259,---14393,00.html (870 words)

	Sex in the Suburbs
		In Far From Heaven, Todd Haynes dissects the frozen moral climate of postwar Middle America; in 8 Mile, Eminem's performance is impressive and, believe it or not, sensitive.
		In Todd Haynes's Far From Heaven, set in middle-class suburban Hartford in 1957, the characters are armored in autumnal tones -- green swing coats and plaids and orange gloves.
		Far From Heaven ultimately achieves the same sentimentality as the Sirk films, and in much the same way: It elevates female sacrifice into an aesthetic.
	www.newyorkmetro.com /nymetro/movies/reviews/n_7951 (1495 words)

	Review: Far From Heaven (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Far From Heaven begins almost as a nostalgic excursion, but quickly detours into a powerful and telling story that examines forbidden love, racial tension, and other issues that are as valid today as they were in the 1950s.
		Visually, Far From Heaven is easily one of the most stunning non-special effects intensive motion pictures of the year.
		Far From Heaven is not "realistic" in the traditional sense of the word (Haynes calls it "hyper-realistic"), but the emotions of the characters are genuine, and we feel for them and with them.
	movie-reviews.colossus.net /movies/f/far_heaven.html (725 words)

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